SKY is a broadcasting company from New Zealand. They must have been incredibly popular, because in 2009 they decided to scare some away: they published…

Not that long ago, I wrote about an advert for a Colombian delivery company. The position depicted there was quite believable, even though it was…

Once in a blue moon,1 someone at an advertising agency actually comes up with a decent idea. But the moon has to be a very…

In 2008, South-Africa was already bracing itself for the big event that would briefly add the word vuvuzela to the world’s vocabulary: the 2010 FIFA…

In the seventies, all bets were off. The oddest, most far-fetched ideas were realised. Weird novelties, like the Bond Bug and the Disco Duck were…

Oh look, another ad for an alcoholic beverage with a chess theme.1 Just another Wednesday. Okay, let’s get this over with then. Gin is a…

It started all the way back in 1923 and, since then, Time after Time has come out.1 It is probably the most well-known weekly magazine…

If you are trying to sell toys in the low countries, a lot of your revenue comes in the weeks before Saint Nicholas’ day. So,…

Intuitively, one would perhaps expect chess themes to mainly occur in advertisement for brainy things, like insurance, or computers, or stocks or something. But it…

I don’t know where this ad comes from, neither in space nor in time. The text and the company strongly suggest it must originate from…