College football fans are already sick to death of the Applebee’s commercial
College football season is back and with it come the tropes we all know and love. Seeing which...
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NBC’s tape-delayed primetime Olympics coverage went to commercial mid-sentence after Simone Biles missed a vault
The mid-sentence commercial cut certainly seemed strange.
In tribute to Little Richard, Spike Lee posted a 1991 commercial he directed starring Little Richard and Michael Jordan
In 1991, Little Richard appeared as a genie in a Spike Lee ad for Air Jordans.
The weirdest Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen commercials
Scottie Pippen's Mr. Submarine commercial probably wouldn't have been cleared for television in 2020.
Kobe Bryant’s tragic death had a major impact on multiple Super Bowl LIV commericals
Planters, Hard Rock, Hyundai, Toyota, and GM all altered their Super Bowl plans.
Actor playing husband in controversial Peloton ad wonders if he’ll suffer from social media backlash
"My 5 seconds of air time created an array of malicious feedback that is all associated with my face."
Peloton stock drops after uproar over holiday ad we all hated during Thanksgiving weekend
"She needs a good therapist and a divorce lawyer."
NFL beer sponsors can now use active players’ likenesses—but only with Associated Press photos of players in uniform
The NFL has slightly loosened its restrictions on beer sponsors using active player images, but only with AP photos, and "creative materials cannot imply that players are endorsing the product."
New ad brings The Bud Knight back to life, and has him choose Miller Lite; Bud Light’s king fires back
A new March Madness commercial uses The Bud Knight...in an ad for Miller Lite.
Actual student-athletes call out the NCAA’s ‘a day in the life’ commercial as bullshit
Actual student-athletes didn't think this commercial was too accurate.
ESPN’s proposed “real-time product placement” for ads might be better as outcome alteration than stat insertion
Putting stats into ads might have some merit, but there might be a bigger long-term boost from altering which ads with athletes air depending on how the game is going.
Are NASCAR fans correct that Fox showed too many commercials at Talladega?
Fox claimed that they showed fewer commercials this year.
ESPN briefly cut to commercial on a game-winning Lakers’ layup attempt, and people were ticked off
Going away from a game still in progress is one of the major sports blunders, ever since the Heidi...
