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A nineties sitcom star reprising his beloved role to sell you car insurance.An ad that becomes a cultural phenomenon and gets immediately green-lighted as a TV show, extending a twelve-second scene into ten seasons.All the celebrities from last year's crypto ads apologizing for their crypto ads.Those "whassup" guys but the bit is that now they're old.

Public relations and marketing used to be like oil and water, two separate entities that didn't mix.There was a set PR team and a set marketing team, and brands needed both to succeed.PR and marketing firms had two sets of goals and thus two separate ways of reaching and achieving said goals.The rise of digital media, however, has led to blending between the two practices.

Psychedelic Beerpocalypse
An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly it's the ghoulish fever dream we all deserve.As a general rule, beer commercials most often fall into two categories.The first is characterized by gruff ramblings about the American spirit intermixed with shots of scenes like wheat fields, Midwestern cityscapes, and handshakes between dudes, while the second mainly just depicts some kind of party.

Farmer Wants a Wife will premiere on FOX after football season but the commercials might gain them an audience with the members of NFL Twitter.If you've been enjoying the NFL Playoffs, specifically the games on FOX, you've likely seen the adverts for the upcoming reality dating show Farmer Wants a Wife.

Sad morning, baseball fans.As has already been reported on this site, Brandon Belt is both a Forever Giant, and a Giant no more.Belt signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, who officially announced it yesterday.I've been in a bit of a daze since the announcement.It's one thing to expect every year for nearly a decade that your favorite baseball player might get traded, but something altogether different when they actually leave.

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The world's biggest brands have bet everything on their marketing strategy during the World Cup, and no wonder, the event is followed by millions of fans globally for almost a month.And, of course, all those fans organize parties and events with their friends and family to watch the matches, and Frito-Lay wants to be front and center as the go-to snack brand.

This new AI beer commercial popped up and, well... it's terrifying in the way only AI generated art and video can be.So why do I keep watching?And why do I spot things I love the more I view?This AI generated beer ad is horrific, but I keep pressing restart.Now, AI generated art is bad and the controversy around AI art scraping images from the internet and reusing them caused protests on ArtStation.

In 1978, Village People, a disco band of six men deliberately stylized as sexy macho gay characters, released its album Cruisin'.The album featured "YMCA," an upbeat disco track praising the Young Men's Christian Association's (YMCA) community centers as a great place for physical recreation and temporary lodging.

The province's screen sector is reporting its strongest ever year last year with Ontario hitting record-high levels of film and television productions.Ontario Creates, an agency of the provincial government, said it supported a total of 419 productions in 2022, contributing roughly $3.15 billion to the economy.

It's bad! one person wrote.If there's going to be a riot in NYC, it'll be over this.wrote another.Someone else posted: This is literally the worst design I've ever, ever seen.Just a few hours after the new We NYC logo was revealed on Monday, reaction on Twitter and beyond was not merely negative, but brutal.

With brands increasingly investing in video ads on social media, marketers are enhancing their video production capabilities to unlock growth on Facebook and Instagram.Especially urgent in an uncertain economic climate, brands must minimize production costs while creating a high enough volume of social media videos to identify the creative elements that resonate most with target audiences.

A Chicago man's lawyers are sharing news with every publication they can that Buffalo Wild Wings's marketing misleads consumers when it comes to its boneless chicken wings.In a class-action lawsuit filed last week, the plaintiff claims the sports bar chain's menu and commercials lead "reasonable consumers" to believe the company's boneless wings are deboned chicken wings "comprised of entirely chicken wing meat," when in reality they're glorified chicken nuggets.

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A month after the disappearance of popular Bay Area disc jockey Jeffrey Vandergrift, his body was found in the San Francisco Bay on Wednesday, according to the San Francisco medical examiner's office.The examiner's office released a statement Thursday, confirming Vandergrift's death, but it offered no further comment, including the cause of death.

Brandon Nimmo is "week to week" with whatever he did to his right knee and ankle this past Friday night in yet another game that counted only as much you wish it to.The Mets termed it a low-grade sprain.Nimmo, newly signed for eight years, isn't interested in timetables or diagnoses that indicate anything less than "leading off and playing center field, number nine, Brandon Nimmo" will echo throughout formerly Marlins Park on Thursday March 30 and everywhere else clear to the end of 2030.

Fawlty Towers, the renowned 1970s British sitcom that starred John Cleese as a surly and snobbish hotel owner, will be rebooted with Mr. Cleese returning alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese, Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday.The original show, which Radio Times declared the best British sitcom of all time in 2019 after a survey of comedy experts, ran for two seasons of six episodes each, in 1975 and 1979.

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith apologized to Rihanna after comments he made about the singer during an appearance on "The Sherri Show."There are eight teams remaining in the NFL playoffs as we enter the Divisional Round, where one AFC team and one NFC team will compete in Super Bowl 57 on Feb. 12 for the coveted Lombardi Trophy.

DENVER  Nikola Jokic didn't look like himself in some ways.He was missing layups and had been called for a technical foul.He made silly turnovers, was late on several defensive rotations and tallied just two assists in the first half.But by the time that game against the Charlotte Hornets was over, Jokic had amassed an eye-popping stat line: 40 points, 27 rebounds and 10 assists.

When Sarah McCreanor, known professionally as Smac, walks onto a commercial set dominated by intricate props, high-end green screens and an intimidating collection of cameras, she is confident that the directors, producers and costume designers have no idea she can present any product to an attentive audience of 2.7 million just by logging onto TikTok.

Major League Baseball, wanting to educate the fans this season about their new rule changes, are airing a series of entertaining commercials with players, managers and celebrities starting Thursday, a week before opening day.Here are the commercials: - San Diego Padres pitcher Blake Snell, a former Cy Young winner, asks Chicago White Sox All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson to help pick up his hat only to be rejected by Anderson, since he's strictly observing the new rule banning infielders from shifting:
- New York Mets slugger Daniel Vogelbach, who doesn't have a stolen base in his career, is trying to convince manager Buck Showalter he should try it with the enlarged bases:
- Cincinnati Reds first baseman can't believe he actually gets a hit when his ground ball goes through a non-shifted infield:
- New York Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes pleads with catcher Jose Trevino to accelerate his pace on a treadmill to prepare for the new pitch clock:
- Actor Bryan Cranston watches a series of baseball clips and celebrates baseball becoming an even better game with the new rules.

Ranking the 10 best Super Bowl 57 commercials of 2023.The Super Bowl commercials are almost as exciting as the game itself and have grown to be a must-watch event.This year's Super Bowl 57 is no different.The Super Bowl commercials were chock-full of celebrities like Steve Martin, Anna Fairs, Ben Affleck, and Miles Teller.

Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Ka'ena Corp., owner of the brands Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile, in a deal worth up to $1.35 billion.T-Mobile is acquiring the brands' sales, marketing, digital, and service operations,  and plans to tap into Mint's marketing expertise to reach new budget-conscious customers.

The following article highlights an interview between Mark Douglas, MNTN's CEO, and Ari Paparo, founder and CEO of Marketecture.Register for free to watch more of the discussion and learn how TV has become a performance marketing channel and how technology has enabled the space to become more accessible.

Ad Age is counting down to Super Bowl LVII.In the days leading up to the game, which will air on Fox on Sunday, Ad Age will bring you breaking news, analysis and first looks at the high-stakes, Big Game commercialsall in our Super Bowl newsletter.Sign up right here to get them via email.Halfway home We are four days away from the Big Game and 30 commercials have already been released.

Over the years, we here at Pinstripe Alley have had some run learning and reading about amusingly named players from Yankees history.There's one area we haven't totally explored though: players whose names make full sentences.If a player's surname is a verb, that can lead to fun opportunities to make full, gramatically correct sentences out of just the two words in a player name.

Twitter reacts to Breaking Bad reunion in Super Bowl commercial.It's been almost 10 years since "Breaking Bad" aired its series finale (Sept.29, 2013) but the fandom of one of the greatest shows ever, lives on.There's been a series of spin-off shows and movies, all as equally as good so when the iconic Winnebago flashed on the screen during the Super Bowl 57 commercials, Twitter absolutely lost its mind.

Make no mistake about it, bub, Southern California is car country.So automobile dealer Calvin Coolidge Worthington decided to have a little fun, attract attention, and empty his lots with "My Dog Spot" TV commercials featuring a live, snarling gorilla.The commercials, in which he also used other animals as a dog named Spot - a penguin, camel, elephant, bear, lion, hippopotamus, and tiger - helped Worthington build an empire of 27 dealerships that sold more than 1 million cars.

Picture this: You're at lowkey Inner Sunset haunt Red Tail, a DJ set thumping behind the bar, and a zhuzhed up California roll with real Dungeness crab sails your way.This treasure only emerges in the otherwise foodless bar thanks to Debra Dong and Winn Child-Phillips' pop-up It's Just Fish, a rotating installation of wild-caught tuna, jammy shoyu eggs topped with ikura, and those ultra-fresh California rolls.

It was a Friday morning, and the sun was shining.To 88-year-old Benny Wasserman, that meant only one thing.Time to grab his baseball bat, button up his Detroit Tigers uniform, and head to the Home Run Park batting cages in Anaheim.There, Wasserman could give himself a break and step into the cage with the 40-mph pitches, or maybe the one with 60-mph heat.

Whether you're rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles, or you're just in it for the commercials and Rihanna halftime show, one thing's for sure: Being prepared with an arsenal of snacks is absolutely imperative for your Super Bowl game-day viewing.We've gathered a list of hearty options, from wings to brisket pizza to Philly cheesesteak.

The best Super Bowl memes for 2023 as Super Bowl 57 between the Chiefs and Eagles had fans reacting in the best possible ways.Whenever Tyreek Hill was traded in the offseason, just about everyone expected the Kansas City Chiefs to fall off a bit.They forgot about Patrick Mahomes.They forgot about Andy Reid.

While some will of course tune in to Super Bowl XLVII to cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles, others are excited for the excuse to dig into an endless array of chips, dips and wings.As for the rest of us?We'll be there for the commercials.(Have you seen our favorite Super Bowl commercials of all time?)

Audacy and Veritonic have released SoundCreative, a whitepaper summary of research performed last fall.The subtitle describes the work's purpose: "How To Build Winning Audio Ads." (It's free HERE.)The consumer survey was combined with proprietary content analysis.The focus is equally on radio and podcast ads.

Football fans weren't happy about NFL Network cutting away from the Pittsburgh Steelers' tribute to the late Franco Harris during halftime of their game against the Las Vegas Raiders.Saturday was a somber day for the Pittsburgh Steelers organization and fanbase.On Tuesday, legendary running back Franco Harris passed away at the age of 72, just days before the team was set to retire his No. 32 while honoring the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception in the 1972 AFC Divisional playoff game against the Raiders.

Brad William Henke, a former N.F.L. player who later turned to acting and became known for his role as a prison guard on Orange Is the New Black among other appearances across a 25-year career in film and television, died on Tuesday.He was 56.His death was confirmed by his manager, Matt DelPiano, who did not give the location or an exact cause but said the actor died in his sleep.

Missing their sweetheart Alex Ovechkin, the Washington Capitals hosted the Carolina Hurricanes to a romantic evening of dating, discussion, and more.Brent Burns was our first scorer, threading through traffic to put the Canes up 1-0.TJ Oshie scored in the final minute of the first period, taking a great pass from call-up Joe Snively.

The idea for a string of TikToks that would garner Taylor Owen millions of Likes and be broadcast on the 2022 Emmys broadcast began on the treadmill."My whole brain was involved with Succession," the 28-year-old actor and TikToker tells Bustle of her mindset on that fateful cardio day in 2021.

Boston condo broker taking a break from shoveling driveway.Now she's happy, I did my manly duties this morning, (no, not that) I finished shoveling the driveway.My back is killing me so I'm going to see if I can find a streaming movie to watch.Did you ever notice that TV commercials on Hulu and other streaming outlets tend to show commercials that are targeted for your age group.

I'm going nerd out a bit.I dont blog and I'm not on social media anymore so deal with it.There are so many free streaming services these days, I never knew.Why does anyone do comparisons?But, you get to hear all about it.Tubi is by far the best for me.When one movie ends, the next similar one will play.