Commercials

'Charlie Bit My Finger,' the little-home-video-that-could, has racked up more than 366 million views on YouTube since going viral in 2007. Four years later, the clip has been purchased by baby food giant Gerber to help promote the company's new line of finger foods (how appropriate!).

When it comes to sponsorship opportunities in pro sports, putting ads right on the athletes means more eyes on your brand. With NASCAR, sponsors can cover a whole jumpsuit with logos and slogans. But with a sport like beach volleyball, skimpy uniforms mean sponsors need to work extra hard to make an impact. Gambling company Betfair is getting more bang for their buck by putting scannable QR codes

Soap & Glory has a really interesting way of expressing gratitude: the British beauty company recently installed a giant sculpture of a bathing lady in Hamburg, Germany's Alster Lake.

Though her personal choices have been -- how do we put this lightly? -- questionable over the last few years, nobody can deny that Lindsay Lohan has a pretty good sense of humor. Which might be the reason why the 'Mean Girls' star agreed to sit down for an interview with Air New Zealand mascot, Rico, on the airline's series of web ads, 'On the Skycouch With Rico.'

As Gmail users know, the Google webmail service tracks every word you type and read, and then uses the information they gather in targeted advertisements -- making for sometimes useful and sometimes eerie invasions of privacy. The folks at Microsoft had some fun with their rival's snooping in this video spoof about  a "Gmail Man" -- a flesh-and-blood mailman who opens and reads your lett

After a days-long duel in which original Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa and challenger Fabio battled for the seat of Old Spice's official spokesman, a winner has emerged. During the battle, both parties released countless YouTube videos charming their fans all over the web. Watch the finale to see who claimed the crown:

The DayGlo-like effects in 'Mundo Neon,' a highly stylized commercial for Colombian yogurt company Bon Yurt, go way beyond the average glowstick. In the two-minute spot, a group of people in white jumpsuits are shown setting up an elaborate series of tubes, electronics, blenders and glowsticks. It starts off calm, but once the lights go off, the neon starts glowing, the blenders start spinning and

Have you ever heard of finger tutting? If not, prepare to be amazed. It's essentially interpretive dance for the fingers, or as a newscaster might say, Voguing on steroids. If you're looking for an entrée into the burgeoning art form, be sure to check out superstar finger tutter JayFunk's new commercial for Samsung Mobile France. Before getting the gig, JayFunk's finger tutting videos racked u

After a fabulously successful ad campaign featuring actor Isaiah Mustafa as the enigmatic Old Spice Guy, the brand is ready for a new chapter -- and they've hired commercial vet Fabio to fill his perfect shoes. The Italian model, known for his appearances on bodice-ripping romance novel covers and as a pitchman for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, has signed on with Old Spice, making his debut in

On Tuesday, CBS released a brand-new -- and admittedly smart -- billboard campaign, offering fans of 'Two and a Half Men' their first official look at the show's new star, Ashton Kutcher. The rather, uh, revealing ad shows a naked Kutcher standing alongside (also nude) co-stars Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones.

German political magazine Cicero wanted to interview high-profile politicians but didn't know how to get their attention. So its staff came up with a truly unique promotional idea. The magazine commissioned an artist to carve busts of world leaders like Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy into the lead of Cicero-branded pencils. The one-of-a-kind sculptures were then specially boxed and delivered to

Billboards are usually just meant to promote a product or Donny and Marie Osmond's latest casino residency, but this sign in the Philippines is doing a lot more -- it's reducing air pollution, too. Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature (known Stateside as the World Wildlife Fund) collaborated on a 60-by-60 foot billboard made of 3,600 potted Fukien tea plants. The plants are potted in disca

"Indoor tanning is out," says the Canadian Dermatology Association, who've placed tanning beds squarely in their crosshairs with a new web PSA that shows young women singing their skin with a clothes iron, toaster and waffle iron. Ouch. The CDA hopes these exaggerated examples of frying one's skin hammers home the dangers of tanning. According to their website:

The NFL lockout has left many players with a lot of free time on their hands. Peyton and Eli Manning are making the best of their time off by starring in 'Football Cops,' a DirecTV ad spoofing buddy cop shows.

If you didn't already know that slow-motion effects make everything look way cooler, direct your attention to this mesmerizing video in which everyday stuff like water and metal vibrate at 1,000 frames per second (compare that to typical TV and movie shots, which are typically 24, 25 and 30 FPS). The video was produced by Propadata Films for Fluke Corporation, a Washington-based manufacturer of el