McDonalds “Micky-Dees” seems to be targeting the hip younger kids who love to buy off the dollar menu in a new series of advertisements on television and the radio. These ads focus on hip sounding phrases like ‘Menuaires’ which was coined by some nerdy marketing group. What is McDonald’s doing with its’ advertising budget these days? Outsourcing it overseas? I’m Lovin’ it? I don’t think so.

A new ad from McDonalds features Jerry Miller who played Ben on Growing Pains. Again I must point out that McDonald’s is really tightening their budget if the best they can afford is a somewhat star from 1980’s television. Miller only appears in the ad for 3 - 4 seconds talking about McDonald’s products. What’s the deal Mickey-Dees? Write to us… I dare you.

I’ve seen Cast Away and only really remember Tom Hanks getting a Volleyball that comes onto the beach in a package which makes me chuckle a little at this commercial. The FedEx employee gets stranded on a deserted island with only his package. A long time later he ends up at this women’s doorstep and she opens the package to reveal a satellite phone and many other goodies which could have saved him a lot quicker. Human misery is always funny with FedEX!

In this obvious spoof commercial, an old man farts into a ‘pure’ water bottle and when someone opens it up the fart is released. Pretty interesting if you are into that ‘weird’ style of humor. For anyone who knows French, fill us in please.

That’s right folks. Those idiotic Bedazzler bead commercials and informercials are back on the viewing air waves for all to enjoy. I thought this product was a flop and just disappeared but it is making a second coming. The ads encourage ‘going bedazzler crazy’ but for $19.95 you only are provided with 300 rhinestones which really isn’t enough to ‘go crazy’.

Does this remind you of your job as a ‘yes’ man on the telephone? In this commercial (a spoof that contains swearing) is a quite ubiquitous ad that has driven many of us at Caffeine Marketing insane. You’ll find yourself picking your brain after watching it so enjoy.

‘What Choo Talkin’ About Willis?’ Bruce Willis stars along Halle Berry in the upcoming ‘Perfect Stranger’ movie where Willis plays a high powered advertising executive (remember when Halley Berry worked in an advertising position in Cat Woman?). Anyways, Willis will play a power-hungry, money loving, and jerk-oriented guy who likes mistresses a tad too much. Please fill your holidays with glee by watching the movie trailer for ‘Perfect Stranger’.

MediaWeek is reporting that BMW will launching an ad campaign for the revamped X5 sport utility vehicle with a TV spot called “Nurburgring.” The 30-second commercial opens on what appears to be a late spring or summer day with text that identifies the time as 7:30 a.m. and the location as Nurburg, Germany.

The quiet, leafy scene shifts abruptly to a low-angle camera shot of what appears to be a racecar making tight turns on the famed Nurburgring track in the town of Nurburg.

The sound of the racing engine and the swooping track creates a feeling that the viewer is along for the ride. As the car stops, the view shifts, revealing that the vehicle is actually an SUV instead of a Formula 1 racer. A group of seven young men and women then get out of the car laughing as the text reveals the vehicle to be the new X5.

The spot broke first at select movie theaters and will go wide on New Year’s weekend. It will appear later on broadcast and cable TV, the agency said. It was first shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November.

Orlando will be tripling its’ tourism advertising budget for 2007 to lure families from other hot-spot destinations. The campaign will cost the city $68 million over the next two years and be funded by a higher hotel tax in Florida’s capital city. The campaign will consist of print and television adverts with the slogan “Built for families. Made for memories.” The campaign hopes to target women in an effort to bring more families. Television commercials will air during prime time shows such as ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Southwest Airlines has been working with a new “Wanna Get Away” ad campaign for quite some time now and are now turning the tables by asking us what we wanna get away from. Whether it’s work, the kids, or your wife Southwest wants to hear your answers. Southwest Airlines will be the most recent company to use consumer generated content and opinion in a new ad campaign. As Ben McConnell says “it will liekly get a number of entries from people who just love the company.” The winners of the Southwest Airlines campaign will get to see their commercial on air and a family vacation for four.

Why doesn’t CitiBank go back to making amusing commercials like these instead of their new brand of lame ‘Borat-Like’ comedy with the blind folded individual discussing how you can use your Citibank credit card to earn frequent flying miles.

This was the winning commercial for Cannes 2006 developed by the JWT Agency in Milan.

If you think those Volkswagen “oh-shit” commercials were instense then you haven’t seen anything yet. This new commercial for ’seatbelt-safety’ or “shit-my-pants-shocking” cream in my mind, try to push you over the edge of safety concern.

The ad features a guy and his girlfriend messing around while driving (we’ve all been there) and all happy. Thinking it’s a commercial for Axe, I am instantly pulled back in my chair when a small car with four people drifts over the center divider and hits the kids head on.

Slate: A man with a thick Eastern European accent describes different ways to earn points with a Citi credit card. Boasting that he gets points “tiger fast,” he says, “For speed enhancement, I wear this striped pants.” (Here he shows off a burgundy jumpsuit with embroidered gold accents.) The man is accompanied by an odd younger fellow named Victor, who wears bicycle gloves. As the ad ends and the Citi logo comes up, the accented man delivers his tag line: “Rewarding. Veddy, veddy, veddy rewarding.” (Click here to watch the ads.)

I really hate these new Citi Bank Credit Card flying rewards program. Why is this “Borat-Wanna-Be” always blind folded in the majority of the new commercials? They’re really not funny and only offensive to the people of wherever-the-hell this guy is supposed to be from.

Another great and semi-new Geico Caveman commercial where he appears on a sophisticated talk show only to blow up with anger and be told by a woman ‘whoa, looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the rock’. A classic commercial.