Awesome Commercials

Director Mark Zibert and effects shop Alter Ego pulled off this impressive promo spot for Cycling Canada, in which bicycles appear to be riding themselves across the Canadian landscape. Be sure to check out the behind the scenes reel too.

You’ll believe a basset hound can fly in this hilarious commercial for Greek communications company WIND that promotes their high speed internet service by envisioning the huge gale force winds created by its power.

Oreo paid the creator of the asdfmovies to make a commercial. The result is this comedy horror drama action science fiction short film. Body of Ben… wait wait wait. Is this… is this how communion wafers are made?!

Ricky Gervais was booked by Australian broadband network Optus to promote their new Netflix integration. But Ricky decided to completely phone in the job, resulting in the most apathetic commercial you’ve ever seen.

In this hilariously unironic commercial, Taco Bell presents itself as a utopia in the breakfast hunger games against McDonald’s. We give them points for the posters, but come on. This is like ditching Coke for Mountain Dew instead of water.

OK Go’s commercial for Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline features a remix of I Won’t Let You Down… but it let us down a bit because the tricks here are actually from The Writing’s On the Wall, so no synchronized umbrellas for you.

To promote Russian airline S7 Airlines, advertising agency W+K Amsterdam asked kids to come up with imaginary locations, then showed that our planet is fantastic in its own ways. One-way ticket to Lake Chocolate please.

For its live show in Austin, Texas, Jimmy Kimmel Live made a series of commercials for one of the city’s small businesses with the help of native Texan Matthew McConaughey. Vulcan Video: A Video Store in 2015. It Has Free Parking.

To demonstrate the curb appeal of the new Fabia ŠKODA, the European car company created a short commercial that you think is all about their car, but in fact is a test you didn’t know you were taking. Imagine if they did this with a Lambo.

This Italian ad for Mentos NOWmints starts out normally enough, with a couple exchanging sweet thoughts at the end of a romantic night, but then it escalates rather quickly in the last 15 seconds. We definitely didn’t see that coming.

You know how you can skip some YouTube ads after 5 seconds? Geico goes around that by getting straight to the point in its new commercials. And yet all of them are longer than 5 seconds. Hmmm…

This commercial for Seiha English Academy, an English conversation school in Japan, claims that the school makes children so good at English you’ll need to call an exorcist. English speaking level: Japanese.

After frying shrimp at lightning speed, NTT DoCoMo once again resorts to a food-based analogy to promote its 4G network. This time they made ground beef dumpling in under three seconds. The music is the secret ingredient here.

Honda promotes the Civic Type-R, the NSX and its other new vehicles by helping you speed read. Seriously. Just keep your eyes on the middle of the video and press play. Ready for level 2? Go! Oh we’re not done yet! Goooo!

In 1999, Will Radford and his friends pooled their money and bought a used 1957 Series 1 Land Rover. They had a lot of good times with it but were unable to maintain their beloved car, so they sold it last year. Guess who bought it.

Google Japan used 300 Android mobile devices and the Androidify app to create a digital beatbox a capella rendition of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. The virtual choir will also perform live in Tokyo. Not to be outdone, Apple China set up a… oh wait.

Corridor Digital was asked to make a short film to promote the upcoming third-person shooter The Order: 1886. As usual, they came through with a funny and exciting video. Just not one that fits the game. Maybe the sequel?

A customer is creeped out when her pharmacist Greg is replaced by…sorta Greg in Esurance’s Super Bowl commercial. While we don’t want Breaking Bad to be a mere punchline, it’s great seeing an old friend. What’s up Mr. White?

This year’s Super Bowl commercials featured the typical big budgets and emotional manipulation we’re used to seeing. But one little commercial – for glue of all things – won the night as far as we’re concerned. Directed by Tim & Eric, natch.

To sell us on their powerful new RC coupe, Lexus has decided to entertain us with some daft RC drifting. But in this case, we mean R/C, as in a 1/10th scale remote-controlled car, driven with precision by R/C drift expert Drift44.

For its Super Bowl XLIX commercial spot, Snickers adds a couple of familiar, yet completely unexpected faces to a classic scene from The Brady Bunch. We’d love to see an entire episode where the kids are replaced with bad dudes.

Bud goes for the feels with this Super Bowl commercial featuring a trope that always gets the waterworks going – a lost dog who must find its way back to its master. Sleeping at Last’s remake of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) is great too.

Super Bowl commercials are often grand and outrageous – two adjectives that suit action star Pierce Brosnan. But as his agent reveals, Kia has chosen a different approach for the Sorento ad that he’ll be starring in.