Latest Commerical Podcast Episodes
Rax's Mr. Delicious
Ad Creeps - February 15, 2022 08:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIf there’s one thing you come to this podcast for, it’s to hear about a horrible little guy! Well meat’s back on the menu. This week Courtney fills Al in on roast beef beefs, appealing to a niche demographic, and what happens when ad men relate to their mascots a little too much. Plus, it’s time...
Planter’s Mr. Peanut Nut-tacular Part 2 - Baby Nut
Ad Creeps - February 08, 2022 02:20 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMr. Peanut is dead, long live Mr. Peanut. Plus, get ready for Al’s abridged cultural history of the peanut, the legume that made millions say "yūm!" From peanut reliance to peanut science you'll go nuts for these tasty little guys. ALL THAT and, a vehicular love story to last through the ages. ...
Planter's Mr. Peanut Nut-tacular Part 1 - Nut On The Street
Ad Creeps - February 01, 2022 02:52 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIf you thought you were excited for Super Bowl then you better strap in for our annual Big Game special, and this year it’s nuttier than ever. This week Courtney eases Al into the peanut waters with a piece of truly unique local history concerning the gentleman himself. Plus, snails?! Are they a...
Atari's ET the Extra-Terrestrial
Ad Creeps - January 25, 2022 05:14 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe dug up one more unaired holiday episode for you from the landfill. That’s weird, I thought we dumped like 6 semi’s worth of these in there… dang kids! Al helps Courtney phone home as they discuss this 1982 Atari classic and how it may have briefly toppled an electronic empire. Main Ad: http...
Peloton's The Gift That Gives Back
Ad Creeps - January 18, 2022 04:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAl and Courtney are kicking off Season 2 with a throwback to a 2020 Christmas ep that never hit the main feed. Grab your expired sugar cookie latte and pretend it’s still yule as we talk about holiday advertising, gender essentialism and what to do with this year's box of live canaries. Main A...
The WB's Supernatural
Ad Creeps - November 30, 2021 00:32 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe may not have a freeze frame and a record scratch but Courtney’s sure wondering how they ended up here as Al drops a finale bombshell that zigzags from Ad History 101 to White Guy Lit 203 and lands squarely in the pits of ad hell. Plus… what local ad is more worthy of finale status than the fa...
Quaker's Mr. T Cereal
Ad Creeps - November 23, 2021 07:36 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn our penultimate episode of season one, we finally approach what may be our final boss… at least for now. Courtney give Al a crash course on cereal advertising history as well as a light dusting of sugar, while Al realizes some difficult truths about their career. Plus, Mr. T, and a lot of que...
Jamba's Crazy Frog
Ad Creeps - November 16, 2021 01:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYou've seen the internet, right? This week on Ad Creeps Al tells Courtney about the humble and collaborative origins of the frog heard 'round the world, and Courtney brings jock energy to more nerdy tech talk. Do you... do you wanna make the noise with us? CW: Ableist language Main Ad: https...
Sakeru Gummy's Long Long Man
Ad Creeps - November 09, 2021 07:12 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLike sand through the hourglass, these are the ads of our lives… Come along with Al on a journey through Courtney’s favourite bits of soap opera history as we tackle the intense ad mini-series that gave us a love affair to remember, and a long, long gummy. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll chew. ...
Starburst's Berries And Cream
Ad Creeps - November 02, 2021 00:49 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsListen, we’re not above covering hot trends for stolen clout. Sit back and listen to the tale of Berries and Cream in an episode that definitely isn’t a Trojan Cow for the other thing Al desperately wanted to tell Courtney about: an advertising campaign from 2003 where 6 teens were "hired" to be...
New Coke's Max Headroom
Ad Creeps - October 26, 2021 06:59 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe interrupt your regular podcast broadcast to bring you Al and Courtney talking commercialized cyberpunk, coke recipes and the truth that those liberal nerds don’t want you to know: the dystopia’s already here, baby. So grab your fly swatter and let’s catch the wave. Main Ad: https://youtu.be...
Borden Dairy's Elsie the Cow
Ad Creeps - October 19, 2021 03:38 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsStep right up and see the long lashes and perky ears of Elsie the Cow, mother of dairy. In this episode Al takes Courtney to the 1939 World's Fair to meet its biggest star, and to talk about how motherly figures are a cunning tool in the belt of advertisers. Main Ad: https://youtu.be/sQxxivfi7...
General Mills' Franken Berry
Ad Creeps - October 12, 2021 06:29 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe’re dusting off our box of spooky advertisements for all hallow’s month starting with this monster of an episode. Courtney wishes Al happy birthday with a combination their favourite things: cereal, toxic chemicals, and hunky monsters! This episode will have you looking cool and checking your ...
Kellogg's Papa Tony
Ad Creeps - October 05, 2021 06:03 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsConsider this episode the syllabus for Ad Creeps’ Intro to Philosophy seminar as Al slips Courtney the exam answers on everybody’s favorite DILF, Tony the Tiger. We’re really getting into it here, people. It’s time to examine everything we know about the big daddy cat and we’re shaking all the s...
Orson Welles' Perrier
Ad Creeps - September 28, 2021 03:56 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWater you doing?! Check out this episode about everyone’s favorite live-sustaining liquid and also fungible commodity! Courtney explains the history of Perrier to Al and drains the well of fun factoids about how this spicy water pulled ahead of the pack! Remember: it’s not a human right if you c...
Muriel Cigars' Smoke Me Sometime
Ad Creeps - September 21, 2021 06:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGet a load of this, bub - it ain't your grandma's clambake. Al's talking Courtney through the advertising history of Hollywood's favorite cigar in this episode about the Hays Code, famous actresses, and the secrets at the bottom of New York harbor. So get the lead out and put this pipin' hot pod...
Budweiser's September 11th Tribute
Ad Creeps - September 14, 2021 06:12 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYou can always trust Anheuser-Busch to bet big on rebuilding this beautiful nation. Hear all about it as Courtney talks Al through some of Bud's biggest swings, including pandemic pandering, Zack Snyder, and some very solemn (and big!) horses. Plus, a local NY jingle with that puts Hitchcock to ...
Shop At Home's The Knife Collector's Show
Ad Creeps - September 07, 2021 06:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCalling all mall goths and Hot Topic cool guys, it’s fuckin’ big ass sword time— but first, some nerd shit. Al explains the history of satellite television to self-proclaimed jock Courtney. Tune in on your HAM radio to learn about a few pioneers of the satellite age, and a razor sharp moment in ...
Bob Dole's Erectile Dysfunction
Ad Creeps - August 31, 2021 06:25 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe’re talking dicks, people. The time has come to enter into the world of pharmaceutical advertising, so Courtney firmly takes Al on an international pole-to-pole tour of how America’s impotence problem became Pfizer’s cash money solution. Pop your little blue pill and strap on— i mean, strap in...
Coors Light's Love Songs
Ad Creeps - August 24, 2021 05:55 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow many Adolphs does it take to build a beer empire? Who invented the aluminum can and why was he overshadowed by his brother? And when did we stop adult kidnapping?? Al takes Courtney on a guided tour through five generations of light beer royalty, with a little stop in twin-town for some valu...
Pepsi's Harrier Jet
Ad Creeps - August 16, 2021 23:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsY’all seen these big metal birds? These sky guys? Just zoomin’ around , doing colonialism? This week, Courtney deals with plane guys, Pepsi swag, and a law school dinkus who was determined to get his. Get ready to hop in your Chesna and watch your six because these things ARE coming down. Main...
Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids
Ad Creeps - August 10, 2021 00:10 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week on Ad Creeps we start with some unpalatable history but don’t worry because we’re definitely definitely definitely going out for ice cream afterwards, I promise. Al shows Courtney some unsettling parallels between one of North America’s favorite baby farms and… well, you’ll see. Plus, ...
The IOC's Celebrate Humanity
Ad Creeps - August 03, 2021 05:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe big games: they’re happening right now. And should they be?? Ehh…. This week Courtney dredges up St. Louis history and Al takes some big swings as we look at the history of these big games and why their current issues aren’t a modern invention. So grab yourself some strychnine and egg whites...
Subaru's Think Feel Drive
Ad Creeps - July 27, 2021 02:03 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYou gotta fight! For your right! To drive a mid-sized sedan?! This week on Ad Creeps we’re talking about the history of gay rights, the origins of rainbow marketing and how to tell whether she’s into you by her carefully coded license plate. Don’t like this episode? Don’t hassle us! Content Wa...
Metro Train Melbourne's Dumb Ways to Die
Ad Creeps - July 20, 2021 00:08 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhip out your MCR hoodie because we’re going full Hot Topic edgelord for this very cute albeit ableist animated PSA. Courtney tells Al about business incidents, train troubles and one very rude scientist. Get ready, and do NOT touch that snake. Content Warning: mentions of death, ableist langu...
Pizza Hut's Gorbachev
Ad Creeps - July 13, 2021 02:26 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTake a look around you. Are you at home… or, are you just at house? On this week’s episode Al unpacks the global and cultural repercussions of the modernist architecture movement and also we talk about pizza a little bit. Join us in a quasi-orgy of ideas about the last gasp of dead men, dead reg...
MnM’s The Green Ones
Ad Creeps - July 06, 2021 01:29 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOn this historic episode we try and answer one of the greatest questions of all ad-time, and also chat about these consumable green orbs and their rumoured groinal go-go juice. Listen as Courtney tells Al about corporate intrigue and the surprisingly facist origins of one of America’s favorite l...
Mattel's Sunshine Family Van
Ad Creeps - June 28, 2021 03:34 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGet your bingo cards out and sharpen your knowledge of late 1800’s Marxists because Al is taking Courtney through a colorful tour of DIY movements throughout recent history. Tune in to learn about Barbie’s slightly more rural cousins and the forces that brought them to life and very nearly broug...
Discount Tire's Thank You
Ad Creeps - June 22, 2021 01:31 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEverybody loves a good pyramid scheme, and we’re no different. This week on Ad Creeps, Courtney breaks the glass window between you and the tire industry, or maybe we just talk about Flintstone cars a lot. Either way, you’ll learn a little something about this Discount Tire ad, and way too much ...
Time Life's Ultimate Love Songs
Ad Creeps - June 13, 2021 21:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week on Ad Creeps: a thrilling tale of corporate America— no wait! come back! I promise it’s interesting! Al edges Courtney down a rabbit hole starting with the birth of one of North America’s oldest magazines, leading them through political manipulation, a harmonic convergence and some rea...
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