By Below is a series of advertisements throughout the year that you can use as inspiration for your own video marketing content. We’ve tried to include classics along with ads you may not have seen. Some of these are parts of omnichannel campaigns or advertisement series or marketing promotion campaigns while others are one-off videos that seek to use comedic entertainment in order to sell a product or service. The ads are sorted by year in order from the most recent year to the oldest.
2025
Garage Beer – The Beer Bed
Garage Beer, a brewery owned by two NFL football brothers, built a 1980’s water bed but filled it with their beer instead and placed beer taps in the headboard. This is part of a real promotion, they actually built the bed and ran a give away.
The BeerBed™️ is real and you can win it!
Scientists told us this was impossible. Scientists were wrong. Introducing The BeerBed™️ from Garage Beer, the bed that turns “five more minutes” into five more beers!
RT + TAG A FRIEND TO ENTER!
Contest ends 7/15/25 @ 11:59PM PST pic.twitter.com/tmkpDP3LgS
— Garage Beer (@drinkgaragebeer) June 30, 2025
2020
Cheetos – MC Hammer Can’t Touch This
The League – Meet the Parents
2018
Amazon – Alexa Loses Her Voice
2015
Doritos – Middle Seat
2013
Metro Trains – Dumb Ways to Die
Haynes – Beans, Not For Astronauts (Fake ad by Cinesite)
2012
Dollar Shave Club – Our Blades are F***ing Great
The viral ad that started it an online craze. An unhinged, hilarious, explainer video that tells viewers in a quick and fun way how terrible the razor industry is and gives them a low cost alternative.
2011
Bridgestone – Reply All
2010
Snickers – Playing Football Like Betty White
Old Spice – The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
2007
Career Builder – Use Data Appropriately (i.e. the Graph Commercial)
2006
Career Builder – Laser Pointer
2003
Reebok – Terry Tate, Office Linebacker
2000
Budweiser – Wassup
1999
Geico – Hump Day
1993
McDonald’s – The Showdown Larry Bird vs. Michael Jordan