After These Messages Podcast

The run-up to the Super Bowl of advertising continues this week, with more previews and unearned PR grabs. Plus, Andrew and Genevieve try to beat the clock in an online Super Bowl commercial quiz. And a listener sends in a special audio gift for the Ad Council.

Andrew regales Genevieve with the latest in commercial news as they gear up for the new slate of Super Bowl ads. Plus, the Ad Council weighs in on yet another divisive VW Tiguan ad.

Andrew and Genevieve air their beefs with some ads this week, including the Chevy campaign that just won't quit, some unnecessarily grim tax software ads, and a confusing financial planning campaign. But it's not all doom and gloom as they have a really great jingle singer this week.

Genevieve and Andrew are back from Hawaii and, still suffused with a warm glow from the tropical sun, they catch up with all the ads that have charmed and beguiled them lately.

Genevieve and Andrew fall in love with an unlikely ad campaign, and The Ad Councilors develop a complicated relationship with VW's new spots.

Genevieve and Andrew let the Ad Council do most of the work this week. Listeners weigh-in on ridiculously self-serious shirt commercials, tiny restaurants selling tiny chicken dinners, and a mystery jingle from the 1990s.

It's that time of year when visions of meeting their fourth quarter sales goals dance in marketers' heads. Andrew and Genevieve check out this year's holiday commercials, then Andrew puts Genevieve's Santa-identifying skills to the test.

Andrew and Genevieve explore the timeless genre of neighbor-vs-neighbor commercials selling everything a smug suburbanite could desire. It's neighbor-eat-neighbor out there, folks.

ATM All-Star Benjamin Harrison (host of the Greatest Generation podcast) joins Andrew and Genevieve this week with a time machine in the form of a VHS tape of commercials from 1997. Together they revisit 89-cent hamburgers, sensual mac and cheese commercials, and the glory that was Mike Piazza's mullet.

Andrew has a bone or two to pick with some spokespeople who's smug mugs are driving him batty. He and Genevieve also find out why one particular jingle tune gets so much use.

Now that Andrew has given up cigarettes, he and Genevieve look at all the ways that advertisers have tried to prevent smoking through the decades.

Andrew faces his fears as Genevieve shows him commercials that trigger his various phobias, plus some toy commercials that don't make the grade and MORE LISTENER JINGLES!

Vieves flies solo this week for a minisode that looks at Errol Morris' Wealthsimple campaign and a homemade ad for a used car that will blow your mind.

Andrew and Genevieve put a little love in their hearts this week to talk about the commercials that have utterly beguiled them. Come on, world, join hands! Start a love train (love train.)

Andrew and Genevieve return to form with a long-overdue visit with the Ad Council and learn about all kinds of things, including an Olympics ad that wins even Genevieve over and the advertising trend that really leans into our gig-driven dystopia. Plus, we got more jingle singers this week!

Filmmaker Cat Solen returns to talk with Andrew and Genevieve about her latest commercial ventures, including some pretty powerful PSAs. And they all geek out about Rick and Morty, but try not to say "Mr. Poopybutthole" too much.

Andrew and Genevieve make good on their threats to finish the marathon look-back at their first 100 shows. They get slappy. Very slappy.

It's the big 100th episode, and Genevieve and Andrew bite off a little more than they can chew as they try to celebrate the past two years (give or take) of this podcast.

Andrew and Genevieve consider whether a stock trading commercials campaign is more irresponsible than a tequila ad. The ass-end of a unicorn finds its bliss. And a low-cal ice cream commercial causes us to reckon with our own mortality.

Andrew and Genevieve learn what NOT to do with their $10 million dollar Super Bowl ad buy. And they dip into a grab bag of new commercials, and the Ad Council REALLY comes through on the jingle tip.