After These Messages Podcast

Andrew and Genevieve turn to the headlines this week as the TV networks grapple desperately with the declining revenues from commercials. We also prepare to enter the era of the Tostitos Princess. Plus Andrew quizzes Genevieve on movie commercials and the listeners weigh in again on the Direct TV ad.

Andrew and Genevieve break out the Judge's Hammer this week for another round of commercial court as they weigh in on some domestic disasters. Plus they consider Facebook's attempts to win back the public, and Genevieve gets back to her academic publishing roots.

It's all dungeons, damsels and dragons this week as Andrew and Genevieve review the ads that rely on the many tropes of the Middle Ages. Plus Snoop Dogg has a self-serving message for all the players out there.

Andrew and Genevieve go hunting for commercials with women sports fans, and after finding a small handful, they celebrate how far we've come, baby! Plus, it's a fun jingle time this week as they stumble onto a deep vein of Andrew's adolescent awakenings.

Andrew and Genevieve are joined by friend and musician Celene Ramadan (AKA Prom Queen!) to talk about songs that have been ruined (or improved?) by their use in commercials. They also discover some lost Alan Rickman audition tapes of a...dubious origin.

Andrew and Genevieve (and Ron!) assemble their perfect friend squads based on TV commercials, and they debate the merits of having a chaos agent in the group. Plus, Japanese candy ads are getting weirder, and that's really saying something. AND...Andrew makes good on his promise to sing a jingle from his youth.

After Genevieve spotted him in a local TV ad, friend and professional broadcaster Ron Upshaw is back to talk about what it's like to be in commercials, Plus it's a big-time Jingle Time with a bunch of submissions from the Ad Council. And we want to know who's in your commercial squad!

Genevieve provides a guide to the many, many spokes-owls hawking products these days, then Andrew tests her knowledge of defunct restaurant chains. But the real star of this week's show is our new Jingle Writer in Chief.

Genevieve and Andrew examine commercials that are clearly responding to market research -- including one market research company that had to market research itself. Plus, it's a very presidential (in the modern sense) edition of Commercials in the News.

Andrew and Genevieve are moving and they're bringing the Ad Council with them for a journey into the advertising trope of moving day. And then things get operatic.

Andrew and Genevieve look at the many ads that use the device of alter egos to pitch their products. It's self-on-self action this week, plus Andrew reveals his longstanding contempt for slam poetry.

Andrew is obsessed with an insurance campaign's specificity, and he also shocks Genevieve with a very saucy ad from the 1970s. We also induct another commercial into the ATM Hall Of Fame, and we get a much-needed update on Bud Light's Dilly Dilly campaign.

Genevieve and Andrew consider socially responsible marketing campaigns that worked (and some that didn't), and they learn that they're not the only ones who took issue with that Scout, the girl in the annoying Apple commercial.

Between the Winter Olympics, Valentines Day and listener-submitted jingles, Andrew and Genevieve have a full agenda this week, as Andrew tries to stump Genevieve with a quiz, and a local commercial gets them giggling.

The Eagles may have won the the big silver football, but Andrew, Genevieve and special guest Rosin Saez weigh in on who brought the best ad game. It's Tide's world, ya'll, we're just living in it.

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.