Fast Company's Canned Lion Awards

Fast Company used your humble editor here at FBLA to come up with a contest of what commercials are riffing or ripping each other off. That one commercial kind of like that other one? And the inexplicable use of movie spoofs to sell products? Commercials are weird.

We asked an industry insider to explain how this happens. “We have to watch spots constantly in order to anticipate some of these ‘overlaps’…it is nice to be able to call people out when they are not as careful.