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Pete Rose Knocks It Out of the Park in Wonderfully Awkward Local Furniture Ads Cameo by his Playboy model fiancée

It's a hit! Pete Rose mistakes a recliner for a couch and pretends to eat pastry in these awesomely awkward, sublimely stilted low-budget commercials for Muenchens Furniture in Cincinnati. There's…

March 15, 2013, 10:50 AM EDT

Billy Corgan Picks Wrestling-Themed Furniture Spot for His Ad Debut Smashing Pumpkins frontman appears for $50,000 charitable donation

Billy Corgan makes his advertising debut in this bizarre, low-budget and cobranded ad for Resistance Pro Wrestling and Chicago furniture retailer Walter E. Smithe. By way of explanation, the Smashing…

February 21, 2013, 11:44 AM EST

Ikea Wins Valentine's Day With Offer of Free Crib—Nine Months From Now Make a baby today, save a bundle tomorrow

Ikea Australia has done the math (or has it?) and come up with an amusing Valentine's Day offer—a free crib for babies born nine months from today. You'll have to…

February 14, 2013, 10:35 AM EST

New Ikea Commercial Is Full of Colorfully Colorful Colors So long, drab white apartment

Is Ikea selling theatrical lighting fixtures now? They're easily the most prominent part of this new British ad from Mother London that shows off the Swedish furniture retailer's colorful (super,…

September 12, 2012, 2:12 PM EDT

Ikea's 2013 Catalog Will Spring to Life Through New App McCann crafts new experience for famed tome

Here's a cool teaser—Google-like in its folksy way of promoting a high-tech initiative—from McCann in New York promoting Ikea's upcoming print catalog and related iPhone/iPad app. (The narrator sounds like…

July 24, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

Ikea Now Brewing Its Own Beer Furniture maker's march to world domination continues

Ikea is selling its own beer at its retail stores in Britain, because manufacturing furniture, gross meatballs and entire suburbs wasn't enough to satisfy its Norse megalomania. They call the…

July 17, 2012, 2:51 PM EDT

Ikea's Cardboard Outdoor Posters Fold Down Into Moving Boxes Take one and start packing

Ikea and Leo Burnett in Toronto recently won a Gold Effie for this campaign featuring cardboard posters that folded out into moving boxes. Decorated with slogans like "Fill 'er up!"…

June 14, 2012, 7:59 AM EDT

Ikea's Porta-Potty Is the Tardis of Toilets Step into 200 square feet of luxury

We've been writing a lot about Ikea lately—its full store inside a banner ad, its rent-paying catalog, its throwback-futuristic home-theater systems. Here's another great idea to add to the pile—the…

May 7, 2012, 9:36 AM EDT

Ikea Pays Rent on Portion of Your Home Its Catalog Occupies Monthly checks redeemable in store

Completing our Ikea trifecta (following the store inside a banner ad and the new Uppleva line of multimedia furniture), the Swedish chain just won a Yellow Pencil at the 2012…

April 24, 2012, 9:03 AM EDT

Ikea Now Building Home-Theater Systems Right Into Its Furniture Uppleva line debuts this summer

Ikea is on a roll. On the heels of its groovy banner ad, which fit 2,800 clickable products into a 300-by-250-pixel box, the Swedish furniture retailer is now set to…

April 23, 2012, 2:56 PM EDT

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