Everything You Hate About Advertising Comes to Video With the Onion-Like 'Advertising Insider!'

From the twisted minds behind @Adweak

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The advertising trade parody site Adweak.com made quite a slash when it debuted way back in 2001, even meriting mention in an Adweek column. The site itself hasn't been updated since 2005, but Adweak (pronounced Adwee-YAK, or at least it was by Adweekers back in the day) soldiers on even today through the @Adweak Twitter account, which ridicules the industry's more irritating pretentions with fake headlines in the style of The Onion.

Adweak, which turned out to be a pet project from the guys at G&M Plumbing, has now teamed up with Dissolve, the stock video company—which also likes to make

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