Invesco QQQ commercials – too many or not enough?

Why is it that from all of last weekend’s amazing March Madness basketball games (I didn’t watch any of the women’s games, sorry Buick), the one memory that keeps bubbling up to the top of my brain is Invesco QQQ commercials?

You might say it’s from the huge advertising push from the company, and I guess that’s true. They clearly invested a lot of time, effort, and money into promotion during the NCAA tournament. “Brand awareness” is one thing, but by golly, they went overboard like the husband on that Lifetime movie special where a young couple goes on a cruise and you think everything’s fine until the wife can’t find the husband and then someone finds blood on a starboard side handrail and then it’s discovered there was an altercation and the husband didn’t jump off the boat he was pushed!!! and the wife seems really grieved and all and then later there’s surprise evidence that she’s the one who cut him with a piece of glass right on his hand and then she pushed him and he slipped and flipped right over the railing but no one saw it so she quickly fled the scene except a young boy DID see it happened because he was innocently following a butterfly and the butterfly lead him all the way to the scene where the woman and the man were arguing and he definitely saw what happened but was too scared to say anything until he learned to trust the detective who just so happened to be on the cruise ship celebrating her first wedding anniversary with her husband who is a manager of a construction company.

The Invesco QQQ commercials are just like that husband who went flippity floppity overboard. Not only do I not know what they do because I started tuning out their commercials, but now just hearing the name of the company triggers negative feelings and you know as well as I do, in the world of advertising, that ain’t good!

Every commercial break had some random spokesperson analyzing something while chiming in that they’re from Invesco QQQ. I would bet it will be that way again when the games resume this weekend. It was tolerable at first, but I knew something was very wrong when this happened: I was outside when a bird in the trees was chirping. Birds have so, so, so many different types of calls, you know. But this one bird kept chirping and I swear to you it sounded like “Q… Q… Q…” …..then again “Q… Q… Q…” Invesco QQQ has infiltrated the TV, the forest, and lives in my head 24/7!

This is a problem because now there’s not enough room for all my personalities.

-Out of the Wilderness

Airbnb Hosts Commercial – The Music from Rita Lee

AirBnB has a series of ads featuring photos of actual vacationers using an AirBnB. Here’s one on TV currently…

The Music. Backing this ad is a song from Rita Lee called “In My Life.” Here’s the full track…

This is actually a Beatles song from 1965. Here’s their version…

Which version do you like better? Comment below, and thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

iPhone 13 Pro Commercial – The Music and the “Wild” Color?

Apple probably never needs to air another commercial for the rest of time. Their products are so integrated into our lives that they’re practically synonymous with the products they advertise– kind of like when you sneeze you grab a Kleenex, which actually is the brand, not the tissue. But I digress. Apple is back with another ad promoting the iPhone 13 Pro. Take a look, then scroll down for more info!

The Music. Playing as the soundtrack for the commercial is “The Jungle” by Oliver Malcolm. Here’s the full track…

The color. Apple describes the phone like this: “iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro have a wild new look.” In less dramatic terms, the phone is green. I’d hardly call that wild except in the literal sense, jungles and all forests is green. That’s pretty wild. Kind of like buying a phone for $1,000. Wild.

I”ll take “affordable black phone for $400, Alex.”

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

-Out of the WILDerness

iPad Air Election Commercial – The Music, Trivia, And More

The Music. The catchy song in this commercial is “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us” by Sparks. It’s nearly 50 years old, released in April, 1974. Here’s the full track. Then scroll down for more info!

Among many covers of the song, “Weird Al” Yankovic performs it on the accordion, and further extends his legendary status.

The Charts. This Sparks song reached its highest chart ranking at #2 in the UK. Another familiar song was topping the Billboard charts in April of 1974. It was Elton John with “Bennie and the Jets.”

Trivia. According to a list from HobbyLark.com, here’s a little trivia from 1974…

  1. In 1974, a gallon of whole milk cost $1.39, bacon was 99 cents for a one-pound package, and eggs were 58 cents a dozen.
  2. People magazine began publishing, and Happy Days started an 11-year run on ABC.
  3. The Miami Dolphins were the Super Bowl champs, the Oakland Athletics won the World Series, and the Philadelphia Flyers clinched the Stanley Cup.
  4. Popular baby names in 1974 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David, Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, and Heather.
  5. Blazing Saddles was the highest grossing film of the year.

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

Invisalign Popcorn Ad – The Women and the Original Video

You might be familiar with Invisalign from the “Brandon, what you got on?” ad, but there’s another commercial making the rounds on TV and the web. It stars two women and a familiar temptation anyone who’s ever had braces can relate to… popcorn!

The Stars. The ad features a TikTok star named Makayla Did. She’s got nearly a million followers on the addicting app that people either love or hate. You can find her there and all the other socials using the handle @MakaylaDid.

With popcorn stuck in her teeth and possibly a bit of regret is a spunky young actress named Marsaille Wells. She goes by @MarsailleWells on Instagram (and TikTok, too, I’m assuming). Here’s her YouTube channel video reaction of seeing her self in the Invisalign ad. She’s adorable!

The Original. The audio of this commercial is actually all performed by Makayla Did, originally on her TikTok channel. I tracked down the video thanks to someone posting it on YouTube…

Share your thoughts about the ad in the comments below. Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness