According to this CNN article, a recent study conducted by the Institute of Medicine has found that the average American 7-12 year old sees around 7600 food advertisements each year.  I don’t think this number includes radio ads, as the average American 7-12 year old can not see sound.  Over 40% of these visual ads [...]

We like to keep it mellow on Fridays here at the CerealBlogger headquarters. So I’ll keep it brief. I’m simply here to say, “Hey, this commercial is different than most…it has a little something special about it, and that something is probably Donovan…or the giant bowl of milk…or the odd boy wearing a pink sweater.” [...]

Sometimes a commercial is done just right, such that it really strikes a nerve with the target demographic. Enter Hippie Hot Mom. General Mills’ has a new commercial for Total in which a kid finds an old pair of her mom’s hippie jeans and starts to wear them, declaring that her mom is way too [...]

If you were to spend your day on YouTube, not that you ever do, but if you did you might find endless spoofs of your favorite movie/video. Since I am a cereal lover and CerealBlogger I have been known to search for old cereal commercials and wheat related entertainment. One day I decided to break [...]

This Alpha-bits commercial is from 1973, and features the original J5 goofing off and eating cereal in a park. I also came across another one featuring the Five in a bunk bed made to accomodate all of them. (Hint: It has a firemen’s pole.)
Besides eating a dog, it is also worthy to point out that [...]

The cereal is Sugar Puffs and the man in the suit is John Cooper Clarke, a british punk poet from the 70s and 80s. One bloody wanker commenting on YouTube is still furious about JCC’s appearance in this commercial from 1978: “Sod this, its like Dylan Thomas advertising ****ing tabs!” Yeah…I suppose I feel that. [...]

Which do you think is more ‘In’ in 2007?
A. Throwing a basketball over your back during family breakfast.
B. Watching the teletube on a sailboat.
C. Thinking fondly of Fruit Wheats by Nabisco.
D. Always picking D.
E. ‘Playing’ the piano in the ‘rain’.
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