The Creepiest Commercials of All Time 

Man Big A really made this 11 months early for spooktober. That’s the grindset mindset right there #gamelife

That first Skittles one is actually a really good short film idea. I don't know how good of a job it does at selling candy, but damn, I was really wondering what was going on until right when the elevator was closing, and screaming "I'm sorry" was a good touch as well. Although the way the girl says the final line sounds more like a stereotypical "I'm possessed" voice than the "I got trapped here and am desperate to escape" sound, which the first guy nailed. The second one I imagine would be a lot scarier as a kid. And the Dirt Devil commercial, as said in the video, just nails how to make a scary add so perfectly lmao.

Thank you for the 3 seconds countdown at 12:45. I probably would have shit myself if it wasn’t there.

As a man who cannot handle jumpscares THANK YOU FOR THE TIMER

What an amazing person for putting a countdown before the jump scare. I want my future children to look up to this editor

I think the thing that is missing most from this video is WHY the Dirt Devil ad worked. Its because it used tension in all the right ways. You never want your commodity to be associated with fear. For example, the Burger King ad was good but it never broke the tension of the scare. Thus leaving a fear association and wound up fear. But, a good use of a scary ad was the Dirt Devil of course. It used the scary part of the ad to help build tension BUT it actually releases it with comedy. Now the product is associated with a parody of the Exorcist (something good and funny) rather than ghost and demons (something bad and fear).

Irish road safety PSAs are so dark, great video idea and not depressing at all. Just in time for Christmas

12:20 This reminded me, I wonder if Atrioc has ever seen the Long Long Man ad series. It was another set of ads that came out of Japan that I thought was phenomenal, and was what he was talking about where the product was frount and center, but the ads were also entertaining as hell.

Large Alphabet hitting us with another banger

14:59 that is how kids view their parents when their parents drink too much and get aggressive. Solid ad

I really like the editing at 2:15. It looks really nice with the ad blurred behind Atrioc. I think the neutral colors in the ad make it work really well, because Atrioc takes prominence and the background doesn't distract from him at all

I had to “study” that image of the two ladies snorting a dress in my highschool English class. It was made out to be a commentary on what women have to go through to be a model or something like that.

The point of these ads are so that you remember the product and brand. This is exactly why companies advertise their logos on car racing competition things.

is this considered a late halloween special or an early one

Puppy monkey baby was the scariest add I’ve ever seen. Never been the same since 😔

Wasn't expecting the last one to get a good laugh out of me. It's an ad that I enjoyed watching, crazy.

here’s a hot commercial idea: guy runs up and punches you in the nuts in real life. there’s no camera and nobody is filming it. as he walks away he yells BUY DORITOS

That starburst commercial is actually meant to represent what happened to Atrioc when Slime visited his dad and convinced his family he was actually Atrioc all along

The truly scariest ad is any ad made in Canada, and that we all know

this is a certified brandon "Marketer Extraordinair" "Glizzy Hands" ewing classic

For the skittles one they coulda just walked in sideways they would probably fit

That Burger King ad should have ended with all of the clowns walking in and ordering food like normal people, and looking at the kid for being the weird one for being scared of people dressing up like clowns to get free food...

Bro those skittles horror shorts are so on point. Legit horror not just silly monsters/imagery.

My favorite thing ever is the fact that Kevin Butler single handedly saved the ps3

The snow road tire one is a metaphor. The jump scare is the crash you will have without snow tires.

For the Burger King ad it would have been great to have the king pop out and fend off the clowns and give the dude a whopper. Then instead of dressing up as a clown they could dress up as a king. Huge miss on their part

Just on time for October 43rd

"Something that shocks you or violates the social norm" that must be why in Australia I have seen KFC ads where the person yell "bucket" (buck-it) to sound like fuck it. Or BCF ads where they sing a tune which repeatedly says "f-ing" as if they mean fucking, but they mean fishing. And I do evidently remember those ads

The camera dying halfway through the ad as it gets scarier really added to the dramatic tension, like I'm all alone now 😂

I really thought he would get to the burger king and the clown would just get behind him in line

Quack or whoever is editing this thank you so much for the count down before the jump scare.

This video didnt show up at all in my sub feed, I found it on the home page only after a couple refreshes

That Dirt Devil ad was actually sick, 10/10

The ENDWI program in New Mexico has a pretty cool series of 'ads' that play here to stop DWI's, idk if other states do that too but I always like watching them. I know you said PSAs are usually bad but they don't use shock value... instead they have humor mixed in them~

I think the important thing to remember is that the actually good ad of these wasn't focusing on the horror of it, but the subversion of expectation. Ending the ad leaving you creeped out or afraid could be detrimental to your perspective, but leaving you laughing at the absurdity of the situation imprints much better. It is able to burrow just as far, but with a better resolution. Like Atrioc said about the Burger King ad, if the kid went in and turned on the lights and someone was just chilling out watching TV in the store and said something like, "crappy clowns out again? They aren't allowed in here for some reason" And then asked the kid if he wanted a bite while they waited out the night, it could have been a great ad. Subversion, resolution, gives time to plug the food, and it paints the restaurant as a good place to go.

Right on the jump scare at 12:40 RU-vid cut to an add a fraction of a second after the jump scare and it cracked me up

How BK did scary clown night didn't make much sense to me, they could've played it something along the lines of "don't eat at McDonald's with your kids on Halloween, they'll get scared by the clowns, come down to BK where it's bright, safe, and, this is the important part, no clowns, oh and good food (much better than McD obviously)" but instead it was 'Scary clowns are everywhere, BK is dark and desolate, all BK workers are clowns too' lol. That Skittles floor one could've been a short series or short film, also what did that have to do with Skittles? Did I miss something?

0:15 Yes WodeOG that's a very nice emote :D

That PS3 $299 ad was really well made

love the connor6frog dance UNMASK OUR KIDS at 1:31

Pards changed the title… nothing escapes my all seeing eye

I pray that one day the Back to School/School Shooting PSA ends up on a marketing monday

I'm addicted to the "Glizzy Hands" marketing videos

Had multiple heart attacks during this video, top notch scary ads, ride of my life.

I've been waiting for this all night

1:59 almost thought that was Big A's laugh

I'd love atrioc's opinion on Galaxus ads. Its kinda like Switzerlands little amazon that does really well. The ads are amazing, basically they start out without branding but copying tropes really popular ads like chanel or raffaelo do and midway through the ad we get a zoom out, something went "wrong" with the ad and get price tags and little description on the furniture and stuff on screen. One of the ads even became a meme here

I think that first skittles ad is based on a creepypasta or urban legend. I distinctly remember reading a sort of ritual you could do in an elevator to get to a creepy alternative place, a bit like a modern version of saying Bloody Mary in to a mirror that youd dare people to do and scare yourselves. (If memory serves it is not immediately obvious when the doors open that youve succeeded, which adds to your ability to suspend disbelief.)

To be honest all candy brands have to do for marketing in October is get people in the Halloween spirit so when the times rolls around they’ll remember to buy candy

i’m shaking and crying now

Nice that you enjoy my ad, bro! Thanks for the "push"!

The skittles ad was actually a sick idea for some kind of movie / short film

enjoying the editing Zinjo :)

It is fing 00:13 right now. Thank you Mr Atrioc for giving me the chance to not sleep tonight.

Hey Atrioc it’d be great to see what - as a marketer - you think of Mad Men. You could react to a few clips etc?

That skittles horror movie was absolutely great 10/10 Tbh all the bite sized movies were great but the skittles one is goated

missed the chance for the slime clip at the end

I think a clothing ad where they used gross zombies for the scare value but then the clothes made them look good “clothes so nice they look good on anyone” would be great Gets the scaryness for memory and still involves the brand in a positive way

14:51 on the topic of psas: theres a polish road safety ad that literally shows a dead, bloody child dead in the road on daytime tv LMAO its kinda intense

I watched despicable me yesterday and underneath bank evil I say formerly Lehman Brothers and I keep seeing them everywhere even on big A’s shirt.

Those were indeed creepy. Thank you for this blessing of a video Sir A, the large

in terms of actual shock factor ads, the Australia TAC (road safety) ads were terrifying

I guess the takeaway is that sure fear gets attention, but it's what you do with the attention that matters

Thank you for my Thursday's "Marketing Monday" video!

Great job guys. Just in time time for halloween lol

If you do PSAs you should watch the Australian anti-ice or anti-smoking commercials, those are all pretty good

Have you seen the PS2 ad by David Lynch? That one is absolutely baffeling

I didn't even realise he was filming on Lud's set up until the camera turned off.

Those ps3 commercials I remember so much but until today I had no idea it was a Playstation commercial, Yes Atrioc!

I got an ad right before the jumpscare. Truly good marketing, big A!

i have binge watched every atrioc video in a weekend... wow

Lud standing in the doorway at 5:07 was freaky as hell

Want to talk about marketing. So there I was 2 years ago wanting to major in computer science now look at me a marketing major

they completely missed the oppurtunity to attack mcdonalds with the clown ad

Years later… baby, hideo kojima, and Norman reedus come full swing with a full fledge game!?! That foreshadowing is something a simpsons writer could be close to writing..

This is the perfect Marketing Monday. You're tricking us into learning while also farming some React Andy content. You explain the significance of ads like these, and then show us funny examples. Love it, Big A, keep up the great work!

i didnt even get to experience the jumpscare properly , when the 3 second countdown ended i got an ad for ed sheerans new album

Loved that second ad, McDonalds really knows their target audience. But for real, how did that Burger King commercial get through? Surely someone said "hey, let's make BK a safe space to fend off all the clowns aka our competitor McDonalds" and everyone else simply looked at that person and laughed him off. Wow...

An auto placed ad counted down before and completely ruined the jump scare at 12:45 FYI

Just in time for Halloween, great timing big A

That fragile childhood commercial is actually really good imo

omfg the skittles elevator ad was so cool

Hey big A have you ever thought of doing best military ads ?

Ngl, that skittles commerical actually got me a littel spooked.

The commercial should have shown how well the tires can run over creepy ghost ladies

Fri-keting Friday POGGERS

That Dirt Devil ad is actually so good though

I think Burger King just overdid it with the concept of the ad. There should just be a Ronald McDonald clown chasing after the kid, and he ends up at Burger King as a safe space, it should've been that simple

Aww I was hoping there'd be a jumpscare at the end

I think the concept for the skittles and starburst ads wasn’t to get kids to buy it or for parents to buy it for kids. To me the concept was about movie snacks that you eat when watching horror movies. If you enjoy the horror short and remember it was from skittles you might be more likely to buy skittles when watching a horror film

this is a certified brandon "skitman" "skizzy hands" ewing classic

This is a certified Brandon “Atrioc” Hat classic

I really felt the rainbow with the skittles ad

That 299 add is crazy good.

Great to watch on phone. I got ads for every ad of the vid.

Keep up the great work man!

absolute fucking legend for that jumpscare countdown

I was thinking the same exact thing as big A about the Burger King ad

Putting a timer is some king shit.

Dude in chat at 14:31 said “Lud’s dad” Bro… 😭😭