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World Cup commercials part 4

By question | Published: June 18, 2010
The World Cup is in full swing now, so it’s time to watch some more commercials. First up this ad from Dodge that premiered during the USA v England match last week.  It seems targeted to air specifically during that game, and probably won’t be shown much after the game.  I know I haven’t seen it [...]
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Adidas Star Wars World Cup commercial

By question | Published: June 4, 2010
Aren’t I embarrassed.  In a previous post, I said I felt confident that I had already seen the best commercial of the 2010 World Cup.  Well I was wrong.  I’m not going to say that this is going to be the best one of the tournament, but it’s definitely the best one so far.  Here’s [...]
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World Cup commercials part 3

By question | Published: May 23, 2010
Welcome to the highly anticipated third entry highlighting commercials leading up to the World Cup.  See the previous two installments here and here.  There are more and more commercials coming out, so I’m going to start filtering them a bit and just post ads worth watching, for better or worse.
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World Cup commercials part 2

By question | Published: April 28, 2010
A while back I wrote a post about some of the commercials that were starting to come out to get people excited about the upcoming World Cup.  As if we needed companies to get us excited about this!  Still, this latest crop of commercial has gotten me excited about the World Cup, and also makes [...]
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World Cup 2018 and 2022 bid analysis

By question | Published: March 7, 2010
Soccer week continues here at quellipsis, today we’re going to look at the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.  I know it seems like a long way off, but the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be upon us before we know it.  An interesting contingent of countries has submitted bids for the [...]
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Nike announces new soccer uniforms for World Cup

By question | Published: March 5, 2010
I was going to go with, “Nike announces new football kits for World Cup” as the title but I didn’t want to completely alienate whomever might accidentally find themselves on this page… Last week Nike announced new national team jerseys for 10 teams in advance of this summer’s World Cup, including the US and favorites Brazil, [...]
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