Firebrand.com – The Best Time Wasting RIA Ever

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Firebrand LogoTed blogged about Firebrand.com but I didn’t get a chance to check it out until tonight and now I wish I would have waited. It’s actually the most ridiculous premise ever: watch commercials over and over again. But they cherry pick the best commercials so it’s one of the more entertaining RIAS that I’ve seen. The idea is brilliant because they’ve got a great user interface that keeps the branding of the commercial you’re watching prominent. Think a Coke commercial is great? Click the Coke logo and you can start watching all of the best Coke ads. It’s all of the best commercials put in a format that lets you enjoy them as art. You can even use the “post this” feature to link to your favorites.

FirebrandFirebrand.com is going to be hosting all of the commercials from this years Super Bowl so you’ll be able to check out all the good ones in one place. It actually annoyed me that I couldn’t go to a place and find funny commercials that I liked. The very nature of commercials means I should be able to easily find them. Now I can. Firebrand.com is like a bunch of 30 second tic tacs of pure awesome.

I mean seriously, the Magic Fridge whenever you want? Brilliant. And it’s all Flex.

[tags]Firebrand, Flex, Flash[/tags]

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  • http://www.kinzel-office.de Jason Kinzel

    Its really awesome and a great ressource for ever designer out there. just sit and enjoy the best tv ads and think about the point of it. good find!

  • http://mp3bulet.com Music

    but why do we need them?

  • http://www.swartzfager.org/blog Brian Swartzfager

    Looks cool, but I don’t like the fact that it starts playing the current commercial immediately once the page is loaded and that there’s no control to stop/pause it: you have to click on the current commercial and then pick another commercial manually in order to get at the play controls.

  • David

    What a difference a decade makes – ever hear of a site called “adcritic.com”? It was exactly the same thing about 10 years ago – had all the superbowl ads too. It lasted about a year or two, and was shut down by the companies that owned the adverts – intellectual property rights, or something of the like. So, now we’ve come full circle! I look forward to wasting many hours on this site….thanks Ryan >:-|

    Davo

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