10 Famous Characters Who First Appeared In Ads

The history has had a good number of iconic characters. How many of us forgot mickey mouse or Tom and Jerry? The story that lives in the characters lives forever in our hearts.

These are some popular and famous characters that started off with ads. To noteworthy, they made a great impact and were taken up for series.

10. California Raisins

The most popular R&B were the major characters in a raisins ad. People presented the ad to convince the kids to munch on raisins. Later, the music and series of R&B made good fame.

9. Ernest

The story of Ernest begins from an ad of an amusement park. The character made a good name among kids. This continued with more gigs and different commercial projects.

8. Baby Bob

This is the most popular talking baby ads. It all started with Free internet.com. Sooner the character played in a series with CBS sitcom. But when the channel went off-air, it got back to ads.

7. GEICO Cavemen

This was the era of infamously annoying GEICO Cavemen. The idea earned a great name and fame among the audience. Further, a sitcom brought it into a tv show and that is famous till date.

6. Crash Test Dummies

This was an ad circulated to create general awareness. The two dummies raised issues like wearing seat belts while driving. Furthermore, the character turned to many ads, series and video games.

5. Ronald Macdonald

The most popular and well recognizable character worldwide. The character owned enough from his good works to fetch him various tv shows and series.

4. Domo

This was the weirdest monster ever seen. It helped a lot to the marketing industry in Japan. Sooner it was taken up by the sitcom for a series.

3. Space Jam

Space jam is a blockbuster from the 90s. This was a mashup of the era’s best basketball player with the most famous cartoon. The end result was an eye treat to the audience.

2. Doug

Who wouldn’t remember this classic cartoon series on Nickelodeon? This also started off with ads for Florida Growers. After that, it went on a good hike. It was into movies and series.

1. Rocko’s Modern Life

This is another hit as Doug. It was a story of Rocko and his friends surrounded by some bizarre architecture.