Typically, commercials are everyone’s least favorite part of television. An exciting part of the show comes on and then poof! Suddenly we have to wait to find out what happened, and sit through a string of Wendy’s and Verizon commercials.
And that minor inconvenience equals big bucks for some ad companies and their hired actors. All in all, the ad industry is worth $493 billion. The digital ad sales have slowly surpassed the TV market, but the profits are in the stratosphere for both. Ad agencies brought in $170 billion last year.
But once in a while, certain actors in commercials manage to make a lasting (and entertaining) impression on us. Shocking though it might seem, these famous faces from TV commercials actually do have first and last names – and they happen to make quite a bundle for their commercial work.