Amusing Advertisements Featuring Paintball

So I set out to hunt done some POSITIVE examples of paintball in 'non-paintball' related media. I found some awful examples, some good examples and some generically awesome paintball vids. I'll include anything that falls under good or awesome in the following list.

We're gonna skip RIGHT OVER the disaster that was the 7-11 TV spot featuring paintball.
One could argue that it shows a mainstreaming of paintball, but the flagrant disregard of safety keeps it off our list of cool paintball commercials. It sends the wrong message and its too soon to be advertising paintball that way (i doubt it will ever be soon enough) since it sends the wrong and extremely unsafe message.

Instead, I selected a different criteria. I looked for 1. sheer awesomeness, 2. minimal safety violations and 3. the use of paintball by a serious/established NON-paintball industry/organization.


Here are some that made the cut. They don't necessarily meet ALL my criteria, but they're fun to watch.
Check em out!



The freshest is Saman Keshavaraz's 'Video Game Style Paintball Match'...
It wasn't really an add for anything except the kickassery of paintball and his skillz of filming/editing and getting people to rehearse a paintball battle for a single take. And despite one painfully obvious missing hopper (you'll know), this staged paintball match plays out the way we all wish paintball happened in real life... with lots of action, video-game effects, and slow-mowing of faces.

Running a close second is Powerade's promo from 2010. Although it features an oversized bazooka and an impossibly large caliber paintball tank, these elements are, in the end, quite humorous... and the one mask violation is not extreme, (the guy does it before and after the match... he's still on the field... but we'll give it to him... did you see that Tank-paintball-balloon?) demonstrating a balance and compromise between whichever paintball conscientious advisor they hired to help out and the need to have someone drinking Powerade at the opportune moment. And Powerade is a major beverage company, so for paintball to make the cut and be listed as a Sport is a great plus. 

Third, with some far-fetched actiony scenes and only a few mask violations, this video from the Euromillions lottery does have some shortcomings... but the over-the-topness fits... I'd argue pushes it straight into the Awesome category, because who want wouldn't blow a few millions of their hard-won lottery earnings on an epic scenario match replete with Helo-inserts, jet-skis and humor. Well done, EuroMillions!

Who doesn't love a beer now and then?  Budlight's take on paintball includes an epic airstrike.

This spot by the U.S. adoption agency features dad making a terrible on-field mask violation... but we think the overall message, humor and use of paintball by such an organization buys them some slack. Plus he gets nailed as soon as he puts his mask back on. Phones on silent, please. 

Hane's puts an amusing twist on the Boxer vs Briefs debate in this Speedball-on-Ice, tongue-in-cheeck advertisement. 

Last but not least, this epic Russian vid has been circling youtube for years... and that's just because it continues to be one of the most epic staged paintball vids of all time. It has nothing to do with anything but an extreme mil-simulation of paintball. But it does a kickass job of that. 

Do you have a favorite paintball add/video we didn't list? Let us know in the comment section!