If you watch network TV at all, you've probably seen the BP advertisements featuring cartoon babies driving a car.

The music is kind of catchy, so I decided to see if it was by a real band that's produced other songs. Well...sort of. Okay, it's not a real band, but they're profiled on an independent (or "independent?") website as if they were. But on the sidebar, in the place where other bands' pages have unrelated advertising (labeled as such), the "BP band" has...a flash animation linking to BP Products's website. [Incidentally, Jack White wrote a song specifically for a Coca-Cola commercial, though the commercial never got much airtime.]

Blurring the line between entertainment and advertising seems to be growing in popularity. There are even companies that pay bloggers to post product reviews in blog entries.