Ken Griffey Jr. appears in new ads for Geico and Booking.com that Major League Baseball fans are seeing in heavy rotation during broadcasts of MLB postseason games.

10 best Geico commercials for a good laugh

• Unspeakable Family (2015)
• Crushed Pottery (2018)
• Scheduling Standoff (2022)
• The Gecko Takes a Stroll (2021)
• Rebel Rene (2022)
• Life in a Victorian Home (2022)
• Open Floor Plan Problem (2022)
• The Gecko Makes a Connection (2021)

Geico's famous slogan, "Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance," said by its gecko mascot, is now a part of American culture.

Jake Dylan Wood (born 12 July 1972) is a British actor, best known in his native United Kingdom for playing Max Branning in long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders and in the United States as the voice of the GEICO gecko.

The Gecko was thought up because Geico was often pronounced as gecko. The icon of advertising started selling insurance in 1999 and was inducted to the Madison Avenue Walk of Fame six years later, in 2005. Since then, he has become one of the most well-known advertising icons because of his relatability.

Government Employees Insurance Company What does GEICO stand for? Government Employees Insurance Company. Puzzled, are you? Well, the name goes back to the beginnings of the company. Founder Leo Goodwin first targeted a customer base of U.S. government employees and military personnel.

Transcript

• Boss: Hey, I'm glad I caught you.
• Gecko: All right.
• Gecko: "Good Driver Discounts: Now That's The Stuff.”
• Boss: How 'bout this?
• Gecko: "They're The Bee's Knees?”
• Boss: Or this?
• Gecko: Sir, how about just fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance?
• Boss: Heh, yeah.

The Gecko was thought up because Geico was often pronounced as gecko. The icon of advertising started selling insurance in 1999 and was inducted to the Madison Avenue Walk of Fame six years later, in 2005. Since then, he has become one of the most well-known advertising icons because of his relatability.

Did the GEICO “caveman” – a popular character in the insurer's ad campaigns – go extinct? It turns out, the actor behind the caveman character is now an English professor at the University of Southern Indiana.

The idea for the Gecko grew from a creative session at GEICO's ad agency, the Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia. The name "GEICO" was often mispronounced "Gecko," and as the brainstorming began, a quick doodle of a gecko appeared.

the day gecko Based on the day gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis), the GEICO Gecko is thought to be a mash up of several different types of squamate reptiles. Geckos are small and live in warm climates.

Etymology. The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko' stem from Indonesian-Malaysian gēkoq, it is a Malay word borrowed from Javanese, from tokek, which imitates the sounds that some species like Tokay gecko make.