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. The National Baseball Hall of Famer and former Moeller High School and Cincinnati Reds star appears in the Geico ad with his wife, Melissa.

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• 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)
• How Old is the Gecko? ( 2021)
• Too Many Robot Tests (2022)

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.

Jake Wood According to IMDB, Jake Wood, a British actor, is the current voice for the gecko - who is known to some as Martin, but that is questionable, at least according to a response from GEICO on the lizard's name.

Simplicity: Geico commercials are easy to understand. Their entire message as a company is simplicity. They want you to know that if you work with them, things will be simple. This is reflected in the way they've been marketed.

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 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.

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.

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Specifically, GEICO targets males and females ages 24-64, and appeals to customers with humor and wit. GEICO's method of conducting business- through direct sales over the phone and via their Web site- is a key distinction in the auto insurance industry.