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.

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)

Final Plea was the first gecko commercial from GEICO, and marks the debut of the GEICO Gecko on a speaker podium with his final plea asking people to stop confusing him with GEICO.

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 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.

Geico's success as an insurance company has come from offering consumers independence and low prices, as well as rolling out effective advertising campaigns that highlight savings. Chief among the forces behind Geico's success is the insurer's innovative and user-friendly initiatives.

Low Rates And Great Discounts GEICO's cheap car insurance rates and discounts could save you 15% or more. These are just a few of our car insurance discounts: Multi-car discount.

Back in 1999, Geico debuted its brand new mascot: The Geico Gecko. But not for the reasons you may think. That year, a Screen Actors Guild strike prevented advertisers from using live actors. That was a big problem for Geico as the insurance company was about to roll out a big new television campaign.

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. In 2020, it announced a switch to a new slogan: "GEICO: Real service, real savings."

1936 – GEICO is established by Leo and Lillian Goodwin.

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.