Published 16:22 IST, December 10th 2020

Geico Hump Day commercial with a Camel trends as people go through Wednesday

On Wednesday, December 9 many Twitter users took to the social media platform to reminisce the Geico Hump Day commercial created with a Camel in 2013. See

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Wednesday is long known as "hump day," in middle of normal workweek. However, in 2013 Geico Insurance company created a commercial that will now be forever linked to Hump Day. wildly popular commercial was called Geico Hump Day commercial and as people across world we're going through ir Wednesday chores on, December 9, many took to Twitter to remind rest that it was indeed Hump Day.

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What is Geico Hump Day commercial?

Geico Hump Day commercial is set in premise of an office where employees are busy working and are getting on and about ir Wednesday tasks as, wildest and most unexpected thing happens. A camel enters into workplace, but while audiences are taken aback after seeing a walking and talking camel in a workplace, employees featured in seem rar fine with his presence. In fact, if anything, one can see that all of m are ignoring him as he attempts to talk to m and tell m that its Hump Day.

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According to Insurance Business Mag, Geico or Government Employees Insurance Company is an American auto insurance company with hequarters in Maryland. It is actually second-largest auto insurer in United States, after State Farm.  company h reportedly hired an agency called Martin Agency and Sean Riley, who was creative director came up with initial idea for this iconic vertisement.

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In a 2013 interview with CBS News, Riley revealed that camel featuring in , has an official name, Caleb. He revealed that it was amazing working with camel except that y h to move plants away because it kept trying to eat plants. voice actor behind camel was none or than This Is Us star, Chris Sullivan.

However, Hump Day commercial was not Caleb's only starring role. According to a report in CBS, he also appeared in a Macklemore & Ryan Lewis video, and in movies, including Transformers 2. But it was "Hump Day" that me him a star video garnering millions of views on YouTube. It looks as though executives at Martin Agency did an exceptional job with because very few commercials have this kind of impact and staying power.

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16:22 IST, December 10th 2020