Sock puppets might not seem like an obvious ticket to success, but for one Dallas group, an experimental sock puppet video turned into years’ worth of videos with millions of YouTube and social media ...

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“I don’t know why, but people like to see puppets swear and have sex,” says Andrew McNeal. “There’s a lot of vulgarity and curse words you shouldn’t say in public but can get away with if you have a ...

What's an e-tailer to do when it's one of the worst performing initial public offerings of 2000, Wall Street isn't interested and the competition is intense? If you're Pets.com, you make use of your ...

At the turn of the century, he was about as famous as a white ribbed sock could get. Playful, a bit naughty and ever so snarky, the mascot for the San Francisco-based company was voiced by comedian ...

One hour later, we were blessed with an “Alex Gaskarth Production.” A sock puppet remake of the Simple Creatures track, “Special.” From Gaskarth’s iconic eyebrows to Hoppus’ black-rimmed glasses, you ...

The search is over. The ultimate symbol for the meteoric rise, painful fall and slow, strange resurrection of the dot-com empire has been found. Starting next month, the one-time Pets.com sock puppet ...

Perhaps nothing embodies the fortunes of Silicon Valley so well as the Sock Puppet. Created in 1999 by the San Francisco office of ad agency TBWAChiatDay, this garrulous piece of stuffed hosiery rode ...

A phony name made up by a user in order to masquerade as someone else on the Internet. Sock puppets can make controversial comments or vote for or against a cause without revealing their identity.