Editing Pizza Hut (section)

===United States===
Pizza Hut's first television commercial was produced in 1965 by Bob Walterscheidt for the Harry Crow agency in Wichita, and was entitled "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut". The ad looks just like an old movie and is set in fast motion. It features a man in a business suit and tie, played by Ron Williams, who was then a production manager for Wichita's ABC affiliate [[KAKE-TV]], as he orders take-out, leaves his house, and gets into his 1965 Mustang JR to drive to Pizza Hut, where he is chased by a variety of townspeople, portrayed by neighborhood kids, Walterscheidt and his daughter, and various employees for Harry Crow and KAKE-TV. He goes inside Pizza Hut to pick up his pizza and drives home. People eat all the pizza before the man who ordered it can get any, which makes the man very upset, so he calls Pizza Hut again. The ad first aired on November 19, 1966, during halftime of the [[1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game|Notre Dame vs. Michigan State "Game of the Century"]], and dramatically increased sales for the franchise. "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut" ran on TV for eight years and was nominated for a [[Clio Award]].<ref>{{cite AV media |date= February 24, 2008|title= Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPpc4rY8iMI| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/pPpc4rY8iMI| archive-date=October 30, 2021|access-date= December 2, 2015|format= [[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://jrcentral.com/forum/general/index.cgi?noframes;read=775 |title=Background on the Pizza Hut Commercial |publisher=JR Central |date=February 28, 2008 |access-date=December 2, 2015 |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208172146/http://jrcentral.com/forum/general/index.cgi?noframes;read=775 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Until early 2007, Pizza Hut's main [[advertising slogan]] was "Gather 'round the good stuff".<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeating.com/2014/06/feature-a-look-at-recent-fast-food-slogan-changes.html|title=Feature: A Look at Recent Fast Food Slogan Changes|access-date=May 14, 2020|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803154723/https://www.brandeating.com/2014/06/feature-a-look-at-recent-fast-food-slogan-changes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> From 2008 to 2009, the advertising slogan was "Now You're Eating!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/the-15-greatest-fast-food-slogans-of-all-time-burger-king-mcdonald-s-and-more|title=The 15 greatest fast-food slogans of all time|first=Kevin|last=Alexander|website=Thrillist|date=May 26, 2014 |access-date=May 14, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806083757/https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/the-15-greatest-fast-food-slogans-of-all-time-burger-king-mcdonald-s-and-more|url-status=live}}</ref> From 2009 to 2012, the advertising slogan was "Your Favorites. Your Pizza Hut"<ref name="auto"/> From 2012 to 2016, the advertising slogan was "Make it great", a variation of the 1987–1995 slogan "Makin' it great!".<ref name="auto"/> From 1995 to 1999, the slogan was "You'll love the stuff we're made of".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUac9QpZPQIC&q=%22Pizza+Hut%22+%22You%27ll+love+the+stuff+we%27re+made+of%22&pg=PA19|title=The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling|first=Ivan L.|last=Preston|date=August 1, 1996|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=9780299152536|via=Google Books}}</ref> The advertising slogan is currently "No one outpizzas the hut".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awesomeinventions.com/pizza-hut-changing-to-old-logo/|title=Pizza Hut Is Going Back To Its Roots And Bringing The Old Logo Back|date=June 29, 2019|access-date=May 14, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806061827/https://www.awesomeinventions.com/pizza-hut-changing-to-old-logo/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pizza Hut does not have an official international mascot, but at one time, a series of commercials in the US aired, titled "[[The Pizza Head Show]]". These commercials ran from 1991 to 1999 and was created by Walter Williams, creator of the [[Mr. Bill]] sketches from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the late 1970s – upon which the ad campaign was based. The ads featured a slice of pizza with a face made out of toppings called "Pizza Head". In the 1970s, Pizza Hut used the signature red roof with a jolly man named "Pizza Hut Pete". Pete was on the bags, cups, balloons, and hand puppets for the kids. In Australia during the mid to late 1990s, the advertising mascot was a delivery boy named Dougie, with boyish good looks, who upon delivering pizza to his father, would hear the catchphrase "Here's a tip: Be good to your mother". Adding to the impact of these advertisements, the role of Dougie was played by famous Australian soap opera and police drama actor [[Diarmid Heidenreich]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

Pizza Hut sponsored the film ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' (1989) and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses, known as "Solar Shades", with the purchase of Pizza Hut pizza. Pizza Hut also engaged in [[product placement]] within the film, having a futuristic version of their logo with their trademarked red hut printed on the side of a [[mylar]] dehydrated pizza wrapper in the McFly family dinner scene, and appear on a storefront in [[Hill Valley (Back to the Future)|Hill Valley]] in the year 2015.<ref>{{cite AV media |date= February 11, 2008|title= Pizza Hut commercial with Back to the Future theme|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_EFGMyfYoc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/s_EFGMyfYoc| archive-date=October 30, 2021|access-date= December 16, 2011|format= [[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The 1990 [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] game ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game]]'' came with a coupon for a free pizza. The game included Pizza Hut [[product placement]] in the form of background advertisements and pizza that would refill the character's life.

In 1995, [[Donald Trump]] and his ex-wife [[Ivana Trump]] appeared in a commercial. The last scene of the commercial showed Ivana asking for the last slice, to which Donald replied, "Actually, you're only entitled to half", a play on the couple's recent divorce.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://jezebel.com/watch-young-donald-trump-eat-pizza-and-joke-about-divor-1723502119|title=Watch Young Donald Trump Eat Pizza And Joke About Divorce|last=Rothkopf|first=Joanna|work=Jezebel|access-date=March 17, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=April 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421060704/http://jezebel.com/watch-young-donald-trump-eat-pizza-and-joke-about-divor-1723502119|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1995, [[Ringo Starr]] appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial that teased to a [[Beatles]] reunion, but featured three members of [[The Monkees]]. A commercial with [[Rush Limbaugh]] dates from the same year, in which he boasts "nobody is more right than me," yet he states for the first time he will do something wrong, which was to participate in Pizza Hut's then "eating pizza crust first" campaign regarding their stuffed crust pizzas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/1/post/2017/04/1995-pizza-hut-commercial-with-ringo-starr.html|title=1995 Pizza Hut commercial with Ringo Starr|website=The Monkees Live Almanac}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://retronewser.com/2015/06/29/ringo-starr-appears-in-pizza-hut-commercial-with-three-monkees-20-years-ago-today-june-29-1995/|title = Ringo Starr appears in Pizza Hut commercial with three Monkees 20 years ago today (June 29 1995)|date = June 29, 2015|access-date = August 19, 2020|archive-date = May 31, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220531163525/https://retronewser.com/2015/06/29/ringo-starr-appears-in-pizza-hut-commercial-with-three-monkees-20-years-ago-today-june-29-1995/|url-status = live}}</ref>

In 1999, the announcer says, "The best pizzas under one roof" in the Big New Yorker pizza commercial seen on the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1. Also, in 1999, the game ''[[Crazy Taxi (video game)|Crazy Taxi]]'' for Sega Dreamcast featured Pizza Hut as one of the locations to which players were able to drive and drop off customers. However, in the game's 2010 re-release for [[Xbox Live]] and [[PlayStation Network]], all of the product placement, including the Pizza Hut locations, were removed and replaced with generic locations.<ref name="siliconera">{{cite news | url=http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/21/no-pizza-hut-tower-records-or-kfc-in-crazy-taxi/ | title=No Pizza Hut, Tower Records Or KFC In Crazy Taxi | work=siliconera | date=June 21, 2010 | access-date=April 29, 2010 | archive-date=June 25, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625170318/http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/21/no-pizza-hut-tower-records-or-kfc-in-crazy-taxi/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

Early 2007 had Pizza Hut move into several more interactive ways of marketing to the consumer. Using mobile-phone SMS technology and their MyHut ordering site, they aired several television commercials (commencing just before the [[Super Bowl]]) containing hidden words that viewers could type into their phones to receive coupons. Other innovative efforts included their "MySpace Ted" campaign, which took advantage of the popularity of social networking, and the burgeoning user-submission marketing movement via their Vice President of Pizza contest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.retaildive.com/ex/mobilecommercedaily/pizza-hut-scores-super-bowl-sales-touchdown-with-mobile-orders|title=Pizza Hut scores Super Bowl sales touchdown with mobile orders|work=Retail Dive|access-date=August 19, 2020|archive-date=September 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928055432/https://www.retaildive.com/ex/mobilecommercedaily/pizza-hut-scores-super-bowl-sales-touchdown-with-mobile-orders|url-status=live}}</ref>