Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What’s not to love about Flo, the Progressive insurance lady? For starters, she’s smart, sassy, filled with knowledge about ...

Flo from Progressive insurance has joined the big leagues of advertising icons. A Google search for “Flo from Progressive” yields an astonishing 14.4 million hits, including her own Wikipedia page.

They are the money honeys of television commercials and are so familiar, that it’s almost as if they are part of the family. With her perky, girl-next-door look, Jan from Toyota — A.K.A. Laurel ...