Ann Summers: Summer of STDs and emotional instability…but you looked soooo cute!
No video for you to watch today (Hey, you at the back, stop cheering, it’s educational!) instead I’ve gone for the new ‘summer of s3x’ campaign by frustrated housewife’s favourite, Ann Summers. That’s...
View ArticleAdidas: A sneaker way of life is a dangerous game for Footlocker.
This advert for some God-awful sweat shopped Back To The Future-inspired plimsolls was produced jointly by Adidas and the retail chain Footlocker (the one where the staff are dressed up as referees…no...
View ArticleRecipe for a BlackBerry Reduction.
BlackBerry, in an attempt to gain market share from Apple (what is it with fruit, you guys?) have released this advertisement showing a series of side-by-side lifestyle options. Their premise is that...
View ArticleCarlsberg Fan Academy: It’s all fun and games…until someone gets hurt.
Wow, being British is so 2012, what with the Olympics, the Jubilee and England playing in the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament. Advertisers have a lot of targets to shoot their wads at…and you’d better...
View ArticleKFC 4000 cooks spoil the chicken broth.
Kentucky Fried Chicken. Come on people, admit it, you like eating the skin, right? Thought so. One bucket of chicken skin to go please. When I was a lad my parents would buy us a bucket perhaps once a...
View ArticleRed Bulls**t: I’d see your doctor about that if I were you.
Remember those old crudely animated Red Bull adverts with characters sprouting wings and flying all over the screen? You know, they were shown in cinemas before the feature (almost the only social...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Choice cheddar cheese in a pickle.
They say ‘pop will eat itself’ and it’s certainly true when we look at this offering for Pilgrim’s Choice cheddar. Here it is by numbers: Cheddar goes into cheese sandwiches, a staple of lunchboxes...
View Article#Facebook: Zucker-iceberg dead ahead!
Facebook is floating today (it’s been floating in the toilet of my mind for quite some time, damn thing just won’t flush) on the NYSE. The valuation is $104 billion dollars, a figure so large I can’t...
View ArticleAmigo Loans…what could go wrong? Oh, just your life.
It’s great to have friends. As Shakespeare himself one wrote ‘I’ll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour.’ Well, if it wasn’t Shakespeare it was one of the other literary greats. And guess...
View ArticleA la recherche du temps perdu (you better believe I went to skoool!)
Two adverts today that are hewn from the same sappy tree. Both Hovis and Halfords have brought out nostalgia driven TV spots for their products to try to trick you into falsely inserting their names...
View ArticlePlusnet Broadband…okay we get it, you’re as slow as your kinsmen.
There is an old saying that goes; ‘Never ask a man if he’s from Yorkshire because, if he is he will have told you already and if he isn’t, well, there’s no point humiliating the poor chap.’ I’m...
View ArticleThe iPhone 4S: John Malcovich is a fanboy.
John Malcovich has done some pretty shady things (Con-Air) for money, but now he’s acting opposite Siri, the personal assistant trapped inside all iPhone 4S’s. She’s amazing; ask Siri about the...
View ArticleThe dish that cuts the crap gets served.
Here is a smart little DVR that allows the user to skip (or hop) over the ad breaks in shows you have recorded. And guess what? The major networks have thrown a tantrum. Fox, NBC and CBS have all...
View ArticleHeston Blumenthal and Waitrose self-satisfied past redemption.
Enough! Enough with cashing in on the Jubilee and being British and all that jingo shit. The only thing I can see when I close my eyes is the (very bloody) red, white and blue of the Union Jack. It’s...
View ArticleColgate Total Toothpaste: Death of a salesman by small print.
To mark its 50th anniversary the ASA has released a list of the country’s most complained about advertisements. You can read a BBC article about the top ten here:...
View ArticleDavid Beckham Ode To Joy (Samsung talking balls!)
David Beckham; isn’t he amazing. He made a fortune by being able to kick a ball, what a guy! Now it seems he’s a classical percussionist to boot (pun most certainly intended). With just a little...
View ArticleCreating amazing proves a bit trickier than Lexus imagines.
The Lexus brand has been infinitely scoffable in my mind thanks to Alan Partridge in the 90s, a great anti-advert for these salesmen’s cars of choice. So the company has a long way to go to get me on...
View ArticleStolichnaya premium vodka advertises originality within a pre-determined...
Advertising regulations have pretty much killed commercials for alcoholic drinks; cue Nelson Muntz ‘Ha-Ha’. You are no longer allowed to depict alcohol as an aid to sexual conquest or even suggest...
View ArticleNando’s believes in diversity…unless you’re a chicken.
Oh dear. Nando’s (you know the place that fries battery hens and covers them in hot sauce to disguise the taste) has decided to tackle the thorny issue of endemic racism…in South Africa. Are they...
View ArticleWhat happens when the company's pockets are empty.
In recent weeks you may have noticed the return of older advertisements that a number of companies have decided to parade in front of us again. Moneysupermarket.com, Go Compare and this one for...
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