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Lynx - Bom Chicka Wah Wah
2007-04-09 11:17:00
Now, I had the feeling that when I wrote about Lynx before it wouldn’t be the last time. And here I am so soon after, puking Pulse bile once again. You see it turns out that the “I love this country” ad was part of a series and, to my complete disbelief and horror, it was ...
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TJ Hughes
2007-04-06 12:32:00
A quick question for you. Who do you hire to flog your products if you can’t afford real celebrities? You hire their relatives, that’s who! So come on down Graham Rooney, Peter Williams, Martha Ross and Jean Vorderman for the new TJ Hugh es adverts. The price is right! Now these ads aren’t actually all that bad ...

Bradford and Bingley
2007-04-06 12:05:00
“Aren’t hopes and dreams fragile?” asks the trainee caramel bunny fully grown woman in a child-like, half-whisper over the top of a lullaby. Thus begins the new Bradford and Bing ley mortgage advert and there’s only one word for it: cute. In fact it rams so much “cute” down your neck, if you watch it once you’ll ...
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Brantano
2007-04-03 20:08:00
Here’s a little insight in to a current trend TV advertising exec’s thinking: if you want to appeal to 16-25 year olds all adverts have to be like the tongue-in-cheek idents for E4. Fact. Brant ano is the latest to take up this trend with predictably substandard results. In this ad Dr Brantano (a psychologist on a ...
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New TVs Worst Advert Voting System!
2007-04-01 20:00:00
Hello, This is just a quick post to say that the voting system on TV’s Worst Advert s has been updated to enable those brave fools using Internet Explorer 7 to actually be able to cast votes! This does, however mean all previously cast votes have been lost. Apologies to those who have tried to vote in the ...
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H&M
2007-03-24 22:41:00
Life is full of people telling you what to do, what to eat, what adverts on tele to hate etc. But there’s surely no other area of your life where more people are telling you what to do, then the world of fashion. Oh, just that word makes me want to puke blood. Fashion, eurgh! ...

Dollond & Aitchison
2007-03-23 20:07:00
A reader wrote to me asking my thoughts on the new Doll and & Aitchinson advert. Before I do, let me tell you a story about a recent visit to another high street opticians. I went in there to look for a new pair of glasses as I, dear Reader, am a goggle-eyed freak. When I asked ...

Dulco Ease
2007-03-20 19:51:00
Sex and the City, didn’t you just love it? What? You didn’t watch it? No me neither, but apart you and me, every other person on Earth watched it (That makes us pretty special, wouldn’t you say?). It was a God-send for women because it talked about issues they really care about like shoes and “tuchus-lingus“. ...
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Trident
2007-03-19 20:02:00
Scene: 2 Advertising Executives just about to go into pitch meeting with Trident. Exec 1: “Do you want to hear me do a funny accent, Sebastian?” Exec 2: “Do I ever, Bertie!” Exec 1: “I’m from Jamaica, mon. I like reggae music, mon.” Exec 2: “Wizzo Bertie! That was v funny. Do you want to hear a funny word? ...
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OLAY
2007-03-18 20:23:00
“I’m Nadine Baggot, Celebrity Beauty Editor.” I didn’t think it was possible. I didn’t think that someone introducing themselves in an advert could raise a louder “Who the fuck?” than Barry Scott. (While we’re on it, who the fuck is he anyway?) But OLAY have gone one better and followed the “Who the fuck?” up with an ...

Mazda MX-5
2007-03-14 20:45:00
Simply slagging off critiquing a Mazda advert isn’t really fair without a bit of context. Any advertising agency that works for Mazda has to contend with the death-wails of the monster that is the “Zoom-zoom-zoom!” jingle. A jingle that is so catastrophically bad (I want to become a 21st Van Gough every time I hear ...

IAMS Cat Food
2007-03-14 16:12:00
This is on the blog because it’s filthy. It’s just plain wrong that a cat food ad should stick in my head at all, I don’t own a cat and my next door neighbour takes pleasure in killing and eating them whenever she gets the urge so the chances of me owning one that lives more ...
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Ford Focus Cabriolet
2007-03-14 09:38:00
The feeling I get watching many of the ads mentioned here is “What have I done to deserve this?” Few ads actually supply a punishment of mythological proportions, but the Ford Focus Cabrio let pulls this off and leaves you feeling like Prometheus, spending eternity chained to a rock having your liver pecked out by an ...
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Lynx
2007-03-13 21:04:00
Middle-aged men! Do you smell like a monkey’s armpit after the monkey made the final of a shit throwing contest on the hottest day of the year? And do you have about as much luck attracting females in their 20’s as, well let’s face it, a middle-aged man? Do you wish you didn’t? Well now you ...
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Argos
2007-03-12 20:30:00
Some brands have managed to embed themselves in the public psyche: Hoover or Sellotape for instance. Just about everyone knows what they are, in fact they’re generic terms for that type of product. For companies this is a bit of a mixed blessing. Their product name has become part of everyday speak but at the same ...

Churchill?s Car Insurance
2007-03-11 18:24:00
Ah, Church ill! What could be more British? Maybe a British Bulldog? “Oh yes”. How about some bawdy ‘carry on’ style humour. Hmm, that’ll do it. Churchill’s obviously had a bit of a hard time when the voice for their oh-so-British Bulldog was done for drink driving. “Oh no”. But seeing as everyone in the country can ...
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