Good, bad, ugly in ads, adverts, advertising

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heh, the scariest looking ones involve reciprocating saws.

I think that 'product' would be "suitable for everyone, whatever their sexuality."

you've scarred my retinas.

#unashamedboner

you've scarred my retinas.

forewarned is forearmed*

*not forearmed hopefully

Those Travelodge fucking creepy puppets adverts are so bad it's not true

The Jacamo adverts in general are shit but the one with the drummer and Freddie Flintoff is truly fucking awful especially when Flintoff starts dancing.

I was talking to someone about the Guinness Surfers ad the other day (which, remarkably, nobody seems to have posted in this thread, unless I missed it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9znA_dwjHw

We were debating whether an ad this good would get made these days. Not just the execution, but an ad with a proper high brow art concept (inspired by a Walter Crane painting and Moby Dick, filmed in black and white) with music commissioned from Leftfield...

Was the late 90s as good as it got for TV advertising? Was it the golden age? TV is so fragmented now, I wonder if you could achieve the same impact because the days of lots of people watching one of a small number of channels are gone.

Are there any good adverts at the moment or am I just missing them because I only watch stuff on the internet? ;)

Are there any good adverts at the moment or am I just missing them because I only watch stuff on the internet? ;)

Yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3Gvdu9mtM

I have the weirdest bhuna right now

"As I sat lookin’ up the Guinness ad I could never figure out
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after 14 pints of stout." Christy Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG5u0ThrAAo

That there is worthy of many reps.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12278902/
For the earlier version of the same Travelodge shit.

ah man its so bad I wanna go postal on the agency and everyone who let that through

Surely the worst right now is this pile of steaming shite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPIu6aj5ZM

Good God.

I was going to ask if declining budgets was a factor (Surfer cost £6 million for the campaign, in 1999), I think that just answered my question.

How could she say no problem before she even took his name?

When I applied for my mortgage they asked me what my hobbies were and how often I ate out.

Admiral, Go Compare, Money Super Market etc and any advert with fucking pretentious children being asked questions with answers like as "clean as a baked potato".

fucking whistling, and uke fucking leles

cuntsssssss

Go Compare advertising may be horrendous but it is effective and they did give us by far the cheapest quote for our car insurance. Even going direct to the same insurers was costlier. And the UI on their website is quite functional.

The Andrex ads with the "as clean as a squid" stuff is anathema to me. Fucking heinous.

hungry house. every advert features the golden ratio of 2 white people to 1(1) racial minority. screenshot from the one advertising 'chinese' food.

Who the fuck decided to destroy my beloved childhood memories of Top Cat?

Oh and can we have a moratorium on taking perfectly good songs, slowing them down and getting someone to sing them breathlessly over slow motion footage in advertising? Thanks.

Hypocritical cunt James Martin in Asda, cycling-friendly picnic, TV advert.

Sure deodorant ad: apparently bad odour is caused by bacteria in my 'underarm'.

Even the word 'armpit' is deemed too scary for potential customers to hear.

Bring your underarms in line you stinking deviants.

Saw this locally,made me chuckle...