Good, bad, ugly in ads, adverts, advertising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvf8b5dFhyE

:)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-44330078

"Lush stands alone among many for its strong ethical foundation and the commitment of its staff, just like the police." - a police sergeant, formerly a Lush employee, and obviously either a comedian or a fucking idiot.

The police having a 'strong ethical foundation'? When did this happen!?

I'm not a great fan of The Great British Bake Off but the advert is brilliant. Especially the swan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jB4kU_ip7U

New Vauxhall poster ad: Hopefully their technology isn't quite as as many years behind their times as their meme adoption.

Or am I just not in the red, white and blue Brexiter target segment?

(made in France)

Old but still one of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIos4qdmlM

Anyone here work at Clearcast?

Having some trouble getting an ad cleared and deadline for copy to broadcaster is basically yesterday. My understanding is Clearcast are short staffed or something this week which means something that should have been cleared last Monday is still at script stage on the platform.

If you write ANYTHING on your computer, YOU NEED TO GET GRAMMARLY. I write pretty much ALL DAY every day [Skip ad]

How many times will I have to see this ad on YouTube before The Algorithm realises I'm not interested!

Iceland's Christmas ad banned for being too political...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdpspllWI2o

Friend of a colleague does. Do you want me to try and link you?

It'll end up being seen by more people now, which ain't a bad thing.
Interesting that it was meant to be a Greenpeace that never got used

This actually made me laugh out loud!

I downloaded Grammarly a year or so ago and it's absolutely awesome!

How many times will I have to see this ad on YouTube

Ads? On YouTube? You must be visiting a different version.

@abr I have done my best not to turn on an adblocker, but the repetition of either Grammarly or Wix ads on YT is driving me insane...

Fake news.

1. Iceland didn't create this advert. It was made for Greenpeace, who have already used it for an online campaign.
   
2. Iceland then bought it and rebadged it, with Greenpeace's consent. Greenpeace probably thought Iceland would reuse it online. Iceland have used it online, on the in-flight entertainment of commercial flights and so on.
   
3. Iceland then submitted it to Clearcast for approval for TV use.
   
4. Clearcast then had no choice but to not clear it, because they have to work to rules set by the Advertising Standards Authority. The relevant rule, in this case, is here.
   
5. This was never going to be allowed into ad space on commercial TV with Iceland's brand on it because of its origin, fuck all to do with palm oil issues.
   
6. Iceland knew that.
   
   

Now they're laughing as they get much free advertising with zero outlay on TV time. Which would have been fucking expensive for a 90 second advert. Nobody does 90 second TV adverts, not even at Christmas (especially not at Christmas), which should have been a clue to more people than it has been.

Interesting that it was meant to be a Greenpeace that never got used

@TooTallTim It has been extensively used by Greenpeace.

Wondered about this and the media costs involved in having without having read into the story in detail. Was trying to picture what they'd have done with all those 90 sec slots they'd never get a refund on in a million years.

The new Coke ad....."it's super good"

Cunt.

And is aerial yoga even a thing?

If it is, they're cunts too.

It's proper Uncanny Valley stuff that one... too shit to be real, too humourless to be ironic. Can't believe it got past all the approvals without someone saying 'This is awful'.

I think that's what winds me up the most.....it's too serious to be a parody, but too wank to be real.....

https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1070756154584784896

https://twitter.com/CursedAds/status/1068988857897631744

Lot of terrifying shit on this twitter account. This one is something else though.

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Love it!

https://youtu.be/2uXHsppO90Q