The Thames Water ones annoy me. Are they even ads, given that in any place in the UK you have no choice of water supplier? Maybe they are just PR campaigns.
One goes on and on about how they're fixing leaks 24-7. Oh the thing that is literally your job, and also why did you let the pipes get in such a state in the first place? (dividends, shareholders, grumble grumble).
Also the one with the puppet, which is a terrible puppet. Apparently it is supposed to be an otter. I thought it was a rat, given they live in the sewers.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 10:23 (ten months ago) link
Voyage Privé's current TV ad states that they sell "packaged holidays", a comically Mr Burnsesque commitment to faux poshness
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 12:48 (ten months ago) link
Rightmove's decision to do a normcore "this is the place where we're happy" celebration of the nuclear family but drench it in unspoken melancholy is a bold one
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 13:35 (ten months ago) link
that annoying cornetto advert is back, the one with the shrieking and the unfunny reveal.
the tesco emoji face advert is creepy, like a rictus grin.
― koogs, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:26 (ten months ago) link
Burger king: making people feel like idiots for ordering almpst anything on your menu doesn't seem like a great marketing strategy.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Friday, 21 July 2023 19:24 (nine months ago) link
that one annoys me because someone is obviously singing "chicken royal" amongst the others singing "chicken royale"
in a perhaps related note, "reading eggs".
― koogs, Friday, 21 July 2023 19:36 (nine months ago) link
Burger King writing "You rule" on all of their signs is a weird campaign
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 July 2023 20:18 (nine months ago) link
is it the burger king advert or another fast food outlet in the uk at the moment where the serving staff solemnly shake the customers hand? no thank you.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 21 July 2023 20:41 (nine months ago) link
that's the KFC ads
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 20:44 (nine months ago) link
if anybody shakes my hand instead of putting chicken in it, arms get broke
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:18 (nine months ago) link
actual lol at "as soft as sea foam, as pure as a parent's love"
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link
i like the ones that end with the sinister "always keep away from children"
― koogs, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:07 (nine months ago) link
are you chatting shit about my milk-slice??yeah that is loool
― kinder, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:18 (nine months ago) link
the dove advert for anorexia, or something, needs to stop. must've seen it 10 times today and that weird squeal she does at the start bugs me every time.
"I'm glad you didn't buy an electric car" ad also needs to go
― koogs, Friday, 1 September 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
"They got me back in the game baby!"
The one that is sticking with me these days is this golfer Lee Trevino add for knee pain help. That tag line makes me chuckle. They seem to show it every 3 commercials during Jeopardy every night.
― earlnash, Friday, 1 September 2023 17:41 (eight months ago) link
New Verisure with the golfer has some of the worst acting yet in their ever expanding oeuvre.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:00 (seven months ago) link
i've been meaning to comment on that one. the layers of possibility - is he meant to be a parody of a toff? why would you portray your target customers as buffoons? is this about creating "aspirational" characters that are in a higher class bracket than your actual target market, and it's been done very ham-fistedly, or are they going for some cult ironic badness thing in a Go Compare mode? why does the Verisure lad guarding the patio look vaguely familiar from some ancient sitcom or something?
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:05 (seven months ago) link
Good questions, one and all. I don't think Verisure do irony though.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:08 (seven months ago) link
if it is parody it's brilliant. the production values have reached a point where i'm thinking surely somebody has to have pointed out how shitty the scripts and acting are?
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:10 (seven months ago) link
maybe Mr Verisure is one of those intense control freak guys like Mr Wetherspoons or Mr Sam Smiths who won't let anybody interfere with his vision
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:11 (seven months ago) link
Uber Eats ad with the heavily perspiring guy letting drops of melted ice cream fall on his kecks.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 September 2023 09:12 (seven months ago) link
is that the verisure advert that just drops in the name of their new ZeroVision thing without explaining what it is (a smoke bomb basically)? the way he says "burglar ran away" is very peculiar
also i can't believe we've got this far without anyone mentioning the Sausage advert.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 September 2023 11:51 (seven months ago) link
Oh no, "burglar ran away" ran away is a different one, there's something slightly off about that one too, gives off a 'middle aged gay couple on a caravanning holiday' vibe. Also I'd be more scared of the guy who says "burglar ran away" than the burglar who, er, ran away.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 12:06 (seven months ago) link
I'm not sure even a good actor could deliver the line the verisure golfer is required to say. I'm p sure no human being who has every existed has said that collection of words in that order or ever would spontaneously.also from bitter experience a golf ball hit into a pane of glass does not come to rest embedded in aforementioned glass.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 16 September 2023 12:50 (seven months ago) link
Old bloke crying desperately on holiday.
It's uncomfortable viewing, you'd think he came away on holiday to take his mind off the death of his wife
In fact, his suitcase with lots of Heinz Baked Beans got lost in transit.
Will it sell one additional can of beans? No.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 20:50 (six months ago) link
the end justifies the beans
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 20:56 (six months ago) link
That seems like the Bizarro world version of the latest Publix commercial, which tracks a girl and her stepfather through the years up to her wedding, when she finally calls him "Dad."
It has fuck all to do with groceries, but it makes me tear up every time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 21:04 (six months ago) link
Speaking of Heinz.... Watched the Hard Sell episode on (my beloved) WeatherGens last week - the sheer effort they put into ostensibly minor things for aesthetic pleasure etc - and the other day I caught ITV weather and saw the Heinz sponsorship and the whole enterprise was made to seem even more functional than before even though I knew too damn well but yes. Cough.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 00:24 (six months ago) link
the new currys ads with them eating the manuals and her with the beard
― koogs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:17 (six months ago) link
if you wrote the new Pepsi Max advert, you're probs a cunt
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:21 (six months ago) link
the Heinz Beans ad really is vile and i expect it'll be gone or edited v differently in pretty short order
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:22 (six months ago) link
i do enjoy how Currys ads are all "our USP is that the staff can regurgitate the meaningless manufacturer's blurb like this is gonna inform you as a customer in some way"
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:23 (six months ago) link
yes that one is disturbingly (unintentionally? )bleak
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:28 (six months ago) link
Christina Aguilera is doing Just Eat now
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:41 (six months ago) link
it's christmas.
argos xmas advert features the creepy toys again.
all phone adverts just seem to focus on the camera part of it. i saw one that was over 100M pixels, which is about 10 times wider than any monitor.
― koogs, Thursday, 2 November 2023 16:18 (six months ago) link
"I was so upset by a shop's Christmas advert that I wrote them a letter and posted it on social media like a twat. I am a headteacher, you know." pic.twitter.com/CUGwQKSSYI— june lewins 🐦 (@joonloons) November 3, 2023
i have missed this controversy. what gives?
― koogs, Saturday, 4 November 2023 12:15 (six months ago) link
There's a pretty widely shared social media conspiracy that the M&S Christmas advert is anti-Palestine propaganda due a twitter post they shared that features red, white and green decorations in the fire.
People have since doubled down in various ways including that Sophie Ellis-Bextor has blue eyeshadow so that 'proves it', or countering the ad being filmed in August as 'proof' that Mossad has been planning this offensive for months.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 4 November 2023 12:34 (six months ago) link
i wonder if Muslims or Jews care about Christmas adverts at all
the lidl Xmas advert features that old traditional figure of Christmas, the raccoon.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 November 2023 14:43 (six months ago) link
Ohhh, that's what it is. I couldn't understand why people were getting so incensed about that particular thing. I have seen some of the angry messages from people who think that the "national department store" hates Christmas, which is a weird think to think about a SHOP.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 November 2023 14:54 (six months ago) link
ok, i think the tweet i posted was more specifically about this
I am sending this complaint letter to M&S @marksandspencer We should all be complaining.This is a fight for everything we should believe in.Do not sit this one out.Write a letter of complaint about that advert!! pic.twitter.com/3aw58Uw2FZ— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) November 3, 2023
― koogs, Sunday, 5 November 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link
Yeah, there seems to be a feeling that the perfectly reasonable M&S "only do the bits of Christmas you like and don't feel under pressure to row in with the traditions you don't like" Christmas ad campaign is a WAR ON CHRISTMAS and undermining BRITISH values in BRITAIN.
― trishyb, Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:44 (six months ago) link
Birbalsingh has a very Ava from Abbott Elementary kind of headteacher workload.
― nashwan, Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:02 (six months ago) link
thanks for explaining what the advert is about, Trish. i had them all down as not liking the tacky bits of Christmas, but SEB was torching perfectly untacky cards.
she was also wearing blue eye shadow though, so who knows
― koogs, Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:25 (six months ago) link
Ah I hadn't seen that post, thanks, makes more specific sense.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:36 (six months ago) link
"You have a duty as our national department store to keep the spirit of Christmas alive..."lol
― groovypanda, Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:53 (six months ago) link
Have u noticed how many commercials are advertising products for “…my/our/your business.”
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 5 November 2023 16:00 (six months ago) link
"How many millions?""56 millions""Blimey" Fuck off you pub bore
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:38 (five months ago) link
i was going to ignore the irritation of "Asda have a poppin' offer" - a classic ad-speak "things no human being has ever said, ever" pain in the brain, but they've really ramped up the repetition of the ad over the weekend and fuck them, it's horrible, i hate it
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 November 2023 16:49 (five months ago) link
only noticed the 'self-inflicted injury' disclaimer on the over 50s life insurance ads this morning. that's pretty grim.
― koogs, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:53 (five months ago) link
Energizer Noir, what the fuck is wrong with you American ad industry?
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 December 2023 11:24 (four months ago) link