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Badvertising: Two Rubbish Adverts For The Price Of One

by Michael Park

There is a definite trend of companies recycling their expensive adverts of yesteryear in order to save themselves a bit of cash. To be honest, there isn’t a lot we can say as a criticism of that. Times are tough and if your product hasn’t changed very much then why bother going to the effort [...]

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Badvertising: But Does That Make Rape Okay?

by Michael Park

This week’s Badvertising proves that the really piss-poor elements of advertising live longer in the memory than the really good ones. What do you remember most? Those Nescafé ads where Anthony Head gets his end away or that insurance advert where Michael Winner tells people to calm down before disemboweling them with a rusty fork? [...]

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Badvertising: How Many Pop Culture References Does It Take To Induce Suicide?

by Michael Park

Popular culture is a wonderful thing, especially for the people that made those classic television shows, films, cartoons, songs etc. that were actually pretty rubbish in their original incarnation but are fondly remembered by those with a penchant for nostalgia as being the finest things ever crafted by human hands. These are people who form [...]

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Badvertising: Mmm… CGI Chocolate

by Michael Park

Chocolate! It’s a wonderful invention. Not only did it get thousands of American soldiers laid during the second world war, it’s also a tasty treat that you can give your kids. Your kids who will die of a fatty liver by the time they’re 25. Not only that, it’s an indulgent treat for you to [...]

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Badvertising: The Paddy Power Vampire – “Who Are You & What Are You Doing Here?”

by Michael Park

There’s no video content for this week’s Badvertising, primarily because caretaker of the advertising corner, Michael Park, has become the victim of legal action after a woman’s head exploded after seeing his smug, self-involved face on her computer screen more than the appointed twice in a month. This means that it’s back to plain ol’ [...]

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Badvertising: Plenty More Incest In The Sea [Video]

by Michael Park

Every week, Badvertising takes a look into the murky backwaters of advertising as we call out the idiotic decisions of committees and advertising companies who thrust their intellectual vomit down our throats. This week is slightly different as we’re a little worried. Normally we watch adverts and can identify the fact that the mysterious hand [...]

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Badvertising: Are The Haribo Family Worse Than The Mansons? [Video]

by Michael Park

Every so often the world unites behind a cause which transcends nationality, colour, creed or sexuality. These causes can be anything from the protection of human rights to people coming together in search of justice (not a lynch mob, that’s not the same thing at all). Of course, these things don’t always mean much. For [...]

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Badvertising: Oi! Cathedral City! This Is Not The Way To Sell Cheese!

by Michael Park

Supermarkets and kids are funny ol’ things, aren’t they? As we’ve already pointed out, you can’t make a supermarket seem less like a soulless, fluorescent death camp for creativity by involving children in your advertising- we will catch you. Further to that, if you try to market a product to kids by trying to be [...]

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Badvertising: Do You Even Understand The Concept Of Experimentation?

by Michael Park

We can categorically guarantee without a shadow of a doubt that our readers know exactly what an experiment is. Some of you will have studied science in school and will have been involved in the dissemination of liquid from beaker to conical flask; some of you might even be scientists. If you are then can [...]

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Badvertising: Why Not Buy This Car? It’s Hideous But We Think You’ll Like That.

by Michael Park

Cars. Automobiles. Vehicles. Things with engines. On four wheels (sometimes three) that often get covered in ice during winter and, if you get leather seats, are too hot to sit in during the summer. Yes, our four wheeled friends are so much a part of our everyday life that it takes the release of Disney [...]

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