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Badvertising

David & Victoria Beckham Intimately Yours Ad: DECODED

First the bad news: David and Victoria Beckham have got a new perfume out, called Intimately Yours. Why is that bad news? Because, obviously, if you have any pikeys in your family, there’s a chance that you’re going to get a bottle of this muck for Christmas. Apparently Intimately Yours smells of oranges and frozen [...]

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Badvertising: Ralph Lauren Wants You To Smell Like A Pony

by Matthew Laidlow

Adverts for products designed to melt away your excess belly fat or third chin are always the most amazing to watch. Flashy visuals will pelt you in the face with images of a miserable looking woman whose life wasn’t worth living until she slapped on a face cream that contained ganackeroids extracted from the crust [...]

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Erm..Vertising: Hulk Hogan’s Japanese Bigflow

by Matthew Laidlow

Wrestlers are nothing but closet homosexuals who get their kicks by getting close to their fellow man. Hold on a second, you mean to tell us that a buff man rolling around on the floor grappling with another gentlemen in nothing but lycra trucks isn’t gay? Oh well, we’ll use that argument next time we’re [...]

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Badvertising: Huggies Denim Diapers. Sorry: Nappies.

by Paul Gibson

Badvertising brings you the world’s worst TV commercials. Which is basically why the internet was created, right? This one – a TV commercial advertising Denim Diapers (sorry: nappies) made by Huggies – is particularly egregious. Because just when you thought that America could stoop no lower than openly sexualising the tweenaged Miley Cyrus, good old [...]

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Badvertising: Worst World Cup Ads

by Steve Charnock

World Cup excitement has reached fever pitch. Fever pitch. That was a joke; see how easily they come to us? Fantastic… We’ve all watched a lot of football recently. We’ve all watched a lot of football adverts recently as well. Here are the four worst World Cup ads, the four that make us wish we [...]

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Badvertising – Stavros Flatley Mazuma Mobile TV

by Matthew Laidlow

“So we’ve got an amazing brief for your first ever directing job,” said the casting agency to the first film student they could pluck from university. “It’s got some major A-list stars who’ll automatically gain you kudos and not just respect, but R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Quivering with excitement, the chance of working with high profile talent, our [...]

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Badvertising – Adidas Originals V Star Wars

by Matthew Laidlow

Given the technology that our advertising ancestors had 50 years ago, you’d expect that people today would be tuning in to see commercials rather than the TV programmes itself. If this theory was correct, then the BBC would be sent into oblivion overnight as thousands of people eagerly waited for the Loose Women to shut [...]

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Strangevertising – McDonald’s Goes McGay

by Matthew Laidlow

Once a company has got a corner of the market covered, it’ll always search for a different consumer. For example, we’d never tried make-up before, but the nice Avon lady said that a bit of blusher would bring out our inner beauty. Strange thing is, when we approach people in the street now they either [...]

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