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Badvertising – Japanese Fanta
By Matthew Laidlow on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 11:00am | Comments Off

Really, this advert makes no sense at all.

Does it mean that if you purchase a bottle of Fanta, you have the ability to destroy islands with the power of sugary orange-flavoured water? We guess so. Leaders of dictatorial states like Zimbabwe and America take note, a weapon of mass destruction is right under your nose.

And in a twist that's fooled all culinary

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Badvertising: Kinder Surprise
By C J Davies on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 11:00am | 4 Comments
Everyone likes Kinder Surprise - the fiddly wrapper, the insubstantial chocolate, the crap toy that you'll either get bored of within thirty seconds or choke to death upon (thereby becoming a playground urban myth for many a century to come, just like that boy everyone 'knew' who swallowed a biro lid).
Why, then, did the people behind the 1980s advertising ...
Lindsay Lohan ‘Pissed’ Over (Usage Of) Her Own Face
By Paul Sorrenti on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 12:50pm | No Comment
Lindsay Lohan ‘Pissed’ Over (Usage Of) Her Own Face Lindsay Lohan is angry because an image of her drunken, villainous face has been used in an effort to teach America that ‘not all alcohol users are as irresponsible as people like Lindsay Lohan’ in a full page advert in USA Today on Friday.
The ad was part of a campaign against legislation for convicted drunk-drivers to have ignition interlocks installed (a device that measures a driver's blood alcohol level before their vehicle can start) and was funded by the American Beverage Institute, a trade group that supports the interests of the alcohol industry.
Why is the alcohol industry having a go at Lindsay Lohan? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. What’s next; the American Cake Institute denouncing Rosie O’Donnell?
Madness.
Badvertising: Jackie Chan’s Woolworths Ad
By Stuart Heritage on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1:00pm | No Comment
For years, western celebrities have been able to make a quick buck by flying to Asia and making shameful adverts that they hope nobody will ever see.
That's all a bit one-sided, which is why we should rejoice to the heavens the fact that Asian megastar Jackie Chan has decided to come to England to make ...
Woody Allen Sues The Spandex Off American Apparel
By Stuart Heritage on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 3:30pm | 5 Comments
Woody Allen Sues The Spandex Off American Apparel

Woody Allen hasn't endorsed any product since the Acme Adopted Stepdaughter That You're Allowed To Sleep With in 1992.

But you wouldn't know it to drive around America gawking out of your car window instead of concentrating on the road ahead of you. Because if you've been doing that, the moments directly before your gruesome death were probably spent looking at billboards of Woody Allen appearing to endorse American Apparel.

However, Woody Allen hasn't been endorsing American Apparel at all, which is why he's launched a $10 million lawsuit against the company. And he has every right to, because the billboards don't accurately representing him as an artist. No, they'd need to be 500% shitter and have Ewan McGregor in them to do that.

Badvertising: Tabasco Sauce
By Stuart Heritage on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1:00pm | No Comment

Adverts don't sell products, they sell lifestyles - you're shown a beautiful, successful, happy person and told 'you too can be like this, if only you'd use Daz'.

So with that in mind, what the hell kind of a lifestyle is the Tabasco sauce advert trying to sell? Look at it - literally the only aspirational thing in there is

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Paul McCartney: Why I’m A Feeble Vegetarian
By Stuart Heritage on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 11:30am | 11 Comments
Paul McCartney: Why I’m A Feeble Vegetarian

Now that his divorce from Heather Mills is almost complete, Paul McCartney gets to be just another boring old cakey-faced pensioner who we can forget about again.

But wait! Paul McCartney isn't going down without a fight. Although his personal life has stopped being exciting and his best professional work is light years behind him, Paul McCartney still has one constant to endlessly bang on about.

His vegetarianism. Which is why it's no surprise that Paul McCartney has just done a PETA advert explaining why he doesn't eat meat. At least it's not one of those adverts where he poses naked to protest animal cruelty, though - one glimpse of Paul McCartney's saggy buttocks and we'd have torn through a zoo popping everything in the face with the back of a shovel just to quell the nausea.

Badvertising – Hedgehog Road Safety Campaign
By Matthew Laidlow on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11:30am | 2 Comments

We all know that the roads are dangerous, what with chavs thinking they own the road in their 1995 custom designed Renaults, to cyclists believing they can do what they want.

Crossing the road was once a simple procedure, but it is now a risky thing to do and could result in death. So what could the government do to help

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