Just Eat Adverts – Crimes Against Music
The new series of Just Eat adverts seem to signalling a new front in the ongoing war against humanity that advertising so often represents. In the I Need A Balti and Chicken Madras ads we have a...
View ArticleDonald Trumps
Donald Trumps is what capitalism would look like, were it made flesh. Not the American ideal of it: Superman, Rambo or Henry Rollins or something. But a beady- and black-eyed carnivorous hamster in a...
View ArticleWorst Advert Of 2015: Results
Tesco was the runaway winner of the poll to find the worst advert of 2015. By such a long way that it garnered almost four times as many votes as its closest rival, Clean Bandit's quite hideous...
View ArticleMarmite Adverts
"Why is Marmite so expensive?," I found myself wondering Brands can learn a lot form social media about Johnny Public sees them. And I have no doubt that most of them have someone dedicated to...
View ArticleMoneySupermarket Advert #EpicWolf
I don't think MoneySupermarket ever expected to have such as massive hit on its hands with Dave's arse-jiggling epic strut. Why? Because it's made such an abysmal job of trying to replicate that...
View ArticleThe Day David Bowie Died
I often wondered what it would be like when David Bowie died. Why? Because the thought of it was so utterly hard to come to terms with. How could Bowie ever die? He seemed to transcend every medium in...
View Article2015 Adverts I Liked
OK. I won't make a habit of this. But these are some adverts I liked in 2015. I'm not going to pretend they're the best adverts of 2015 but they're some of the best. Fair play, one of them is barely...
View ArticleCentre Parcs Advert: Bears
Why am I even working here? I'M A BEAR. Ah, I recognise this one. Swap going to the only bit of the countryside where you have to pay for waking up on Christmas Day and opening presents and you have a...
View ArticleHive Advert: Redux
Look, I think we'd all acknowledge that everyone involve has taken significant steps towards making their Hive advert a lot less hateful. And we thank them for their efforts. The old Hive advert was...
View ArticleThe Ad Doritos Don’t Want You To See
Happy to share this rather brilliant skit of a Doritos advert in order to ecnourage them to stop killing tigers so we can enjoy fried corn product. It’s 2016 and we’re back -- taking on Doritos by...
View Article19 Tesco Discount Fails You Won’t Believe
I'm a big fan of the yellow-sticker section in Tesco. Or the Whoopsed section in Asda. Or... whatever Sainsbury's calls its discounted section. They're a great source of cheap food and a kind of...
View ArticleEvery Vine About Winterwatch Is Filthy
Who in their right mind doesn't like Winterwatch (or Springwatch and Autumnwatch), the tri-annual BBC celebration of wildlife, obscure music references and utter filth? The show - presented by Chris...
View ArticleOpal Fruits or Starburst? The Brand That Refuses To Die
Mrs AdTurds bought me some Starburst the other day. I'd had one of those moments a few days earlier when I'd had a sudden craving for the fruity chews - and realised at the same time it was probably a...
View ArticleNew Haribo Starmix Advert
I would rather see Donald Trump elected President of the United States than watch another of these adverts. The post New Haribo Starmix Advert appeared first on AdTurds.
View ArticleNew Admiral Advert
The new Admiral advert then. Oh. Oh dear no. Oh Jesus Christ. You know that horrible feeling at the pit of your stomach, the first few seconds when you know something has gone horribly wrong? The...
View ArticleBanned Adverts! (Actual Advert May Not Be Banned)
Thank God for the media showing us the banned images! "BANNED ADVERTS!" "Oh, hello, what's this. Maybe some pictures of women in the nip..." "This Body-Positive Ad Starring Ashley Graham Has Been...
View ArticleMarch’s Worst Adverts
What a strange time for awful adverts. I can only assume it's something to do with the Conservative government. March doesn't just herald the arrival of adverts that are truly appalling - the sort...
View ArticleHollywood Celebrities In Adverts
Have you noticed the amounts of Hollywood celebrities in adverts recently? Not just film trailers or transatlantic airways or American banks and all that jazz; not Victor Kiam. I'm talking bona fide...
View ArticleGo Compare Cabbie Advert: Very Not Fantastic
Incredibly in this new Go Compare advert, the price-comparison company has managed to make the nation yell 'OH STFU YOU UTTERLY DREADFUL MAN' at the television whenever it hits the screens - and it's...
View ArticleThe Black Farmer Advert
The Black Farmer advert had people spitting out their Nandos in horror, disgust and amazement during the Googlebox commercial break last night. Inured to advertising as I am, strung up on a crucifix in...
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