Best and Worst Christmas Adverts 2017
So, it's the Christmas adverts 2017. Christmas isn't Christmas without your very own Christmas hashtag is it? I mean, a hashtag really is the true meaning of Christmas and if your advert doesn't have...
View ArticleThe Worst Adverts of 2017: Vote
Is it that time again. For the bad things? You know, the worst adverts of 2017? The things that have been making your angry, upset, irritated or perhaps even clinically insane over the course of the...
View ArticleThe Tui Advert IS The Worst Advert of 2017
Hundreds of votes later and it's not even close: you picked the Tui advert as the nadir of the worst adverts of 2017 by a landslide so great the only comparable geological metaphor would include...
View ArticleChoose February’s Worst Advert
Did you miss me? I've had to take something of a sabbatical from the adverts. In fact I've been receiving daily blood transfusions in an effort to rid me of the concentrated evil that's built up in my...
View ArticleA Double-Whammy McDonalds Advert: McCafe and Big Mac
Recently, while out on manoeuvres, I had a close escape. Settling down to watch The Post (sentimental tripe) at my local cinehouse I was subjected to not one, but two McDonald's adverts. Clearly my...
View ArticleDiet Coke Advert 2018: Yurt, Athleisure and A Gaping Abyss
Well, well, well. A new Diet Coke advert. Like a Tory party broadcast or a Nigel Farage Question Time appearance, a new Diet Coke advert is to be treated in much the same way as an unloved season....
View ArticleHalifax Wizard Of Oz Advert
I've been hearing from you in your droves. The AdTurds postbag is positively throbbing with anger at the new Halifax Wizard Of Oz advert, CGIing a camp Halifax mortgage chap into The Wizard Of Fucking...
View ArticleRobinson’s Refresh’d Advert: Straw Donkeys
Have you heard about this thing called plastic? Well apparently there's more of the stuff choking up rivers, seabeds and the digestive tracts of birds that there is shit spewing from the mouth of...
View ArticleJeff Stelling Sky Bet Superboost Advert
Sky, Sky Sports News, Soccer Saturday, Jeff Stelling, Chris Fucking Kamara. If there's a nexus point for all the fuckwittery, hyperbole, vulgarity and utterly shit bantz engendered by modern football...
View ArticleHalifax Ghostbusters Advert
Oh you absolute bastards.The Wizard of Oz and Bloody Top Cat and the Flintstones are one thing, but when I first saw this Halifax Ghostbusters Advert I felt a small part of the soul of the human race...
View ArticleVodafone Advert: Martin Freeman Submits To Money
I have a lot of time for Martin Freeman. His everyman, underdog shtick has a real ring of authenticity and, as the most relatable man in most television series or films he's in he's a natural...
View ArticleCommodity Fetishism: G-Tech AirRam Advert
The G-Tech AirRam advert is the perfect example of a phenomenon of our times, namely making something utterly banal and everyday sound sexy and dangerous by giving it a stupid name. The G-Tech AirRam...
View ArticleJohn Lewis / Waitrose Bohemian Rhapsody Advert
I am immune to the supposed delight of other peoples' children, specifically the sound of the them singing. The sound of children laughing - heck, even my dormant hormones stir a little in their long...
View ArticleDiet Coke Mango Advert: Superbad, SuperAnnoying, SuperStupid
"It's good, no?" asks the worst man in the world, in this Diet Coke Mango advert for something called Diet Coke Exotic Mango, evidently part of Coca-Cola's efforts to remain relevant to a new...
View Article“She’s Me Mum”– Nauseating Boots Advert
It happens less and less often - on the basis that I immediately mute or skip the adverts or simply watch the BBC - but every now and then I see an advert so awful I sit up, sharpen an imaginary...
View ArticleThe Worst Adverts Of 2018: Vote
Well, the last year flew by eh? Seems like just a few weeks since we were ready to go to TUI headquarters brandishing flaming torches and defaced copies of their brochures. And here we are again: time...
View ArticleThe Sun Bingo Advert IS The Worst Advert Of 2018
And you thought the Brexit vote divided the country.... well, those shouty people outside Parliament have nothing on AdTurds readers. When I asked what the worst advert of 2018 was I might as well...
View ArticleCarling Advert: Made Local and The Pall Of Brexit
When I asked which adverts are currently getting on peoples tits, people told me about this Carling advert. It wasn't just getting on their tits, they said, it was rubbing itself over whatever...
View ArticleTudor Crisps Adverts – Adverts I Love
What would you do for a bag of Tu-dah? As those of us old to remember these Tudor Crisps adverts from the 70s and 80s know only too well - they are worth climbing a mountain for. Tudor Crisps were, of...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Advert: Que Sera Sera – A Terrifying Vision Of The Future
This Samsung Galaxy Advert for the new S10 phone might not be quite so hideous, were it not for the robotic rendition of Que Sera Sera - Doris Day's reminder from the past that you life may be shit...
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