Worst TV adverts of the moment

what's the matter, don't you like twee poetry?

it's painful because I still feel like they're ethically superior to a bank but god those adverts

maybe as members we should be allowed to vote to stop doing them

Picket the shareholders meeting.

altho for me they've been eclipsed by Hayley Cropper trying to pretend that Morrison's are my family

was Howard in the halifax adverts? he pops up as some kind of meta presence in those insurance commercials.

which reminds me, in those insurance commercials the bloke is called 'captain obvious' but he seems to have lost that part of his persona and is now just some kind of figurehead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XghJuH6GSCo

the one with the guy who says a poem about how he bought a load of junk off Amazon... Is that also Nationwide? Can we just have a moratorium on cheek-eh Northern blokes trying to be profound in adverts..

re: Captain Obvious, it's not insurance, it's Hotels Booking dot com, or some such.

yeah he's the hotel guy.

the Old Spice commercials are fairly amusing but textbook example of "trying too hard"

BOOKING DOT COM

BOOKING DOT YEAH

whoever came up with that slogan needs to be fed slowly into a woodchipper imo

Whereas "Admiral", etc.

> yeah he's the hotel guy.

that was money well spent on those adverts.

the one with the guy who says a poem about how he bought a load of junk off Amazon... Is that also Nationwide? Can we just have a moratorium on cheek-eh Northern blokes trying to be profound in adverts..

That is the advert I had just witnessed before posting ITT. At least it made me get off my arse and back to work I suppose. Working from home tends to prolong lunch breaks.

Is this what it's come to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJzlzoW5yAE

whoever did this needs to die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrcmm_diiU4

i can't find the latest one that's running in the uk

apparently these are a spreading plague

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBvy4VFStQ

I could have gone my whole life without hearing the damn Frog Chorus again, so cheers whatever company is currently using it in a UK ad.

it's the trailer for the new season of Great British Bake Off

Ah, that's it! ta.

tbh when i first saw it it just made me crave cake, which was annoying

Seriously considering closing my Nationwide account

Took me a minute to realize this was a UK reference. Here in America, Nationwide is an insurance company with horrible ads featuring country singer Brad Paisley.

Here it's a building society, which I think is roughly equivalent to a credit union? so supposedly more ethical than a bank. Their ad campaign for the last few months (maybe longer?) has been a series of just fucking awful poems read by smug bastards and it just won't go away.

Those US Nationwide ads seem like there is a producer, off-camera, holding the singer's kid at gunpoint (or maybe just a big bag of cash). "Keep trying. We will stay here until you make me believe that Nationwide is on my side."

Oreo one is deeply horrible

Name of the next sponsored space shuttle, "Oreo One"

is it wrong to feel bad for the rapping maths teacher?

Because he's terrible?

"They call it the remainder, that's the number that remains" and I'm like "he must've thought they were shooting the part that would be behind the voiceover."

yep

dear god that McCain's advert

the 'you only have two years to claim your ppi' advert (with arnie's head on an RC tank) is worse than most of the ppi adverts themselves. i'll be glad when it's all over.

Two weeks

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/010/853/tumblr_lqx85siK031qdezf9o1_500.jpg

I keep seeing this Amazon commercial on Youtube(like literally it's the only ad I see now on every other video) with a couple and their baby, the baby's scared of their large dog but likes a stuffed lion toy, they buy a fake lion ruff to put on the dog the baby loves the dog hooray. And it has this terrible soft-sung song starting with a tremulous "I wiiiish I could ask you... how was your day?"

dear god that McCain's advert

Saw billboard at the Southbank just saying "here's to the stay at home mums". Perfect level of not-offensive-in-theory-but.

(xp) Oh God, it's hideous.

The latest Shreddies ad.

Same bloke, split screen horizontal. Top=he had shreddies, bottom=he doesn't. Standard stuff, bottom bloke cycles into river, throws football badly and gets pursued by bikers, etc. Last frame set, top=he brings flowers to his wife, bottom=he goes home scruffy. Only, topwife=slim, bottomwife=fatwoman.

So, how does he manage to get a different wife? Or is it that by eating shreddies makes him have a slim wife in the first place? hmm?

hi Mark G - I just viewed the advert and the bottom one isn't his wife

looks like a cleaning or dinner lady for the bin he's found himself in
https://adsoftheworld.com/media/film/shreddies_shreddie_or_not

Amazon commercial on Youtube(

The dog never looks happy! Where's my emotional payoff?

alexa, make the living room bluuuuuuueeeeeeeee

I really don't want to see American adverts on UK TV, especially if this is what they're like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoTD0cC0cE

In case of confusion this is running on UK TV, and I have no idea what it's about.

I keep seeing this Amazon commercial on Youtube(like literally it's the only ad I see now on every other video) with a couple and their baby, the baby's scared of their large dog but likes a stuffed lion toy, they buy a fake lion ruff to put on the dog the baby loves the dog hooray. And it has this terrible soft-sung song starting with a tremulous "I wiiiish I could ask you... how was your day?"

I hate this ad as well. It says something about making the world conform to people's cutesy notions, or something. Like, rather than putting the work into seriously socializing their baby with their dog, these idiots turn the dog into a giant cuddly toy and think that's job done.
And, as with all of these things, I imagine the people in a factory in Sri Lanka making these things and thinking, well, this is fantastic. I'm working seventy hours a week and barely keeping my family fed making you a fucking lion costume to put on your dog. Capitalism!
I am a joyless person, though.

Can't believe how bad this ad for a Scottish jobs site is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JEc8yAiNw

There are several variations, absolutely identical except for the guy starting to type different words.

somewhere in there there's a good and relatively funny concept but it's been convoluted and complicated way too much for it to work. Very cringey

these new Progressive commercials with Flo the insurance lady and her bumbling coworker seem completely pointless. just go the GEICO route and commission your own sitcom already.

In case of confusion this is running on UK TV, and I have no idea what it's about.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 29, 2017 12:03 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's an HR management interface. They use it at my company and you can check your payslips and holiday etc.