Worst TV adverts of the moment

They are now making the ads in Snoop's absence

always the way. iggy pop got replaced by a puppet of iggy pop.

they're also those products with least to actually differentiate themselves from one another and most invested in "the brand", hence an arms race in advertising to try to carve out a market share

― Neil S, Monday, December 7, 2020 9:42 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I had somebody explaining this idea re alcohol a couple of decades ago. That the bigger brands who you saw most advertising by were seen by those who knew the product in general would view as low com denom, I think he was specifically saying taht if you went to Cuba and ordered a rum and were served with a commercial product you'd be offended. I think he nameda brand but it was a couple of decades ago.,
BUt this was what people had had marketed to them, which was how they knew the product so didn't have a default decent version in their mental database or swatchbook or whatever. AAlso tie taht in with having read about the lasting impression getting a picture from buying from supermarkets as opposed to a more direct less packaged version which has less focus on shelf life and aesthetics of the perfect fruiit that all like pretty iconic but don't taste of anything. Which may be less of a monopolising feature than when i was reading about it but may just be greenwash.

co-op and now centrepoint have also started doing the poems in adverts thing. it's a plague.

My God yes, rhyming should be banned from adverts.

I had somebody explaining this idea re alcohol a couple of decades ago. That the bigger brands who you saw most advertising by were seen by those who knew the product in general would view as low com denom, I think he was specifically saying taht if you went to Cuba and ordered a rum and were served with a commercial product you'd be offended. I think he nameda brand but it was a couple of decades ago.,
BUt this was what people had had marketed to them, which was how they knew the product so didn't have a default decent version in their mental database or swatchbook or whatever. AAlso tie taht in with having read about the lasting impression getting a picture from buying from supermarkets as opposed to a more direct less packaged version which has less focus on shelf life and aesthetics of the perfect fruiit that all like pretty iconic but don't taste of anything. Which may be less of a monopolising feature than when i was reading about it but may just be greenwash.

― Stevolende, Friday, 18 December 2020 10:15 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've tried with this 6 or 7 times now but think I'm just gonna have to call it a day

point was that they had reduced quality of the product made to fit a non educated taste. A commercial brand was a vague approximation of what was made for but would be what a 'normal punter' would know as taht product. Like if you knew beer as Budweiser lager instead of Budwar or a local brew or something.
& what the supermarket has done to the tastes of what people do not know is the supposed ideal of what these mass production versions are supposed to be approximating. Flavour goes out of the window as do all the things a connoisseur of a product would want in that product.
Certainly seemed to be a widespread thing 10 or 20 years ago but there seemed to be some form of backlash against it which may have been superficial hence greenwash.

Bottom line being agreeing with the idea that taht which needs to rely on advertising doesn't have its own qualities which is what the previous poster's point was.
I agreed with teh person I was in the pub with at the time but could see he may have been overstating. I think his point was taht if you went to Cuba with a Bacardi and tried to pass it off as a decent rum you would be laughed at because it was more fo a commercialised version than anything a rum drinker there would recognise ass worthy. BUt since taht is what people outside of th eoriginal market would be familiar as as rum it is far more the referent point than what should be.

so a fruit looks iconic because of the amount of food wastage involved in the mass production process. All ugly fruit are dumped while the farmer is left paying for them and also has overhead cut as much as possible to allow supermarket to have lowest possible price.

Foods are packaged for shelf life which meant that some cheeses had their characteristic internal workings removed so they could be vacuum sealed. Big thing I saw referred to in a number of places was flavour being sacrificed for looks. you would wind up with bland if not tasteless ideal looking apples and strawberries among other fruit.

I thought you meant Bacardi, in which case unfortunately it's more of less total bollocks.

Bacardi was an attempt to make a smoother, better class/higher price rum, but way back in the middle of the 19th Century. They started production off Cuba circa wwII but escaped to America - having been opposed to the revolution - when Castro siezed their assets.

Havana Club*, on the other hand, is drunk throughout Cuba and is very much commercialised and/or branded there as being 'superior' compared to Ron Cubay which is sort of the only other available country-wide as opposed to the local factory which will be Ron de town or city.

As with tequila, the real difference isn't necessarily the producer but more the aging - silver only good for mixing, añejo to be sipped with a cube of ice. Even more so, if you go down the rabbit hole into rums where the sugar cane is sourced from a single plantation (which is broadly the same sort of cachet as single malts) but to my knowledge Cuba doesn't make any of those.

* Not to be confused with the Havana Club you buy here, which is made by Bacardi to the same recipe (which they bought from the family) as the one made in Cuba (and tastes pretty close).

Thankfully the Pimlico Plumbers Christmas advert is, like the new covid strain, limited to the London area.

LOL they are choice.

Lol Schwimmer you sad bastard

Enough's enough with the charity adverts: donkeys, elephants, blind kids, tigers, etc etc. I might go out and kick a donkey myself if this onslaught continues.

Fuck's sake Rylan mind your own business

Also if I ever see a Lloyd's horse irl I'm shooting the fucker

there are four separate terrible gin adverts at the moment

(gin club, sipsmiths, gordon's non-alcoholic gin (£14 a bottle...) and that netflix-y one (also gordon's))

Netflix one makes me violently angry yes

Also if I ever see a Lloyd's horse irl I'm shooting the fucker

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Saturday, January 9, 2021 9:39 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the tremulous cover version as a soundtrack nnnngh

make that 5 terrible gin adverts

clean.co low alcohol gin, etc, featuring two people from towie? made in chelsea? one of those

Where's William Hogarth when you need him?

Two new ones to hate.

"I blummin' love my meat" SAID NO-ONE EVER.

"Can give my pre-loved clothes a second life." YOU ALREADY HAVE BY BUYING THEM - SELLING THEM WILL BE (AT LEAST) A THIRD LIFE.

i think i'm a bad person because i want to smash the "cancer won't win" lady in the face

Feel the same about the Domino's guy. "Himalayan herrings". I've seen some contrived scenarios in ads in my time but these latest Domino's ones are excruciating

I just end up shouting "just leave them, you're better than that mate" at the telly when that's on.

Your son gets to throw you out of the house because he doesn't like your dinner and your wife takes his side? Grow a pair and/or get them tae fuck.

You're a better person than me then, I'd encourage him to jump in front of a train

oh aye those Dominos adverts are some bullshit it's true

"NEVER LEAVE YOUR COMFORT ZONE"

fuck you overpriced pizza lads

I didn't think it was possible but somehow Barnardo's has lowered the bar for cunts overacting wildly over shit tiny lottery prizes

the William Hill Vegas gaming app adverts have some good (bad) overreacting. "Olympia Megaways!". website looks full of cheap cookie-cutter slot machine apps.

but the Hey Car white guy rapping / miming in a car is probably my least favourite ad right now.

i enjoy hatewatching the Billy Hill ads yes, surely borderline legal in their depiction of win win win

Hey Car ad actor looks like a mate of mine which is unfortunate

I can imagine this advertising agency were very pleased they'd managed to do an advert about pet food without mentioning pet food, or even pets - but they're wrong, it's some shite about pet food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnJf4I-n5c

nationwide have tripled down on the 'bloke complaining about exercise' ads after the bloke who said the best thing about home yoga is not having to do it.

the new ones have a jogger who likes the sauna and the footballer who eats chocolate. and NEITHER of them have diddly to do with building societies.

at least they don't rhyme.

Footballer eating chocolate is particularly annoying. I mean if it's his favourite thing to do with his mates presumably he does it all the time and they have a routine booking and a way of divvying up the costs - so is he just trying to be Billy Big Bollocks by saying I've got this to the bill for the foreseeable future?

Or is it something he's done once or twice and would rather deny the rest of the public the opportunity to play football coming out of lockdown on the offchance once it comes round he'll want to play over and over again?

Presumably he's contacted the place and already booked but he just says "so I can book" which suggests he hasn't, so isn't he rather hoping that nobody else has had the same brilliant idea as him in order to play football at all?

Equally presumably he's already discussed this with enough mates to form the teams and that they haven't got anything else they'd rather be doing with their new found freedoms like just going to the pub. And they're ok with letting him pay for it all, so they clearly don't like him that much (although they're obviously as selfish as him).

It's amazing how many ways someone can make it clear they're a wanker from such a short ad.

Why does the Vanish voice over man say "revive carpets" like he wants to hurt me?

the purple bricks ad where the blonde woman kicks the punch bag is doing my head in because I can't decide whether the awkward nod, facial expression, and handshake at the end is just, well awkward, or is in fact the greatest piece of acting I've ever seen.

those ads make me wonder if making your agents look like complete twunts is a good idea (it's not).

the shrieking also unpleasant on the ears.

toksvig mansplaining vanilla.

the woman talking back to the peleton trainers as if they care.

All peleton adverts are the worst TV adverts

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d2B5/humira-crohns-colitis-not-always-where-i-needed-to-be

Must be an irreplaceable tone, because all she appears to sing is "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa".

Dreams Beds proudly sponsors nights on 5USA.

cue family, two small kids, hunkering down in bed to watch TV.

this just before an episode of Special Victims Unit where a boy is sexually abused by his father and shoots up a school.

maybe they should rethink

lol

There is an ad for Seat featuring a Mumford & Sons style cover of Walk On The Wild Side which makes me slightly mortified that I drive a Seat.

Einstein in the bath. why?

archimedes i could understand...

He sounds like a Holgar Czukay promo 12" I owns..

language problems aside, would anyone in 79ad ever refer to the date as 79ad?

Plusnet is the new 118 118 in the sense of having an interminable long-running series of adverts that were shit as an idea and have been shit in practice from the very first one to the latest one and can't they just stop?

79AD was meaningless in 79AD but more importantly that lad is a cunt

No real human being has ever used the phrase "that's a low price"

Re 79AD, yep I say that every time!

Also, if you whisper a question to Alexa, does she whisper the answer back to you?

I could try it, but... cbb.

> No real human being has ever used the phrase "that's a low price"

there's another one where someone asks about a neighbour's security camera by make, and that's similarly unnatural.

It might be considered disproportionate to wish a violent death on you Matt Berry so I'll confine myself to hoping you lose your vocal cords gently but suddenly and forever

the dr oetker school of bad lipsyncing has produced a surreal dj-in-a-bathroom toilet block advert that is a sight to behold.