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Credit-crunched Londoners grabbed pocketfuls of pennies yesterday at the launch of a 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins. The unique installation – made using over 20,000 pennies – only lasted 30 minutes as hundreds of opportunistic passers-by seized their moment to pick up a penny or two.The penny billboard was unveiled in London’s New Oxford Street to advertise the

Having just recovered after watching the magnificent battle between Federer and Nadal, in the epic Wimbledon final, I couldn’t resist showing you this very funny advert for Nike. I know Fashion Browser is supposed to be a blog about special offers from online fashion retailers but my argument for including this advert is that Federer will [...]

Right. First off an apology: June went by so quickly and I was having so much fun watching a couple of fellas kissing that I completely missed the fact that June had gone by. So this is why the June’s TV’s Worst Advert Award is so late. Honest. Anyway, it’s been a good one for the old adverts [...]

Vodafone has had to scrap their ‘any website, any time. £7.50 a month’ adverts for mobile phone internet services because the Advertising Standards Authority received a complaint. This complaint apparently challenged whether Vodafone’s advert misleadingly implied Vodafone offers unlimited internet access for the £7.50 per month. The Advertising Standards Authority backed the complaint stat

DORITOS makes history today by taking the UK's first step in communicating with aliens. They are broadcasting the first ever advert directed towards potential extra terrestrial life. The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which...

You. Must. Watch. The. Clip. Below. It is a rather old, but amazing advert for Dove and their (probably PR bullsh*t-tastic) Real Beauty campaign [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog]. The video and campaign are called ‘Dove Evolution’ and show all the tricks the beauty industry uses to deceive consumers into buying their products. The video is [...]

The official launch of the all new Apple 3G iPhone wouldn’t be complete without a full scale visual assault, and to this end Apple have made a snazzy new television advertisement to announce the birth of their latest iPhone handset. And so following Steve Jobs Keynote announcement of the iPhone 3G at WWDC 08, Apple [...]

Apple have just released the stunning James Bond style official advert video which you can watch below, the ad is called “Hallway”, which basically shows you two men walking with a secret silver case that contains the awesome Apple 3G iPhone. The video is quite good really, ok it could have been a little bit longer [...]

The first phone to beat the iPhone and it surfs the web and downloads data at twice the speed, and it costs half the price. This is the new iPhone 3G. You can see some photos on this page of the new 3G Apple iPhone and you can watch a video below of the new [...]

THE pub test is the ultimate television rating. If people are talking about a television programme over the odd pint or two down your local boozer, then it's either decent or, more likely, truly ghastly. In the current wasteland of...

I'm not one to typically post about FanVids. If you have access to digital footage and a cheap editting program they are relatively easy to put together. But like many things you discover they're easy to learn, hard to master.I've seen FanVids that are basically blasts of images to videos. Sometimes interpretive, usually just literal. I'm old enough to remember the horrible day that MTV showed eve

We want to know what your views are on this latest news, Watchdog has just banned a TV commercial because it appeared to show a woman using her mobile phone whilst driving, this is why it has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. Who got the brunt of this ban? Well that would be LG [...]

Crickey! Another month flies by and it’s been a good one. It’s a month that has seen what I think could well be a long running favourite here at TWA, Acorn Stair Lifts. It features poor little witless Jimmy. Just sat there trying to use a stairlift but he’s going nowhere. Because he’s sat on a stool, tied [...]

Click on the video below for the live HONDA advert that was broadcast on UK’s Channel 4, at 8.10 -8.13p.m., GMT during a (terrible) programme called ‘Come Dine with Me’…. and prepare to be amazed [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog]. A YouTube commenter states the following and I second the motion: ‘I usually hate adverts (consumerism bullshit always [...]

O ministro da Saúde e o diretor geral do Inca (Instituto Nacional de Câncer), lançaram hoje, em Brasília, as novas imagens de advertências de embalagens de produtos com tabaco. As fotos são fortes e foram produzidas com base em um estudo sobre o grau de aversão que alcançam. As imagens foram co-elaboradas pelo Departamento de Artes [...]

Kenzo Jungle Cologne was created by Olivier Cresp and launched in 1996. It has notes of Maté, nutmeg, musk mallow seeds, Atlas cedar, blue cedar from Lebanon.The 1999 advert features model Satya Oblet, who is now the new face for the Airness range of masculine fragrances. He recounts that he saw his luck turn after he'd bleached his hair citing the fact that his dark skin was a problem for him t

Now it’s no secret that I don’t understand or like most of the European PlayStation adverts. The this is living campaign was a complete abomination for example. However when they started the Black Orchid campaign I thought they had finally gotten a decent head of marketing and the weird was finally behind them… Well that appears [...]

Wall Street Institute Bangkok have this advertisement placed at most BTS stations with the tagline "Speak English with Confidence", where a model poses with a lipstick colored as a US flag. They have recently opened a new branch at Seacon Square. They boast a 97% success rate, and what about the remaining 3%? I guess the other 3% would be happy with basic Engrish.In their website Wall Street Insti

Yesterday’s post reminded someone of the US tv Maxfli advert, Go Long and Go Home, which was apparently banned as it shows the maverick John Daly drinking - there’s a shock! This is a great advert with John Daly showing he’s not a bad country rock star either; and checkout the buggy maneouvres, reminiscent of [...]

Blimey! There goes another month in shit advert land. Although it has been a month of some advertising abominations, it has also been a month of joy with the return of everyone’s favourite high-waist banded, villa selling, uber-Spaniard Jose Luis Hernández from Polaris World. Hoorah! And, on top of Jose’s return we seem to have final bade “good [...]

Created by Madonna’s husband, Guy Ritchie, for Nike.  Really unique: this was shot using a microscopic camera on a players head: what you see is  what the player sees during a match. (I’m going to guess they used Theo Walcott or Robin van Persie as the player.)  If your not attuned to soccer at all here’s a short [...]

I've been watching my Jeeves and Wooster boxset.I loved the Jeeves books, and used to delight as a child in listening to Jonathan Cecil read Right Ho,Jeeves on audio tape while I ate dinner in our Sandhills house.However, the boxset is somewhat ruined by a piracy ad on each of the six DVD's.It's annoying to be subjected to the same dystopian whirring music and the captions"You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a television."The sort of people who would steal a car (a large percentage of the UK's population) won't really be moved by that.It's also not comparing like with like. Even if you do agree that downloading music/films/pictures of Britney Spears naked deprives artists/producers/porn magazines or money, you're not taking a physical object which mus

An advert for Absolut Vodka that shows a redrawn border between Mexico and the USA has caused anger among some Americans.The ad shows what the countries would look like if the Mexican-American war of 1848 had not taken place.Some posters on Something Awful have asked if an Absolut Vodka ad showing how Europe would have looked if the Nazis had won would have merited the same reaction.Interesting point.You can see the advert hereOf course, Absolut could be accused of using the Reconquista (which is a movement dedicated to granting ownership of areas in the Southwestern United States to Mexico, dominated by the Mexica Movement) to sell Vodka.Absolute's responsePR speak explanation.

Well, that’s another month over with and what a month it’s been for TWA. Not only was it our first birthday but this month saw the biggest number of advert haters visiting this humble little blog. If I’m reading the figures right, and I’m sure I am, nearly 6.5billion unique visitors came along in March. [...]

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Post from: Fashion Style You I am sure that you will by now have seen the Lighthouse Advert that Marks and Spencer have had made to launch their fabulous Spring Style collection, just in case you have missed it here it is. This enjoyable little commercial shows Twiggy, Mylenne, Lizzy, Erin and Noemie frolicking at the [...]

Disappointing news.BT, Virgin and Talk Talk will be allowing Phorm to access customer's data.Phorm will then replace adverts on a page with ones relevant to pages the customer has visited.Do you trust Phorm with your data? Are you happy that three internet providers have decided to sell your data without asking you?Phorm says:Phorm technology doesn't gather personally-identifiable information. It does not view any information on secure (HTTPS) pages, and ignores strings of numbers longer than three digits to ensure that it does not collect credit card numbers, phone numbers, National Insurance numbers or other potentially private information. It doesn't store IP addresses or retain browsing or search histories. The system does not integrate with any system (like the ISP's log-in system) t

Nacho Gayán, from Agosto directs this spot for Audi. Under the motto “A car created as none before”, the new spot presents a method of construction that nobody would ever associated with a car. Based on a concept from the agency DDB Barcelona, Nacho filmed a movie that has, at least, a bit of magic.

Nacho Gayán, from Agosto directs this spot for Audi. Under the motto “A car created as none before”, the new spot presents a method of construction that nobody would ever associated with a car. Based on a concept from the agency DDB Barcelona, Nacho filmed a movie that has, at least, a bit of magic.

In an advertising campaign to boost the profile of the show American Psycho in New Zealand, Saatchi and Saatchi NZ have produced a cheeky billboard ad which uses a picture of “a real American Psycho”… via

It’s felt like quite a busy month here at TV’s Worst Adverts with plenty of new stuff to write about. Most notably I think the Ewan McGregor advert for Davidoff (in which he sells his passion for a bit of smelly) and for the Lynx Chocolate Man advert (in which there’s a man made of chocolate). Both [...]

It was a great idea for Kodak photos company as a fair of photo for the campaign she dropped her pencil purposely to show her panties which was written kodak name to show visitor that was so interesting , funny and cool situation for people.

Could Cloverfield get any stranger? By the looks of this new advert for the film it seems so! This advert is for the fictional Slusho, a drink which has been used in the trailers for Cloverfield, has it’s own website and has appeared in episodes of Heroes. Check out the new advert below. It won’t give you any more information about the Cloverfield/1-18-08 nor will it benefit your life. But, it’s a giant moose, in space - what more could you want? Source Written by Lucy for Product ReviewsIn Sections: Film News, News

As another month clocks over and as we head into the countdown to Christmas, we’re all feeling pretty good here at TV’s Worst Adverts. Not because of the quality of adverts on the TV at the moment, obviously, there’s still some real stinkers, but because we’ve made it to 100 posts (for fear of some sort of Police investigation into reporting irregularities, I must admit that we’ve only had 88 posts directly about adverts but 100 posts is 100 posts in our eyes.) To celebrate this achievement, Mike was kind/bored enough to write us a guest post. Read Mike’s most excellent guest post about the Audi R8 here if you haven’t already. (Note: Without wishing to spoil the magic of TWA, I should point out that some of the content in Mike’s post is made up. No really, it is!) So here’s this month’s top 5 bad ads: Picture Loans - Dad’s Found Your Scooter Halifax Glade - Touch and Fresh It’s All Gone Dulco Ease Head & Sh

The Junior Doctor's ChoiceI note the conceited attitude presented by the British Medical Association yet again. Remedy are not the only people they banned. They also banned my material in the BMA News Review in the year 1999. The BMA Team had nothing to say when I asked why they had paid me for the piece, then hid it from the public eye. Now, I note they are giving the same treatment to Remedy UK in an attempt to curb their free speech. Lets face it, the BMA curb the free speech of anyone who is remotely a threat to them. We should note that the BMA opposed Remedy UK in their legal case against the Department of Health. Seriously, which conceited trade union would do that? It is of course time that all doctors deserted the BMA for good and joined Remedy UK. It is clear that the BMA is out of touch with the grass roots issues. Remedy UK may not be perfect but they are a better option than the BMA. Lets be blunt about this - the BMJ is useless, the BMA has always been useless ( apart fr

Do you remember what I wrote about a new advertisement platform, Advert-Revenue? Well, this is an announcement to tell that Advert-Revenue is nothing but over! I tried to access the site after such a long time since I didn’t get a reply from the administrator about pop-up ads on Wayne Liew Dot Com. My browser is looking for the site but in the end, a “Server Not Found” message popped up in front of me. I was dumbfounded but not for long. Why? This is because I always have bad luck with ad panels advertisement platforms. First, I have Google Adsense team which banned me for invalid clicks, then Adbrite confiscating all my previous earnings due to spam bots (I don’t know why they want to harm me), Advert-Revenue which is now closed and for other advertising platforms, I don’t really earn well with them. For all those who signed up after reading my post, Advert Revenue - New Money Maker Review, I am sorry for that rather good review. That is a review which

This advert for Emirates Airline from UAE to launch their new nonstop flight from Dubai to Sao Paulo. In this ad Fernando Ferreira had to talk about Sao Paulo and Brasil for the duration of the new flight time; 14hours 40 minutes. no cuts, no edits, no breaks, no cheating!!. Similar tags : Internet Videos

The Spice Girls commercial for Christmas 2007. It is like they don't actually want to be SEEN shopping in this store...lol. Makes me want to just run right to the store and go shopping...unless my friend see me :D. But I must say, Victoria Beckham looks awesome.;) Which seems to be pretty much her sole function in the group.:D

So another month flies by in a blur of terrible adverts. Too many for me to write about here to be honest. I’ll try harder next month. October has been quite a big month for advertisers being slapped on the wrists. Picture Loans were told to never darken our TV sets with their Dad’s Found Your Scooter advert because it made taking out a £25 grand loan seem a little too much like taking a tenner out of a cash machine. Where have I read that before? To be fair, every sane person in the country thought that thought, so I can take no credit at all (no pun intended). And Dettol had their advert banned for, in essence, claiming that it was more hygenic preparing food on the toilet seat than on a chopping board. Depends on who’s used the toilet before you I suppose. Also as I’m sure all you loyal TWA readers are aware this month saw a new look for TWA and I’m really pleased with the result. A big thanks for all the positive feedback. So to business. Here&rsqu

Today, I would like to introduce you a new money maker for your blog, Advert Revenue. I registered with them because I am facing a major problem with my Adbrite ads, which is similar to this, but this time, it is the spam bot’s fault! Advert Revenue is a new player in the market, which will be competing with the great Google Adsense, Bidvertiser and Adbrite. One new thing about Advert Revenue is that the ads offered on your sites will depend on which channel that your site belongs in rather than being using the contextual ad technology like Google Adsense. My first impression of the site is that the design the design is a bit disorganized. After a few minutes spent on exploring the site, I roughly get the idea of how the site works. Your earnings will most probably be CPM-based ($1 fixed CPM rate) which I see is quite good for a site a high traffic but low click through rate on ads. Upon being approved by Advert Revenue, you will be given three choices of ads, it will be the b

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In these days of high fashion & even higher photoshop retouching skill we thought we’d bring you a combination of both. This ad for G2B Sandals seems to capture all the things we love about the creative design process and today’s fashion industry. Advertising Agency: W/Brasil, Brazil Creative Director: Rui Branquinho Writer: Rui Branquinho Art director: Celso Alfieri Account Department:

Another month, another load of rubbish adverts. And we have another tie at the top this month chart as well, between two loans companies - Picture Loans and Ocean Finance. Whether this shows a greater public dissatisfaction with the services offered by these loan’s companies or whether they just make rubbish adverts, I don’t know, but here’s the top 5 with them sat atop of it: Picture Loan - Dad’s Found your Scooter Ocean Finance - Long Grass Head & Shoulders - Everyone Knows a Bloke Like Mickey Olay Regenerist - The Worst Kept Secret Dulco Ease So I have to make a coin toss decision to choose between encouraging people to buy a ride on mower (heads) and making taking out a loan and putting your children’s home at risk look like a spur of the moment decision (tails). I’ve just got the coin out of my pocket. It’s a two pence piece, minted in 2001. I’ve tossed, caught and turned over the coin onto the back of my hand. It’s heads

I have ranted previously about the ridiculous amount of advertising Sky One have done in support of their new acquisition Prison Break. But now the station has gone and done something bizarrely impressive in their need to tell the world they now own the rights to the jail saga: projected an advert onto the wall of infamous prison Wormwood Scrubs. I doubt that many of the inmates will be able to sample the delights of Michael Schofield’s antics, but there’s no faulting the ambition behind the scheme. I do wonder how many people saw it and purposefully booked their spot on the sofa in front of Prison Break due to the promotion and how many onlookers just gave a casual shrug and wandered on. Did you see it and what did you think? Fantastic and innovative marketing or pointless showing-off? It seems reminiscent of when Gail Porter had her nakedness cast over the House of Commons, but with slightly more purpose and less flesh. Maybe they should get star Wentworth Miller to strip off

The Peta advert, in which Alicia Silverstone steps out of a swimming pool nude and talks about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle has been banned. The campaign was set to debut in Texas Wednesday, but Comcast Cable pulled the 30-second spots from the airwaves. A spokesperson for Comcast cited nudity in their decision to cancel the campaign. The commercial was directed by Dave Meyers, who has directed more than 180 music videos. Source: people.com 2007 by Splendidglow

Sorry for the delay on this month’s TV’s Worst Advert Award, I’ve been on a 3 day retreat to pay tribute to the life and death of the Princess of Wales. And let me tell you, I had a whale of a time in Paris. Dossing at the Ritz then bazzing it up round the Peripherique. With a mournful heart though, of course. Anyway, I’m back so on with the show. Thanks again to those that submitted adverts this month. If I haven’t got round to writing them up yet, I promise I will do my best to get them published in the next few days. As August marks the 6 month anniversary of this blog I thought that I’d give a bit of link love back to some kind soles that link to this here blog: If you’re looking for top-notch commentary on the latest pop culture events in the UK then look no further then Dave P’s Pop Buzz UK. Although if you do decide to look on step further, Wodge also writes an excellent pop culture blog at Why Did I Go Wrong…?. Right, her

If there was any doubt novelty records were alive and well this is it! The advert for Sheilas’ Wheels womens motoring insurance (which has surprisingly made millions) stars a trio of previously unknown session singers, who have turned into cult heroes on the internet. And now the stars of the commercial are about to become a real pop act – backed by the team that made Kylie Minogue famous. The Sheilas will release their first single, I’m So Happy, Happy You’re Mine, next month.

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You may have read a recent post informing you of Intel’s new racist sprinter advert which was made by someone who was quite simply, stupid or really, really stupid. Who in their right mind would make an ad with six black sprinter men bowing down to a white geek in tight pants? The advertising department need to get their act together, that’s for sure. Thanks to all the negative publicity the sprinter ad has been creating for Intel, they have finally issued a statement of apology: Intel’s intent of our ad titled “Multiply Computing Performance and Maximize the Power of Your Employees” was to convey the performance capabilities of our processors through the visual metaphor of a sprinter. We have used the visual of sprinters in the past successfully. Unfortunately, our execution did not deliver our intended message and in fact proved to be insensitive and insulting. Upon recognizing this, we attempted to pull the ad from all publications but, unfortunately,

It’s been another busy month here at TV’s Worst Adverts and I’d like to say a big “Thank You” to all you who have contributed by submitting your bad ads. But especially: Lee Wodge Mike To everyone else that submitted: I’ll try and be a bit more prolific in the future and post the ads that you hate so much. Promise. TVs Worst Adverts was also named in the top 10 most read advertising blogs in the UK over at Scamp, just scraping in at 10th place. I know that it’s based on Alexa ratings and when I look at my stats not every visitor stays for a whole second but I think I’m justified in saying “In your face” to whoever was in 11th place. Finally on the shameless self-promotion trail, TVs Worst Adverts featured at Blog Interviewer this month. Feel free to go and read a little about the enigma behind this blog-based, terrible TV advert bashing, internet phenomena that is me. You know you want to. And the Winner Is So, on to the rea

It’s been a funny month here at TV’s Worst Adverts (obviously I’m not referring to any of the posts). First of all we’ve had some comments left by actual TV advert actors. In this celebrity crazy society that we all live in, I think that counts as have actual somebody’s (I’m not calling the rest of you nobody’s but you know what I mean) reading this blog. Of course, when I say “reading this blog” I actually mean “Googling the adverts in which they appear” but they are welcome nonetheless. We also had the great Foxy Bingo debate. Was there a fox in the original idea, wasn’t there a fox in the original idea; it got just too exciting for me to follow at points. Anyway, it turns out there wasn’t a fox but they have made lots of money. Good for them. Finally the results. Well, would you believe it, it’s a tie again this month: Dulco Ease - 4.88 H&M - 4.88 Ocean Finance - 4.75 OLAY - 4.57 Glade - 4.55 Ha

The winner of this month’s TV’s Worst Adverts award goes to: Oh, hang on, it’s a 3-way tie for first place… 3 perfect 5’s! Well, the top 10 looks like this (with scores): Trident - 5 Clover - 5 Churchills - 5 Dulco Ease 4.87 H&M - 4.86 Ocean Finance - 4.7 Trident - 4.5 OLAY - 4.36 Halifax - 4.33 IAMS - 4.33 So, dear Readers, once again democracy has failed us as a people. But we will not allow such trivial matters keep us down. We will have a winner this month. The only way I can think to fairly decide this, is with a good old Guinness Snail Race. So here goes…. and the winner is Trident! Very well done for the appalling advert. Even though the snails decided it in the end, thanks to all those of you who voted and keep it up.