Showing posts with label Adverts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adverts. Show all posts
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Patronising Ad of the Week

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This missive popped up as I browsed Reddit this morning. There is always an ad close to the top of the page and I usually let my gaze drift ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Poor old George

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 The following popped up on my tablet whilst I was browsing Facebook to see if any more people I had never heard of, and who had nothing wha...
Monday, February 03, 2025

Brands, Out With The Old, In With The Same

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source: ABC Australia  Regular readers [Huh?: Ed] will know of my deep and undying respect for those who deploy the noble arts of advertisi...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

Going into Details

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  I do not live in Wales nor am I female nor am I a regular shopper at Marks & Spencer; however Google has seen fit to feature this blur...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Getting a Grilling - the Aftermath

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 I wrote yesterday about the mysterious poster on behalf of the "British Toast Association" that had been put in a prominent plac...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Ready and Waiting

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 Sky Sports, who have for some years secured the rights to broadcast football matches, have put up posters to publicise this well-worn tit-b...

Special Selection

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 Posters advertising Coca-Cola have appeared in the streets of beautiful (and once more, extremely warm) Ruislip. Rather than extol the thir...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Patronising Tweet Of The Day #2

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 I really thought my go at Mastercard recently would put an end to this sort of thing, but no, it's summer, the real admen are all on h...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Remove This Filth Now!

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 The following ad keeps popping up in my Facebook feed.  No, Joby, I do no wish to create sick digital content. There is far too much of thi...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Those Awful Advertising Slogans - No. 17 - Toyota

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 Toyota, the largest manufacturer of motor vehicles in the world, is also, not surprisingly, a major sponsor of the Olympic and Paralympic G...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Even now you ask questions

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 About a year ago I compiled a list of silly names bestowed on cars by their manufacturers for my frankly, rather brilliant, series,  101 ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Obscuring the Message

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This ad pops up regularly when I browse through a certain well-known media website. It is oddly fascinating but, as you will have to come to...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Those Awful Advertising Slogans - No. 16 - Money Supermarket (again)

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It's a quite a while since the last one in this series. I had begun to hope that better times were upon us. But no, once again we are co...
Friday, March 06, 2020

Misleading Tweet of the Day - Gatwick Express

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This may or may not be the start of a new series. I present to you, plain and unadorned, a tweet as it appeared on my tweetline or whateve...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Dr. Commuter helps out ... baffled Colgate users

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Dr. Commuter writes: There are many deeply troubling questions that confront us in our daily lives. Is there a God? Does my partner still lo...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Lose the Lot the Trading Way

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I frequently review and criticise advertisements for their subtle, or blatant, attempts to seduce us into buying something, whether by selec...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Those Awful Advertising Slogans - no. 15 - Lloyds Bank

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The current Lloyds Bank advertising campaign is ubiquitous. Posters and press ads and a full one minute expensively-produced television ad w...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Dr. Commuter helps ... Marks and Spencers

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Yes, I'm sure we are all desperate to know the answer to this age-old stumper. What, indeed, makes Christmas, Christmas? A top level ...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Will They Never Learn?

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I've written once or twice in these august columns about the blatant gap between the claims made for Artificial Intelligence and the rea...
Monday, October 15, 2018

The Icy Hand of Fate

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There's nothing like being reminded of one's mortality, particularly on a wet Monday morning, as Mrs C and I surveyed our garden aft...