Showing posts with label AwfulAds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AwfulAds. Show all posts
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...
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...
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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Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Those awful advertising slogans - no. 14 - McDonald's

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I've avoiding mentioning the burger'n'fries giant before in these hallowed columns because its slogan - I'm Lovin' It - ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Those awful advertising slogans - no. 13 - Sainsbury's

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First the confession. Mrs Commuter and I shop at Sainsbury's every week. There, I've said it. I know that, for some, that places us ...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Those awful advertising slogans - no. 12 - Let's play buzzword bingo

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Rather than pick up on any one nauseous ad, I thought this festive offering could be a bit different. We'll be exploring some of the wor...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Those awful advertising slogans - no. 11 - Money Supermarket

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Down in one of the lower circles of Hell, amongst the liars and fraudsters, must surely be the eternal resting place of people who make adve...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Those awful advertising slogans - no 10. Dolmio

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Here's a nice example of what happens when the desire of admen to lie create an image for a product runs up against the truth. Dolmio i...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Those awful advertising slogans - no 9. Johnny Walker

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Here's a truly weird, almost creepy one. An elaborate double-page spread in the "colour supplement" in my weekend paper. A lar...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Those awful advertising slogans - no 8. O2

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I've refrained from mentioning this one before in the dim hope that it would curl up and die all by itself and thinking about it would j...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Those awful advertising slogans - no 7. Boots

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Now how could Britain's favourite chemist have offended me? Unlike the other businesses featured in this occasional series, they retail ...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Those Awful Advertising Slogans - 6. Coca-Cola

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An ad for Coca-Cola in my morning paper invites us to link the oversweetened narcotic highly addictive drink with the word "Happiness...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Those Awful Advertising Slogans - 5. "Must End"

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Not a swipe at any particular advertiser [Astute readers may be able to draw their own conclusions: Ed] this morning, just a general observ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Those awful advertising slogans - 4. Benetton

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Good to know that Benetton (a clothing manufacturer) is keen that violence against women should cease. They proclaim as much in their ads. B...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Those awful advertising slogans - 3. Bang and Olufsen

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Apparently, if you choose to believe what admen say,  "Everyone deserves the Bang & Olufsen experience". They have even taken ...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Those awful advertising slogans - 2. Boss Hugo Boss

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I am a little mystified by a full page colour ad in the papers. A smartly dressed and fashionably (I assume) unshaven bloke stares at us on ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Those awful advertising slogans - 1. Oris

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I used to write a series concerning advertising on the tube devoted to deconstructing the underlying meanings behind the jarring slogans and...