Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
The greatest advert of 2012: Hahn Super Dry beer is hotter than a wasabi enema
THIS is the best advert of 2012. This Australian advert for Hahn Super Dry beer won a Gold Lion at Cannes Saturday. It’s brilliant. The beer might taste like fizzy wee, but if you keep your eyes open while drinking it, this stuff is hotter than a wasabi enema:
Posted: 9th, July 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
With Libresse your vagina no longer smells of stinky socks and dead pigs (video)
LADIES. Your vagina now smells like green tea. It used to smell like a Durian fruit, which, as one knows, smells of “stinky socks“, “the flesh of some animal in a state of putrefaction” and “pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”. This advert for Libresse was seen on Malaysian TV:
Spotter: Copyranter
Posted: 9th, July 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Racist ad of the day – See Asia Like Asian Do
‘BUT that’s racist!’ advert of the day features the work of Ukrainian travel agency Multipass, keen to promote their trips to Asia. They hired Kiev-based ad agency Tabasco to come up with an ingenious campaign to “See Asian like Asian do”. At least this makes it easier to spot Ukrainians in the Far East:
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Posted: 8th, July 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Meet Doug Pitt – Brad Pitt’s brother lives the high life
COOL ad of the day features Doug Pitt, brother to Brad Pitt, in the Fair Go Bro campaign for Virgin Mobile Australia. Doug Pitt is “the second most famous Pitt in his family”. The ad gives him “a taste of his brother’s lifestyle”:
Doug’s just a regular guy.
He washes his own car, pays his own bills, and does his own laundry. You see, unlike his famous bro, Doug’s never been the star of anything.
Spotter: Adfreak, Laughing Squid
Posted: 3rd, July 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
Ad Watch: Mum Can’t Wait To Get Into Her Daughter’s Lake & Stars Panties
THE advert for Lake & Stars lingerie features mum and daughter in a smouldering clinch.
Says Maayan Zilberman, the company’s co-owner:
“There’s no shock value here.”
Well, not outside of Motherwell, there isn’t:
“We’re not trying to make people feel uncomfortable in order to provoke dialogue.”
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Posted: 15th, November 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Vintage Advert Of The Day: The Burlington Mid-Length Sock
VINTAGE advert of the Day: The Burlington Mid-Length Sock – nothing can make it fall down. Well, that’s what they told the Americans. We British knew better. We had sock braces, long johns and sock you can tuck into the double-stitched hem of your Y-fronts…
Posted: 14th, November 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Ad Break: Because Pear Drop Pop Makes You Burp In Your Lover’s Face
ANORAK has a friend whose father hates the word “fart”. He suggests instead the word “pop”. He must have been referring to this advert for Pear Drops fizzy pop. But it and watch your burps create the ambience for romance…
Posted: 22nd, August 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Words Advertisers Use To Seduce Girls And Boys
THIS word cloud shows how advertisers and marketeers use words to seduce girls and boys to buy their products.
(Click the image to watch it grow.)
See if you can find “daddy” or any reference to an adult male figure in the boys’ cloud, and “beat” or a sign of winning in the girls’ one.
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Posted: 11th, April 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
German Bakery Uses Black Baby In Nappy To Sell Chocolate Cake
THE advert for a special offer on chocolate cakes and brown bread at Germany’s Raddatz bakery features the image of a black baby. The adverts says:
“Only while stocks last. Subject to changes and errors. Image is only a serving suggestion.”
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Posted: 4th, April 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
RIP Ron Collins: The Cinzano Ad Was ITV’s Best Sit-Com
RIP Ron Collins. Advertising gets a bad press. But the WCRS founder was responsible for those Cinzano starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins. This was the TV sit-com that never got made. You just got to see the best joke:
Posted: 18th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
YouTube And Facebook Get The Retro Treatment
FACEBOOK, Skype and YouTube have been given a retro feel by Brazilian ad agency Moma (with Keyboard Cat). The apparent translations from Portuguese into English adds to the sense of authenticity…
Spotter: Urlesque
Advert: That Rightmove Advert Looks Familiar
ADVERTS are created by creative types – like this advert for property search site Rightmove. How do those nutters think it up, eh? Here’s possible clue from Big Train, Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews’ telly show:
Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Burger King’s Shower Girl Admits That It’s Breakfast Meal Is For W*ankers
BURGER King brings you “the world’s first guilt free showercam”. Thanks to Cow and Pancentric Digital, meat lovers can “watch our shower babe shake her bits to the hits at 9:30 every morning.”
Shake your bits along to the showgirl. Grab a bar of soap, and shake and shake and shake and shake.
Says the Burger King Girl (not really):
“After giong tino burger King I always feel like taking a shower.”
What hits and what bits so you shake along too? Well, you decide. Burger pickers can vote for the outfit Burger Babe will wear and the song she will sing. Will she dress up as a cow, a potato or wear the uniform of a burger King drone as she serves your morning fantasy shake?
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Truth And Advertising: The 10 Most Incredible Before And after Pictures
YOU know those Before and After pictures that show a grey-faced, fang-toothed drudge transformed into a sparkling beauty in a few short weeks? They work. They really do. you just need to believe.
Well, Anorak now presents the 10 Most Incredible Before And after Pictures
Posted: 4th, December 2009 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Gushers Make German Dancers Move Like A Worm Learning To Walk
ON today’s Terrible TV, we hear to Germany, where the kinder are being asked for their views on Gushers.
For each answer, the in-house dancers must perform an interpretation of the answer. Should the kids say, “Gushers make me feel like a worm learning to walk” the dancers will be top-ho.
Cue the video:
Posted: 16th, October 2009 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Serena Williams’ Clenched Fist Tampax Applicator
SERENA Williams is the face, rant and fluids of Tampax. Not too long ago, Williams threatened to choke a tennis referee with her balls.
Now Williams is a hero to women.
The New York Post cites the “uncomfortably graphic video version of the ad”. There is talk of “bad blood”, “aunt flo” and “plenty of blood”.
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Hitler Used To Sell Turkish Tea
ADVERTISING gives you a free blonde with every organ donated – and now you get to murder Jews, Slavs, Britishers and gypsies without any stress or worry that you’re not doing it quick enough thanks to a calming cup of Turkish tea.
Take tea with your Hitler dolly.
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