I've just seen a traumatic advert

[WOM]

Brace yourselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckDrYOJoE4

Made worse by using that horribly overexposed Rusted Root Send Me On My Way song which is used for anything involving hiking, camping or granola.

[WOM]

This is the other one. Annoying for other reasons. (Mainly for it being on ALL THE FUCKING TIME.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZ2sS-IqXo

Nope. Love the Mayhem guy (actor Dean Winters). He's the right mix of fun guy/jerk for the role.

[WOM]

And welcome back, gero. Was far too straight around here without you. /winky

[Simon G]

Nope. Love the Mayhem guy (actor Dean Winters). He's the right mix of fun guy/jerk for the role.

Isn't he the guy who plays the Vulture in Brooklyn 99 - I was trying to place him whilst watching the ad. He's fantastic in the episodes he's in on that.

[WOM]

That's him. We knew him from Oz and L&O/SVU.

[Gerontophile]

That's him. We knew him from Oz and L&O/SVU.

See? That's fucking typical of you (insert inverted commas. types) Canadians (close inverted commas, types) assholes who work on ... Young Street. You'll say anything for a dollar!!!

He wasn't bad in 'Oz'. He did "taking it up the arse, with or without consent" very well.

[Gerontophile]

That's him. We knew him from Oz and L&O/SVU.

Oh right. What was the white guys's name?

[Levin]

Watchfinder! On Sky One for the cricket.

All the watches are worn on the right wrist. I guess so that they can show the watch and a right hand doing computer stuff but it looks so weird

[3 Colours Red]

Maybe every model they hired for the advert just happened to be southpaws.

[Benjm]

Watchfinder's TV presence always surprises me. I hadn't realised that preloved signature timepieces were a big enough business to warrant it. Do they still sponsor the Tour de France coverage on ITV?

[Snake Plissken]

So, who from the Red Dwarf people is in desperate need of a paycheck?

[Benjm]

Do [Watchfinder] still sponsor the Tour de France coverage on ITV?

It seems not.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Has this latest monstrosity from Di Niro not been flagged up yet:

[elguapo4]

So, who from the Red Dwarf people is in desperate need of a paycheck?

Probably none of them, but they aren't going to turn down some handy cash when it lands in their lap. Shit ad alright.

[Eggchaser]

Robert Llewellyn is taking delivery of a new Tesla Model 3 so he will be happy to readjust his back balance if it's the top spec model.

[Ginger Yellow]

So,, um, Harry Redknapp is the face of some gambling app. Seems a bit on the nose.

[San Bernardhinault]

This is shooting fish in a barrel, but I caught an advert for a new Olive Garden product last night and was pretty horrified. They claim that it's "create your own lasagne", except that it bears almost no relation to lasagne. It's a weird rollup of pasta and cheese, which you then pour some terrible Olive Garden sauce over, and top off with a "topping" like shrimp or beef or meatballs. Or, astonishingly, "ziti fritta" which turn out to be pasta stuffed with cheese. You can have cheese stuffed pasta as the topping to your cheesy pasta...

[Patrick Thistle]

Are Alexandr and Sergei a couple now? Seems to be the way the meerkat adverts are going. They've even moved to San Francisco.

[slackster]

There’s a revolting Coke ad on infernal repeat at C4’s streaming service, featuring a young woman doing various activities being chased by a giant tongue. Wtf?

[Southport Zeb]

NFU Mutual currently have an advert in which they say that the talk with their customers, and that is how they know their customers want insurance that they can rely on. Obviously before they talked to the customers, they assumed that they couldn't care less how reliable their insurance was.

[Simon G]

As a previous employee of NFU Mutual I'd be surprised if there was something not covered.

We used to even pay claims that weren't.




NOTE: That's not to say they're perfect of course.

[Lymeswold Snork]

"Bahlsen. They're a little bit fancy."

Well, I used to think so...

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/EvilRichard/status/1168085126791749632

[ursus arctos]

Can someone explain just what it is about the retail insurance market in the UK that creates demand for sites like Confused, Compare the Market and Go Compare and why they have chosen such an absurdist marketing strategy?

I'm not aware of a similar phenomenon in any other developed country?

[NHH]

Dunno about the market, but their absurdist advertising is all about trying to cement name recognition and nothing else. Confused are onto their umpteenth completely unconnected ad campaign; compare the market have stuck with their meerkats which are apparently a thing.