Two terrible ads lately:
The Alexa one where the mother lets her kid kick a ball against a wall at 4.30 in the morning because she’s upset about losing a big game or some bullshit
That KFC one where people are licking their fingers
The bastille EE one is so remarkably shit I’m almost in awe of it.
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I also think this is a very good ad and kid has some chops
Zoopla doing a huge wraparound thing on some scaffolding at the corner of George Square, with a massive cat on it, and a line that’s apparently mocking allergies.
Just had the Kazooooooo [sic] and “It’s Tuesday… It’s Wednesday” Balzan (sp) biscuits ad in one ad break. God, the quirky makes me irky 
Rachel and her fucking TV package. Fuck off, go read a book.
Impressed by the number of betting companies ploughing ahead with their advertising campaigns. There’s nothing to bet on fellas, give up.
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Online casino games, I suppose. Lots of people stuck at home, bored. They’ll probably get a lot of custom from that, sadly.
Ladbrokes just had two in the same ad break, one purely about the horses. They’ll do themselves in at this rate. Mind you, there’s not a lot of companies I’d actually be happy to see go under during this, but if I had to pick…
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Paddy Power to go under first please
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You buy your advertising space in advance, no?
Yeah, I imagine bookies have booked absolutely loads of time this week and next, what with it being their Christmas next weekend (the national), plus all the other stuff going on (masters, climax of the footy season) they’re probably scrambling to make ads to point people to their online casinos just to get something back on the investment
raining chaps and gals
obviously
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It’s interesting that insurers are wily enough to stick act of god/force majure clauses in all over the place but for stuff like this no one cared to worry about it.
Or maybe it’s that there was insurance but it’s already been removed due to those clauses.
EEERIE SPOOKY SHOTS OF AN EMPTY PLAYGROUND
Soon you will be running, running free.
Voiceover: Some bullshit about getting through this, over images of painting indoors.
Fuck off, Persil.
Screening shots of an empty playground in between kids programmes in the morning, especially slotted between the usual saccharine kids adverts, is totally tone deaf. And unnecessarily creates a scary atmosphere that kids are gonna find confusing.
(Mine defo noticed, and asked “What’s that?” - what can I say, other than “A playground” or “Dunno”, to a 3yo who hasn’t had a corona-briefing and seems generally content but then sees this and wonders why spooky out-of-context things are popping up in the middle of fun telly stuff?)
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Not just the casino games and the slots, they’ll still be racing virtual horses, dogs and cars(?) and playing virtual football.
This one
Urgh. Shite.
All of the betting/gambling/casino/online bingo ones - fuck the fucking fuck off.
See also: The Microsoft teams one “we’re living on teams!” ARGHHHGERHGRHRHHH
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I’m fucking sick to death of Trading 212 and other such bollocks on YouTube.
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