Category: Adverts
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Kenco And Son
A couple of adverts with Steptoe and Son. First, one for Kenco coffee. And then this one, for Ajax.
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That Banned Denis Healey Debit Card Advert
Adverts are usually banned for being misleading, or for containing something offensive, but in 1994, an advert for Visa Delta debit cards was banned because a former Chancellor of the Exchequer got a bit libelous about another former Chanceller of the Exchequer. Here’s the ad, see if you can spot it. Did you see it?…
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Not A Perm
Hair adverts are so easy to parody, that even other adverts pardodied them for a while. This is probably the more famous of the Alan Davies Abbey National campaign adverts. It actually broke from the theme of the campaign a little bit, which usually focused on Davies’ everyman character facing slightly odd situations, and being…
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Griff And Nige Drink Bud Light
I came across a brilliant YouTube channel last night, thanks to Twitter, and it’s well worth exploring. But two short adverts jumped out at me. First, this one. At first, you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a British advert, but as it goes on, it becomes readily apparent that its a US one. It…
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Bea Arthur Flogging Stuff
For some reason, no-one to this day quite knows why, Bea Arthur starred in a series of adverts for a Toronto based drug store for seven years. In 2013, the company was sold to Loblaw. True fact.
