Posts tagged: Adverts

Wild animals, smiling kids. It must be Africa

Over at Africa Is a Country Sean and Sonja have been doing a great job of rounding up the very worst of cliche-ridden World Cup ads from around the world. No ad is complete without wild animals and smiling kids. I’ll post the top three from their site below. But first, here’s the BBC’s effort. (They [...]

Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »

“Beyond 2010, there’s a nation united”

I rather like these South African adverts for BP, inspired by the best football comedy sketch ever (not that the list is that long): Monty Python’s version of Greece versus Germany “There’s the Ubuntu strategy” “Some direction there from the car guards” “Stopping in the middle of nowhere again. That’s got to be a penalty” [...]

Tuesday March 30th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »