We all know that the Dutch are a pretty liberal bunch but these Greenpeace ads are a bit odd. Aimed at raising awareness for forest-saving, they start off with the typical raunchy striptease scene that we expect most Dutch ads consist entirely of. There’s a girl version and a boy version, so that there’s something for everyone. But the ending! Oh, the ending! The only phrase we can think of to describe it is ‘human topiary’. We’re pretty sure that it’s Not Suitable For Work, although where we work, here in the BW HQ, pretty much anything goes. Except watching the ends of these ads more than once....

Yesterday, we commemorated the anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in as tasteful a way as we could muster – by showing you an old ad where a lookalike of the People’s Princess whizzes through the night in a car. Unfortunately, not everyone treats the memory of the Queen Of Hearts with such respect and reverence. Check out this DISGUSTING advert from China for a range of lingerie that is tastelessly named after Her Deadjesty. Horrible isn’t it? While also being fiercely arousing, obviously. Our in-house translators (the Daily Mail’s website) tell us that the ad urges us to ‘Feel the Romance of British Royalty’. We’ve been gawping at it for an hour and there’ll be something getting else felt before long if we’re being completely......

As on every single August 31st since 1997, the nation has today retracted into a state of mass hysterical grief as we remember the passing of Diana, Princess Of Wales. Yes, it was 13 years ago today that her flame was snuffed out – we’ll never really know how, although it was probably something to do with the Royal Family. Let’s say… the Queen Mother. Yes, her. Anyway, before she pegged it in that Parisian tunnel, Diana made this spookily prescient advert for Mazda in the Netherlands. Hope she was wearing a seatbelt. Gawd bless you Lady Di, wherever you are…...

We sort of feel duty-bound to present you with this new viral ad campaign video thing for Agent Provocateur lingerie because, well, if we didn’t, you might all kick off. And we’re terrified of the idea of you all kicking off. Hmm, well that was piss poor wasn’t it? Some tired, lazy David Lynchisms, not nearly enough of the actual lingerie, and the bit at the end with the bloke in the John McCririck nappy-pants almost scared us into punching our monitor squarely in its balls. Dear Agent Provocoteur, why oh why oh why could you just not get Kylie on the bucking bronco job AGAIN?...

Looking for a couple of Japanese ads that could be possibly be plugging a theme park or stomach make-up or belly wigs or holidays or cocktails or lollies? You’ve come to the right place then comrade. Bitterwallet – bringing you Japanese ads that could be possibly be plugging a theme park or stomach make-up or belly wigs or holidays or cocktails or lollies since 2010…...

Oh god, this is brutal, brutal stuff so promise us that you’ll approach it with extreme caution won’t you? Take the intensely annoying (but probably very comfortable) Snuggie all-in-one blanket-with-sleeves thing and then marry it to the intensely annoying Macarena and you get this. An advert that could stick in your head for the rest of the week, immovable even with the assistance of industrial strength ear bleach. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…......

Sign up a well know gardening personality to your DIY stores' advertising campaignGet the marketeers to design lots of different posters, cardboard cutouts etcMake sure every store has a wide selection of them allWait for a blogger with a camera to notice that the very small garden centre area with Mr Titchmarsh popping up every couple of yards or so (not to mention the tannoyed exhortation from him to Let's Get Gardening!) makes her feel like she's being stalkedEt voila!I'm wondering if every store gets the same amount of display material irrespective of size, so what works in the large superstore of Poole say (note to self: must check the next time we're there) seems a little claustrophobic in the intimacy of smaller stores like Chippenham. I also like the special touch in the picture's...

About a year ago, the Peperami people announced that they were ending their relationship with their current ad agency and would be ‘crowdsourcing’ for ideas for their next advert. It sounded like a daring move – seeking out new or hitherto-undiscovered talent that would make Peperami the meat-based snack that we’re all talking about. Back then, some tosser from Peperami blah blah blahed that “This is not a stunt. As an ongoing way of making our content we are crowd-sourcing. A plumber from Barnsley could enter but so could people with strong serious creative intent.” A year on, and here’s the winning entry. And oh, it’s a load of shite. You won’t be surprised to learn that out of the crowd that was sourced, the winners were a creative director and copywriter,...

Sony have decided to do a bit of Apple bashing in their latest commercial. After Apple has been going around bragging that their iPhone has more games than the DS and the PSP, Sony have reacted with blatant swipe at Steve and Co. Basically says Sony. ‘You might have more games, but they’re … [visit site to read more] Sony have a go at iPhone’s gaming credentials is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

It’s quite a bold claim to make, but we assume the Swiss firm behind this advert for a bicycle manufacturer – as spotted by eagle-eyed Bitterwallet reader Luke – can provided substantial evidence that riding one will see you getting some yankee doodle in less than 24 hours:...

Ever wondered where Skittles come from? Factories? Nope. Have a couple of guesses before you watch this ad and if you genuinely get it right, we’ll give you a prize. Nah, we won’t really, but stick around, because there WILL be another proper super prize giveaway coming your way very shortly. Bitterwallet – the website that hates to not be always giving…...

Decide to hold a special event to show off all the possibilities of your swanky venueAdvertise your event in the sparkly new What's On section of your local newspaperEnsure it's published in good time so lots of people will comeWait for a blogger with a camera to notice that your welcome on arrival might be a bit different to what's usually on offer at these thingsEt voila!Whilst marquees and gazebos are an option that larger wedding parties might be considering, I don't think the venue's restaurant staff would be that thrilled at not having the opportunity to show off what they can do to get any event off to a good start...

We all know what the Germans were up to in 1943, but just look at what they were doing a mere quarter of a century later! From fascist warmongers to makers of astonishing advertising. Here in Britain, the late 1960s was all about ‘Go to work on an egg’ and the fucking Be-Ro flour men – but in Germany they had this deranged ad for Afri-Cola. It looks like the sort of party that Mof goes to at weekends and is soundtracked by the kind of musik that he plays in BW HQ on the rare occasions that we let him near the stereo. The underlying message we’re getting from this is ‘Afri-Cola – almost certainly laced with something a bit dangerous. But we’re not telling you what it is.’...

An advertising campaign featuring three women with no tops on has been criticised for sexism (”What’s wrong with bein’ sexy?” – N. Tufnel, Spinal Tap): According to Digital Spy, CEN  is reporting that some groups have called for the campaign to be suspended. One protester is quoted as saying: “There is no genuine connection between beer and naked women. The women have just been put there to sexualise beer. The advert is sexist against women.” In fairness, there probably are links to people getting pissed and taking their clothes off. Austria’s Hirter brewery spokeswoman Caroline Kroepfl impishly responded: “The poster shows three self-confident beer drinkers.” Very confident! Of course, we at Bitterwallet don’t stand for...

Sex sells apparently. Or at least, that’s what the good folk at King Of Shaves seem to believe, if their new ad is anything to go by. With more than a little bit of a nod to the wildly-successful Kylie-starring Agent Provocateur viral from about a decade ago, this one features a similarly raunchily-attired lady writhing around in an attempt to flog some razors. You have to feel sorry for the poor man in the advert, strapped into a chair while the scantily-clad tormentress gives him the closest shave of his wretched life. To be honest, it’s a shameless piece of sexploitation, and we’d be amazed if any of you lot are able to last right till the end of it....

Taken from the strange and distant world of vintage advertising, here’s a young man who isn’t prepared to let a small problem like being a baby from stopping him getting involved in grown-up, adult stuff like shaving. The poster’s slogan says ‘No stropping, no honing’ but if any of the babies we know had a bash at this, there’d be a major strop within seconds. Have times really changed since this advert was made? Is this any better or worse than a deranged pop star dangling a baby over a balcony to the delight of hundreds of his fans? It’s so confusing. More shaving news soon! [Boing......

Ever assembled a piece of Ikea furniture? If you have, there’s a good chance you’ve read the instructions and felt like you needed the Enigma code to crack it. Still, there is a weird satisfaction when you’ve completed your rhombus shaped shelves or what-have-you. And so, one ad agency has decided to play around with our feelings toward Ikea by having a great big SHIT spelled out in bits of cheap wood. If you’re wondering, it is to promote an assembly service, which isn’t a bad idea, especially if you’re all thumbs like me. Feel free to make your own “Shit – Just like this website” jokes in the......

The world as we know it will never be the same again. Ageing short-arse acting dynamo Al Pacino has finally buckled and made an advert, for reasons best known only to himself. And here it is – filmed tastefully in mononchrome, Al minces about manfully while growling the praises of coffee, important as it is for someone like Al whose job is to do some pretending sometimes. Must be fucking knackering mate. If you were the head of the Global Coffee Marketing Board, you’d declare the ad to be a big hit. If you’re the CEO of the coffee brand allegedly being plugged (we couldn’t remember or be arsed to go back and check) you’d probably be less enamoured with it. Still, eh… mug of Kenco anyone?...

Today’s Commercial Break is a no-brainer – there’s a new Old Spice ad in town. It’s not a full-blooded 30 second classic but there’s enough there to keep us going for now, especially as Old Spice Man is now sporting a manlier-than-thou bushy moustache. Steady on girls. Remind yourself of the brilliance of these ads by checking them all out in our Old Spice archive…...

Organ donation is a serious business. It saves lives, but the whole thing has tragedy woven into its very fabric – for a life to be saved, a life has had to have been lost. As such, it’s only right and proper that advertising campaigns aimed at recruiting organ donors are appropriately serious, subtle and restrained. UNTIL NOW THAT IS! PHWOOOOAAAARRR!......

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We don’t know anything about Ireland’s 98FM, but if the know-all kid from this ad is on there, manning the wheels of steel and spinning the platters that matter, then we might start tuning into it. Can’t be any worse than Chris Moyles first thing in the morning…...

Decide to upgrade the top footpath in the Donkey FieldStir up a hornet's nest of controversy in the local newspaper about itInstall new signage where the footpath splits into two so people know where they're goingWait for a blogger with a camera to spot the wrong estate is on thereEt voila!The footpath actually takes you to Cepen Park North, a mere 5-10 minutes walk away. Cepen Park South is a further couple of miles errr, south of where the footpath...

If you’ve become a fan of 3D TVs lately, you’ll fancy this quick clip. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Blur, Radiohead), the advert you may have seen already has been designed to be seen on both 3D and 2D TV sets. The idea behind viewing it in 2D is that it gives viewers the chance to imagine what the advert will look like in 3D. Its still not too late for you to watch this year’s World Cup in 3D at home too and Sony is giving you a taste of what it will be like. Anyway, here’s the video featuring the making of the ad… And if you haven’t actually seen the ad, here it is… For anyone who wants to see it in full HD 3D, you can visit selected Sony Style stores and Sony is also recording select World Cup games in 3D too. You can now...

To Japan we head once more for a Fanta ad, but we haven’t got a frigging clue what it’s supposed to be about. It’s only 15 seconds long but there’s more twists and turns than in an average episode of Lost. We had to do a double take upon first viewing but it looks as though the kids in it are wearing Sumo gear and we won’t have to pull out some kind of Pete Townsend-esque excuse about researching a book. Any explanations for the ad will be gladly received…...

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We’re far from being experts in the world of Russian advertising, but their quick-thinking creatives seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet at the moment. It’s a hymn sheet with a one-line song on it and the lyrics are “fill up a minute with some scantily-lad lasses writhing about” or whatever that is in Russian. The other day we brought you a Russian airline ad with the aforementioned lasses washing a plane and then themselves and now we’ve got this – a tyre ad with the aforementioned lasses doing some bumping and grinding with a few tyres throw in just in case you’re not sure what it’s all in aid of. Subtle? No. Effective? We’re not sure to be honest. Tyres? What’s a tyre?...

Hey, let’s play another round of the ‘Let’s play another round of the game where we guess what the Japanese advert is actually for’ game. Still with us? Great. Watch this mad ad from Japan and see if you can figure out what it’s actually for before it ends. Is it plugging…? (a) sushi (b) sunblock (c) sunflower oil (d) Suckmaster bursting foam Good luck and no cheating y’all....

Here’s a sexy lingerie ad with a sexy woman in it that’s got a sexy twist. (SPOILER ALERT) She wears a burka! The message of course (from Liason Dangereuse, the company behind the ad) is that you just don’t know what women (or men) have got on underneath the outer layer of clothing. As the ad’s slogan says: “Sexiness for everyone. Everywhere.” That moustachioed 70-year-old lollipop lady you drive past on the way to work every morning – she might be wearing Liason Dangereuse. The bag lady you see hurling cheap super-cider down her throat in the park – she might be wearing Liason Dangereuse. Your best mate Trevor, who you’ve been away on countless blokes’ weekends with – he might be wearing Liason Dangereuse. Your border collie Rasputin – in the right circumstances,...

In the beginning there was Moonpig. They came along with their online greetings card service but couldn’t get noticed. So they conjured up a desperately annoying advert jingle (‘Mooooon-piiiiig!’) and they never looked back. Then there was The Funky Pigeon. Who? Exactly. They’re another online greetings card concern and they also want to grab a share of that lucrative market. They can’t be seen to make a traditional, boring old ad so they also need a catchy, hummable musical sting that will embed itself inside the brain of you, the slack-jawed consumer. Reckon they’ve pulled it off? Nah. Pigeons. Rats with wings if you ask us…...

Oh shitting crikey – the blessed World Cup’s only gone and gone all tits up on us! Here we were with a brazen range of brilliant ads linked to the ‘festival of football’ and Sony have gone and blown it. They do 3D tellies you know, and as some of the latter stages of the World Cup will be filmed in 3D they’re keen to tell us all about it. So here’s an Kaka-starring ad that will look shite if you don’t already have a 3D telly. If you do have one, it’ll look great and 3D-ified. But then you’ve already bought the product so they’re not trying to sell to you. What Sony are saying is pretty much: “Look at this – it’s fucking unwatchable. Spend a few grand and it’ll look alright.” To which you’ll have already said: “This is fucking unwatchable. I don’t care...

Cheryl Cole - just look at the state of her hair Cheryl Cole has had it tough of late – her solo career has floundered after the public decided that they all prefer to see Rufus Hound dancing around to ‘Fight For Your Love’ instead, and she’s recently become a single lady again following the collapse of her marriage. It’s high time that the feisty Geordie songstress had some good news and here it is – she WON’T be feeling the full force of the Advertising Standards Authority coming down on her like a ton of bricks. They’ve thrown out 40 complaints about Chezza’s L’Oreal advert where she boasts that her hair “feels stronger” and “full of life” with a “healthy shine” even though a significant amount of said “hair” is actually glued-on extensions. But...

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Amnesty International don’t like Shell very much. They don’t like them so much that they’ve made an advert to slag them off a bit. It says: “While Shell toasts $9.8bn profits, the people of the Niger Delta are having to drink polluted water.” You can see it, there. *points to the right of the article* However, for some reason, the Financial Times has declined not to publish it. The FT said they pulled the spot for legal reasons and it was nothing to do with any editorial thinking. Tim Hancock, Amnesty International UK’s campaigns director, said: “The decision by the Financial Times is extremely disappointing. We gave them written reassurances that we would take full responsibility for the comments and opinions stated in the advertisements. Both...

'Land grab' a nearby house with a lovely walled gardenObtain planning permission to tear it down and build 14 'retirement cottages'. However once the site is reduced to rubble, don't start building them because of the 'credit crunch'Start building them 18 months later now things are looking a little better and so in turn ramp up your marketing campaign via the local newspaperWait for a blogger with a camera to notice your mind was probably elsewhere when describing the facilitiesEt voila!Ironically NAH, who loves puns and plays on words, was making jokes about conservatories during the recent election campaign (e.g. conservatory = conserve a Tory = a campaign to preserve an endangered species in Chippenham. NB we returned a Lib Dem MP and Tory is another name for someone who belongs to...

It looks like that roaringly successful John Lewis ad has made compaines realise that pulling on their customers’ heartstrings like a couple of giants doing a tug o’war is the way forward. Here’s Vodafone’s latest effort, where a dad takes a call from his distraught daughter at an inopportune moment. Despite her best efforts, her relationship with her boyfriend has come to an abrupt end, and dad drops everything to be with his little girl in her hour of need. Well emotional. No doubt, if Danny Dyer were here, he’d say something like “Ladies – if your fella asks you if he can do you up the wrong ‘un, it ain’t such a bad thing to say yes once in a while.” But he isn’t. Thankfully....

It’s possibly the most talked-about advert around at the moment, and it has had a phenomenal effect on sales. We speak of course about Jimmy Bullard’s Wash & Go remake. No, of course we don’t. We mean the new John Lewis ad, a 90-second race through the life of a woman, from ickle baby to crumbling old buffer, stopping off at all points in between. It’s a real blub-fest, almost up there with the ending of Tarka The Otter, and it appears to have stuck a chord with shoppers – John Lewis are reporting a 39.7% increase in online sales since the £6 million ads started reducing the soppier end of the nation to a quivering wreck. Here’s the ad – have a butchers and once you’ve pulled yourself together afterwards, let us know if you went to the John Lewis site and bought...