Retailers including Asda go head-to-head in battle of the Christmas adverts amid Covid-19 crisis

Retailers are going head-to-head with their festive adverts amid the Covid-19 crisis, as supermarkets Aldi and Asda have released offerings alongside Lego and Amazon.  Asda shared its Christmas advert earlier today, which features a father and Asda superfan Sunny, who decorates his home with bright lights and appears overjoyed as he receives groceries from masked … Read more

Argos Christmas adverts sees two sisters transform into magicians

Just one day after Halloween, Argos has fired the starting gun on the festive season by realising their adorable Christmas advert for 2020. The UK retailer’s advert follows last year’s which sees customers reading the Argos catalogue magically transforming into ‘The Book of Dreams’. While last year’s offering saw a father and daughter duo long for … Read more

New job adverts plummet across UK with Aberdeen suffering massive 75% drop

New job adverts plummet across UK with Aberdeen suffering massive 75% drop while London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Reading all see vacancies HALVE compared with last year due to Covid A report found job postings fell by 46% overall in the UK since October last year It noted number of adverts hit lowest point in June, … Read more

Star of popular Tudor Crisps TV adverts in the 1980s dies from coronavirus aged 87

The star of the popular Tudor Crisps TV adverts in the 1980s has died from coronavirus at the age of 87. Comedian and singer Kenny Williams spent years entertaining people across the North East as he toured the region’s club circuit. Kenny, who had vascular dementia, was living at Armstrong House care home in Gateshead. His … Read more

Alesha Dixon praises ITV for supporting Diversity in newspaper adverts

Alesha Dixon has praised ITV for standing by Diversity following their Britain’s Got Talent performance, which garnered 24,500 complaints to OfCom. The singer, 41, took to Instagram on Saturday to share a snap of the advert that the channel took out in newspapers and gushed over how ‘proud’ she was with them. In her caption, … Read more

Why is Google making thousands of pounds from unauthorised debt adverts?

Google is still making thousands of pounds from unregulated advertisers mimicking legitimate charities and offering to write off people’s debts, nearly a year on from introducing new guidelines which it said would help ‘stamp out’ the practice. Charities and registered insolvency practitioners say the advertising giant ‘ignored complaints’ about misleading adverts and often took over … Read more

What happened to the Milkybar Kid from ’90s Nestle adverts?

EXCLUSIVE: What happened to the Milkybar Kid? Child star admits he was BULLIED over the famous ’90s adverts – and reveals his surprising new career By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:51 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 06:28 BST, 18 August 2020 He played the Milkybar Kid in Australia’s popular Nestlé commercials … Read more

What happened to the Milkybar Kid from 90s iconic Nestle adverts?

EXCLUSIVE: What happened to the Milkybar Kid? Child star from 90s Nestlé adverts reveals he was BULLIED for the iconic role as his surprising new career is unveiled By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:51 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 05:51 BST, 18 August 2020  He played the iconic 90s Milkybar Kid … Read more

Adverts for sausage rolls, fish fingers and ketchup ‘to be BANNED from daytime TV ads’

Daytime adverts for sausage rolls, mustard and ketchup will be banned under the Government’s obesity crackdown, it was claimed today.  All foods with more than 1.5g of salt face being barred from television screens until after the 9pm watershed. It includes British cupboard staples such as ketchup, Marmite and soy sauce — all of which … Read more

Blue Planet’s creators ‘made millions from adverts for plastic bottles that clog up oceans’ 

What Planet are they on? Blue Planet’s creators ‘made millions from adverts for plastic bottles that clog up oceans’ Alastair Fothergill made adverts for biggest bottled water manufacturer in China Nongfu Spring bottles are found polluting oceans and shores worldwide Decision came despite work on BBC’s Blue Planet and Netflix’s Our Planet By Tom Kelly … Read more