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"Go on, you know you want to…."
If this isn’t dangerously encouraging problem gambling, then I don’t know what is.
If a cigarette brand advertised in a similar vein, then they would get hammered. You can imagine the outrage if there was an advert for Regal or Berkley or whatever saying "Have a fag, it’ll do you good…go on…I dare you".
I don’t know how they’ve got away with it.
I’m just guessing, but surely there’s a huge difference between the Ladbrokes advert and the scenario you mention if it were a fag advert.
Smoking cigarette has been proven to cause ill-health and far worse. Gambling doesn’t cause ill-health as long as it’s controlled.
If the advert at some point said to ‘problem’ gamblers, "Go on, you know you want to", then of course, they’d be in deep trouble. But as it is I don’t think they are crossing the line.
But just to contradict myself, I do know where you are coming from.
Anyone else annoyed by that smug clown on the Paddy Power advert? you know the one – "this is what losing a £50 bet looks like"
Hate that advert, love the guy who says ‘There’s nothing we can do about that’, he’s class.
Hate that advert, love the guy who says ‘There’s nothing we can do about that’, he’s class.
That’s the guy from PP, he’s good
"We can’t get you Tiddles back" he says, just after someone has wellied him out of the court Hate that advert, love the guy who says ‘There’s nothing we can do about that’, he’s class.
That’s the guy from PP, he’s good
"We can’t get you Tiddles back" he says, just after someone has wellied him out of the court I was still laughing at the blind football one about three days later. Although I did have to explain to the missus that blind football is an actual thing & they weren’t just taking the pee.
There’s also the PaddyPower one with the ‘this is how it feels to lose’ bit. My wife & I are convinced the man & the woman are the same person.
On a serious note, I think the rules are that gambling can be advertised on the tv so long as they don’t claim that gambling can solve your problems (which ironically doesn’t stop the Lottery ads doing it)
Worse is an advert that appears in the Metro newspaper for their online casino. It features quotes from people saying how they needed a new fridge so they went gambling.Most terrifying of all is the Bet365 advert in which Ray Winstone suggests, nay demands that we Bet Now!
Most terrifying of all is the Bet365 advert in which Ray Winstone suggests, nay demands that we Bet Now!
I thought it was Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia, Eastenders and PARKLIFE!!!)
I think they’re both at it Katie – where will it all end?
Scarlett Johannsen and Johnny Depp alluringly seducing us into a bet on the 7.35 at Wolverhampton on a wet Wednesday.
I think they’re both at it Katie – where will it all end?
Scarlett Johannsen and Johnny Depp alluringly seducing us into a bet on the 7.35 at Wolverhampton on a wet Wednesday.
If Scarlett Johannsen appeared in a Bet365 ad, I doubt that a single hot blooded male could resist.
Either her or the woman that does the voice on a Ferrari sat nav.
(purrs) bet now. and by the way, turn right.
"We can’t get you Tiddles back" he says, just after someone has wellied him out of the court 
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