Advertising Critic

Reviews of Print and Television Ads

Several years ago, adcritic.com was a popular site to read and post reviews of advertisements. Almost its entire focus was TV ads and, even though the internet was capable of delivering them fairly easily at the time, the sheer cost of the bandwidth apparently became a problem. The company running the site was unable to create a way to pay for the ads, and eventually it was unable to continue.

Several years later, YouTube came along and allowed the public to post TV commercials without reservation. There is no limit to the number of ads that can be uploaded. Problem solved.

Advertising Critic is not intended to replace adcritic.com, but it began in part made because it is now easily possible to review many different TV ads that are online.

Print and TV Ads

This ad review website, however, is not limited to TV ads. The public is interested in television advertisements, to be sure, but it is also interested in print ads. So there are two main advertising categories here: print and TV.

Print Ads

The ads we see printed in magazines often fill the page. So the print ads on this site are reformatted to fill an entire internet browser monitor (600 pixels high) for the average user.

The scans were done on a calibrated scanner so the colors should appear to be fairly accurate on your screen (if your monitor was calibrated, too).

Nevertheless, this site can make no guarantees as to the accuracy of the color and suggests it is not considered reliable when making decisions to buy products based on the colors of scans.

TV Ads

The TV ads you can review here appear in the standard YouTube format and size. They are not hosted on the servers of this site, but are embedded in its webpages.

Controversial Ads

Although it could be tempting to post controversial ads, Advertising Critic has not set controversial advertising as its focus.

Nevertheless, it may occasionally include reviews of some controversial ads if they are highly original, extremely clever, very funny, or have unusually significant artistic merit.

Those which are gratuitous, by and large, and in extremely poor taste, generally will be excluded. For the most part, the ads here are suitable for a general viewing audience.