Top 5 funny gambling commercials

Advertising is a crucial part of any business strategy, especially in the highly competitive iGaming sector. Brands of casinos that accept Canadian dollars, poker, and sports clubs show their ingenuity in numerous advertising campaigns, some of which are simply ridiculous. 

• Fan Duel: Big Game Party

The 2020 commercial from American bookmaker FanDuel is one of the newest on this list. This sports brand launched the commercial to promote the Super Bowl. The ad shows a sports fan throwing an unusual party at his home. He has filled his home with various traps, from tripping hazards on the stairs to snakes in the toilet. According to the host, if betting on sports took the risk out of the world, he should add it back in. The clip was broadcast on TV and social media.

• Paddy Power Bingo: Husband Removal

Irish brand Paddy Power is known for its controversial but attention-grabbing advertising. A 2013 promotional campaign called "Husband Removal" was one of the funniest. At the time, Paddy Power offered everyone who participated in the "£20 Free Play" promotion a free spouse. Women could even choose where their husbands would go instead, for example, to dinner with relatives.

In the promotional video, a woman writes a comment on Paddy Power's Facebook page complaining that her husband is preventing her from playing bingo with her girlfriends. As a result, the sports company sent a crew to her home. Two guys tied her husband to a chair with duct tape and launched him into the back of a van with the other husbands.

• Coral: Carly and Farley

This 2014 ad is a classic example of gambling companies using celebrities in commercials. Gibraltar-based bookmaker Coral hired comedian Darren Farley and UFC model Carly Baker. Both stars appeared as fish and chip peddlers in a van, enticing customers with the best bets and offers. The advertisement received widespread publicity and was shared across all social media platforms.

• Ladbrokes: Football Opinion Café

In 2007, UK-based Ladbrokes created one of the most memorable commercials of all time. Even now, fifteen years later, it is known as one of the funniest shows on television.

The commercial features some of soccer's biggest stars - Lee Dixon, Ally McCoist, Ian Wright, and Chris Kamara - dressed as workers having a cup of coffee in a run-down diner. Most interestingly, the players make sarcastic comments about the tragic state of British soccer.

• Ladbrokes: The Screaming Man

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary health product ad, but it is suddenly interrupted by Crudeli shouting in Italian and holding a phone with betting odds in his hand. Incidentally, this is the second Ladbrokes ad featuring Chris Camara. This time, as a model for a fake shampoo.