Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
Discussion
JonRB said:
Are there any adverts that anyone actually likes? Or shall we just close the thread after concluding that we hate all adverts full stop? 
I think that's the point my Christian Louboutin wearing friend.It seems adverts these day are meant to annoy.
(I just viewed that Strongbow advert with Jerry Hall and Johnny Vaughan, "Go on, naff off"
) 
The Swinton Insurance ad that features 'Attraction', the Hungarian shadow puppet lot who won Britain's Got Tossers (Britain?) last year. A reasonably engaging act, if you like that kind of thing.
They do this...
...but the ad tries to convince us that the shadow puppetry is being done by these people...
Oh do f
k off.
They do this...
...but the ad tries to convince us that the shadow puppetry is being done by these people...
Oh do f
k off. J D Williams ad with Lorraine Kelly. (Not that the fragrant Kelly is to blame - she's a National Treasure whilst the Scots stay in the union).
It' simply excruciating on all levels - soooo 80s in concept and execution. Surely nobody would shop there based on the enticement of the ad, so it's failed utterly and completely.
It' simply excruciating on all levels - soooo 80s in concept and execution. Surely nobody would shop there based on the enticement of the ad, so it's failed utterly and completely.
The fecking BMW 318DM Sport add on the radio.
It's the DM bit that annoys me. They don't leave a gap between the D and the M, becasue DM (spoken as one word) sounds better than D..M I guess?
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
It's the DM bit that annoys me. They don't leave a gap between the D and the M, becasue DM (spoken as one word) sounds better than D..M I guess?
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
The fecking BMW 318DM Sport add on the radio.
It's the DM bit that annoys me. They don't leave a gap between the D and the M, becasue DM (spoken as one word) sounds better than D..M I guess?
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.It's the DM bit that annoys me. They don't leave a gap between the D and the M, becasue DM (spoken as one word) sounds better than D..M I guess?
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Halmyre said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.
El Guapo said:
Halmyre said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.El Guapo said:
Halmyre said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.Halmyre said:
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.
I think people started to suspect his fashion credentials when, after a few years on the telly telling us about fashion, he only ever appears wearing a black T-Shirt. So, less of a fashion guru, more of a goth.The thing I have never understood is how so many irritatingly bad adverts are made. Aren’t these vignettes supposed to encourage us to buy a product/service?
I imagine there is something akin to an advert agency who charge a rather high fee of the company wishing to make an advert. As such aren’t the shortlist of ideas then the ‘final cut’ run past someone quite senior seeing as the very reputation of their business is being represented publicly in a 30 second or so time slot and costing a lot? How do they not see how shockingly irritating most end up being and how British people trying to do that funny/awkward/hipster s***e is more likely to make me boycott whatever it is than buy it.
I get the subliminal stuff with irritating-for-a-reason jingles etc. but very few of these stay with me and even less have made me buy something I wouldn’t have already.
Weird.
I imagine there is something akin to an advert agency who charge a rather high fee of the company wishing to make an advert. As such aren’t the shortlist of ideas then the ‘final cut’ run past someone quite senior seeing as the very reputation of their business is being represented publicly in a 30 second or so time slot and costing a lot? How do they not see how shockingly irritating most end up being and how British people trying to do that funny/awkward/hipster s***e is more likely to make me boycott whatever it is than buy it.
I get the subliminal stuff with irritating-for-a-reason jingles etc. but very few of these stay with me and even less have made me buy something I wouldn’t have already.
Weird.
Halmyre said:
El Guapo said:
Halmyre said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
And another thing - I'm never buying an Activia yoghurt ever again since getting that pseudo camp twit Gok to advertise their products.
Poor old Gok Wan, the well-known anagram. One day you're the biggest thing on telly, the next you're flogging yoghurt for a living.
The new fashion for washed out adverts, contrast as low as possible, colour turned right down, and the brightness turned right up, so they look like a faded over exposed Seventies Kodak instamatic photograph. And once again. all those made in SA adverts, no, it's not England, so stop pretending, the UK number plates are not fooling anyone in that street, with that road furniture and those road markings! And it seems to be nearly all of them, do we not make and properly shoot adverts in the UK anymore?
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