Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
Discussion
ranger90 said:
Blown2CV said:
I think the Audi ad is something to do with not conforming to the identikit aspirational status. Audis couldn't be more that, however. Weird.
I hate this advert with a passion,some completely knobby bloke saying things like presence and gravitas. If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
It knocks this really nice brass steampunk style gramaphone off the table, with its weedy little spoiler, pathetic.
I would rather have the gramaphone to be honest.
Well at least it does me the favour of reminding me one car I dont want to own.
ker feature on modern cars. Basically everything that the ad is trying to protest the car is not. 
JonRB said:
I may be wrong, but isn't the stuff the record player that the Audi tips over saying stuff similar to the Jaguar advert? In which case, perhaps the advert is a dig at rivals Jaguar?
surely if they wanted to do that they could just slate the poor quality feel and them being completely unreliable rather than silly intangible 'image' things, when Audi in fact probably has a far worse image problem.ranger90 said:
I hate this advert with a passion,some completely knobby bloke saying things like presence and gravitas.
If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
little grey men in little grey suits - you are clearly a cut above, you are a power player...If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
It sounds like you are exactly the sort of person Audi doesn't want to attract.
Edited by Maldini35 on Thursday 30th October 13:36
Maldini35 said:
ranger90 said:
I hate this advert with a passion,some completely knobby bloke saying things like presence and gravitas.
If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
little grey men in little grey suits - you are clearly a cut above, you are a power player...If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
It sounds like you are exactly the sort of person Audi doesn't want to attract.
Yeah but think how big and tough he felt typing that.
Edited by Maldini35 on Thursday 30th October 13:36
ranger90 said:
I hate this advert with a passion,some completely knobby bloke saying things like presence and gravitas.
If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
It knocks this really nice brass steampunk style gramaphone off the table, with its weedy little spoiler, pathetic.
I would rather have the gramaphone to be honest.
Well at least it does me the favour of reminding me one car I dont want to own.
And let me guess, you prefer Corsa's and Saxo's (Saxi?)If I see someone in an a7 I just think grey man in a grey little suit, if this man starting spouting off in a meeting, I couldnt stifle a yawn.
It knocks this really nice brass steampunk style gramaphone off the table, with its weedy little spoiler, pathetic.
I would rather have the gramaphone to be honest.
Well at least it does me the favour of reminding me one car I dont want to own.
nicanary said:
Johnnytheboy said:
The guy eating a manly yoghurt to banish "the grumbler".
You can try what you like, but you will not make yoghurt a manly hunger-negating snack.
+1.You can try what you like, but you will not make yoghurt a manly hunger-negating snack.
It'd satisfy your hunger for all of 10 seconds. Wimmin food.
It is a great example of really bad marketing.
If the brief is to get men eating yoghurt it will need a lot more than this.
- "The grumbler" is basically the awful Crazy Frog reborn, showing an appalling lack of imagination.
- It follows the usual formula e.g. Make sure we see that there are three blokes in the van - as if it was just two fellas we would all assume they were gay.(Which might put off some sexually insecure types)
- They haven't even changed the pot design. "Too expensive to change the tooling in the factory and we don't want to alienate our core female buyer" as some gimp would no doubt have said. Just make a TV ad showing a young bloke eating it and you'll change long held perceptions and eating habits overnight...
But what exactly does the Grumbler do? This cheeky chappie riding around on his motorbike isn't much of an irritation. So why the rush to sort him out. On a long journey with my 'not-gay' friends selfishly sleeping in the back whilst I drive, I'd welcome the diversion from the monotomy that a frog doing stunts on a motorbike would bring.
And when you do finally tire of the frogs antics and eat your girlie yoghurt, the Grumbler doesn't die or dissappear, he just starts riding a tricycle. What???!!
The whole thing is just such a monumental waste of time and money. Yet people were paid real money to develop this. Probably quite good money.
Really boils my P1SS
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