Adverts that make you want to smash your radio up.

[Jenny Tailor]

Not sure we have this. ( Mods - please delete if there is an existing thread.)
Inspired by ( not a complete ripoff of course) of the thread of the same name but TV adverts.

After being WFH for the last couple of years - in the last couple of months I've had to spend a lot of time driving to client sites.
Listening to commercial radio to help pass the miles - there are some really horrific cringe ads on there.

To the tune of 2001 A space oddessy. (Also sprach Zarathustra) being screeched out very badly"
Experian : "Boost....your..... credit score....... to... SPACE.."


What else is out there that makes you want to smash your radio up? ( or just change the station to commercial free )

[BadOrangePete]

Forget the company but the betting one that rams Sweet Caroline down my ears every ad break! Used to love that song but overuse in ads/football has ruined it for me

[Nickp82]

I know it’s bad but I can’t stand the current ones for B&Q (I think) which feature the voice of a lady who can’t pronounce her r’s.

[RicksAlfas]

Jenny Tailor said:

To the tune of 2001 A space oddessy. (Also sprach Zarathustra) being screeched out very badly"
Experian : "Boost....your..... credit score....... to... SPACE.."

That one makes me laugh. Boost your score... hyperspace... boost you score!!!

My current annoyance is Leigh Day solicitors claiming for Amazon drivers, or diesel emissions, or falling off your dining room chair, or anything else they can think of.

[peklim]

Agree that the Experian advert is awful!My current pet hates are the Harry Rednapp betting ad,the Philip Schofield WBAC ad & that Vodaphone women,although I haven't heard her for some time.Maybe I need to be more tolerant of annoying voices.

[wpa1975]

On the beech just so stupid to be using a xmas song to advertise holiday's

[Deranged Rover]

I'm firmly of the opinion that there is no such thing as a radio advert that isn't annoying but, if you're in the South of England, all the adverts for Ringwood Tyres set a whole new bar for agony-inducing.

[LukeBrown66]

Local radio companies charging companies no doubt serious money to come up with jingles that try and be memorable, but just end up sounding really naff, poor and try hard!

[deckster]

LukeBrown66 said:

Local radio companies charging companies no doubt serious money to come up with jingles that try and be memorable, but just end up sounding really naff, poor and try hard!

Local advertising peaked in the mid-80s for me. "After the show, why not visit the Sultan Curry House, just ten minutes from this cinema". Accompanied by wobbly music and a blurry photo that might have been a plate of poppadums. Sheer class.

[generationx]

Jenny Tailor said:

To the tune of 2001 A Space Odyssey. (Also sprach Zarathustra) being screeched out very badly"
Experian : "Boost....your..... credit score....... to... SPACE.."

I came here for exactly this. Christ, it's awful.

[WIL35]

All the Transport for London ones are very irritating. Anyway, I thought TfL were strapped for cash. They shouldn't be wasting it on dimwitted ads telling me 'every journey matters' and interrupting my Greatest Hits Radio listening!

[Louis Balfour]

Pretty much any on Jazz FM.

80% of them are about cancer of one type or another. Of the remaining 20%, a few months ago they were running ads for a company supplying prosthetic limbs for children. I kid you not.

They are also mostly voiced in a Scottish accent. All Scottish people are trustworthy, see.

[DavieW]

Louis Balfour said:

Pretty much any on Jazz FM.

80% of them are about cancer of one type or another. Of the remaining 20%, a few months ago they were running ads for a company supplying prosthetic limbs for children. I kid you not.

They are also mostly voiced in a Scottish accent. All Scottish people are trustworthy, see.

In a similar vein - Planet Rock (and I assume their sister stations) seem to have nothing but mobile phone networks and "sell your car" adverts.

[Punctilio]

they all sound ghastly,

try BBC radio, no ads, apart from their own tedious promos.

[cuprabob]

The woman with the strange annoying voice who does the Vodaphone adverts has been mentioned a few times on the TV advert thread however, earlier today I heard her in a new radio advert and she has turned up a few notches. It actually sounds painful