Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)
Discussion
AlexRS2782 said:
LuS1fer said:
A "Citroen sponsors" bookend on GB News, maybe other channels too, advertising a Citroen hybrid while swimming in popcorn.
I don't get the link, the point or the joke, if it is one.
If they're the same ones that are used as the sponsor stings for evenings on Dave, then i think the, exceptionally lame, joke is meant to be that after plugging in both the car, and the randomly placed popcorn machine, he turned the popcorn machine on by accident instead of the car charger I don't get the link, the point or the joke, if it is one.
And i agree, those stings are bloody annoying.
shih tzu faced said:
Latest Samsung ad for a watch currently being done to death.
Shows a young woman doing things ‘on her own schedule’ cos she’s so independent / strong / individual etc. so she goes out for a run in the dead of night in the city. Fortunately only happens to bump into other trendy independent individual bohemian types. No sign of any murderers, paedos, muggers or nonces. There’s an owl keeping a beady eye on her though.
Unsurprisingly that advert has already attracted a massive amount of complaints from female rights groups who have, quite rightly, pointed out how "tone deaf" (the term they've used) / the advert is - mainly relating to things mentioned above not being in any way realistic, but especially in the wake of the murder of Ashling Murphy in Ireland back in January who had been out for a run in an evening when she was abducted / killed.Shows a young woman doing things ‘on her own schedule’ cos she’s so independent / strong / individual etc. so she goes out for a run in the dead of night in the city. Fortunately only happens to bump into other trendy independent individual bohemian types. No sign of any murderers, paedos, muggers or nonces. There’s an owl keeping a beady eye on her though.
I can understand the point the ad is trying to make, about doing things on your own schedule, etc, but you have to wonder how nobody at the ad agency who came up with the idea didn't think about the other messages being shown in the advert (read as everyone she bumps into at night just happen to be young, cool, trendy people who are all out enjoying their Samsung products in the early hours of the morning - when the reality is very far removed from that).
AlexRS2782 said:
Time to nominate the cringe fest that is the Piers Morgan TalkTV advert - i wonder how much ££££ they've spaffed on buying the amount of ad space considering how many times it's being shown 
Agreed! I wouldn't watch the smug ba***d anyway but that advert puts me off even trying to put up with his new show. Is it designed to put people off?Conversely, saw an ad earlier that was not full of interracial couples, did not patronise me or make a grown man dance around his colour coded and clothed house because he saved 2 quid a year on broadband. Old Speckled hen, funny fox doing daft stuff selling good beer, why can't all adverts not be patronising?
I will buy some next time I see it on sale, see it works.
dont treat me like a cretin, Oh do you think everyone is a cretin? seems so.
I will buy some next time I see it on sale, see it works.
dont treat me like a cretin, Oh do you think everyone is a cretin? seems so.
AlexRS2782 said:
shih tzu faced said:
Latest Samsung ad for a watch currently being done to death.
Shows a young woman doing things ‘on her own schedule’ cos she’s so independent / strong / individual etc. so she goes out for a run in the dead of night in the city. Fortunately only happens to bump into other trendy independent individual bohemian types. No sign of any murderers, paedos, muggers or nonces. There’s an owl keeping a beady eye on her though.
Unsurprisingly that advert has already attracted a massive amount of complaints from female rights groups who have, quite rightly, pointed out how "tone deaf" (the term they've used) / the advert is - mainly relating to things mentioned above not being in any way realistic, but especially in the wake of the murder of Ashling Murphy in Ireland back in January who had been out for a run in an evening when she was abducted / killed.Shows a young woman doing things ‘on her own schedule’ cos she’s so independent / strong / individual etc. so she goes out for a run in the dead of night in the city. Fortunately only happens to bump into other trendy independent individual bohemian types. No sign of any murderers, paedos, muggers or nonces. There’s an owl keeping a beady eye on her though.
I can understand the point the ad is trying to make, about doing things on your own schedule, etc, but you have to wonder how nobody at the ad agency who came up with the idea didn't think about the other messages being shown in the advert (read as everyone she bumps into at night just happen to be young, cool, trendy people who are all out enjoying their Samsung products in the early hours of the morning - when the reality is very far removed from that).
Thing is, to produce a tv ad like this must cost a fortune and use the ‘talents’ of loads of creative people. If a numpty-on-the-sofa like me can spot the obvious mistake how the feck can’t they?? Useless d
heads.shih tzu faced said:
Thing is, to produce a tv ad like this must cost a fortune and use the ‘talents’ of loads of creative people. If a numpty-on-the-sofa like me can spot the obvious mistake how the feck can’t they?? Useless dheads.
Because in all likelihood they were creative people based in San Fransisco (with a sub-team in Berlin), working to a brief from an ad agency HQ in Chicago, to a commission from the marketing department of an electronics multinational based in Korea and trying to appeal to a chose key market (N. America) but also demanding that it be generically wishy-washy enough to play globally while hitting some popular online social trends. heads.So they're not going to be aware of specific cases and incidents in 'minor' markets, and these wheels were set in motion a long time ago. And for all we know a lot of people 'on the ground' may have pointed out the inadvertently poor imaging/messaging but been overruled, because the customer gets what they pay for.
Morningside said:
Currys - Why is the music overpowering the voiceover? It's bloody annoying.
Because the. Sound mixer listens through expensive headsets to achieve the best sound. Pity we all listen to the advert through a crappy set of speakers on our TV and probably the sound is set up to suit our hearing. I have the treble turned up because my hearing is poor of the higher frequencies. Drives me nuts when women screech and scream during a programme because tv increases level of treble sounds.SWMBO likes to watch home and away, a programme for teenage females I know, the volume of screechy females arguing drives me round the bend, I have to leave the room when it is on.
2xChevrons said:
Because in all likelihood they were creative people based in San Fransisco (with a sub-team in Berlin), working to a brief from an ad agency HQ in Chicago, to a commission from the marketing department of an electronics multinational based in Korea and trying to appeal to a chose key market (N. America) but also demanding that it be generically wishy-washy enough to play globally while hitting some popular online social trends.
So they're not going to be aware of specific cases and incidents in 'minor' markets, and these wheels were set in motion a long time ago. And for all we know a lot of people 'on the ground' may have pointed out the inadvertently poor imaging/messaging but been overruled, because the customer gets what they pay for.
The ad to me looks like yet another lazy interpretation of the age old ‘watch / fridge / tea bag / face cream / cereal / whatever that’s as individual as you are’ So they're not going to be aware of specific cases and incidents in 'minor' markets, and these wheels were set in motion a long time ago. And for all we know a lot of people 'on the ground' may have pointed out the inadvertently poor imaging/messaging but been overruled, because the customer gets what they pay for.
Total garbage and should have been stopped way before making it into anyone’s tv screens at home.
I wasn’t talking about any specific incidents, but rather the pretty obvious dangers of a young woman going out jogging alone in the middle of the night in a city. Supposedly only bumping into friendly freestyle skateboarders, BMX riders and some cool young females on a night out. This is universal nonsense wherever you are in the world if you have any common sense, certainly the markets that the plonkers at Samsung want to flog their watch.
Inexcusable crap; Samsung are quite rightly receiving a big backlash and it serves the pillocks right. Anyway they’re apologising and back pedalling like mad now so it seems they’ve come round to my point of view and about time too
Well it doesn't make me want to smash my TV up but is just very bizarre.
It is the Fitbit ad with a land whale taking to a surfboard and going in the sea (presumably to meet with sea based kin). With all the comments like body 90% readiness or some such b*llox.
It just leaves me questioning who is this ad aimed at and how does it help sell their product?
It is the Fitbit ad with a land whale taking to a surfboard and going in the sea (presumably to meet with sea based kin). With all the comments like body 90% readiness or some such b*llox.
It just leaves me questioning who is this ad aimed at and how does it help sell their product?
I'm prepared to be corrected, but I'm fairly sure that last night I saw a Vodafone advert, with husband, wife & three kids, all of whom were white.
Where is the outrage? or the Charlie-Hebdo-type attack on Vodafone's head office?
Perhaps some companies might care to note this in their future adverts. Especially you, IKEA, with your all-black-people ads, and your all-white staff as shown in a recent documentary.
Where is the outrage? or the Charlie-Hebdo-type attack on Vodafone's head office?
Perhaps some companies might care to note this in their future adverts. Especially you, IKEA, with your all-black-people ads, and your all-white staff as shown in a recent documentary.
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