Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
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Halifax ads have always been s
t!
Bu the current one for their debit card makes a big thing about contactless payments. Fine. If it was about 2012 when this technology was first rolled out! Cretins!
Whoever is advertising Smart Meters. Firstly it's not my responsibility to save energy for other people. I expect EDF to generate enough to cope!
And knowing what I'm currently using and how much its costing is not going to make me turn my Oven, Washing Machine or Dishwasher will it! I still need the things on!
t!Bu the current one for their debit card makes a big thing about contactless payments. Fine. If it was about 2012 when this technology was first rolled out! Cretins!
Whoever is advertising Smart Meters. Firstly it's not my responsibility to save energy for other people. I expect EDF to generate enough to cope!
And knowing what I'm currently using and how much its costing is not going to make me turn my Oven, Washing Machine or Dishwasher will it! I still need the things on!
cuprabob said:
It annoys me when different adverts use the same song or music. At the moment both Dacia and Halifax are using Ghostbusters.
The same goes for the Maltsmith's beer advert. Using the same song that, until last month, that was being used by McD's for their "Happy Meals" ad.And those two adverts that use the "Sunny" music, which somehow doesn't even seem to scan. And while on the subject of music, can someone ban all those new adverts that sing at you, usually with infuriatingly bad voices that are slightly off-key. And ones imitating musicals. My guess is that they all have CEOs who are fond of musicals / choirs / particular films / have a daughter who loves something-or-other.
Europa1 said:
Age Partnership (I think) equity release, where a toddler asks about an extension for her doll's house and grandad tells her how they funded their extension with equity release. Like a toddler is going to give a fk.
You say that but then, we had a family party over the weekend at my parent's house, and my cousin's son, aged about 5, was asking my dad lots and lots of questions about the house... maybe he is interested in financial planning, mortgages and selling a house in Richmond in the 80s for more than the cost of a six bedroom house in Sussexk.Granted though, equity release probably won't be for him either..
AppleJuice said:
Been going for a while (and probably mentioned earlier in the thread) but the Lloyds 'horses running along a beach' advert ('you're not alone etc' song). Stop trying to make yourselves cuddly and friendly - you're a bank. If I wanted something cuddly I'd buy a teddy bear.
ste. All of the bank ads, although I think the TSB cartoons, with the posh scottish voice-over, are now well & truly past their sell by dates. Not to mention that they suggest you should trust them! Don't get me started on the fking nationwide 'poetry' ste though - I'm amazed there haven't been further death threats....AppleJuice said:
Been going for a while (and probably mentioned earlier in the thread) but the Lloyds 'horses running along a beach' advert ('you're not alone etc' song). Stop trying to make yourselves cuddly and friendly - you're a bank. If I wanted something cuddly I'd buy a teddy bear.
Of all the bank adverts, this one yanks my chain the hardest. For a start, there is the crime of ruining what was a blinding song by giving it the apparently now standard breathy, a capella treatment. Then there is the content of the ad itself - just what are they trying to say? Some village gets up en masse before dawn, to head down to a beach to watch a bunch of horses run past...is it some pagan ritual? Are the villagers some bunch of primitives?
Europa1 said:
AppleJuice said:
Been going for a while (and probably mentioned earlier in the thread) but the Lloyds 'horses running along a beach' advert ('you're not alone etc' song). Stop trying to make yourselves cuddly and friendly - you're a bank. If I wanted something cuddly I'd buy a teddy bear.
Of all the bank adverts, this one yanks my chain the hardest. For a start, there is the crime of ruining what was a blinding song by giving it the apparently now standard breathy, a capella treatment. Then there is the content of the ad itself - just what are they trying to say? Some village gets up en masse before dawn, to head down to a beach to watch a bunch of horses run past...is it some pagan ritual? Are the villagers some bunch of primitives?Or something like that.
We probably needed to be in the meeting though as most of the population will be bewildered or annoyed.
Or just think 'nice horseys'.
AlexRS2782 said:
cuprabob said:
It annoys me when different adverts use the same song or music. At the moment both Dacia and Halifax are using Ghostbusters.
The same goes for the Maltsmith's beer advert. Using the same song that, until last month, that was being used by McD's for their "Happy Meals" ad.swisstoni said:
Europa1 said:
AppleJuice said:
Been going for a while (and probably mentioned earlier in the thread) but the Lloyds 'horses running along a beach' advert ('you're not alone etc' song). Stop trying to make yourselves cuddly and friendly - you're a bank. If I wanted something cuddly I'd buy a teddy bear.
Of all the bank adverts, this one yanks my chain the hardest. For a start, there is the crime of ruining what was a blinding song by giving it the apparently now standard breathy, a capella treatment. Then there is the content of the ad itself - just what are they trying to say? Some village gets up en masse before dawn, to head down to a beach to watch a bunch of horses run past...is it some pagan ritual? Are the villagers some bunch of primitives?Or something like that.
We probably needed to be in the meeting though as most of the population will be bewildered or annoyed.
Or just think 'nice horseys'.
Europa1 said:
Age Partnership (I think) equity release, where a toddler asks about an extension for her doll's house and grandad tells her how they funded their extension with equity release. Like a toddler is going to give a fk.
Maybe the toddler will in 5 years time when there is a bunch of cash available in compensation for miss-selling. Equity Release is the next PPI.....k.Or maybe they cut the ad before the grandad gives her a portion of the wonderful windfall from their wise financial transaction. Either way it is trying to pursuade the older generation into a dodgy deal.
Europa1 said:
Of all the bank adverts, this one yanks my chain the hardest. For a start, there is the crime of ruining what was a blinding song by giving it the apparently now standard breathy, a capella treatment. Then there is the content of the ad itself - just what are they trying to say? Some village gets up en masse before dawn, to head down to a beach to watch a bunch of horses run past...is it some pagan ritual? Are the villagers some bunch of primitives?
+1 regarding ruining the song. It is the worst example of its kind and, as pointed out elsewhere, they are all at it. It must be such an easy life as an ad maker. Spot a new advert and blatantly copy it. Crap poetry, ruining good songs, it just goes on and on. Johnnytheboy said:
General rule: the more touchy-feely/cuddly the advert, the more the product is likely to be cold, hard cash.
As a general rule I am suspicious of motives in direct ratio to the enthusiasm with which a pitch is presented. A building society manager tried ever so hard to sell me an endowment mortgage once, when all I wanted was straightforward repayment. God am I glad of my instincts! No-one cares for your welfare more than you. Potential vendors of goods and services are working for their interest, not yours. I utterly loathe the TSB ads - surely after Gordon Brown nobody regards a Scottish accent as solid, sound and prudent with money any more do they?
motco said:
As a general rule I am suspicious of motives in direct ratio to the enthusiasm with which a pitch is presented. A building society manager tried ever so hard to sell me an endowment mortgage once, when all I wanted was straightforward repayment. God am I glad of my instincts! No-one cares for your welfare more than you. Potential vendors of goods and services are working for their interest, not yours. I utterly loathe the TSB ads - surely after Gordon Brown nobody regards a Scottish accent as solid, sound and prudent with money any more do they?
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