Ads that get right on your tits

[Portland]

Quickquid payday loans - can't see a youtube clip, but while the voiceover is saying they are committed to responsible lending, the legalese is on screen at the bottom, including:

Typical APR 2356% - note the lack of decimal point.

[betamax]

I call for a return to adverts that tell me what is being sold, what it actually does in reality, how much it costs and where to get it. Then they fuck off and put my program back on. End of. No dancing waffles, Rock Bands orbiting the sun, God playing ping pong with Buddha or any of that "high concept" shite which signals Hubert Advertiser wanking with a fistful of someone else's money.

Stop trying to get past my defences by co-opting subculture. Stop pretending to be my friend. Stop wiping your arse on the careers of promising musicians for the sake of one 40 second memorable ad jingle. Above all stop stealing our hopes and dreams, sucking out all the vitality and creativity and then selling us the raddled lookey likey corpses back at a premium. Stop. I wouldn't "embrace your vision" even if I was in a heavy-duty spacesuit.

Sorry. I woke up with a rant lodged in my brain. 'Tis done.

[arron]

Well, it's Christmas time, so I suppose that it's time for a whole load of stuff that you wish you didn't see again:

Ronco adverts, what happened to those at Christmas?

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Toys R us are doing the Michael Jackson Zombie thiller edition talking Viewmaster this holiday!


Upright for Christmas? Not after a couple of bottles of this you won't..


Surprise her with brushed nylon at Christmas!


See the quality in the merchandise here. Don't you wish you could get cheap tat like this for Christmas?


You can see where Cadburys got the idea from when dreaming up the drumming gorilla..Horses? Snow? Where's the product?

Whereas the other team in The Apprentice did a better job pushing the product..


It wouldn't be christmas without tacky grooming products




Coke before they decided to rape Santa every Christmas as a corporate icon for fizzy sugar water..


And finally, not a christmas ad, but clearly another Daily Mail mindset inspired attempt to STOP FIDDLING WITH OUR CLOCKS!

[Orava]

Those De Agostini adverts that always start in January.

[guythp]

I saw this the other day, the first two words spoken made me do a mini lol. It's like the ad people are pushing toward what Bill Hicks predicted (....hopefully).



It's a shit ad. I'd still happily do her (were I single and us both consenting, obviously).

[Ollie]

I had one of those...

[Alarm]

The "frozen food song party" series of advertisements has overtaken the "annoying tenor" series in my Annoying Advertisements League Table (League I).

[RiK]

I certainly remember the Cadbury's drumming gorilla and runway car race... but fucked if I can work out how (a) they relate to chocolate, and (b) how they improved sales. S'not like they're likely to be sold off at any.. oh.. wait...

There's your answer right there.

[Dungeon-Dave]

I certainly remember the Cadbury's drumming gorilla and runway car race... but fucked if I can work out how (a) they relate to chocolate, and (b) how they improved sales. S'not like they're likely to be sold off at any.. oh.. wait...

There's your answer right there.

If you believe that to be the answer, then you've misread the question.

We had this discussion before: the one where we argued that advertising is no longer about increasing sales but raising brand awareness - and now it's become about promoting the advertising company rather than the client's product.

The question is simply why a company would blast dosh on an advert that appears completely unrelated to the product lines it sells - and that later on the company is now facing a buy-out shows that their current financial position indicates their choice of advert/advertising company could have been a poor one.

[Flabio]

The fact that someone wants to buy you doesn't always mean that you're doing poorly.

[RiK]

There's your answer right there.

If you believe that to be the answer, then you've misread the question.[/quote]

Nope, just got interrupted and hence the overly succinct reply.

We had this discussion before: the one where we argued that advertising is no longer about increasing sales but raising brand awareness

But that's what they're all about these days. People are so used to traditional adverts that they filter them out instinctlively, so the advertisers need to have a different angle that just gets you talking about the advert. Then when you are out and about and maybe think you fancy some chocolate-related product you subconsciously 'trust' Cadbury's because their name is subliminally etched into your subconscious and so tend to choose theirs over some other brand.

[Dungeon-Dave]

The fact that someone wants to buy you doesn't always mean that you're doing poorly.

No... but the plummeting values of their shares (combined with the massive leap when it was announced that Kraft were interested in buying them) does.

[piku]

The fact that someone wants to buy you doesn't always mean that you're doing poorly.

No... but the plummeting values of their shares (combined with the massive leap when it was announced that Kraft were interested in buying them) does.

Mmm Kraft chocolate slices...

I've seen that Corsodyl one before on telly, but I don't remember it having all the nakedness at the start.

Those De Agostini adverts that always start in January.

Indeed, you spend the whole of the new year being told to collect bits of boat, rock or cheap plastic tat... and then you never see the advert again. Do the magazines actually last their full run?

[Dungeon-Dave]

Nope, just got interrupted and hence the overly succinct reply.

Ah, right. Should have waited until the editing and fuller-fleshing out, then!

Then when you are out and about and maybe think you fancy some chocolate-related product you subconsciously 'trust' Cadbury's because their name is subliminally etched into your subconscious and so tend to choose theirs over some other brand.

Wellll... have to admit, a drumming gorilla didn't make me buy chocolate any more than a bloke with a pickaxe made me buy thicker sandwich bread. But maybe I'm just getting old (or don't watch enough adverts to become indoctrinated with their branding)

[Flabio]

Do the magazines actually last their full run?

They do, yes. They're very niche, but they're set up in such a way that they only need a few thousand people to subscribe to the whole run to make some cash.