Annoying television adverts...

[Peter Mugridge]

The "Celebrations" advert with two grown men acting like infants and making strange vocal sounds when they see boxes of these cheap "chocolates" and candy is even worse that the Dominos pizza advert for the portrayal of vocal cacophony.

Isn't this actually a Haribo sweets advert?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Isn't this actually a Haribo sweets advert?

No, the two men are unwrapping Christmas presents and both open presents containing a circular box of "Celebrations" at the same time.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

No, the two men are unwrapping Christmas presents and both open presents containing a circular box of "Celebrations" at the same time.

Probably this one, and, yes, decidedly annoying after just the one viewing! Link below...

 

[gg1]

Probably this one, and, yes, decidedly annoying after just the one viewing! Link below...

The Duane Dibbley hairstyle is amusing though.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No, the two men are unwrapping Christmas presents and both open presents containing a circular box of "Celebrations" at the same time.

Oh, I haven't seen that one.

They must have pinched the idea from the Haribo ones, though.

 

[Silver Cobra]

As the late Sir Terry Wogan used to say, you are leaning against an open door with me on that one.

Farmer <expletive> Christmas.

No doubt some smart **** in an advertising agency thought it was clever and witty, but I find it annoying and offputting.

No doubt, some marketing executive at Morrisons thought it worth spending the money required to make and screen the advert to remind viewers that Morrisons was there to shop at.

I haven't seen this particular ad enough for it to annoy me as yet. However, I'm getting really tired of the Asda Christmas adverts featuring Elf/Will Ferrell. They were a bit of a novelty at first, but hearing that horrible shrieking he does in the ads every 5-10 minutes every day for the last 2 months at work has become almost mental torture now. I'll be glad when Christmas Eve has passed and these ads disappear for good.

 

[AM9]

I'll be glad when Christmas Eve has passed and these ads disappear for good.

ITYM 11 months.

 

[Silver Cobra]

ITYM 11 months.

I honestly hope that the company will have chosen something different for next year’s Christmas adverts, but you could very well be right. Ugh...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Let us all remember the advertising agencies tradition of once Boxing Day arrives, that will be the start of the summer holidays advertising campaigns.

 

[DelW]

Advertising campaigns are built to create an image as required for the products on offer, not to get the ad equivalents of Oscars, (although some do compete for marketing video awards). Every advert is part fo a much bigger drive, and only the organisation using them can measure their success. Meanwhile, we as the target audience can express opinions on what we see and hear, and occasionally are aware of the influence it was meant to direct.

I've seen it suggested that only 10% of advertising spending is actually effective ... unfortunately nobody knows which 10% it is that works. I'm not sure how anyone would calculate that though.

 

[duncanp]

Let us all remember the advertising agencies tradition of once Boxing Day arrives, that will be the start of the summer holidays advertising campaigns.

It's also crappy sofas and beds from the likes of DFS that are on sale from Boxing Day, sometimes with the stores open from 6am.

I can't understand the mentality of someone who would want to queue up for furniture on a freezing cold morning at 6am.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I've seen it suggested that only 10% of advertising spending is actually effective ... unfortunately nobody knows which 10% it is that works. I'm not sure how anyone would calculate that though.

That's essentially a quote variously attributed to either U.S. retail magnate John Wanamaker or U.K. soap industrialist Lord Leverhulme. However, the percentage split mentioned is normally 50% - 50%.

 

[jfollows]

Let us all remember the advertising agencies tradition of once Boxing Day arrives, that will be the start of the summer holidays advertising campaigns.

However, since every TV programme which fills the gap between the adverts is some kind of "review of the year" programme, I find the adverts infinitely preferable, I'd rather watch people frolicking in the sun than put up with another re-hash of something I already know and probably don't care about. Especially if it has anything to do with the royal family.

 

[yorksrob]

Anything by google pixle on youtube.

They never let you skip.

 

[jfollows]

It's also crappy sofas and beds from the likes of DFS that are on sale from Boxing Day, sometimes with the stores open from 6am.

I can't understand the mentality of someone who would want to queue up for furniture on a freezing cold morning at 6am.

Especially when it leads to the inevitable conversation - "I saved £££££ in the sales" versus "you spent ££££££ on things you didn't really need". I'll be in bed on Boxing Day morning for sure!

 

[Ashley Hill]

The Cadburys Celebrations “Whoop,Whoop” advert.
Whilst it does it’s job by getting people to talk about the product it actually puts me off buying it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am easily annoyed these days, being fully qualified at the age of 77 to be a "grumpy old man", but in one of those perfume adverts there is what sounds very much like a female American singer who in part of her song refers to...."In the siddy laid add nyde".

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The Cadburys Celebrations “Whoop,Whoop” advert.
Whilst it does it’s job by getting people to talk about the product it actually puts me off buying it.

See posting # 813 on the thread.

 

[Ashley Hill]

See posting # 813 on the thread.

It shows how annoying it is then.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Cadburys Celebrations “Whoop,Whoop” advert.

It's also a product by Mars, not Cadbury's.

AMV (Abbott Mead Vickers) BBDO were the creative agency/guilty party.

 

[dgl]

The Halifax adverts shot in front of a branch, why? Because I bet that branch won't be there for much longer. In fairness it seems only Nationwide seem to be committed to branches, putting up signs pointing that out when all the other major financial institutions have left a town.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Halifax adverts shot in front of a branch, why? Because I bet that branch won't be there for much longer.

Apparently the ad was filmed in Goole in East Yorkshire in January, and was reportedly criticised by the local denizens of the area at the time, not because the Halifax branch is scheduled for closure, but because the ad makers had put attractive looking facades on adjoining (empty) shops to make Goole town centre look somewhat nicer than it quite possibly is. MOTWYW!

 

[py_megapixel]

The Halifax adverts shot in front of a branch, why? Because I bet that branch won't be there for much longer. In fairness it seems only Nationwide seem to be committed to branches, putting up signs pointing that out when all the other major financial institutions have left a town.

Their (Nationwide's) promise is that every town or city that currently has a branch will continue to have one until whatever date.

As I'm sure you can imagine, this is written to allow them to interpret it creatively. I know of an example where they've closed a branch in a suburb of a large town. The claim is that it doesn't fall under their promise, as it's in the local authority district of the large town, which already has a branch in the town centre, so they consider it part of that - even though it would be a considerable walk between them.

 

[Lost property]

Apparently the ad was filmed in Goole in East Yorkshire in January, and was reportedly criticised by the local denizens of the area at the time, not because the Halifax branch is scheduled for closure, but because the ad makers had put attractive looking facades on adjoining (empty) shops to make Goole town centre look somewhat nicer than it quite possibly is. MOTWYW!

From my occasional visits to Goole over the years, I was happily unaware the town centre had ever been described as nice....or why.

Back to the ads and Domino's seem intent on trying to promote an unknown language in their ads....also, why is there a seemingly essential requirement to gabble at about 130 words a minute...and then there are the French perfume ads...for both genders...

 

[al78]

Especially when it leads to the inevitable conversation - "I saved £££££ in the sales" versus "you spent ££££££ on things you didn't really need". I'll be in bed on Boxing Day morning for sure!

That is the whole point of things like advertising, Black Friday and post-Christmas sales, to encourage people to spend money they don't really have on stuff they don't really need, then we can shout about our GDP while they worry about how to pay off the debt.

 

[yorksrob]

Car adverts.

What a load of old tripe !

 

[Lost property]

There's another deserving of a special mention. This one shows a square with random letters containing, ostensibly, the name of a tv show and, as a bonus !....a flower. All you have to, is, gawp at the screen for 1 minute, identify both, and, hey ho, you can win £12k and £5k !...of course, the carefully timed "helpful advice " commentary couldn't possibly be related to that well known interjection distraction technique...now could it.

 

[AM9]

There's another deserving of a special mention. This one shows a square with random letters containing, ostensibly, the name of a tv show and, as a bonus !....a flower. All you have to, is, gawp at the screen for 1 minute, identify both, and, hey ho, you can win £12k and £5k !...of course, the carefully timed "helpful advice " commentary couldn't possibly be related to that well known interjection distraction technique...now could it.

Advertising space and time doesn't come cheap, so it must be worth their time and money to put this stuff to the public.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Advertising space and time doesn't come cheap, so it must be worth their time and money to put this stuff to the public.

In the small print, is mention made of the costs to participate?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Usually these "lucky draw" competitions on ITV/Channel 5 cost £2 to enter (online, by text or by phone) and expect to attract maybe 100,000+ entries, per draw, so the company usually makes on the deal.

 

[adrock1976]

The Brooklyn Pilsner ad is quite annoying due to the probability of it promoting watered down cat pee.

Also, forgive me if I am wrong here, but I was under the impression that Pilsner beers could only be called that if it has been brewed in Pilzen in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic?

Budweiser was originally brewed in Czechoslovakia (as was at the time) until the US hijacked it and watered it down. The present day Budvar is the original recipe and is brewed in the present day Czech Republic.