Which TV adverts make you switch channels

Lawyers 4 U (etc)

” fell off a ladder recently, wrong sort of ladder, got £7.000 for being a kn*b and going up it even though I knew it was the wrong sort of ladder! “

” walking across the floor and tripped over some plastic strapping, got £4.500 for not looking where I was walking……….”

” Got £3.000 after putting my kitten in the microwave and it died!!! There was no warnings I could not dry my kitten this way…………..”

These compensation ads make me turn over!

Couldn’t agree more! I never watch TV because it’s crap (I’ll watch comedy and documentaries on iPlayer and 4oD but I leave telly well alone) but I heard one on the radio the other week. It was essentially this lad who was on holiday and said “I was on a night out, I was totally smashed! I fell over and broke my ankle while messing around and the tour rep told me not to say anything because he’d get into trouble. I was awarded £3000 compensation”.

Idiots in need of a good slapping, the lot of them!

So, Moggy, which of the above are your creations? :D:diablo:

R186 Signal Box?

TV adverts are actually a mix of Sales and Marketing. Normally these skills are a linked but apart (Very very basically, Marketing creates or recognises a need and Sales go and close it).
I used to enjoy adverts, they used to be clever. Moggy can introduce correct figures but adverts used to be about 100 times the cost of a 30 minute TV show. They used to perfect the message etc. and use the best available technology. Now, a lot of numpties are making them on a shoestring and it shows.
Go compare is tolerable. The original fella was a famous opera type wasn’t he? He got ill and they’ve swapped him. The Egyptian one is not the same fella as the one hovvering over the BMW.
The adverts also create a brand awareness, which clearly works as you all remember the products from all the “Bad” ads.
Celebrity endorsed…OK, without the celeb. you get Barry BANG. Your call.
Really bad ads…I watch a couple of these just to see what is going on. 30 minutes long, usually for a Fishing Rod and Reel which folds into your wallet, or Keep fit eqipment to get a waist like a wasp. I could not tell you who makes these products or what they are called, having sat through 30 mins of them. Actually, I’m watching which fish are being caught and looking at the wimmin on the keep fit ones. Oh, that fella and his Slicing thing, V slicer. I bought one of these off him in person, in Blackpoo about 15 years ago. Still got it and I still use it.
When we are watching TV, we hit the mute at advert time, not because we don’t like the adverts, but because the adverts are at least 50% more volume than the show and will wake the baby up. The TV firms claim they are not increasing volume at advert times, they are of course 100% lying.
The advert I hated most in all my life was voted the most popular. The Cadbury Smash alien ones. Well, they say (In textbooks) that advertising is aimed at the weakest link in the chain, bottom of the bell curve, -3 Std Deviations of the populations IQ.
Product placement annoys me, it still goes on. BBC don’t do it so much now but it used to be blatent.

Go compare drives me insane, Like Spitfireman I find all these injury claims ones even worse.
If your daft enough to use the wrong tools for the job you don’t need compensation, You need your head testing. Our claim culture takes the p$$s.

Also have a problem perfume adverts at Christmas not sure why but they annoy the hell out of me.

Lee Mack does a great sketch on this, ending with “TELL US WHAT IT ********** SMELLS LIKE!!!”

So, Moggy, which of the above are your creations? :D:diablo:

I create ads for a living. But I rarely see more than three or four hours of broadcast a week, so most of the ads talked about here mean nothing to me.

Go Compare? Irritating, but not so much as to turn me against the brand.

I’d argue against the theory that any ad that can be remembered is a good ad, there are such things as negative perception.

The ads I hate most are – the overwritten ones, where some poor VO artist has to fit 42 seconds of voice into a 28 second slot.

And the Phones 4 U ads which portray the customers as half wits.

Moggy

There are some for a toilet tissue that features animated bears…red bears.
The main selling point is they don’t leave fluff on your bum.
Really.

Now, I don’t really care if there is fluff on my bum and associated regions.
No one looks at it, so it’s not a big priority for me to be concerned about.

The ads that I hate are those on the BBC that they insist on running even when a programme is running late, made even later by plugging some other programme that I’m probably not going to watch.

Vagisil and other ‘thrush’ remedies, and tampons, lovely at mealtimes!

I always thought that the best way to get rid of thrush was to get Solo, Kuryakin and the rest of U.N.C.L.E. to eliminate them 😀

Otex always followed by Ibuleve.

Those B****y ads for womens face muck. Couple of tubs and we could all look 16 again.

All of ’em. :mad::mad:

Thank Gawd for the mute button… :rolleyes:

GO COMPAAAAAAAARE GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAARE …. that

OK Midnight rant

Go Compare – Go **** off somewhere else
Cillit Bang! – SHUT UP
Lloyds, for the journey – More like the road to hell with them, hence why they use a train.
Halifax, Good things happen when – I turn you off
For JML read Ronco (Ratner?) – total cr** advertised once a year near Christmas
Buy a smelly candle and make your house smell like christmas – yeah a house that has caught fire smells just like a turkey burnt to a crisp

I’ll add more as I think of them.

every advert annoys me, in particular the go compare one, i wanna jump through the TV and shoot him! i know its not possible, but we can dream right?

IIRC it was the Latham character that was the basis for the protagonist in the film ‘Johnny English’

Martin

The averts themselves do not bother me as it is something we have to accept because that is how some channels make the revenue which then pays for the programmes that are shown.

What I do dislike the most though are the celebrity endorsed ones…I tend to loose all respect for the people who do them, and it is often people that I quite like. For example, Peter Jones, for whizzing around on a tolley advertising MoneySuperMarket.com, although that said, the current ads for this with Omid Djalili/Nigel Mansell are pure genius!

The main “finance” related advert that I used to like were the Barclaycard ones with Rowan Atkinson in them playing a spy named Richard Latham. In the adverts he had a protégé called Bough, and the one that especially stood out to me was when Latham confuses a head honcho from MI5 for a plumber at a crime scene.

“I told you to fix the toliet Bough, not book tickets for the opera!”…cracked me up everytime I used to see it.:D

He’s right, though!

I’ve always passionately hated Gillette adverts, but when I decided to go back to wet-shaving it was a Gillette razor that I bought without thinking. When I realised what I’d done I was pretty cross with myself and now I’ve made a point of changing to Wilkinson Sword.

Alas yes. I know this sounds smug but I’ve never bought the products concerned, but on one or two occasions others have bought them for me;)

Hey Pagey, remember we know someone who got turned down from Yes Car Credit (no car credit as it turned out) & Ocean Finance 😀

Lol forgot about that!! Who was it again?

Thinking about what you did – that really is quite peverse. The ad did its job but you were annoyed enough that it did, to buy a competitor’s product……..;)

A relative of mine used to work in the sales dept. of Lever Brothers and said to me once that anything that makes you remember an ‘ad is good news for the advertiser. I argued that it would simply make me avoid the product, he gave me a wry smile and said “but would it?”

He’s right, though!

I’ve always passionately hated Gillette adverts, but when I decided to go back to wet-shaving it was a Gillette razor that I bought without thinking. When I realised what I’d done I was pretty cross with myself and now I’ve made a point of changing to Wilkinson Sword.

I’d buy that just for the sheer amusement! 😀

There’s always one:rolleyes: