Does advertising work on you

Have to hold my hands up, yes, advertising does work on me, but only adverts on Garage forecourts, I look at their billboards to see, in passing, which is the cheapest. A penny saved, etc, etc.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I don’t respond to advertising at all, but that might be because I don’t have a TV. I haven’t had one since I moved to the UK 21 years ago.

That said, I do have an interest in certain seminal advertising. I remember, for instance, the Remington tag-line: ‘Shaves as close as a blade, or your money back’, and I have a lovely collection of classic American car ads from the sixties and seventies: ‘For wherever discerning people gather, you’ll find Cadillac their overwhelming choice.’

Very, very cool.

Islay. There’s an airfield on Islay. I’m heading up to Scotchland in May….

Chivas is very good for cleaning drains

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21614304

Btw in the RAF went to Bushmills in NI then threw it all up over the Giants Causeway… Never touched it since.

It is not the most characterful Islay but verrry pleasant,it is a hoot driving round islay almost every roadsign is a whisky name 🙂

Damn your eyes sir, I’m going to have to buy that now. You cunning advertiser…;)

PS …forgot to add that the Tesco own brand 12 YO Islay whisky is very pleasant 😉 and at 18.50 a bottle greatly pleases my celtic soul 🙂

In my case it is simple Dave – my old company sent me on a whisky tasting course a few years ago 😉 of course they did not know that LOL.
I sampled most of the available stuff and ended up with those 3 as my own personal faves,but all malts are eminently drinkable :)…I do not personally like glenfiddich but quite a few people do – it is down to personal taste… although one is always going to find ‘fashionable’ drinkers occasionally.

rgds baz

That’s interesting Baz, I’m a bit of a whisky fan myself but how do we buy those brands? There are hundreds of types of whisky on sale but unless you have tried them all how can you say that Talisker is superior to Angus Old Sock? Nothing wrong with Talisker by the way, grand stuff.

I have about 20 bottles of single malt in the house but apart from maybe half a dozen obscure ones which I’ve bought because I’ve tasted them at friends and liked them the others are the usual suspects. Well, usual suspects to a whisky drinker.

Edit: But then that begs the question do we buy popular brands because they are good whiskys and that’s why they are popular?

I always liked BMW’s but I never bought one because of their perceived image; I didn’t want to be seen as a mid management idiot who had forgotten how to use indicators. But then that’s a negative reinforced image, so I thought ****** it and bought one and it’s a superb car, I couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks.

Just a thought…my fave tipples are Talisker/laphroiag/lagavulin :)(usually multi buy them whilst on offer)
On the wine front I usually go for a decent brand on special offer 😀

Never seen an advert for any of em 😀

Generally speaking I go for decent brands…esp if on offer 😉 (will ye no be having a sale ) – historically I have always tuned out TV ads because of the ridiculous volume increase during the breaks :rolleyes:

Yep they do that un branded range in simple packaging with just the name of the item on to make it cheaper, so I thought I wonder what it is like, it really did taste like chewing on an old eraser . I’d popped in for something and just saw it on the way to the till, I threw it in the bin after tasting it and I’m sure it bounced when it hit the bottom.

years ago I bought some cheaper brand cheddar once from Iceland

You see, the problem there Tony isn’t the notion of own-branded product lines per se. But merely the fact it was Iceland! :p

Do I buy because its on TV… no, do I buy mainstream brands… Yes….

reasoning behind that, years ago I bought some cheaper brand cheddar once from Iceland to see what it was like and it was like eating a cross between a school eraser and a bar of soap, though the bar of soap in all fairness would probably have had more taste, my local shop happy shopper has done away with the likes of Leicester cheese and are actually flogging a cheese called orange coloured cheese lol…. I tend to buy from Marks and Sparks as my Mum did.

The best advert for suckers is the TV ones selling TV’s showing you the stunning picture quality on the latest Sony Panasonic etc etc TV… Of course that stunning picture that gets you off your **** to go buy this wonder of technology is only as good as the TV you are watching the advert on.

Not an add as such, but I did buy a Sunpak remote slave flash unit a few years back, which was on one of the shopping channels.

It’ll come, it’ll come…keep the faith!

I’m still waiting for my Meerkat toy ..The internet promised me one when I changed my wifes car Insurance on line …..

The title of the thread is ” Does advertising work on you?”. I am not quarreling with the principle but trying to address the OP’s question. My brief flirtation with the industry and the weekly read of “Campaign” convinced me that it could persuade itself of almost anything.

That’s true, in theory, but not necessarily in practice. As the one who memtioned Esso Blue and Smash, I did say that I had never bought either product.

But that’s exactly the point – you remember the brands.

You might not have bought the products yourself, but plenty of people buying paraffin or instant mashed potato will have had their choice of brand prompted by the subconscious impact of the respective ad campaigns.

The aim isn’t to achieve a sale from every individual exposed to a given advert, it’s to generate enough additional sales to make it worthwhile.

But the only ads are for Flypast!!;):D