Pottering around the house today and put the TV on for a bit of background and sat through the rather sick inducing new Halifax "Just call my name and I'll be there" advert.
Arrggghhhhh.... :evil: :evil: :evil:
I haven't bought Gillette products for years either, couldn't stand the Americanised good looking gal jumps into a good looking guy's arms "Gillette, the best a man can get" bollox...
Any product or service that uses squeaky voices, cartoon/animated characters, and soft toys to advertise, I give a wide berth.
I make a point of not buying the product, as all that nonsense annoys the hell out of me :twisted:
Supposedly the consumer is completely dumb nowadays, at least that's how they must see us :roll:
Tesco's due to Fay Ripley & Mark Addy
Sainsbury's due to Jamie Oliver
On the fence re Waitrose & Heston/Delia
Go Compare
Compare the[s:2s1bzrz4]Meerkat[/s:2s1bzrz4] Market
Confused
Jacamo due to J.Vegas
Basically any 'trendy' advert :lol:
Oh And Bisto due to the %^^£$ Bisto family :shock:
Almost all To be honest, I'm struggling to think of an advert that has ever made me buy a product.
Not that i buy it anyways but the Old Spice advert needs to be shelved.
Highly irritating
Anything about PPI
Anything about solicitors
Loan companies
In fact most daytime tv adverts .
And that Go Fecking Compare advert aaaagggghhhh
If it's the one I think it is then you'll hate this compilation :) .Originally Posted by bebop7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PD4f5uTOU
Its the guy on the horse one i'm talking about but that is still annoying
Go compare + several million
Ronseal - does what it says on the tin - argghhh
The one with the chicken in the bag that they shake up with some mix or other. How contrived :evil: .
Here's how an advert should be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICmjZXf3lto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6P3EIwSDc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyDpeGdGFrA&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirMZGL-0mQ&NR=1
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I find the PP " .... save it for the next generation " rubbish advert to be so very annoying ... and it has put me off ever buying a new PP watch - if and when my Premium Bonds come up :wink: . However, now I feel obliged to consider buying a used or a vintage model - just to prove that the next generation decided not to keep it.
dunk
"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
That's where advertisers are clever though isn't it? You may never knowingly have bought anything because of an advert, but i'll bet a large amount that your subconscious has! Maybe not the larger, heart felt purchases, but on a day to day basis for sure.
For me, I don't watch adverts. Thats ciggy/Tea/Beer/wine getting time :wink: .
Pet hate is service companies that spend huge amounts of money advertising how they care about me as a customer and are with me every step of the way, etc, etc Then they go on to mess things up in some way and deliver pathetic after sales service.
Prime culprits in my opinion are:
BA: Stranding me at the wrong airport, cancelling flights, incapable of getting my luggage to me, telling me a different set of lies each time I phone them :x
BT: Losing a weeks worth of my work Emails :shock: , connecting my broadband line to the wrong house but sending me the bill, delivering the worlds slowest broadband by not routing things through the nearest exchange :roll:
RBS: Transferring direct debits three days early causing me to go into overdraft, crap accounts, closed local branch, I could go on and on about them.... :x
Halifax / BoS: Crap accounts, awful staff at local branch :(
Energy companies: Overcharging bandits, dodgy direct debit tactics :x
Any financial advisor I've ever met: Total chancers every one :x :x :x
I especially hate it when companies phone me up later to go through some telephone customer satisfaction survey that asks a load of asinine questions designed not reveal any of the things I want to complain about :x .
Watch related I hate the Bremont advertising, just too far over the top for me and as for the Patek Phillipe smirking next generation I just want to slap them.
regards
grant (who's having an especially bad afternoon)
whenever i hear a certain ad on the radio for a famous national windscreen replacement service i just turn over. it pains me. its put me off ever using them again.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
There is always a mad panic in this household to find the remote to mute the obnoxious "Go Compare" adverts.
I fear it may be this one :If it's the one I think it is then you'll hate this compilation :) .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PD4f5uTOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbf ... re=related
Whereas, I can't help but love this version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LGW8ur ... re=related
:wink:
118 118 - before, during and after every episode of The Simpsons :twisted:
Go Compare - Go F**k off
Lloyds bank - because of that stupid 'ha haha har ha-ha-ha har ha-ha' music
No, but working for HBOS (before I started my own business) after a takeover was enough to put me off them for life.
The Halifax ads where for some inexplicable reason, the staff seem to be running a pirate radio station in their lunch break. Truly risible and enough to put me off their stuff for life
Funnily enough we had to rate a bunch of tv ads as part of the marketing module of the MBA masterclasses I attended last year. The entire class scored the Halifax ads as zeros!
The one that immediately springs to mind is Lynx.
Not products, but services
Go Compare & We Buy Any Car.com
The adds are so vomit inducing I couldn't use them if I wanted to.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
I actually don't mind the new Halifax ads, they're streets ahead of the old ones at least.
There are plenty that put me off, but when I was a kid the Smash adverts made me nag my mum till we tried some :D
I record everything and fast forward through the ads, so only get the short contact lens / aftershave / car ads sponsoring the show which is bad enough
And this one shows that the original actor can laugh at himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Vxuxzjdzk
118 118!
The most banal mind-bending asinine trash I have ever seen, as soon as this eye and ear-fouling garbage starts, I just flip the channel or mute the sound as quickly as I can! :evil:
( :D I am at the 'grumpy old man' stage of life! :D)
They change often, but there was one of their adverts with a horn in it, which used to scare the poo out of me. It made me pay attention, but only because I thought someone was about to crash in to me.
If celebrity endorsement falls in this category, then almost any high end watch brand I can think of :evil:
I usually get thoroughly annoyed by a lot of adverts and swear not to buy anything from them but I often forget about it in a few days or weeks although I really try to hold a grudge :twisted:
Cheers
Mabuse
Lawyers4u or some other no win, no fee law firm with the actor who is best known as being a hard man on Eastenders with a number of murders to his credit.
Then in the ad he states 'we are lawyers for you' so either he has qualified since leaving Eastenders or this law firm is happy with mistruths. Not the first law firm I would choose.
Probably one of my favourite ads of all time. I was trying to explain the ad to a younger collegue at work who had never seen it. Guess you had to be a child of the 70s :)There are plenty that put me off, but when I was a kid the Smash adverts made me nag my mum till we tried some :D
I'll bet those ads are proving to be effective, they've been running a while and have yet to be pulled. What's more of a worry is if the latest crop of newly trained MBA marketing masters rating effective campaigns as zeros whilst not knowing the impact of the ads on the brand's target consumer.
Chris.
The thing with the old 'Smash' adverts was that they were genuinely funny and that got the marketing message across. Foul product brilliantly marketed! :)Probably one of my favourite ads of all time. I was trying to explain the ad to a younger collegue at work who had never seen it. Guess you had to be a child of the 70s :)There are plenty that put me off, but when I was a kid the Smash adverts made me nag my mum till we tried some :D
Boots - the ad with the women with colds that had gone out and got on with stuff while their husbands stayed at home with man flu.
made my piss boil.
If that's not a reason to stay at home, I don't know what is.
'Me thinks the Collins/Rossiter combo were some of the best ever - still as brilliant as they were then :lol: :lol: (the Dutch cream advert wasn't too bad either - had to be Dutch :mrgreen:
Just go to the kitchen to make a cuppa during ad breaks. Simples.
:lol:
When did a bunch of MBA 'freshmen' ever know what they were doing until they learnt from their elders :lol:
Not this one, then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQ
The trainline advert
Oh, god yes. That fat guy in the gold spandex. What the flaming falcon were they thinking?!
Not really but having a certain propellered German car maker as a major client certainly has.
Funny, They did that to me, When I 'un-bundled from Bulldog, they connected to an Exchange over 3 miles away, instead of the one 150feet away that I was connected too with Bulldog :shock:
Many calls to the chairmans office later they repented and moved me from a 0.01 Mb Broadband connection to an 16Mb one*
Which I then stupidly upgraded to Infinity, the speed of which goes up & down like [insert cliche here] :lol:
Rob
Changing tack, the advert I like(d) most was the Maynards Wine Gums "Moose loose aboot this hoose" (you know the one)
My best man is from Glasgow and I used to rip him to bits over that advert. His reply was always, as you would imagine, completely unprintable! :twisted:
Hate the Churchill car insurance ads. Then, after a price comparison search, I ended up insuring with them. Told the bloke on the phone who said he'd heard the story many times.
Yeah - 'We buy anycar.....dot com!'.
Can't STAND that advert and would never use them. However, as an advert it does its job brilliantly as you certainly remember the product it's trying to sell! :)
I believe many people find the Safestyle windows adverts annoying, although I think they're fantastic.
"You buy one, you get one free. I said you buy one, you get one free!"
Radio adverts especially!! We buy any car.com anyanyanyanyAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!! !
Even if they offered me more they aint buyin' mine!
The latest Guinness ad is crap
The Richard Hammond and Alan Hansen ads for Morrisons made me swear at the telly. Was that campaign aimed at trying to get more men in the store by thinking these two twats are cool :evil: or women thinking they're cute ?
Any 'celebrity' endorsement for mundane stuff gets my goat. I feel embarrassed for them
Jenson Button with his dandruff problem ? :roll: :roll: :shock: Jenson Button with his Tag on the podium 8) 8)
Having said that, almost any celebrity endorsement makes me want to puke - it's those fake smiles, it's having Iceland turkey drumsticks on the yacht in Monaco, it's the latest big thing being used up before they become a has been.
This is the only advert that made me take a conscious decision never to buy their products
Loved it as well! The John Smith's Bitter advert (diving into the pool) was the one that had everyone in our house in stitches.
For some reason, this thread is making me feel really nostalgic - JR Hartley (Yellow pages), late Frank Muir (Fruit and Nut) and even the wee Tetley man and the Cadbury's Flake girl.
However, back on theme - you've been tango-ed! Arghhhhhh
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