What is something you will never use/see/own because of their adverts?

[CatamaranViper]

Some brands or shows just have the most annoying, repetitive adverts and it just puts you off using or watching them.

For me it's Norton Antivirus software and the Apple adverts with the kid karate chopping wood or the guy with the fish. They drive me potty!

DH says Impractical Jokers. The ads were on so much that he has vowed to never watch the show.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has this?

Mine is an old one.
The Dr. pepper drink adverts back about 20 years ago when they were ‘what’s the worst that can happen?’ - the person would drink it/choose it and then something awful would happen like the whole fridge of drinks fell on them. I don’t know what they were thinking, but I’ve never ever bought it since despite the fact I used to love it!

Snag tights. Using morbidly obese models is the same as using anorexic ones.

Pot Noodle - the slag of all snacks. Straight in the bin and never bought one since.

Also 'Daisy, daisy, daisy' - bit of a Manson vibe going on there.

My favourite ad is the twix one though!

Wild Deo.

The adverts are so smug that they annoy the crap out of me. And they had a campaign where they basically implied that spray Deo gives you cancer which I found tasteless.

The current Currys advert is also vile!

AO and LV insurance. In both cases I can't get the stupid earworm music out of my head so I steer clear.

McCains - after that advert with a drag queen advertising Smileys and using 1970s s sexiest humour in it. I think it was the humour than the drag queen element to be honest.

Another vote for Snag tights.

Dove, ever since their ‘real women in underwear’ campaign. Sorry, but no.

You're not missing out. They've changed the recipie and it now tastes like playdough.

Spec Savers

Their ads where an elderly couple accidentally drive onto an aircraft carrier instead of a ferry, or stand and queue for 7 million hours to accidentally sit on a roller coaster instead of a bench to eat their sandwiches, are so completely bloody stupid that I refuse point blank to use them.

Those ads are a pet hate of mine and I will rant long and loud about them to anyone who’ll listen .

The Oatly packaging. Sod off.

And if the 'slag' thing hadn't been horrible enough and if I DID eat Pot Noodles, I would definitely stop buying them now they have those ads with the nasty sucking sound of people eating them messily. It makes us feel sick and all clamour to turn the TV down and look away - which surely can't be an advertiser's actual intention?

Also, I truly hate those ableist ads from whatever car sales company it is, where they use no sound at all. They've obviously designed it so that people notice the silence in the middle of the other normal ads and then purposefully look to the screen, where they will then see the big 'deals' flashing up on the screen. All very well if you can see them, but surely they must realise that blind people are not only thus fully excluded but will probably worry that their telly has broken or that they've had a power cut. Just so mean.

Snag
Oral B
Body Shop (ha!)
Flash cleaning products

Always.

"Have a happy period."

Have my money, Tesco's own brand.

Snag tights

Yoppie (called women 'bleeders')

I boycott all women's clothing companies who use men to advertise women's clothes especially for sports

I will Never ever ever book a holiday with On the Beach, Paddy McGuiness and that family give me the biggest ick!

NOOOO! I have a Yoppie subscription for DD and she really likes them. Argh. I can't keep supporting them if they have bought into the gender woo nonsense. Do you have a link to the article / advert, @fiskal?

Otherwise, Pelaton. Never buying their stuff. Also Marc Jacobs Daisy Daisy Daisy.

Is it also Paddy who does the Booking.com adverts? They clearly chose somebody with a specific accent and then told him how to enunciate it so that it's no longer 'just' somebody saying the word 'booking' in a context that might put a rhyming (accent-dependent) swear word in viewers' heads, as before; but now it actually does very much sound like he's all but saying the rude word.

Lush after the promotion of a breast breast binders and for putting signs in their shops saying 'terfs not welcome' and also it's dodgy campaign for green activism that encouraged staff to 'get naked'.

https://www.iwf.org/2017/06/02/lush-insists-it-doesnt-pressure-staff-to-get-naked-and-show-bare-bottoms-for-green-activism/

Oh the just eat adverts as well. Absolutely hate hate hate them!

I love the dull monotone in which the guy says 'No, what?', it is so beautifully balanced... I sit waiting through the advert for it... 😁

It is very possible that I need to get a life...

Full disclosure - the Pot Noodle advert makes me want one, even though I am gluten free and, in my student days, we used to call them 'Pot Shit'... 🤷‍♀️

Worse is the Innocent smoothie packaging or any others where they're all jokey and matey. Can't bear it.

Lush for all the reasons mentioned above.

I don't know if it's widespread but on Now tv at the moment there's a really REALLY annoying one for Samsung phones pretending that AI makes you "the next big thing" and "puts you in control". Not only is that a blatant lie (you think phone companies have access to and use all your information now - just wait) but the "story" is centred round some ditzy theatrical person (writer? producer? director?) who wafts around and clutches her phone looking pensive. Completely nonsensical.

The latest Pot Noodle advert has me diving for the mute button every time. That horrible slurping noise is also why I've never been able to watch the Walking Dead.

I also love the universally-hated Boots advert where the little girl who is full of snot sucks the sweeties - I am pretty sure it's Kiri Flaherty, who is also in Noel Fielding's 'Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin' programme, and she is amazing (and 13 years old, I believe!)