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This girl is on fire......

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:25

Has anyone seen this new advert?

Young girl and mum sat watching inspirational videos of women, all very moving and nice, then all the women in the videos turn and give the little girl a nod, you think it's about inspiring young girls, or children in general, or esteem...

then find out it's a fucking advert for virgin broadband.

The bastards

:)

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:26

Oh yes... better put an aibu in there.

AIBU the advert should slightly resemble what the frig they are selling and not all this emotive crap.

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:27
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notquitehuman · 09/10/2015 12:31

I miss when adverts used to sell you things, rather than trying to force some emotional connection to the brand. Some people eat it up though. They'll share ads like that on Facebook with 'omg just like me and my daughter' type comments.

Oh well, wonder what godawful Xmas ads are coming up to tug on our collective heart strings?

EponasWildDaughter · 09/10/2015 12:31

Hmm. It reminds me of the big xmas ads. OK to watch (the first couple of times) but only a tenuous link to the actual product.

YANBU

MaidOfStars · 09/10/2015 12:37

I don't mind it. The young girl is researching the Suffragette movement on the internet, provided to her by Virgin broadband. It shows how the world is full of inspiring information (all at your fingertips if you pay us lots of money every month).

ThatGuyPeedOnIt · 09/10/2015 12:37

God bless my Virgin Tivo! I can plow right through their ads at speed.

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:39

I think it's bloody manipulative is what it. That inspiring information is out there whatever your speed or provider, has nothing to do with Virgin and Virgin aren't responsible for inspiring young women... just a bloody emotionally charged advert.

Just like KFC don't bring foster families together, that one bugged me too :)

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:40

God bless my Virgin Tivo! I can plow right through their ads at speed.

Haha, I'm on freesat! I'm stuck with them :)

Maybe that should be an advert "speed right through all this bullshit with our TiVo box!"

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gamerchick · 09/10/2015 12:40

I would just like an advert to tell you what it's selling. More and more WTF am I watching and no clue till the end. Hmm yes thankgod for tvio!

JassyRadlett · 09/10/2015 12:52

TBH I'd rather a 'girl finds out about ace women with help of speedy broadband' message than a 'speedy broadband helps people stream the bloody football faster'.

Though in my house it would be 'speedy broadband causes fewer freezes on iplayer m, resulting in fewer CBeebies-related tears.'

lorelei9 · 09/10/2015 12:52

I thought, with that title, it would have the Delays song with it.
I don't mind going wtf till the end but it has to work. I wonder if the same team did the Virgin Money ad, which is much more fun
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbpRMD2HbU

AlistairSim · 09/10/2015 12:55

Still not as annoying and pointless as perfume ads.

vvviola · 09/10/2015 12:57

I get very frustrated with an ad showing on Irish tv at the moment - about Gareth Thomas and coming out and the support he got from his teammates. Lovely anti-homophobia ad? Or for a mental health charity? Nope. Bloody Guinness.

TheSnowFairy · 09/10/2015 12:58

The best (worst?) one is the Freederm ad

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 12:59

I get very frustrated with an ad showing on Irish tv at the moment - about Gareth Thomas and coming out and the support he got from his teammates. Lovely anti-homophobia ad? Or for a mental health charity? Nope. Bloody Guinness.

Oh god that sounds terrible.

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TheSnowFairy · 09/10/2015 12:59

Posted too soon!

Fab graphics but spot cream?!

cozietoesie · 09/10/2015 13:00

They know their markets, I'm afraid.

EponasWildDaughter · 09/10/2015 13:01

I'm glad it's a 'girl finds inspiration from worthy women' rather than 'girl finds inspiration from half naked 'twerking' music video.

However it feels a bit ... band-wagony.

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 13:04

I'm not particularly fussed about what they advertise you can find on the internet, but they could do with making it a bit more internety, and a bit less "womens rights band wagon" with all the music and videos and the girls staring into the screen with the virgin logo swirling around her eye.

It's awful.

I like my adverts to say "oi, you there, do you like this? do you want this? good! buy it!" :D

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 13:06

I honestly watched it thinking "oh this is nice!" Then it turned to "oh fuck off!"

Shame too, because we're actually in the process of looking for new internet providers and it turned me right off.... But I'm guessing I'm in a minority :)

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wasonthelist · 09/10/2015 13:09

Haven't seen the AD but just cancelled my Virgin Broadband order due to their useless customer service (before I'm even connected). They have spent a fortune digging up the road and putting a new cable in, too.

WorktoLive · 09/10/2015 13:12

It's a great advert.

But I would still rather do without TV phone or broadband than give Virgin Fucking Media a single penny of my money because they refuse to stop sending a tree's worth of marketing material every bloody month .

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WhatstheT · 09/10/2015 13:17

Ah yes we get letters upon letters from them for someone who lived in our house 2 years ago.

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GloriaSmellens · 09/10/2015 13:19

Well, its not quite as bad as the Sainsburys WW2 abomination from last Christmas, but yes, the bullshit factor is pretty high on this one. As someone said upthread, I can access all of that inspiring information without Virgin thanks very much.

cozietoesie · 09/10/2015 13:28

I think that many adverts are now on just to provide a feelgood or recognition factor. You'll see soon enough if it's working because they're ruthless about pulling or altering ads these days if they're not having the desired effect in the wider community.