What tv advert is annoying you at the moment?

[TemptedToSleepInTheShed]

Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but loads of adverts are annoying the hell out of me these days.

As I wrote before, everyone of these ads is doing it’s job by the very fact that you remember all the little infuriating details that hook you in, so by design they work, there job is done

I see this argument a lot, but it doesn’t really stand up. Yes, we all know that Marc Jacobs make a perfume called Daisy thanks to the ad. But will any of us buy it? Several people on this thread have said they actively wouldn’t, precisely because they hate the ad so much!

‘Love it or loathe it, you’ve remembered it’ means nothing if it doesn’t translate into sales.

Cost of adverts is very high depending on what time of day they are broadcast, but think how much is sold worldwide with some of the stuff, just look at chocolate, I don’t like Lindt very much but other people love it.

I've been watching crime dramas on ITV3 and the ads are HORRIBLE. All targetted at my granny, who used to fall for these and end up sponsoring donkeys and puppies and dogs' homes and children in India right left and centre.

EVERY bloody ad is either for reclining chairs or walk in baths, or those horribly manipulative, sad-music "will YOU help a POOR, SAD, LONELY donkey/bear/poopay this Christmas??" or "if this was YOUR child you'd take him to a DOCTOR but without YOU he'll DIE in HORRIBLE PAIN, so send £5..."

@ShinyMe

I've been watching crime dramas on ITV3 and the ads are HORRIBLE. All targetted at my granny, who used to fall for these and end up sponsoring donkeys and puppies and dogs' homes and children in India right left and centre.

EVERY bloody ad is either for reclining chairs or walk in baths, or those horribly manipulative, sad-music "will YOU help a POOR, SAD, LONELY donkey/bear/poopay this Christmas??" or "if this was YOUR child you'd take him to a DOCTOR but without YOU he'll DIE in HORRIBLE PAIN, so send £5..."

I agree. Far too many sad plinky-plonky piano charity ads on those channels.

Daisy, Daisy, Daisy shite

All designed to pull at the heart strings, unfortunately next year every bit of the household cash will be shrinking, a lot of these charities will sadly I think disappear, you won’t have much spare if any to donate

On the Drama channel the Our Time dating ad drives me up the wall. Really in your face and far too frequent.

I've just seen the Celebrations "whoop whoop" ad for the first time. Closely followed by the yodelling Dominos choir to make that ad break even more annoying. I think I need to start muting every break.

The new Celebration advert!!

The makers deserve pain!

There's one that's just music, no talking, that annoys me so much, I refuse to look at the screen as soon as it starts so I have no idea what it's for, HA! That's one over on you! Whatever you are.

One of the worst examples of carving up music for ads is when they used Australia by the Manic Street Preachers to try and flog holidays to, well, Australia. It’s a song about being so depressed you want to run away to the furthest place possible and it was written after Richey disappeared.

But in the ad they basically just use the “ooooh Australiaaaaaa” bit making it sound like a song about going on a jolly to Sydney.

Mr Kipling cakes when they are singing “For he’s a jolly good fellow”
The girl is rude to her brother when all he wanted to do was give her a cake from the party.

Yes, we all know that Marc Jacobs make a perfume called Daisy thanks to the ad. But will any of us buy it? Several people on this thread have said they actively wouldn’t, precisely because they hate the ad so much!

Perfume/aftershave is the one that really baffles me. What percentage of people actually buy/request one on the strength of having smelt a 'tester' in a shop as opposed to those buying on how attractive they find the designer name, shape of the bottle or advert?

Is it really the definitive example of 100% buying into an image and only getting some random lucky dip product as an arbitrary side-effect - something likely almost identical to what you could get for 10% of the price from Aldi or Lidl?

Are there any ads, that you actually like? & do they tempt you to try the product, not going for aftershave or perfume ,more like cleaning products or food

All of them.

Personally speaking, I only ever potentially take notice of ads that pay the viewer the basic respect of telling them why they should try them.

I don't expect a full scientific breakdown, but just giving me a brand and expecting me to be awed by it simply isn't acceptable to me. In fact, my default thought processes are that a brand will be spending much of the consumer cost on branding/advertising rather than on quality and practicality, meaning that it has to work harder to convince me of value than a supermarket own-brand or something that just sits there unknown on a shelf, waiting to be found and bought.

There are a few brands where I consider the brand to be a genuine signifier of quality, but the vast majority are just an excuse to persuade you that they must be the best.

I'm sure there must be a few adverts that I like/don't mind, but none spring to mind right now.

The charity one (Water Aid?)where the cameraman says something about 'the most disgusting thing I have ever seen'. He's obviously never watched 2 Girls 1 Cup.

Oh yes the Celebrations ad has to be up there with Marc Jacobs...All that stupid whooping, I used to love Celebrations previous adverts where the Christmas decorations are trying to steal the sweets!

@RobertaFirmino

The charity one (Water Aid?)where the cameraman says something about 'the most disgusting thing I have ever seen'. He's obviously never watched 2 Girls 1 Cup.

He means disgusting in the sense of appalling, shameful and unnecessary.

That there are still people who have no access to clean water and basic sanitation is way, way worse that the 'yuk' factor of certain sex acts.

Yes, you may have meant it as a joke. But it's really not funny that we have lost all sense of outrage about the basic needs of fellow humans

Any advert that is selling ice-cream and basically to sell magnum you have to pretend you're performing oral sex.

I hate adverts. I turn them off. Or fast-forward them. So many are in appropriate.

I also used to hate that advert for rhe girl with the toothpaste who would be saying what will keep my teeth healthy???, and shows her twerking in the gym. Really pointless and stupid. Obviously toothpaste keeps your teeth healthy......

Not read the whole thread so don't know if already mentioned....

The Thorntons ad where the couple turn up at their friends new house and hand over a box of chocs, clearly wishing and hinting that hosts should just open them then and there....the. The hosts husband taking a choc later on and getting remonstrated by the wife. It's just all a bit odd, like it's not funny and quite disjointed. I notice that they have now dropped that but at the end. Pointless ad, makes me cross each time I see it

And the new one for Panadol. With the clearly stressed/tired/headachey Mum is standing at the car door and the kid (not seen, but obvs strapped in the car) wants to tell the mum another story.....and the mum is smiling in a sort of 'I want to end my life now' way and slowly backing away like she is about to slam the car door shut and just walk and keep on walking until she walks into the traffic/sea or something. It just gives out a WEIRD vibe

oh, and the Marc Jacobs Daisy one....in case no one has mentioned that

Maybe people called daisy might buy it

@whoamitojudge

Mr Kipling cakes when they are singing “For he’s a jolly good fellow” The girl is rude to her brother when all he wanted to do was give her a cake from the party.

If I'd been him I'd have spat on her cake then squashed it, ungrateful cow!

There’s something off about the Mr Kipling ad. The joyless party, the weird expressions that the kids pull, the sad half-smile at the end, the fact the older sister wasn’t invited to a family party. Plus the filming is really gloomy like a British movie about gangs on an estate or something.

Is something dark going on in that house?

The American Express/Erasure parody one, it’s on ALL THE TIME!