Adverts that just don't work...

[Dave7]

For me the best/most successful advert ever was in the early 1970s when we needed a carpet but were totally skint. It was a singing ad "This is the carpet you can afford by Cyril Lord".
It was so good the company went bust and we got the carpet at knock down price from a market stall. It actually was a good carpet and lasted us for years.

 

[MrPie]

Hmmmmmmm, dooooooohhhhhnuuuuutttssssss!

 

[Drago]

Have you seen the weight limit on those things!

Breast enhancements or trampolines?

 

[classic33]

Breast enhancements or trampolines?

Trampolines, breast enhancements don't have a weight limit.

 

[colly]

There's an ad that appears on TV occasionally featuring a platypus in a pub. I do know it's advertising First Direct Bank but frankly if they are trying to drum up new business .....

If I were not already using their bank that ad would not persuade me to look in their direction.

 

[Archie_tect]

The best advert, good or bad, will always be by word of mouth. Not something dreamt up by someone who probably hasn't used the product.

Sadly there will always be gullible people

 

[Drago]

Sadly there will always be gullible people

And where can I buy one of these gullible things?

 

[classic33]

And where can I buy one of these gullible things?

I've one you can have if buy two.

 

[pawl]

Who on earth thought up this promo costume for Dunkin Donuts?!

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It’s that man out ofMrs Browns Boys trying to find the TV studios

 

[Dave7]

I've one you can have if buy two.

I have a 2018 model you can have cheap.

 

[Nigeyy]

Oooh! I never did buy my chair from Shackletons (you know). The original high seat chair. They're lovely.

 

[Edwardoka]

The best advert, good or bad, will always be by word of mouth. Not something dreamt up by someone who probably hasn't used the product.

Did you know that Greggs and Piers Morgan both use the same PR firm? :chinnyreckon:

 

[classic33]

Did you know that Greggs and Piers Morgan both use the same PR firm? :chinnyreckon:

Nope.

 

[mjr]

In our household the advent of the tv remote control has put the tv advert on the endangered list.

The remote control time-skip buttons remove most of them. Currently UK ad breaks seem to be either 1 minute (BBC), 4 minutes (ITV1/C4/C5) or 5 minutes (most digital channels) which makes them nice and easy to skip with the 1 and 5 minute skip buttons, then use the 20-second skip for fine corrections and to remove those "sponsored by..." ones which don't seem to count as part of the break time.

Some of the channel operators seem to have figured this out and vary the break lengths (Viacom's channel 5 network especially) but so far few advertisers seem to have realised that having their product name on-screen in a fixed position throughout their advert would increase the chance of time-skipping viewers seeing it.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Nope.

Seriously - your avatar makes my eyes hurt!