What are your worst tv ads?

[Accy cyclist]

Usually comes on at tea time ...lovely.

I've just posted mine, then seen yours!

 

[gbb]

I like that one. It's so stupid it makes me laugh each time I see it.

Me too...it's insane, so much so I guffaw every time. Except maybe the last one where just the two of them 'faced off'. That was just plain wierd.

 

[Jenkins]

Oh and let's not forget Tena Lady for the discerning female that wants to quietly wet herself in public

Have you seen the Tena Man take on the problem...

 

[Grant Fondo]

New car ads.

I was mindlessly watching a tv ad the other day and inwardly snorting at a new car ad (interestingly, I can't even recall which manufacturer it was even for!), when I realized that these ads, as far as I know, have absolutely no effect on me for at least the last quarter of a century. Further, it irks me no end how the marketers (marketing folks, or MFers as I like to call them) always show these cars being driven on vastly empty roads -whether in the countryside or some form of miraculous urban condition -with happy, attractive and apparently mindless people behind the wheel ("I'm so happy I'm driving an xxxxx car, I have reached the fulfilment of my life!")..

At least over here in the States, there is a veritable plethora of these ads, and none of them have ever made me buy a car (fyi: that's not because I can't afford one, I could if I really wanted to, but as far as I'm concerned I've got much better things to spend money on). Granted, there could be the sub conscious influence put in my mind, but after 25 years one would think it's a poor return on marketing investment, and I don't doubt I won't be buying a new car in the next 10 years either.....

So, your worst or least liked ad?

Worst ever by some distance was a Mercedes ad in Hong Kong where a covertous neighbour sings a song "My neighbour has a Mercedes Benz....i really need to make amends"... when they drain the swamp this ad will be right at the bottom below the single cell lifeforms and millimetres from hell.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The fact that we are all discussing them means that they have had the desired effect. As @Markymark pointed out upthread, it's all about planting the brand name in your subconscious.

COMPARETHESODDINGMEERKAT and the bloody free cuddly meerkats, talking about yhe desired effect.

 

[slowmotion]

Any advert that features a Yorkshireman doing the voice-over to suggest honesty, reliability and integrity. I triple guarantee the product that's being peddled is utter shite.

Edit: Scottish voice-overs likewise.

 

[jefmcg]

But we are not ready for red blood yet so they get aliens to donate blue blood for the demos!

Oh, they can have red blood, just not on the the product.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1GVOYIcKc


(Blue urine is a big feature in disposable nappy ads. And menstrual blood is bumpy and lumpy. A red liquid wouldn't be that close, so they may as well use blue water)

 

[jefmcg]

Actually it doesn't; Not sure of the exact technical term but they compress the frequency or something which makes it seem louder (just as irritating though).

The trick is that the maximum volume of the ad is no louder than the programme it is inserted in. But the quieter portions of the ad are also near the same same level as the loudest. Think of a cocktail party with one person shouting and a cocktail party with everyone shouting. So legally they are the same maximum volume, but they sound - and are - louder to anyone listening.

 

[ColinJ]

Have you seen the Tena Man take on the problem...

If Martin had been paying attention, then YES!

 

[martint235]

If Martin had been paying attention, then YES!

Why can't we just go back to the good old days when people had bladder control

 

[Bimble]

This is one of those "not the real world" car ads - watch it on full screen, you'll see what I mean:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMgsFZ4rkEI

 

[jefmcg]

This is one of those "not the real world" car ads - watch it on full screen, you'll see what I mean:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMgsFZ4rkEI

Without watching it, I'm guess it's best experienced with the volume at full blast, too?

 

[Bimble]

Without watching it, I'm guess it's best experienced with the volume at full blast, too?

Erm, maybe ... you must have seen it - good, isn't it?!

 

[ColinJ]

Erm, maybe ... you must have seen it - good, isn't it?!

I played it to my niece and nephew when they were children. My nephew leapt back in horror and knocked me off my feet!

 

[pawl]

The smarmy prat "Mr Green Light"[/QU







Agree with that.Latest one is him skidding backwards into a parking space.