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Terrible ad campaigns that are a waste of time

  • 29-03-2012 8:30pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭


    Just was listening to the Dublin does Fridays ad there. What a crap advertising campaign, just shows how idiotic the Vintners association is.. it basically is saying - The pub is great craic and you should be going more, because you're Irish sure. They'd be better off spending money somewhere else


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    blast with piss


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Just was listening to the Dublin does Fridays ad there. What a crap advertising campaign, just shows how idiotic the Vintners association is.. it basically is saying - The pub is great craic and you should be going more, because you're Irish sure. They'd be better off spending money somewhere else


    Poker ads coming up when I'm on youporn. I'm there for a ****, not a gamble.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    <.<
    >.>


    so don't buy the product.


    >.>
    <.<


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,645 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    "AIDS - Who wants to get old anyway?"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    blast with piss

    Post that shite one more time and youre gone.


  • Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Todd Gack


    summerskin wrote: »
    Poker ads coming up when I'm on youporn. I'm there for a ****, not a gamble.

    Have a danger **** so you get both.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,475 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Just was listening to the Dublin does Fridays ad there

    They worked, you remembered them, you're talking about them. Thought the "sneaky Friday pints" mention was good. Made me think about how long it has been since I did the sneaky Friday pints! Good VO by Dara O'Briain too. Fair play to the agency convincing them to run with it, I'd say it cost a good bit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    summerskin wrote: »
    Poker ads coming up when I'm on youporn. I'm there for a ****, not a gamble.
    Why not browse that website using Internet Explorer, that way you can kill two birds with one stone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I was watching a doco about the real madmen and Britain lead the world in advertising expertise. A lot of famous film directors started their career making ads. Ridley Scott been one of them.

    He was contributing to the programme and he was saying I still get calls from Hollywood after seeing one of his many classic ads for the first time, asking him have you ever made a film, and he says, "I am Ridley Fukcen Scott", I thought it was funny anyway.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Some people are getting a tad bit confused on the difference between awful and annoying... don't want to b condescending, God forbid. Just because I said it was terrible doesn't mean I found it annoying per se, but that I find it to be an ineffectual ad campaign. You'll also find that annoying ads can still be very effective. And don't worry I won't buy the Irish Vinters association or pub trade.
    John_Rambo wrote: »
    They worked, you remembered them, you're talking about them. Thought the "sneaky Friday pints" mention was good. Made me think about how long it has been since I did the sneaky Friday pints! Good VO by Dara O'Briain too. Fair play to the agency convincing them to run with it, I'd say it cost a good bit.

    There's a reason why people don't go to pubs anymore/ as much as they used to, as discussed at length on here. I doubt it's because people forgot that pubs were still around... this is a different case.
    I like Dara O' Brian, but he ain't that good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Just was listening to the Dublin does Fridays ad there. What a crap advertising campaign, just shows how idiotic the Vintners association is.. it basically is saying - The pub is great craic and you should be going more, because you're Irish sure. They'd be better off spending money somewhere else

    Reminding Irish people that pubs exist and can be fun is probably one of the greatest wastes of money imaginable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    I people are getting a tad bit confused on the difference between awful and annoying... don't want to b condescending, God forbid. Just because I said it was terrible doesn't mean I found it annoying per se, but that I find it to be an ineffectual ad campaign. You'll also find that annoying ads can still be very effective. And don't worry I won't buy the Irish Vinters association or pub trade.

    Phew. You had us worried there for a minute.



    Then ALL the pubs would have been as dull as you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,645 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Some people are getting a tad bit confused on the difference between awful and annoying... don't want to b condescending, God forbid. Just because I said it was terrible doesn't mean I found it annoying per se, but that I find it to be an ineffectual ad campaign. You'll also find that annoying ads can still be very effective. And don't worry I won't buy the Irish Vinters association or pub trade.
    How do you know they're ineffectual?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    summerskin wrote: »
    Phew. You had us worried there for a minute.



    Then ALL the pubs would have been as dull as you.

    Sorry did my post annoy you there?

    edit: My comment wasn't directed at you at all, it was to Fighting Irish and Seachmall


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    summerskin wrote: »
    Phew. You had us worried there for a minute.



    Then ALL the pubs would have been as dull as you.

    Sorry did my post annoy you there?

    No, not at all. Just bored me shiitless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    How do you know they're ineffectual?

    Just going by previous marketing campaigns by them. They aren't offering anything new.
    summerskin wrote: »
    No, not at all. Just bored me ****less.

    Omgz soz, you ok? If only there were other threads to go to...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    How do you know they're ineffectual?
    summerskin wrote: »
    No, not at all. Just bored me ****less.

    Omgz soz, you ok?

    Lulz u Soooooo funneee


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    WTF is that "CHAOS IS SWEEPING THE GLOBE" ad on YouTube about?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    summerskin wrote: »
    Lulz u Soooooo funneee

    And you're so crazy and unpredictable, oh you!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭BigBrownBear


    Its a bit like when the ESB had a monopoly on the market and they would have ad's along the lines of.......Use electricity!!!!

    There used to be a comic called Viz, and one of the regulars in it was a cartoon called 'Billy the Fish'. He was a fish who played as a goalkeeper in the English Premier League (Bear with me on this....its going somewhere;))

    All around the pitch were advertising hoardings saying things like...."Drink Water", "Buy Stuff" and "Eat Food" etc etc

    Well I thought it was amusing anyway :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    summerskin wrote: »
    Lulz u Soooooo funneee

    And you're so crazy and unpredictable, oh you!

    I'm like the next cumshot in a bukkake vid, you just never know where I'm going to come from....






    And when you do, you'll be invariably disappointed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Anyone remember the Hoover ad campaign that went really wrong?

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sucker-punch-to-free-rides-hoovers-illfated-flight-of-fancy-has-dealt-a-fresh-blow-to-the-image-of-sales-promotions-chris-blackhurst-and-russell-hotten-report-1453279.html

    TO THE group of senior executives sitting at Hoover's UK headquarters in South Wales last summer, it seemed like a terrific idea.

    There they were, wondering how they could drum up sales in the recession and all too aware that the company was about to enter its traditional lean pre- Christmas period.

    The executives' scheme was simple: promotions with Air Miles and air tickets were all the rage, so why not follow suit? They called in a firm of travel agents and drafted a plan. They narrowed the offer down to two flights to a choice of six European cities, required a customer to spend at least pounds 119 - the price of the cheapest qualifying Hoover vacuum - and reckoned on 50,000 applicants.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    what about the ad campaign to pay the household charge ?

    TD's didn't know how to pay it - post office - mar dhea

    warnings about bogus collectors


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,475 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    but that I find it to be an ineffectual ad campaign

    Who told you it was ineffective?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Who told you it was ineffective?

    I'm going by personal experience and friends also. I don't have any hard facts admittedly, but I think it's fair to judge a campaign for its merits, and for the pubs case, they're aren't so much trying to advertise something new that would get people interested, but rather a plea for people to go to the pub again.
    Fair enough if some people find it good, I just find it pointless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,475 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I just find it pointless.

    Well, I doubt the customer found it pointless, as for merits, silver at the ICADs usually means a very sharp campaign that delivered. And that it did.

    Amazed you picked such a good, subtle campaign to slam with so much drivel out there. The outdoor stencil look stuff was really good.

    (I don't work for he agency, in fact I would indirectly be in competition to them)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo



    That reminds me of the case of the pudding company in America offering free air miles with a certain number of purchases (adapted into part of the story of the film Punch Drunk Love).

    You had to send in the barcodes of products, but this guy discovered that tiny 25c individual pots of pudding, which weren't bought as frequently as bigger pots or multipacks, each had their own barcode and were good for as many air miles as the more expensive products.

    So he bought $3,000 worth, travelling around the state, and to get his barcodes in on time, he donated lots of them to the Salvation Army, in return for them taking off the barcodes for him.
    This also netted him a tax write-off of $815 as it was considered a charitable donation!

    He ended up getting 1.25 million frequent flyer miles. So for effectively just over $2,000, he's got free flights for life!

    http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 Stanley Devastating


    'Whether you're on the razz or heading up to your ma's
    Whether you're heading to Clonsilla or a south side villa'
    Complete ear AIDS.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Well, I doubt the customer found it pointless, as for merits, silver at the ICADs usually means a very sharp campaign that delivered. And that it did.

    Amazed you picked such a good, subtle campaign to slam with so much drivel out there. The outdoor stencil look stuff was really good.

    (I don't work for he agency, in fact I would indirectly be in competition to them)

    I'd be interested to see the criteria....can't see the category winners properly either, you have to email someone for user and password? :confused:
    Where is the data to suggest that Irish pub has seen an increase in customers due to the ads? Fair enough if I am wrong, but if it has worked, I'm baffled. Don't see it being subtle either, more pointing out the obvious? In any case, it doesn't convince me why I should go and what's different... with chippers they have a day when fish and chips are half-price, that is a convincing reason to get people to go to chippers.


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