Adverts you despise

Allyall · 17-04-2015 2:18am

Allyall wrote: »

"Hi, I'm Cynthia Hollman-Lee"............

Optilase..

Sweet Jesus..

AAGGGHH!

She's going to be in some program about travellers next week. She's teaching them how to model, but I can't find what the program is, and don't know what to search for.

FFS. :mad:

So she is advertising her agency (I googled her) in an advert?? She's using an advert to market herself?

Go and F**k off away way in the distance.

applehunter · 17-04-2015 2:04pm

Trivago ad....oh god the voiceover.

3 Mobile have put out a few ads in a similar vain. 3 Little Words.

This is ****.

trashcan · 18-04-2015 2:45pm

The Today FM ad with the horse. Seriously, WTF ??

Also, the Avonmore millk ad with the incredibly irritating song, Grrrr.

Thatllteachya · 18-04-2015 8:15pm

Allyall wrote: »

So she is advertising her agency (I googled her) in an advert?? She's using an advert to market herself?

Go and F**k off away way in the distance.

Its lol stuff. Optilase have had so many useless ad at this stage.

Aska · 19-04-2015 12:03pm

(probably mentioned before, so apologies if they have),

but the No Nonsense insurance adds do my head in,

delaad · 19-04-2015 11:43pm

The Aldi being irish efforts, or whatever they call them. They are leaden, overlong, humourless, unless of course you're german

Sounds · 22-04-2015 9:28pm

What's the most stupid ad you ever seen on TV that really annoys you?
And makes you never want to use that company, service or product?

..

I think really stupid ads that annoy you will make more people avoid
a service than use it, I think many companies misunderstand the whole
point in making a funny/stupid ad and people avoid their service as a result.

Like did you ever see a TV ad and think, what a bunch of idiots I will
never use that product, or when you see a product, you think of the ad,
Which the company intended, but really you walk away and buy something
else because the ad on TV was so dumb you just won't allow yourself to
go near the product because of their ridiculous ads.

A lot of companies have strangers representing their services on TV,
stating "we" do this "we offer that" when they don't even work for
the company other than hosting an ad for the company on TV.
So in other words, they are lying and they don't have anything to do
with the company they're representing, omg.

And companies that seem to think if they use an animated character
instead of a real person, is gonna gain people's trust in their product.

galljga1 · 22-04-2015 9:32pm

Radion washing powder. Worst adds on TV.
Strangely enough, it is no longer with us.

Sounds · 22-04-2015 9:34pm

Maybe enough people got sick of their ads.. or their product was crap.. maybe both.

Mr E · 22-04-2015 9:49pm

Sounds wrote: »

Maybe enough people got sick of their ads.. or their product was crap.. probably both.
BTW we should be able to edit the title of our threads.. easy enough to set on this platform.

Believe it or not, you can edit the thread title with the Edit button.

(Click "Go Advanced" while you're in there)

Sam Kade · 22-04-2015 9:52pm

Sounds wrote: »

What's the most stupid ad you ever seen that really annoys you?
And makes you never want to use that service or product?

Sorry i got my title mixed up, I can't change it.

..

I think really stupid ads that annoy you will make more people avoid
a service than use it, I think many companies misunderstand the whole
point in making a funny/stupid ad and people avoid their service as a result.

Like did you ever see a TV ad and think, what a bunch of idiots I will
never use that product, or when you see a product, you think of the ad,
Which the company intended, but really you walk away and buy something
else because the ad on TV was so dumb you just won't allow yourself to
go near the product because of their ridiculous ads.

A lot of companies have strangers representing their services on TV,
stating "we" do this "we offer that" when they don't even work for
the company other than hosting an ad for the company on TV.
So in other words, they are lying and they don't have anything to do
with the company they're representing, omg.

And companies that seem to think if they use an animated character
instead of a real person, is gonna gain people's trust in their product.

You'd want to rewrite your title "that makes you never want to avoid that company"

Nadser · 22-04-2015 9:53pm

It's going back a bit but those "Big Ed loves Mona" drove me around the bend. I vowed to never buy their products and I never did. Those no nonsense insurance ads are having a similar impact currently.

Sounds · 22-04-2015 9:56pm

Thanks for the tip I fixed the title

Sounds · 22-04-2015 10:05pm

I have to admit when I heard about coca cola and the amount of money those war countries are making off the product.
Remember seeing an old guy on sky news pouring all his stock down the shore outside his shop, that made me think.
It did make me never want to buy cola again, lasted a few months, I gave in to my thirst when I saw an old style glass bottle of cola..

FloatingVoter · 22-04-2015 10:14pm

Harvey Norman - I do not respond well to being shouted at.
Pat Shortt attempting to sing some 11888 rubbish.

I want the Yorkie bar man back, ads for Hamlet cigars and cosy reassurance that a bottle of vodka a day is good for you.

ixoy · 22-04-2015 10:20pm

Fox's Vinnie the Panda. He looks like he's mange-ridden, crawling with disease. The thought of him going near Fox biscuits makes me want to burn them in case his germs infect me and cause limbs to fall off.

Vinnie: Making panda extinction seem not such a bad thing.

efb · 22-04-2015 10:21pm

Those Cadbury ads - but I love the chocolate

efb · 22-04-2015 10:22pm

Vodafone UK

Hitchens · 22-04-2015 10:22pm

that ad with the horse DJ is the pits

Sounds · 22-04-2015 10:41pm

LOL crawling with disease! and a gangster ny accent..
That radio disc jockey horse? the horse does all their voices and they're all actors... crap.
I never listen to Irish FM radio any more and I'll never go down past discovery, unless I'm watching euro/sky news.
Called into a friend the other night, they had rte on I felt irritated just watching it, left after 5 mins.

I really think alcohol ads should be banned off TV just like cigarette ads were.
It's not that I don't like a drink now an then, but I know the damage it has caused all over the country.

Ol' Donie · 22-04-2015 10:58pm

efb wrote: »

Those Cadbury ads - but I love the chocolate

Manky chocolate, dreadful, dreadful ads.

As a rule, any ad with "zany" will force me to a competitor.

Ol' Donie · 22-04-2015 11:03pm

Amazingly, there are several ads for different soft drinks at the moment with taglines along the lines of "It's good to be you".

For a mass produced sugar drink, with hundreds of units in every fridge in every single convenience store.

It's good to be you, but that's utterly unrelated to our factory made water + syrup.

Littlehorny · 22-04-2015 11:06pm

Those injury lawyers for you ads and there like. They make out that they care about you and will fight tooth and nail, no win no fee ****e. When they are just adding to the sue and claim culture and we all end up paying for these parasites.

Hitchens · 22-04-2015 11:08pm

...or that Aldi ad with the woman prattling on about a dress ......terrible

FloatingVoter · 22-04-2015 11:12pm

Littlehorny wrote: »

Those injury lawyers for you ads and there like. They make out that they care about you and will fight tooth and nail, no win no fee ****e. When they are just adding to the sue and claim culture and we all end up paying for these parasites.

...except for this guy. He'll cut you a square deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-hSSiaEAw

Flippyfloppy · 22-04-2015 11:16pm

Pay day loans. 237% apr. don't pay back within 30 days and we repossess your life and dog.

Den14 · 22-04-2015 11:19pm

That new Coca Cola kiss happiness ad where yer man is proposing to this lovely lady in an orange bikini etc. It's just annoyingly patronising and everyone is drinking the coke and being happy and the music wrecks my head.

Patti mayonnaise · 22-04-2015 11:26pm

The trivago ads. The one with that mangled couple who feel the need to brush their teeth whilst hugging. And when he carries her through the hotel...it looks like he's just drugged her and dragging her up to his room. And don't get me started on that stupid bun on top of his head. Ridiculous carry on.

Crimson King · 22-04-2015 11:42pm

Patti mayonnaise wrote: »

The trivago ads. The one with that mangled couple who feel the need to brush their teeth whilst hugging. And when he carries her through the hotel...it looks like he's just drugged her and dragging her up to his room. And don't get me started on that stupid bun on top of his head. Ridiculous carry on.

I said that to the wife when I first seen it, looks he he roofed her. Creepy as hell.

Andre Salmon · 22-04-2015 11:59pm

Day 2, just nipped out for a cheeky volvic.

Sounds · 23-04-2015 12:01am

Yea I know what you mean lol
Making it look like everyone actually celebrates around a bottle of coke.. or pringles!

Ralf and Florian · 23-04-2015 12:09am

The meercat "simples" ads.I don't even know what the feck theyre for I hate them so much I mute or switch over when they come on.

Westernyelp · 23-04-2015 12:17am

That A hole on the Hotels combined ad. who can't figure out how to book a room without losing his shi!t. Will never use that site because of him

rizzodun · 23-04-2015 12:23am

The moam ads on during The Big Bang Theory, Graham is a douchebag.

Sounds · 23-04-2015 12:32am

If a company thinks that getting their ad on TV is all they have to do, then they need to hire someone else,
Annoying people into remembering your products or services doesn't mean people will use them.
Companies self proclaiming their product is voted number one in Ireland, UK wherever, total lies.
If you actually sent surveys to every home in Ireland, 90% would go in the trash.

Totally missing the whole point in TV advertising champagnes.

FloatingVoter · 23-04-2015 12:47am

...they did a survey in the UK. A significant percentage of children think Churchill is a dog who flogs stuff on the TV.

The survey was carried out about 10 years back. A percentage of those kids now work in marketing / advertising.

Sounds · 23-04-2015 12:54am

Getting paid to waste money on ads that have turned people of products.

Todd Gack · 23-04-2015 1:53am

Woeful ad, it's amazing that a marketing department of dozens of people had dozens of meetings and this was the best they could come up with. And then the boss goes "yes....this is exactly what I was looking for"

.....probably will have a bit of their product again to be honest.

paulbok · 23-04-2015 10:04am

Somewhat off topic, but the jingles for ads on Irish radio are at an all time low.
One in particular for som energy company (heard it dozens of times and still can't recall the name, good work ad creators), it's as if they hired a 1st year marketing student for an hour and told them they would get €20 if they came up with a 'catchy jingle', the attempts at ryhming is laughable.

tampopo · 23-04-2015 2:16pm

Bud
Wies
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And, wassup!!!

Any Cleaner Close ad.

The coke ad where they end up drinking in the canal. (it looks like)

That gobshyte in the hotel ad. Hiding behind the potted plant.

_Kaiser_ · 23-04-2015 5:16pm

Irish Water

I'm serious.. first we had the vaguely threatening ads telling us to register as "customers" (or else!), now we have this overly-fluffy one with little friendly men plodding along while the images show us decaying pipes, remind us how it's also to support industry (so important for jobs!) and then try to paint IW as the heroes rescuing us all from the abyss!

Even the tag-line "Safeguarding your water for your future" is condescending and annoying!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnwDx6cytq8

Littlehorny · 23-04-2015 10:08pm

^^^Good call, the amount of modern infrastructure that was put in during the building boom by private builders must have been immense. The way IW portray it you would think we were going to die in a drought if we don't support this cuddly loving company.

FloatingVoter · 23-04-2015 10:14pm

I've already put a stop on the direct debit from the bank regarding IW. Fully expecting a bill for my deceased mum any day now. I'll be suitably upset. I am wondering which pub to spend my free €100 in come September.

Irish Water is actually one of the few ads I would turn up the volume for. Quality Irish comedy is always rare on the ground.

sunbabe08 · 24-04-2015 4:12am

innocent juices. if i hear about our jane one more time:mad::mad::mad:

Sounds · 24-04-2015 4:17am

The football fan looking dude with the beard? carrying some father's, young looking daughter down a hotel corridor! I hate that creepy ad,
I hate nearly every ad that has been listed here, Meercats are cute though, but it doesn't make me wanna invest my money with a company
that thinks it's funny that they can't say market, so they base their whole ad champagne on animated meercats, we'll see how long that lasts.

If I had 5 or 10 grand from one or two of all those wasted advertisements, I could start a small business and create a few jobs.

abff · 24-04-2015 8:16am

Hitchens wrote: »

...or that Aldi ad with the woman prattling on about a dress ......terrible

I think that's actually quite a good ad. The other Aldi ad, with the woman saying goodbye over and over to her friend on the phone is a bit annoying, though.

24-04-2015 9:26am

F*ck off Barry Scott.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-04-2015 1:04pm

I'll never do business with Meteor. Their ads are a solid disgrace to the industry and highlight how far the standard has fallen in Ireland. This one in particular really upset me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlyLyhbDow

Thargor · 24-04-2015 3:36pm

Whats wrong with the Adverts You Despise thread?

Dr Bob · 24-04-2015 3:40pm

Theres a skip hire ad on the radio with two 'duberlin builders' talking about getting a skip. Terrible. So bad that when I did need a skip a few weeks back I actively avoided them and went with someone else.
Which is the part of this thread that makes it different from the ads you despise thread.

Adverts you despise

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