Not so subliminal advertising.

RoundyMooney

OK, guys and gals, it's rantin' time.

Is anybody else sick and tired of in your face advertising techniques? I don't mean the type of thing you can easily filter out, like billboard ads (which are often quite clever anyway), or non invasive banners on websites.

Allow me to give a few examples;

Roundy goes to his local newsagents round the corner, buys a nice magazine like Focus or somesuch (the ones packaged so folks can't cop a quick read off the shelf-not just for Playboy anymore!). Open it up at home, and half a trees worth of shiny useless tat for equally useless services land on my lap/floor/the dog lying at my feet. This is much more common in the last while I've found, and is now to be found in the Sunday papers too! As an aside a colleague of mine, who like me, doesn't have to pay for postage etc., collected all this rubbish for over a year from three different publications, neatly sorted. At the end of the year, he sent the whole lot back to them. A minor victory maybe, but if everybody did it...well...

Roundy is pissed at this, and in a mad rage rips the mag to shreds while dancing a jig and frightening the wife. I turn on the telly for some light entertainment, hmmm, volumes a bit low, crank up the pro-logic a wee bit-grand. Here comes an ad break-JAYSUS! The house shakes to the sound of Barry Scott cleaning coins with Cillit Bang, or some scrote from Power ****ty roaring about cheap electronic brands I've never heard of. Outside, the windscreens of our cars shatter, birds fall from the trees in sheer terror, the baby in the house two doors down becomes a candidate for therapy in later years, and some seismic researcher in Arizona watches the needles dance in unison with the theme tune from Sheila's Wheels. Why are broadcasters allowed to drive the audio level through the ceiling during commercial breaks? In yer face advertising at its finest.

< Yes, I am aware of the irony that I know who the advertisers are, and hence that this Orwellian policy is working, ta muchly >

Adam

There should a button on your remote to turn the bass in your Pro Logic system down tbh

ronbyrne2005

i hate product placement in films. ridiculous

Mossy Monk

RoundyMooney wrote:

Outside, the windscreens of our cars shatter, birds fall from the trees in sheer terror, the baby in the house two doors down becomes a candidate for therapy in later years, and some seismic researcher in Arizona watches the needles dance in unison with the theme tune from Sheila's Wheels

damn, where can one get speakers that can do such wonderful things

RoundyMooney

fade_to_grey wrote:

There should a button on your remote to turn the bass in your Pro Logic system down tbh

There are a number of buttons to tailor the sound. Funnily enough I can't find an advert muter, or a extraneous flier remover on either amp, preamp, receiver or remote tbh...

RoundyMooney

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

i hate product placement in films. ridiculous

Amen sir! I had forgotten that.


I think it was Harry Enfield who did a "Neighbours" sketch (Cobbers?) where most of the dialogue took place around a can of "Fostahs, de Ambah Nectah!"

RoundyMooney

Mossy Monk wrote:

damn, where can one get speakers that can do such wonderful things

Mission 773... lovely speaker, shame about the perforated eardrums!

youcancallmeal

Barry Scott is a legend!
Bang and the dirt is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terry

quite a lot of channels increase their power output for the ads. i'm not sure about Ireland, but i know that it's illegal for them to do this in other countries.

on the junk mail thing. during the last election, i collected all political paraphenalia and brought it to the polling station on election day. i cast my vote and handed the the junk over to the two bewildered looking women there.

Terry

RoundyMooney wrote:

Amen sir! I had forgotten that.


I think it was Harry Enfield who did a "Neighbours" sketch (Cobbers?) where most of the dialogue took place around a can of "Fostahs, de Ambah Nectah!"

that was an ad asking people to report too much product placement in tv shows.

Adam

RoundyMooney wrote:

There are a number of buttons to tailor the sound. Funnily enough I can't find an advert muter, or a extraneous flier remover on either amp, preamp, receiver or remote tbh...

Sorry, couldn't resist! But I know what you mean, I'm a real late night tv watcher (sky+ records everything and i watch it all at night, god bless sky+), but it is incredibly annoying when your happily watching the program at a fair volume considering the other people sleeping in the house and then the ads start and i'm left jumping for the remote to turn it down! It is truly ridiculous... where's the logic? If you're watching the tv at all it will be at a high enough volume that you can hear it, making the ads louder serves little purpose... :mad:

EDIT: Boo-urns julep!

RoundyMooney

julep wrote:

quite a lot of channels increase their power output for the ads. i'm not sure about Ireland, but i know that it's illegal for them to do this in other countries.

on the junk mail thing. during the last election, i collected all political paraphenalia and brought it to the polling station on election day. i cast my vote and handed the the junk over to the two bewildered looking women there

That's like the kind of thing I would do. Respect!

julep wrote:

that was an ad asking people to report too much product placement in tv shows.

Spot on. I remember now.

RoundyMooney

fade_to_grey wrote:

Sorry, couldn't resist! But I know what you mean, I'm a real late night tv watcher (sky+ records everything and i watch it all at night, god bless sky+), but it is incredibly annoying when your happily watching the program at a fair volume considering the other people sleeping in the house and then the ads start and i'm left jumping for the remote to turn it down! It is truly ridiculous... where's the logic? If you're watching the tv at all it will be at a high enough volume that you can hear it, making the ads louder serves little purpose... :mad:

EDIT: Boo-urns julep!

LOL! Quite true. As Julep says, it's illegal elsewhere. I think Sky have a different ad line-up for Ireland, maybe the problem lies with our lazy litigators...

Ah well.

Adam

oh definitely, they're all irish orientated advertisements!

Terry

i think sky one are the biggest ofenders. the sound quality for their programming is atrocious, yet the ads make my tv rattle.

junkyard

Another thing is the stupid f***ing ads on the radio in the mornings seem to be geared at five year olds or is it just me? Most of the ads seem to be over simplified.

elivsvonchiaing

junkyard wrote:

Another thing is the stupid f***ing ads on the radio in the mornings seem to be geared at five year olds or is it just me? Most of the ads seem to be over simplified.

No the assumption of most advertising is I think - that our target audience are morons - and while you are our audience we're just after the morons among you...

Anyone remember ads on RTE for... "...kills sarcoptic mange mites... etc."? Not sure how many farmers bought into this whatever the fúck it was...

Can only remember thinking as a twelve y/o - why do I have to listen to this ****!

Fairly sure this was the first and original Irish Spam :rolleyes:

rogue-entity

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

i hate product placement in films. ridiculous

Ah yes, well most of it is simple stuff like people always using Macs or driving Caddys or wearing branded shoes/clothes. Most of that just flys right over me.
One ad run that did seem to LEAP off the screen was in "The Island". When those two clones escape and look around the city, they look for a phone directory and find a very convenient "MSN Search" booth, complete with there logo. They login and guess what, they go to MSN.com and which asks for the credit card before it will let them use the service. Is Microsoft really that desperate to beat google?

And as for ads being made louder, Sky One is DEFINATLY the worst offender. They always do it.

YeatsCounty

The low programme - loud advert phenomenon really annoyed me. I didn't notice it on SKY One too often, but it most certainly caught my attention on RTE. Especially during the Wednesday night film on RTE One, handily enough.

Example film dialogue: "We have to put a stop to this."

Advert: "THE MIDWEEK MOVIE, SPONSORED BY AERO."

elivsvonchiaing wrote:

Anyone remember ads on RTE for... "...kills sarcoptic mange mites... etc."? Not sure how many farmers bought into this whatever the fúck it was...

Can only remember thinking as a twelve y/o - why do I have to listen to this ****!

Fairly sure this was the first and original Irish Spam :rolleyes:

That advert was always on at 1PM, just in time for dinner.

Ruu_Old

Remember the Bodyform ads..WHHOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH BODYFOORMMM... BODYFORM FOR YOUUUUUUU!"

missingtime

The ad that freaks me out is the one complaining about hidden charges in banks. Starts off with a happy family playing on the slides and some lollypop lady comes over asking for money. Then this mother of the family turns to the camera and says "Dont you hate it when..." But thats not the worst its her eyes man they are so wide open! And very psycho as if shes about to walk out of the tv or sumthing.

Has anyone else noticed this? Freaky woman.

Dooom

missingtime wrote:

The ad that freaks me out is the one complaining about hidden charges in banks. Starts off with a happy family playing on the slides and some lollypop lady comes over asking for money. Then this mother of the family turns to the camera and says "Dont you hate it when..." But thats not the worst its her eyes man they are so wide open! And very psycho as if shes about to walk out of the tv or sumthing.

Has anyone else noticed this? Freaky woman.

Thank god! Thought I was the only one..

Mossy Monk

Ruu wrote:

Remember the Bodyform ads..WHHOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH BODYFOORMMM... BODYFORM FOR YOUUUUUUU!"

lol

how could people forget

Hagar

elivsvonchiaing wrote:

Anyone remember ads on RTE for... "...kills sarcoptic mange mites... etc."?

Nilverm - I'm still taking it.

What about radio ads? Most modern car radios have a "News" button, the radio station sends out a signal immediately prior to transmitting the news and the radio changes over automatically to that station from whatever you are currently listening to. Brilliant idea you say. RTE broadcasts this signal at the start of the 2 minute ad-break before the news so that you are conned into listening to the ads while waiting on the news to start.

Setun

I remember back in the dark days before pop-up blockers I had a run-in with an ad on the net. I had been listening to music before, so the speakers were still turned up. Suddenly I hear this noise: a woman ohhing, ahhing and Oh Yessing - bit risqué, fairly loud aswell. A pop-up with a blank screen had appeared, so naturally I waited to see what it would materialise as I waited, turned out it was a Herbal Essences ad. I think it was on msn.com where it happened. Watch out!

I always wondered why I had to quickly turn down the sound after a program, the ads just blast out at you! =/ It's really annoying. I don't have sky, but RTE are definitely bad.

mike65

Ah so much ammo (this should be on the Advertising board) those fupping Eircom phonewatch ads are doing my head in. There is no cirumstance which cannot be exploited by (cue menacing voice) burgulars - if you're in they'll rob you, if you're out they rob you, if its Christmas, or St Valentines Day they'll rob you, if your old and alone they'll rob you, when you're in the shower they'll rob you (okay that one I made up).

Eircom should be slapped for speading fear and loathing to make money from the easily frightened.

Mike.

AnTaoiseach

I definatly agree about eircom phonewatch and the freaky bank charges lady.
I've also noticed most ads seem to be aimed towards women, obviously all cosmetic ads (barring a few of the more recent nivea for men crap) but also most ads I see (mainly prime time).

the attempt to instill fear in customers has to be the worst and most degrading thing advertisers can do, but obviously it works.

My mother once said to me, years ago, the no one in Ireland thought they smelled bad untill deoderant was advertised