Worst/Best Radio Ads

homah_7ft

It has previously been done in the TV forum. What is your favourite or least favourite radio ad? I hate all those ones that say, "It's almost six O'clock time to call ..." most of those places are closed at 6. Add to that Harvey Norman ads with particular mention for the happy birthday ones. I like the Roca Tiles ads that are on around the Vincent Browne show.

mike65

Harvey Norman ads rule! Speaking of insistant Aussies, that campaign for some brand of Oz wine is really starting to annoy. All ads that end with the sound of two women giggling are bad ones. Oh that ad for Paddy Power (?) (strip poker with Gran) is the pits.

Mike.

vibrant

Oh, Newstalk106 in Dublin seem to play really awful ads. They did one that was especially terrible, it was for some financial services company (who buy equity in homes that belong to over 60's or something). They played it to death a few weeks ago, so much so that they played it 4 times in one hour!

I've never hated the phrase "Cash free lump sum" so much!

Also, the Wireman ads from earlier on in the year deserve a special mention.

"When they see us walking down the street they know for certain that before the day is out we'll have the craic!"
WTF?

Also, any ad that features "audience members" talking about the film they just saw, and how great it was. These ads don't work on TV, why should they be more effective on the radio?

radioman

In general any ad where the people have obviously put on accents, or that have people who are extremely bad actors.

SoBe

the eircom phone watch adds that try and convince you your house WILL be broken into if you dont get one....grrrr drives me nuts

mickd

Worst ads

Those that tell us to wash our hands, safe food. The one where the bint says "Directions to the local hospital, You have just handled the raw meat then cooked meat and didn't wash your hands" Now if she added you had your hand up your arse and then you handled the meat, it would be funny.

The Laser Card ad where yet another bint says "As I handed my card over at the checkout I smiled knowing I had all the ingrediants for the cake" FFS Stupidity reigns on the airwaves

Benedict XVI

The best ad on radio ever has to be the Barry’s Tea ‘Turn the moment gold’ Christmas add.
The one with the father buying the train set.
Kid: ‘You’ll never guess what Santa brought…’
Father: ‘Well doesn’t that beat Bannagher, isn’t Santa the smart fellow…’
No fake accents, no pretentious statements, just a great little story.
Pity it’s only on at Christmas time.

PauloMN

Worst is Ben Dunne advertising his fitness clubs. Brutal. Good advertising nonetheless.

homah_7ft

fli wrote:

the eircom phone watch adds that try and convince you your house WILL be broken into if you dont get one....grrrr drives me nuts

Forgot about that one. It's plain wrong.

Font22

that ad for the euro cycles sale with the really high pitched voices with helium, drives me insane when i hear it....

mickd

The ad for NTL digital where some retard says " Zero Euro who do i make the cheque out to" bloody annoying

grumpytrousers

Sunday Business Post ads really get up my nose for some reason or other...

FlutterinBantam

Pharmaton ads..... Do they go out of their way to get some dude/bint with a grating NornIron accent

Pingpong

Tallaght Ford and that crappy song they have, drives me mad, I just hit the Button.

KerranJast

Any add with women putting down their men really pisses me off. Like that one at the minute about refilling print cartridges. FFS. :mad:

Tazz T

Really like the ad for lucozade at the moment where the Zombie rings up the station looking for a 'pick-me-up' for the undead.

But the best radio ad ever is the one for DID electrical when the German comes in asking what time they close at. 'Nine' in a strong dub accent sounds so like 'Nein.

MarinoMark

I love the Betfred.com ad that newstalk play "When I get to the office i will have 3 voicemail messages and ends with "Go on ya good thing"..Classic !

Kolodny

Font22 wrote:

that ad for the euro cycles sale with the really high pitched voices with helium, drives me insane when i hear it....

Most irritating ad ever! "sale sale sale sale sale" blah blah blah blah blah, die die die die die....

mjquinno

for some reason that supermacs ad about the hungry vikings coming tto ireland it drives me nuts i have to change the radio station its that bad.

elurhs

So many bad ads, so little time.

Amen on the eircom phonewatch ads, bloody scaremongering.
Supermacs - oh my God, how could anyone think that was a good idea. I hope they didn't pay some ad agency to come up with it - it smells like an in-house idea.
Any ads advertising digital TV. Sky, NTL, Chorus, I don't care!!!

C_Breeze

dont listen to radio much , but when i did - that "euro cycles , euro baby , euro cycles , euro baby" in the chipmunk voice , with the long siiigh at the end made me want to tear my radio out and drive over it repeatedly.

that add actually put me off radio altogether

Mr E

GE Money: "You talking to me?"

Eircom Phonewatch: "Oh nooo....we've been burgled"

NTLs free connection: "Zeeeero euro... now who do I make the cheque out to?"

SprostonGreen

All radio adverts are dislikeable, its usually one or two gimps talking inanely about some product.

I particularly dislike the "Zafira club actually", Eircon phonewatch preying on peoples fears, Harvey Norman and Birds Eye.

whiskeyman

Radio adverts are very poor... so little creative.

For me, the worst are those for new films where they interview people who apparently just saw it and give the usual "best film I've ever seen"... "great for all the family"... "deadly film".
All usually a sign of a film that's rubbish and has been ripped to shreads in reviews, so they slip a few tenners to the person in front of the mic.

smashey

Now that Christmas is over, we don't have to listen to the idiocy of the Square, Tallaght ads for another 10 months

limerick_man

BEST AD EVER, only on Limericks Live 95fm unfortuatley... Fab Floors "where you get laid, not screwed"
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!

Tobias Greeshman

That f***in Supermacs add with yer man going on about 'Hungry Vikings'... AARGH!!! :mad: Everytime I hear it I want to inflict damage on the guy that does it, he has to have the most annoying voice ever!

The GE Money add for the loan is actually pretty OK, so are the Harvey Norman adds as long as Bruce does them (the aussie guy).

mike65

Those eircom phonewatch ads do my head in, there is not a season or occasion throughout the year which is'nt infested by the threat of (cue low voice) burgulars!!!! Its pure scare tactics so your granny spends a fortune on proping up a crappy company.

Mike.

tbh

silas wrote:

That f***in Supermacs add with yer man going on about 'Hungry Vikings'... AARGH!!! :mad: Everytime I hear it I want to inflict damage on the guy that does it, he has to have the most annoying voice ever!

isn't that the guy from langerland? it's a bit annoying on the ad, I agree. I also hate that cuisine de france ad "..Kinda crunchy and soft??!"
makes me punch the steering wheel everytime I hear it.
The thing that kills me tho, is that the people who made the crappy ads have succeeded - we can't get them out of our heads, and we know all the details!
but I swear, I'll never eat a cuisine de france product ever again. Whos with me??!?:D

shortlegs

Most annoying voice on ads is "my home.ie" from that "Bachelor Walk" bugger.
Other annoying ads are : Irish Psychics Live..."Love, Money, success, Happiness..." Christ I used to know it by heart it was on so often

That b*tch in theTV license ad on about her friend leaving "by the side-door to avoid the paparazzi He He He He He He He He He"

Best ad was the two young "auld fellas" promoting Opel Zafira"

zippo22

Rocha Tiles Tuam Road Galway. Moronic crap from somebody imitating Terry Wogan's voice. Has completely ruined the Vincent Browne show on RTE Radio One at night. I'm going to have the bathroom tiled in the spring but those ads. have done my head in so much that I don't care where I get the tiles from so long as it's not from that crowd.

FlutterinBantam

I see someone has "Myhomes.ie mentioned ...that b****x with the nasal supersidious Cork accent.... Aaaaargh

The one that gets me now is for "Chrysler Voyager"

Some dork with a fake American accent calling it "Cry sler Voyager "and putting "dee cell" into the tank..... FFS!!!!! who calls it "dee cell" over here ya bunch of rees????? :mad: :mad: :mad: :eek:

tbh

I think its the Chevy ad that says "From stateside to our side".

1. No-one says Stateside
2. No one says "Our side"

lazy.

Also, anything with Niamh "wonder if that applies to the help" from fair city, or Claudia Carroll (Nicola)

tbh

FlutterinBantam wrote:

I see someone has "Myhomes.ie mentioned ...that b****x with the nasal supersidious Cork accent.... Aaaaargh

The one that gets me now is for "Chrysler Voyager"

Some dork with a fake American accent calling it "Cry sler Voyager "and putting "dee cell" into the tank..... FFS!!!!! who calls it "dee cell" over here ya bunch of rees????? :mad: :mad: :mad: :eek:

Don Wycherly (sp?)? Is that the one - wake up and smell the foccaccia?

his voice actually makes me feel sick. seriously.

MrJones

there used to be an ad for transition year student radio program on 2fm..TY Radio and yer one used to keep shouting TY Radio during the advert.
Used ta do my nut in.

SprostonGreen

caimin wrote:

Don Wycherly (sp?)? Is that the one - wake up and smell the foccaccia?

his voice actually makes me feel sick. seriously.

I hear ya, his voice is weird.

This week, whats annoying me is the advert for the Mespil. These two cows talking in a "Cork" sing-song accent. Its blatantly two middle class girls, trying to affect the Cork accent and failing. But the general gist of the ad, is pure ****e.

mickd

caimin wrote:

Don Wycherly (sp?)? Is that the one - wake up and smell the foccaccia?

his voice actually makes me feel sick. seriously.

Amen yes to that, a voice make me want to heave with " his rolled up newspaper and leaky goggles". Bloody annoying

luckat

But the worst of all are always the scolding ads.

The ones about people being deeply humiliated because they didn't get a TV licence - so annoying that I've genuinely thought of cancelling the *direct debit* that pays my licence out of sheer fury.

The ones that tell you that if you don't wear a seatbelt or walk on the road or drink and drive you're going to die horribly or live with guilt for the rest of your life - the people who think up all of these ads clearly hate us all.

Then there are the cheeky chirpy Cockney chappies and chapiesses, who drive me to distraction with rage - *especially* when you have an Irish voice doing the mother, then a Cockney voice doing the child. I know all the Irish ad agencies have sold out to English ones, but wouldn't someone start a new Irish agency? Please?

I used to actually like ads, both on TV and on the radio. Now I either reach for the remote and switch, or else just switch off mentally, unless I hate the ad enough that I sing loudly "I'll never buy [name of product]" all the time the ad is going on. Seems to work, too - I've found myself about to pick up a product I'd normally use, and then putting it down remembering the annoying ad.

Kojak

That new tele Bingo ad where they go 'Tele Bingo, bum, bum, bum' etc.

God that annoys me. :mad:

Fozzie Bear

That fu*king Barrys tea ad that is on at xmas. Turn the moment golden!!
Golden fu*kin shower more like it.

Jesus H Christ it makes me spit blood in a blind, all consuming, commit bloody murder, rage. I would like to take that train set and insert it side ways up that fu*kers hole followed quickly by the christmas tree and the kids head. Then i would make a cup of barrys tea (boiling scalding lava hot) and pour the lot of it down on top of his condescending, wise, smug twat head.

Thanks god it's only on at xmas, cos otherwise i would have taken out the shotgun and gone on a very messy, bloody rampage down shop street here in Galway...

petals

East Coast used to have a load of ads for Gammell Financal Services and they had a really boring drony voice on them they were awful

Mr E

"I can give you a thousand zloty note".

F**k off.

Smurfpiss

Johnston, Mooney and O'brien. They must die....
I prefer my bakers to bake, not do amateur musicals ya know what i'm saying?

Max_Damage

I know it's an old thread, but anyway........

I hate the ad for one of those broadband companys were some guy doesn't have lines to read for the ad, and he's trying to make small talk. It's just goddamn irritating.

Anyone hear the drink driving ads on Today FM late at night, the ones where some guy at the end says "Don't be a fcuking eejit, don't drink and drive'? Came as a bit of a surprise to hear profanity on ads. Only in Ireland I guess....:rolleyes:

Basq

I've a worse one.. anyone ever heard of Flintshire Motors?

http://media.putfile.com/Flintshire

Max_Damage

I've a worse one.. anyone ever heard of Flintshire Motors?

http://media.putfile.com/Flintshire

That man on that ad should have a Vauxhall run across him.

DMC

Latest one that makes me change over straight away....

Mastercard: husband and wife needing to build an extension, so she can hang up as many pictures of their newborn. When the husband complains, the wife barks up "she's your daughter, Paul!" That shrill comment goes right through you. Punchline then is "you can see her first tooth"

Inane and stupid. Worst ad on radio at mo.

Lunar Junkie

The one currently on Newstalk every 20 mins or so that features two guys with caricature bogger accents shouting at each other about 'CARS!' and 'VANS!' is pretty awful.

DublinWriter

"Hi, this is Geraldine here from Discount Electrical...."

No! KILL! MUST RUN OVER INNOCENT PEDESTRIAN! PRETEND SHE IS GERDALINE!

...etc etc.

DMC

Indeed. Whenever I go up Gardiner St., I have the sudden urge to vere into the kerb.... Mountjoy Square makes it sound posh... um no...

DublinWriter

DMC wrote:

Indeed. Whenever I go up Gardiner St., I have the sudden urge to vere into the kerb.... Mountjoy Square makes it sound posh... um no...

True, I don't know how Geraldine manages to spare the time to make those ads when she's so busy stopping crackheads from walking in and out with those the oh-so-small Bose Acustimass systems from their Mountjoy Sq. shop.