Worst/Best Radio Ads

Bard

T'was quite a funny bit alright,... was glad my text started it.

Wish more people would text MY show... *sniff*...

fricatus

Bard wrote: »

OH NO, YOU SAID IT ALREADY!!!




... so?

I just didn't want to say it again :rolleyes:

cashback

Bard wrote: »

"As a radio DJ, I have to be sounding my best..."

...

"Hello, you're listening to the MORNING breakfast show, with Panadol ActiFastyMakeFeelNiceDrugs..."

Yeah... as opposed to the EVENING breakfast show. Smart stuff, love.

(I even texted Today FM to give out about the stupidity of the ad and Ray Foley and JP read it out and went off on a little rant about it themselves )

Ha! I was just thinking the exact same thing on way home from work when I heard the ad during Matt Cooper. Are ad scripts proof read? It's a bit of a clanger.

Bard

cashback wrote: »

Are ad scripts proof read? It's a bit of a clanger.

Depends on who's producing the ad - in the station I work with, if we're producing the ad in-house (as is the case for 90+% of the ads we broadcast), we'd do a read-through first and would definitely bring up anything like that with the advertiser before recording,... but if ads are sent in to us pre-recorded, they'd generally go out as-is.

That one with the "MORNING" breakfast show was certainly, as you put it, a big 'clanger'

Rozbeef

the majority of ads on the radio put me off buying the companies products. serves them right for having a bunch of muppets in charge of advertising.

Fozzie Bear

Anyone heard the English muppets advertising Kleenex? Pair of ****wits talking as if they had "bunged up" heads and what its like.... (Having your head in a helmet according to them if your wondering) I bite the inside of my cheek to prevent my metamorphosis into the incredible hulk and go on a mean green rampage whenever i hear it. Grrrraarrrrgghhhh

Tag line is blow it loud and proud. Ya right, i've got something here you can blow love. Loud and proud!

Mossy Monk

I change the channel when I hear it. Kleenex couldn't be bothered to make an ad for Ireland so they sent the **** one from the UK over.

Toto Wolfcastle

'I'm Maura from the MABS hot line.'

Shut up Maura.....and it's 'budget' not 'bodget'.

Lizzykins

Can't bear the ad from the HSE for the winter information line. Smug cow telling you that you can ring your doctor or see your chemist rather than go to A&E. Complete s****. Why don't they just come out with it and say feck off with your heart attack and multiple stab wounds to the pharmacist - we're not interested.

Wertz

....and this week's award goes to the two stupid bitches on the new ford fiesta ad; you know the one.


"When it starts to rain? And the rain sensing wipers come on? I say THANK YOU!!!"

Wellll! When my mobile rings? and the bluetooth asks me would i like to answer? I say Yes PLEEEEASE!!!!"
:mad:

Well when I'm driving along? and this ad comes on the radio? and I change the channel? I say thank f*ck...


I hope you both crash and your airbags don't deploy you dozy cnuts?
Additionally, this sentence isn't a question either?

Toto Wolfcastle

Wertz wrote: »

....and this week's award goes to the two stupid bitches on the new ford fiesta ad; you know the one.


"When it starts to rain? And the rain sensing wipers come on? I say THANK YOU!!!"

Wellll! When my mobile rings? and the bluetooth asks me would i like to answer? I say Yes PLEEEEASE!!!!"
:mad:

Well when I'm driving along? and this ad comes on the radio? and I change the channel? I say thank f*ck...


I hope you both crash and your airbags don't deploy you dozy cnuts?
Additionally, this sentence isn't a question either?

I was going to mention this ad too! Stupid women. And why the hell do we need wipers that sense rain?

Wertz

Now we couldn't possibly risk you wimminz breaking a fingernail on the wiper stalk and causing an accident

Toto Wolfcastle

Wertz wrote: »

Now we couldn't possibly risk you wimminz breaking a fingernail on the wiper stalk and causing an accident

It could be fairly dangerous though, wipers turning on automatically when it rains.

Say there was a bit of moisture in the air and the wipers came on. What would the 2 girls in the ad do? They wouldn't turn it off anyway because that's the car's job. Would they say 'please turn off, Mr. Wipers'?

Similarly, what if it rained and they didn't work? :eek:

Rubbish ad, makes me want to kick the people who made it who think we're too stupid/lazy to move a finger a few inches to turn the wipers on.

Max_Damage

The new Ford Transit ad with some lad going on about how his boss thought him a new Transit van, and his wife only realises at the end of the ad that her husband is self-employed. Feck off.

mike65

Dunnno what its for but it ends with some gobsite yelling

flying out the doorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

edit - it's for carpets which explains

Mike.

fricatus

I cannot STAND that ad where the ultra-competitive mother - sorry, "mom" - gets Little Johnny (actually, I think that's the name they use... how creative) to play Mozart's Rondo alla Turca on the piano for his granny, and they twitter about how he'll be even better after his "secondge lesson". GRRRR, it makes my skin crawl!

fricatus

fricatus wrote: »

Little Johnny

Sorry, it was Billy, I think...

Let me add that stupid Rubex ad that Gay Byrne does. Apart altogether from the fact that it's really annoying, how can advertisers in this day and age be allowed to claim that plonking a fizzy tablet in water is somehow better than eating a natural, fibre-rich food such as oranges?

Toto Wolfcastle

I hate Newstalk's ad they use to try to get advertisers.

'Hi, I'm a radio ad'

I've only heard it once but just listening to them go on about how having an ad on Newstalk makes a consumer more likely to buy or use a product or service makes me want to buy anything that's not advertised on Newstalk! (Ok, that's maybe a bit overboard but it is annoying!)

jor el

Lizzykins wrote: »

Can't bear the ad from the HSE for the winter information line. Smug cow telling you that you can ring your doctor or see your chemist rather than go to A&E.

Only bettered by the same smug cow telling us to ask the doctor if he's washed his hands. Yes, that's the solution to all the HSE's problems, make it our problem. It's up to the HSE to ensure that health professionals clean their hands, not the patients. Fcuking idiots. Everything they do annoys me now.

janeybabe wrote: »

I was going to mention this ad too! Stupid women. And why the hell do we need wipers that sense rain?

Some people are just too stupid to turn on/off the wipers. How many times have you been driving along and some idiot still has the wiper (back or front) going long after the rain stops?

janeybabe wrote: »

It could be fairly dangerous though, wipers turning on automatically when it rains.

What about when you're getting the car washed. Do the wipers come on and snap off under the big rotary washy thing (highly technical description I know)?

My pet peeve right now, are ads with coughing in them. First one was the Pfizer/Cancer society one with the guy coughing along to some classical piece. The second one is Lemsip cough medicine. The ad goes something like "There are times, when the last thing anyone needs is a chesty cough", like there's actually a time when that's exactly what you do need. Accompanying the irritating coughing is some dizzy b1tch moaning. That's two for two now for Lemsip, last year it was the sound of someone slurping from a mug, this year it's coughing.

fricatus wrote:

I cannot STAND that ad where the ultra-competitive mother - sorry, "mom"

Grandmother I think.

jor el

Just remembered, did anyone catch the ad for the new series of Lost that was running yesterday? Why the feck does she pronounce it Loast (sounds like toast)? Is there a special course on how to pronounce words wrong, that you have to do before you can do voice overs? And don't even get me started on In-shur dot ie :mad:

Green Giant

The Hallifax 'oh flip' ad :mad:

expected to be the leading cause of rage-related radio damage this February

FlutterinBantam

jor el wrote: »

Just remembered, did anyone catch the ad for the new series of Lost that was running yesterday? Why the feck does she pronounce it Loast (sounds like toast)? Is there a special course on how to pronounce words wrong, that you have to do before you can do voice overs? And don't even get me started on In-shur dot ie :mad:

No, but apparently there is a course on how to pronounce words wrongly,which you have to do before you can do voiceovers.

So I'm reliably informed.

jor el

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

No, but apparently there is a course on how to pronounce words wrongly,which you have to do before you can do voiceovers.

:eek: Repeat after me: Goardai, Loast, PortaloisEEEH, Inshur, Towking (talking), Goran (it's Gowran you tools) etc...

fricatus

jor el wrote: »

Goran (it's Gowran you tools) etc...

No, I work in KK, and I found out quickly that Gowran rhymes with Horan.

EdgarAllenPoo

I think the new Trevor Brennan ads are so bad they're good. Could he sound any more robotic and could he sponsor anything further removed from rugby than road sweeping machines?

tSubh Dearg

Today I heard the worst ad ever to try and prevent the "yoof" from drinking.

It started with one girl detailing to her friend what they would do that night, which included vomiting and passing out.

However the pure gem of the thing was the voice over at the end saying "Drinking too much is not cool. If you're going out don't be not cool." I actually laughed out loud in work at it.

Green Giant

GDM wrote: »

I think the new Trevor Brennan ads are so bad they're good. Could he sound any more robotic and could he sponsor anything further removed from rugby than road sweeping machines?

OMG that's even better than Ronan O'Gara going on about platinum

swingking

Couple of ads I can't stand

1. The stupid specsavers ad: Here we have Edith Piaf singing nd some knob translating her with reference to her not going to specsavers.

2. Inshur dot ie: Holy shít I am going to kill the person who came up with the most moronic ad ever.

3. Dolmio Ads: They've been asking "whensa your Dolmio day" for the last decade. Please stop!!!

rant over

Basq

Inshur.ie...

.. that's all!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

jor el

swingking wrote: »

3. Dolmio Ads: They've been asking "whensa your Dolmio day" for the last decade. Please stop!!!

When'sa your stereotype day? I hope Giovanni doesn't start listening to the radio when he comes to Ireland.