Terrible ad campaigns that are a waste of time

WoollyRedHat

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

Fighting Irish

blast with piss

Fighting Irish

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056559205

summerskin

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

Seachmall

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so don't buy the product.


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El Weirdo

"AIDS - Who wants to get old anyway?"

KeithM89_old

Fighting Irish wrote: »

blast with piss

Post that shite one more time and youre gone.

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.

John_Rambo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

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.

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.

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.

The King of Moo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

summerskin

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

El Weirdo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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?

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

summerskin

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

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...

summerskin

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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

Herb Powell

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

WoollyRedHat

summerskin wrote: »

Lulz u Soooooo funneee

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

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

summerskin

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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.

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.

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

John_Rambo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

but that I find it to be an ineffectual ad campaign

Who told you it was ineffective?

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.

John_Rambo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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)

The King of Moo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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

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

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.

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?
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.

Capt'n Midnight

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930726&slug=1712840

Pepsi lottery backfired, and people died

In a marketing mistake that surely must rank among the world's worst, Pepsi had announced the wrong number. Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000 bottle caps marked 349 had been printed. And tens of thousands of Filipinos soon began demanding billions of dollars that Pepsi refuses to pay.

The dispute - on which Pepsi has spent millions of dollars - has sparked a Cola War, Philippines-style. Pepsi records show that at least 32 delivery trucks have been stoned, torched or overturned. Armed men have thrown homemade bombs at Pepsi plants and offices.

In the worst incident, police say a fragmentation grenade tossed at a parked Pepsi truck in a Manila suburb Feb. 13 bounced off and killed a schoolteacher and a 5-year-old girl and wounded six other people.

John_Rambo

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Don't see it being subtle either.

Are you talking about the while camping or just one of the radio ads??

WoollyRedHat

John_Rambo wrote: »

Are you talking about the while camping or just one of the radio ads??

Radio ads.

Dudess

The broadband one with the smart-arse precocious kids.

The yogurt one with a bunch of bints in a car arriving at a festival in stilleto heels - of course nobody would do that, but these girls are super-girlir and KOOKY!!! They can't walk in the mud so they spot some poor gormless young fella and flutter their eyelashes at him - he unloads all their girlie chick-lit and diet books and creates a path for them with the books, confident he'll get the ride. But those feisty gals storm down the path leaving him bewildered and dejected.
Kunt of an ad.

Pdfile

Dudess wrote: »

The broadband one with the smart-arse precocious kids.

The yogurt one with a bunch of bints in a car arriving at a festival in stilleto heels - of course nobody would do that, but these girls are super-girlir and KOOKY!!! They can't walk in the mud so they spot some poor gormless young fella and flutter their eyelashes at him - he unloads all their girlie chick-lit and diet books and creates a path for them with the books, confident he'll get the ride. But those feisty gals storm down the path leaving him bewildered and dejected.
Kunt of an ad.

them plus the coke ad wit the sluts on the strngs...

we all know women are wired... but come on... their only in the office to make the tea and be pretentious... its clear that the only work they will do is move around like a bunch of G33bags and well.. ruin the flow of work.


also, who told eircom it would be a good idea to tell som jailbait to talk to her parents about the fella grooming her ( or atleast thats what it seems like )

Fighting Irish

KeithM89 wrote: »

Post that shite one more time and youre gone.

but it makes me look so cool

Pdfile

Fighting Irish wrote: »

but it makes me look so cool

blast him with pish, i dare ya..

Fighting Irish

Pdfile wrote: »

blast him with pish, i dare ya..

Just pointing out how stupid the saying is :pac:

The King of Moo

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Just pointing out how stupid the saying is :pac:

Which is why people always use it ironically, like you did.

AgileMyth

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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

Isn't the point of the campaign to raise awareness to the product? Would you agree that you are now aware of the product?

Hardly a waste of time just because you don't like the product.

KKkitty

Mine has to be the 48 mobile company ads. Seriously right you can only be with them for 4 years for a start and not all people between the ages of 18 and 22 are as described on the ads. 48 go conquer, 48 gtfo more like.

Sir Gallagher

The ad about rashers with your one getting married talking to her child like a thick, "Gans Gans is gonna bring you to the church" or something to that effect. Twee, smugg bollox.