Kids on ads lately

FlawedGenius

Big rise on kids starring in ads lately and not for toys or milk. Off the top of my head, eircom and some other insurance company where he is teaching the kids and has a very snotty patronising posh accent. A few ads on the radio too.
Irritating little fookers. I have no problem with kids speaking nice even posh but the american twang is head wrecking!!!!!

So why so many lately? I presume its cheaper to employ kids to do the ads then a nice looking adult but where the **** are they getting them all from, Foxrock?????

Boombastic

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Big rise on kids starring in ads lately and not for toys or milk. Off the top of my head, eircom and some other insurance company where he is teaching the kids and has a very snotty patronising posh accent. A few ads on the radio too.
Irritating little fookers. I have no problem with kids speaking nice even posh but the american twang is head wrecking!!!!!

So why so many lately? I presume its cheaper to employ kids to do the ads then a nice looking adult but where the **** are they getting them all from, Foxrock?????

They found them all doing a poo at Pauls

michellie

You're easily bothered!

Fromthetrees

Blackmail for parents.
Eye candy for pedo's.

Marketing WINNER,

gobnaitolunacy

Ad agencies with bags of sweets hanging around outside the Billie Barry stage school.

Shryke

Recessionary trend probably to use children with an eye on family being seen as more important in hard times and I think a bit of a baby boom since everyone is staying at home having sex lately, except me.
Cheap and cute might be another one but you can pay any number of wannabe actors to do adds for peanuts so I don't think that's it.

Triangular

michellie wrote: »

You're easily bothered!

You're a mother?

Rocket19

Hmm can't say I noticed. I don't think the kid in the eircom ad sounds American anyway!

I'd agree with you for some of the radio ads though. There was one a while ago for the National Aquatic Centre and it WRECKED my brain. Wasn't even D4! Genuine fake American accent going on. Cannot comprehend!

mr kr0nik

I blame the interweb.

PizzamanIRL

I love that new Eircom ad with the little kid and his blank expression.

woodoo

OK we're done

keith16

woodoo wrote: »

OK we're done

I really don't get that ad. Makes me want to punch children.

MistyCheese

Companies seem to have decided that obnoxious, precocious brats were the way to go to advertise their wares. So now it's a trend. I fail to see a link between children and home insurance, washing up liquid or hair dye but apparently fully grown adults, who will be the ones actually purchasing these things, enjoy being advised on such things by prepubescent smartarses.

fasttalkerchat

If it keeps the pedos at home in front of the TV that's a good thing.

longhalloween

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I love that new Eircom ad with the little kid and his blank expression.

I'd love if UPC did an ad with that kid asking the questions and the adult saying stuff like 'Of course it's uncongested', 'what the hell does "next-generation broadband" actually mean?' and '8mb?, I have 150mb!.' Then the kid cries.

WhimSock

Know-it-all snotnosed little twerps is all they are.

Wee Willy Harris

Reality: Men>Women>Kids

Advert: Kids>Women>Men

Seems the recession isn't affecting the Speech and Drama classes industry.

Mikeyt086

Eircom now have a history with REALLY annoying kids in adverts.

They seem to think that someone actually wants to use this "Eircom Study Hub" lark, and thus, we have that irritating little muppet going to "learn French" with his weird friend's au pair, then that HEADWRECKING girl who would say "I'm bunkin' into a festival!" wow I hated her.

Yakult

I was thinking the exact same thing the last day. Some mortgage ad, Eircom and Persil (with that terrible song) are the only ones coming to mind so far.

Allyall

There's heaps of them

The Oreos ad, where the kid is telling her dad he's not ready for them (oreos) yet..
But i think Oreos are just patronising anyway. :mad:
LINK

Frequently Asked Question? :eek::eek:

I can’t twist my Oreo. What am I doing wrong?
There certainly is an art to it! If you grip the biscuit too hard, they will break due to the soft, crumbly texture. In our experience the best approach is to hold the biscuit at the top and bottom as if opening a screw top jar. Oreo has a lovely creamy filling and if the biscuit is too cold (below -18ºC, certainly not helped by our weather!) the cream becomes much firmer, making the twisting process more difficult. When the biscuit is warmer you will find the process easier. Mmm… hot Oreo!

The two mentioned in the OP.

And now that i'm trying to think of more, i can't..
Marketing seems to have seasonal themes, i remember a while ago there were loads of ads with a bloke reading poetry, or rhymes over them.
Female singers, covering songs in their own "Unique" way.

I think "Bring me sunshine" was covered twice this summer in two separate ads.

But i do find the Adverts with Patronising kids, anything but cute.

Just annoying.

mauzo

THere's only one ad with a child in it that I find cute. I think It's for cornflakes, around Christmas.
The kids fall asleep and the little girl wakes up and sees Santa eating a bowl of cornflakes and he tells her to shush...

NOt annoying at all, as long as its only shown in December!!!!

Oreo girl annoys me, the attitude....

Seamu$

longhalloween wrote: »

I'd love if UPC did an ad with that kid asking the questions and the adult saying stuff like 'Of course it's uncongested', 'what the hell does "next-generation broadband" actually mean?' and '8mb?, I have 150mb!.' Then the kid cries.

That ad is indescribably irritating when you are sitting at home waiting for something to load on your 1Mb Eircom connection that is only delivering 0.19Mb even though Eircom don't see anything wrong with the line, have sent their technician out & have tried a new filter & router but haven't bothered look at it since and keep telling you your exchange is 8MB NGB enabled!

I feel compelled to do a response ad to say "yes, yes I am with Eircom", "no, it isn't uncongested actually","you can't get NGB to me because of my distance to the exchange, why don't you mention this in your ad?","8Mb? In your theoretical dreams","don't need studyhub",have all my music","I've rang local wireless provider who can provide 3MB....yep, we're done"!!

Nothing against the kid obviously, it's not fair to send them out delivering the propaganda.

**rant over**

Rothko

mauzo wrote: »

THere's only one ad with a child in it that I find cute. I think It's for cornflakes, around Christmas.
The kids fall asleep and the little girl wakes up and sees Santa eating a bowl of cornflakes and he tells her to shush...

NOt annoying at all, as long as its only shown in December!!!!
.

Ah, I like that ad too.

Wee Willy Harris

lately ads on Kids

say_who_now?

This one actually bugs the fcuk out of me! :mad:

Feeona

The Eircom ad p*sses me off because it ripped off the scene between Macaulay Culkin and John Candy in 'Uncle Buck' :mad:

swimming in a sea

advertising must be just cyclical as seems only a few years ago the two fat kids were advertising the vauxhall.

Shivers26

The one that does my face in is the ad for Vanish or something else clothes washing related and the teacher points to her shirt and says 'what colour is this?' and the kids all say 'grey' in a horrible, dubbed sing-song voice *shudder*

This ad is class however (Darth Vader VW ad) - sorry I don't know how to embed the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

csi vegas

I fúcking hate the Persil ad "we will rock you" - have to switch off every time. And as for that previously shown McDonalds ad, the kids talking about what they want to be when they grow up :mad:

hatrickpatrick

I'm actually someone who gets on very well with kids and has far more patience than most people I know even when being pelted with rugby balls and gun pellets for the craic, probably because most of my cousins are preteen so I'm used to it, and I was just about to make this thread when I noticed this one.

That ad for mortgage protection, or as he says in his Marian Finucane impression "Mortgage Prot hhhhhhhEEEction", is literally one of the most mind blowingly irritating things I've seen on TV in a long time. And as well as getting on with kids, I generally don't get bothered by ads easily at all. Can't remember the last time I was so irritated by an ad I felt like moaning about it on the internet or otherwise.

What the hell are they thinking? Far from being encouraged, I'd almost consider boycotting such companies just for putting this stuff on the air. It's got to the point now where almost every ad in an ad break earlier was the same tired "kids lecturing people about incredibly boring products" routine.
Glad I'm not the only one who's starting to get annoyed about it

Pottler

"we will we will rock you". No you wont. Fcuk off.

TheFisherKing

On the bus lately (yes, I am a bus wanker) I keep seeing an ad with a little girl holding a piglet, that has a ribbon tied around it's belly - what's it advertising? As it's not so easily discernible from the back seat downstairs, where I always sit as it's always warm and cozy and beside the fire exit should we tip over into the Liffey at any point and I need to make a quick escape.

AnonoBoy

They're not kids, they're all adults.

You're just getting old.

AnonoBoy

TheFisherKing wrote: »

On the bus lately (yes, I am a bus wanker) I keep seeing an ad with a little girl holding a piglet, that has a ribbon tied around it's belly - what's it advertising?

Galtee.

TheFisherKing

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Galtee.

Really? As I was half thinking it was a PETA campaign as the last thing you'd want to do seeing the cute little thing is eat it.

Nor the piglet either for that matter.

marketty

Funny that the eircom ad annoys UPC fans, I've to listen to Craig Doyle goin on about fibre power broadband that's not available anywhere I've ever lived

Catari Jaguar

"Hydroponics blah blah growshop dot ai ee"

I think that kid wants me to start growing my own weed...

GarIT

Based on a few people I know trying to get into the business. Children in advertising get paid approx €200-€250 per day. Adults in advertising get paid €1,000-€1,500 per day.

coonecb1

Feeona wrote: »

The Eircom ad p*sses me off because it ripped off the scene between Macaulay Culkin and John Candy in 'Uncle Buck' :mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMWgW6QNuw

DonkeyStyle \o/

FlawedGenius wrote: »

So why so many lately?

You're seeing more lately because it's probably getting results.
They'll show you what ever imagery makes you most amenable to their message.

Feeona wrote: »

The Eircom ad p*sses me off because it ripped off the scene between Macaulay Culkin and John Candy in 'Uncle Buck' :mad:

Aye, a shocking lack of artistic integrity there.

iguana

AnonoBoy wrote: »

They're not kids, they're all adults.

You're just getting old.

Well the kids in the chridtmsd cornflakes ad certainly are. That ad must be at least 25 years old.

breffni666

The growshop.ie radio ad. American/Canadian accent wtf!!!???

gobnaitolunacy

GarIT wrote: »

Based on a few people I know trying to get into the business. Children in advertising get paid approx €200-€250 per day. Adults in advertising get paid €1,000-€1,500 per day.

That'll keep them in sweets for months...whoo, €250 I'm a millionaire!

Cianos

GarIT wrote: »

Based on a few people I know trying to get into the business. Children in advertising get paid approx €200-€250 per day. Adults in advertising get paid €1,000-€1,500 per day.

Actors fees are a miniscule part of overall production and marketing fees. They wouldn't strategise a nationwide ad campaign based on how much they can save by hiring kids instead of adults.

Mushy

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I'm actually someone who gets on very well with kids and has far more patience than most people I know even when being pelted with rugby balls and gun pellets for the craic, probably because most of my cousins are preteen so I'm used to it, and I was just about to make this thread when I noticed this one.

That ad for mortgage protection, or as he says in his Marian Finucane impression "Mortgage Prot hhhhhhhEEEction", is literally one of the most mind blowingly irritating things I've seen on TV in a long time. And as well as getting on with kids, I generally don't get bothered by ads easily at all. Can't remember the last time I was so irritated by an ad I felt like moaning about it on the internet or otherwise.

What the hell are they thinking? Far from being encouraged, I'd almost consider boycotting such companies just for putting this stuff on the air. It's got to the point now where almost every ad in an ad break earlier was the same tired "kids lecturing people about incredibly boring products" routine.
Glad I'm not the only one who's starting to get annoyed about it

Could not agree more on everything you have said. Its the only ad I now go out of my way to turn off/mute, thats how much I hate it.

If ever I have to get a mortgage, Im avoiding that company like the plague.