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Do advertisements work on you?

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  • #32
    pikachucheeks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Warfi wrote: »
    Ah the well known 'pester-power' :)

    Are you calling me a pest?! :P

    A lot more ads than we realise are aimed at children, apart from the obvious fruit juice, sweets and toys, even ads with bright colours and playful jingles are designed to appeal to a younger audience.

    Even how supermarkets are laid out - they have certain products in easy-to-reach low shelves so children will be able to see and access them, encouraging their parents to buy the products.
    It's very clever, really - the children end up being perfect advertisers of the product.


  • #33
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    Are you calling me a pest?! :P

    A lot more ads than we realise are aimed at children, apart from the obvious fruit juice, sweets and toys, even ads with bright colours and playful jingles are designed to appeal to a younger audience.

    Even how supermarkets are laid out - they have certain products in easy-to-reach low shelves so children will be able to see and access them, encouraging their parents to buy the products.
    It's very clever, really - the children end up being perfect advertisers of the product.

    is that why they all affect you :):D;):p:pac:


  • #34
    Flying Abruptly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Flying Abruptly


    All the latest cadbury adverts seem to work like the gorilla, airport vehicle race and the eyebrows. They really get people talking about the ads but I dont know how much they effect sales


  • #35
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    Warfi wrote: »
    How could you argue with an ad that says the mascara makes your lashes look 12% bigger?:pac:

    15% of the time, I don't even listen to the ad, so I think that means that my lashes are on average 43.25 percent smaller than the lashes of a girl who wears the vibrating/volumising/mega mascara.

    My figures might be off what with the original claim being bull :D


    Exactly mascara ads annoy me so much! (Filmed with lash inserts),so basically this mascara won't look anything like this model's eyelashes as we have to use fake eyelashes!

    I have long enough eyelashes anyways,but like to wear mascara when going out.
    The ads must work at some level for me though,because even though I know their claims are probably bull,when in a chemist I will buy the product that I recognise the most.( usually loreal or maxfactor)


  • #36
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I used to, American telly is so full of those "As seen on TV" product adverts. I bought those space saver bags that you hoover, they are a load of shite! Anything I buy now goes through Consumer Reports first. :)


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  • #37
    pikachucheeks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Flying Abruptly wrote: »
    All the latest cadbury adverts seem to work like the gorilla, airport vehicle race and the eyebrows. They really get people talking about the ads but I dont know how much they effect sales

    Having a good ad definitely helps sales.

    Even if it's just talking about the ad, the brand name will be on people's minds.

    Good ads get people talking which heightens brand awareness. Also when people see a product by the company, it will trigger a reaction, linking them back to the ad.


  • #38
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,674 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I get the urge to go to Paul's house every time I need to egest.


  • #39
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    artanevilla wrote: »
    I get the urge to go to Paul's house every time I need to egest.

    lol :D

    I pity that kid so much.
    The amount of slagging he's going to get when older!


  • #40
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    Little Acorn wrote: »
    The ads must work at some level for me though,because even though I know their claims are probably bull,when in a chemist I will buy the product that I recognise the most.( usually loreal or maxfactor)

    I go for brand names too...I'm wary of spending money on something that's not well known or I don't know anything about


  • #41
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Advertisements work on all of us, in varying degrees. And often subliminally.


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  • #42
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    Are you calling me a pest?! :P

    A lot more ads than we realise are aimed at children, apart from the obvious fruit juice, sweets and toys, even ads with bright colours and playful jingles are designed to appeal to a younger audience.

    Even how supermarkets are laid out - they have certain products in easy-to-reach low shelves so children will be able to see and access them, encouraging their parents to buy the products.
    It's very clever, really - the children end up being perfect advertisers of the product.

    I still remember the milky bar ads from when I was young(er). And I recently saw a milky way I hadn't seen in years. I still remembered the tag line the first time I saw it though 'and good ol' blue he took the milky way'.

    That reminds me, I milk must milk go milk out milk and milk buy milk some milk....


  • #43
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    On the whole, I don't think the majority of ads effect what I buy. For cosmetics, etc. I stick to things certified by someone like the Soil Association, etc. For everything else, it's whatever is the best value for money.

    The only ad that made me want to buy the product was that infomercial about the ink pen that can cut through a can. I wanted to buy it to see what else it could cut through.


  • #44
    pikachucheeks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Warfi wrote: »
    I still remember the milky bar ads from when I was young(er). And I recently saw a milky way I hadn't seen in years. I still remembered the tag line the first time I saw it though 'and good ol' blue he took the milky way'.

    That reminds me, I milk must milk go milk out milk and milk buy milk some milk....


    My dad knows the Irish Milky Bar kid!
    :cool:


  • #45
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Ads for womens products do my face in.
    • Face creams for 'younger looking skin' = Bollox, utter bollox.
    • Tampons and sanitary towels.

      The only time I'm ever happy to see a fcuking tampon is when I was worried about not getting the bastarding period in the first place.
    • Andie Mc Dowell, go away ffs! Face creams, hair fcuking dyes...

    And we all love I'm going to do 'ay' poo at 'pawls'.. :rolleyes:


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    My dad knows the Irish Milky Bar kid!
    :cool:

    What a really random thing to admit :pac:


  • #46
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    My dad knows the Irish Milky Bar kid!
    :cool:
    Free milkybars?


  • #47
    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    Neamhshuntasach wrote: »
    Nope. I'll only buy when i need stuff and i usually read up on it. Don't think i've ever seen an ad and bought a product. Consciously or subconsciously.

    How would you actually know if advertising had subconciously affected you or not? :confused:


  • #48
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    My dad knows the Irish Milky Bar kid!
    :cool:
    So the 'milky bars are on your father's friend' (cue kids going mental) :pac:


  • #49
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Advertisement, pfft. People who let it affect them are complete and utter morons. I can't even remember the words in the ads, let alone am I affected by their marketing of a refreshing beverage with a hint of lemon that will allow my mouth to experience a taste sensation that's available in all kinds of sizes from a can for the kids to a 3L bottle that is ideal for those long summer droughts.

    I'm thirsty.


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