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Worst/Best Radio Ads

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  • 23-12-2005 5:22pm
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    homah_7ft
    Registered Users Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭


    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.
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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    vibrant
    Registered Users Posts: 826 ✭✭✭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? :confused:

    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?


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    radioman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭radioman


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


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    SoBe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭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


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    mickd
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭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


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    Benedict XVI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭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.


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    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


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


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    homah_7ft
    Registered Users Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭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.


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    Font22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Font22


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


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    mickd
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd


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


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    #12
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


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


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


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


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    Pingpong
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Pingpong


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


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    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭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:


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    Tazz T
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭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.


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    MarinoMark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭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 !


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    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭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....


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    mjquinno
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭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.


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    elurhs
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭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!!!


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    C_Breeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭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


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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭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?"


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    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭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.


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    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #25
    smashey
    Registered Users Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


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


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    limerick_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭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!!!


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    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭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).


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    #28
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭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


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    shortlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭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"


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    zippo22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭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. :(


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