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Even more adverts you despise

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    #3872
    Apt8
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭Apt8


    That irritating LUCKY LUCKY LUCKY ME ad came up in conversation at work. Funny thing, everyone agreed that the ad is intensely irritating, and no-one could even remember what the ad is for!

    Kudos to that marketing team, the joy of not being sold anything.


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    #3873
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    A BETTER NAME for this thread would be 'Ads one likes'. Most ads are stupid, annoying or pointless. Moreover, most people do not even remember or care what the product they promote even is. The worst ads are those bank, insurance and beer/cider ones (especially the Orchard Thieves series of ads) but most of them are bad. Very few good ads these days.


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    #3874
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    The Quote Devil ads are the pits.


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    #3875
    magic_murph
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭magic_murph


    Anything with animals with human voices - TV & Radio. How is that a good option to make us part with cold hard cash.


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    #3876
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,283 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Mother of god there's another insurance and... Fella gets his sports car burned to a crisp and lo and behold the kind hearted insurance company give him an exact replacement, in my hole!!!

    and his agent was personally handling his calls when she was out and about looking all business like and important...

    uhuh

    employees on twenty grand a year don't usually take their phones with them on their 30 minute lunch break from the call center in the business park


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    #3877
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,278 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    The Quote Devil ads are the pits.

    They're like a web animation from the late 90s. Doesn't inspire confidence in a company when their adverts are so cheap.

    At least the other folks spent more than a tenner on advertising, even if the ads are crap.


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    #3878
    Apt8
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭Apt8


    Just had a Crazy Frog flashback there, thank Christ that trend died.


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    #3879
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,018 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    I will not be buying any fcuking Irish haddock after seeing that poxy bord bia ad.


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    #3880
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,278 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Mike Litoris wrote: »
    I will not be buying any fcuking Irish haddock after seeing that poxy bord bia ad.

    Small mercies, I guess-at least it's not Daithi O'Shea this time.


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    #3881
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Top 10 worst ads at the moment (some are a series of ads):

    10: Bank of Ireland Begin.
    9: AIB Backing Brave.
    8: Vodafone's Dermot Bannon ads.
    7: KBS The Bank of You.
    6-3: The various insurance ads.
    2: EBS The Mortgage Masters.
    1: The Orchard Thieves ads.


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    #3882
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Apt8 wrote: »
    Just had a Crazy Frog flashback there, thank Christ that trend died.

    Don't be giving Fionn from Morkeshing ideas!


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    #3883
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    magic_murph wrote: »
    Anything with animals with human voices - TV & Radio. How is that a good option to make us part with cold hard cash.

    What about the Churchill ads? (He's not a real dog, but he definitely has a human voice...) :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSz1hWrW7Y

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MvDhFFAhUM


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    #3884
    GCIREL
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭GCIREL


    The Late Late Show wrote: »
    Top 10 worst ads at the moment (some are a series of ads):

    10: Bank of Ireland Begin.
    9: AIB Backing Brave.
    8: Vodafone's Dermot Bannon ads.
    7: KBS The Bank of You.
    6-3: The various insurance ads.
    2: EBS The Mortgage Masters.
    1: The Orchard Thieves ads.

    Yep Bannon is creepy! Sneaking around kids rooms at bedtime.... weird ad


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    #3885
    hawkwing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,804 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    Jill!Already got this bad boy set up for ya:(


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    #3886
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,798 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    The Late Late Show wrote: »
    Top 10 worst ads at the moment (some are a series of ads):

    10: Bank of Ireland Begin.
    9: AIB Backing Brave.
    8: Vodafone's Dermot Bannon ads.
    7: KBS The Bank of You.
    6-3: The various insurance ads.
    2: EBS The Mortgage Masters.
    1: The Orchard Thieves ads.

    Can I add in that ridiculous Virgin media ad... Maybe position 1a?


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    #3887
    decky1
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭decky1


    Any of those adds for detergent that get's you white looking like new,and gets stains out of everything- they never seem to work, is this false advertising?


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    #3888
    caviardreams
    Registered Users Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭caviardreams


    That AXA ad where yer man's vintage car burns down or something and the women from axa seems to sort an identical one for him somehow. Or have I totally got the wrong end of the stick on this one :confused::mad::mad::mad:


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    #3889
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,798 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    caviardreams wrote: »
    That AXA ad where yer man's vintage car burns down or something and the women from axa seems to sort an identical one for him somehow. Or have I totally got the wrong end of the stick on this one :confused::mad::mad::mad:

    I mentioned it earlier, it's dreadful, particularly in Ireland where you can't get an agreed value policy. Well ordinary Joe soap can't


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    #3890
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,436 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Strange one here;

    You'll know this ad, right - starts out with 'Good Girl Phoebe' to the cat, right?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3MUX3V0aUE


    But it doesn't know - if you watch the ad that's playing now on TV, it is identical except that he doesn't start out with 'Good Girl Phoebe'.

    Did they fall out with Phoebe or something?


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    #3891
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Strange one here;

    You'll know this ad, right - starts out with 'Good Girl Phoebe' to the cat, right?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3MUX3V0aUE


    But it doesn't know - if you watch the ad that's playing now on TV, it is identical except that he doesn't start out with 'Good Girl Phoebe'.

    Did they fall out with Phoebe or something?

    Is it a cost v time thing. Cost per second verses the time they actually have in the slot. Some ads come out with a long version and then follow up with a (thankfully) shorter version then they have to fi the ads in so perhaps some are designed to run with different lengths to they can fit them in the time slot without messing up the scheduling?


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    #3892
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Those stupid Hyundai ads. If it’s not bad enough they’re slow AF diesels cars. Hyundai and Kia really are cars for people stuck in boring public service jobs and who take medication for erectile dysfunction.


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    #3893
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    we're the O'BUUUURRRRRRRNSSSSSS

    I love meat

    Isn't he gas

    Bleugh.


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    #3894
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    my3cents wrote: »
    Is it a cost v time thing. Cost per second verses the time they actually have in the slot. Some ads come out with a long version and then follow up with a (thankfully) shorter version then they have to fi the ads in so perhaps some are designed to run with different lengths to they can fit them in the time slot without messing up the scheduling?

    I just happened by that ad the other day, fairly sure he just said good girl, Phoebe has been removed from the ad :confused: doesn't shorten the ad.


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    #3895
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    What is the deal with your one in the BOI ad smashing the kitchen shelf with the sledgehammer? Mentalist!


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    #3896
    SirChenjin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭SirChenjin


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    What is the deal with your one in the BOI ad smashing the kitchen shelf with the sledgehammer? Mentalist!

    I mentioned that ad up thread, I don't get it - granted I haven't watched it properly.
    People gazing blankly and someone smashing up a kitchen. :confused:

    Sh1t ad.


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    #3897
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    optogirl wrote: »
    we're the O'BUUUURRRRRRRNSSSSSS

    I love meat

    Isn't he gas

    Bleugh.

    Who are they supposed to be? Extras from Game of Thrones I take it??


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    #3898
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    The Late Late Show wrote: »
    Who are they supposed to be? Extras from Game of Thrones I take it??

    Vikings, Game of Thrones extras are in the NI version!


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    #3899
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    What is the deal with your one in the BOI ad smashing the kitchen shelf with the sledgehammer? Mentalist!

    Probably refused a loan by BOI to do home improvements so decided to smash the **** out of the place?? I don't know, doesn't make any sense to me either! :D


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    #3900
    blueser
    Registered Users Posts: 10,691 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    I see the RSA Portarlington ad is back on yet again. Now don't get me wrong; the pain that family must be living through is unimaginable. They have my utmost sympathy. But that ad must be at least 4 or 5 years old now. There must be a danger of compassion fatigue with a percentage of viewers. I don't "despise" the ad (far from it), but perhaps it's time for the RSA to invest in a few new ads.


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    #3901
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Don't let your children eat our detergent pods, which we've made to look like ever-lasting gobstoppers from Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory


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