Things in advertising that piss you off?
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FormallyMegadrive
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"Keep your eeeeyes open foor a baargaiiin, CAR CITY." Mostly when they had it so the annoying chick and the guy that thought his air guitar made voice noises sung it from 12am-6am.
Also, I don't know if anyone from AusGAF in Melbourne is ever up late on weekdays, but I FUCKING HATE THE FUCKING BABY BUNTING FUCKING AD. It is the WORST piano I've ever heard AND it's fucking loud AND the song is fucking ridiculous AND it had the dumbest fucking slogan for a shop ever. "We're mums and dads too, so we know what you're going through." ARGHGHHHHH
"My baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting, gotta get a rabbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in."
IT IS NOT FUCKING MEDIEVAL TIMES YOU DO NOT NEED TO HUNT FOR RABBITSKINS.
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Also, I don't know if anyone from AusGAF in Melbourne is ever up late on weekdays, but I FUCKING HATE THE FUCKING BABY BUNTING FUCKING AD. It is the WORST piano I've ever heard AND it's fucking loud AND the song is fucking ridiculous AND it had the dumbest fucking slogan for a shop ever. "We're mums and dads too, so we know what you're going through." ARGHGHHHHH
"My baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting, gotta get a rabbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in."
IT IS NOT FUCKING MEDIEVAL TIMES YOU DO NOT NEED TO HUNT FOR RABBITSKINS.
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J. M. Romeo
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I don't quite get what you are trying to say with that gif.UraMallas said:
SatelliteOfLove
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Advertising that butts in on you, or is put there as you are seeing it with no choice (urinals, gasoline nozzles, etc).
Obnoxious, mostly cuz marketing only cares about being seen, rather than remembered fondly. No extra work on their part being creative or pithy.
Loud car salesmen
Why? They're expecting me to trust a 5 digit transaction with a blaring douchebag, like we're some idiots.
Oh wait, that's what they're fishing for, idiots.
"Advertising aimed at idiots", then.
Obnoxious, mostly cuz marketing only cares about being seen, rather than remembered fondly. No extra work on their part being creative or pithy.
Loud car salesmen
Why? They're expecting me to trust a 5 digit transaction with a blaring douchebag, like we're some idiots.
Oh wait, that's what they're fishing for, idiots.
"Advertising aimed at idiots", then.
J. M. Romeo
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hXc_thugg said:
Maybe it's like one of those funky Lynchesque Playstation ads.
CrocMother
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Everything in advertising pisses me off.
Dirk Shmiggler
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I hate the weird "refinance your mortgage" or whatever else gifs with those goofy looking animated girls doing those stupid fucking dance loops...
god those irk me.
god those irk me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp76ly2_NoI
I think this one has pretty much everything I find repugnant.
I think this one has pretty much everything I find repugnant.
The Wendy's Commercial making fun of Family Restaurants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3VFrYv3Vk&feature=player_embedded
As of the next couple weeks I'm starting a business, and this fucks up what the commercial is intending so badly. Maybe advertising degree guy can correct me if I'm wrong.
The basic message is; why go to an expensive Family Restaurant when you can get the same shit at Wendy's?
Thing being, people that would go to a family restaurant are probably not going to be the type to go to a fast food place for the same meal.
I would put the following where it needs emphasis in all caps, but it would all be in caps, so just imagine the next bit being some scene in a movie with me slapping marketing executives from Wendy's across the face in a darkened room, them tied to a chair, the sole light source above a slowly rotating ceiling fan that doesn't actually circulate any air. Tell me what the codes for the nukes are, Wendy's!
People don't go to Family restaurants because they want to pay less for some chicken wings. You go there, in short, BECAUSE OF the flair. You are not paying just for chicken wings, but that is the point of going there. You pay for service, people bringing stuff to your table, a pleasant, cleaner atmosphere, being able to watch a sports game, and consume alcohol.
Not only that, but you do get vastly better food at Flairtown instead of burgersmcshitville. Honestly, is any food you can get at any halfway ok restaurant actually worse than Wendy's?
So after all that, really, why eat at a Family Restaurant, where you get service, attention, feel valued as a customer, get better food.... Y'know, all the things you actually want/pay for/go to that place for, or you could go and get shitty wings from Wendy's?
For what profiteth a man, if he doth pay 2.99 for a medium wings, but he still hungers not from lack of consumption, but of kinship?
I've been doing it all wrong you guys! Instead of taking my dates to a Nice Bar/Club/Restaurant/Movies, I should've been taking them to the local burgerhole! Then, after observing my thrifty use of cash, and paying less for a not measurably inferior food product, she will undoubtedly appreciate my incredible application of Randian (har) Objectivism, and fall victim to my intellect, instead of, say, showing that I appreciate her by takign her to someplace that isn't a greasy shithole?
By Jove, I think I've got it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3VFrYv3Vk&feature=player_embedded
As of the next couple weeks I'm starting a business, and this fucks up what the commercial is intending so badly. Maybe advertising degree guy can correct me if I'm wrong.
The basic message is; why go to an expensive Family Restaurant when you can get the same shit at Wendy's?
Thing being, people that would go to a family restaurant are probably not going to be the type to go to a fast food place for the same meal.
I would put the following where it needs emphasis in all caps, but it would all be in caps, so just imagine the next bit being some scene in a movie with me slapping marketing executives from Wendy's across the face in a darkened room, them tied to a chair, the sole light source above a slowly rotating ceiling fan that doesn't actually circulate any air. Tell me what the codes for the nukes are, Wendy's!
People don't go to Family restaurants because they want to pay less for some chicken wings. You go there, in short, BECAUSE OF the flair. You are not paying just for chicken wings, but that is the point of going there. You pay for service, people bringing stuff to your table, a pleasant, cleaner atmosphere, being able to watch a sports game, and consume alcohol.
Not only that, but you do get vastly better food at Flairtown instead of burgersmcshitville. Honestly, is any food you can get at any halfway ok restaurant actually worse than Wendy's?
So after all that, really, why eat at a Family Restaurant, where you get service, attention, feel valued as a customer, get better food.... Y'know, all the things you actually want/pay for/go to that place for, or you could go and get shitty wings from Wendy's?
For what profiteth a man, if he doth pay 2.99 for a medium wings, but he still hungers not from lack of consumption, but of kinship?
I've been doing it all wrong you guys! Instead of taking my dates to a Nice Bar/Club/Restaurant/Movies, I should've been taking them to the local burgerhole! Then, after observing my thrifty use of cash, and paying less for a not measurably inferior food product, she will undoubtedly appreciate my incredible application of Randian (har) Objectivism, and fall victim to my intellect, instead of, say, showing that I appreciate her by takign her to someplace that isn't a greasy shithole?
By Jove, I think I've got it!
Companies that have a jingle that end up using their commercials to advertise their jingle more than their product or service. See: Subway, Safe Auto.
Enzyte has been running the same god damn Christmas Santa commercial for a year now. They started with the commercial last year, went through all months of 2009, and we've now officially come full circle. If I hear the words "chubby Santa" one more time I'm punching somebody in the dick.
Enzyte has been running the same god damn Christmas Santa commercial for a year now. They started with the commercial last year, went through all months of 2009, and we've now officially come full circle. If I hear the words "chubby Santa" one more time I'm punching somebody in the dick.
Servizio
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I know UK Gaf's looking forward to the Coke advert too ;]
But it's NOT the fucking coke ad, if it's not the convoy of trucks with the "holidays are coming" music.
That shitty advert with the girl getting older is NOT the goddamn coke ad.
But it's NOT the fucking coke ad, if it's not the convoy of trucks with the "holidays are coming" music.
That shitty advert with the girl getting older is NOT the goddamn coke ad.
Count Dookkake
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You guys should check out the movies Putney Swope and Crazy People. The former is quite a bit better than the latter, but they both ream the advertising industry.
KilledByBill
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How about the male-bashing which has become more and more blatant in recent years. Husband/boyfriend acting like a retarded man-child and the wife/girlfriend make that superior glance to the camera as if the solution to their partner's idiocy is just a product away.
abstract alien
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When people don't swallow their food or drink, then give you a smile while its still in their mouth.
Largely for uk GAF, but recommended viewing for everyone. Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe rather succintly wrapped up my thoughts on the industry in the advertising special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2IoYaldEI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGzxN0XWUE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJ0cO-DUyo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7bDGQ4uO8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2IoYaldEI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGzxN0XWUE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJ0cO-DUyo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7bDGQ4uO8&feature=related
lordoftherink
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QW3bInxgmc
It's alright, but I guess it could also fall under the promoting lifestyle over product category, too.
It's alright, but I guess it could also fall under the promoting lifestyle over product category, too.
TurboLibre
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never mind.
faceless007
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Show a shot of some clumsy incompetent stressed-out housewife screwing something up in black and white, then show them using a brilliant new product in living color and magically it does everything and your homework too. It's so good it fixes colorblindness!
I actually started my career in graphic design, and worked in advertising for a while for newspapers. Here is my pet peeve list: (of course from a graphic designer perspective)
1. Putting your logo / company name at the top of your ad. NO ONE cares about your company's name or logo the way you do. Hook the reader with something THEY care about, not something only you do.
2. STOP CRAMMING STUFF IN YOUR AD. That is unless you WANT it to be camouflage with the newspaper/magazine/website that it's placed in.
3. TRUST your graphic designer. They are the expert in effective aesthetics. You aren't. Man this bugged me on a daily basis, and is one of the many reasons I now work in video games. Thank goodness I now get to work for a boss who's a competent artist. In graphic design, your boss is your half-whit client who ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL will want you to non-uniformly scale a typeface.
/rant
1. Putting your logo / company name at the top of your ad. NO ONE cares about your company's name or logo the way you do. Hook the reader with something THEY care about, not something only you do.
2. STOP CRAMMING STUFF IN YOUR AD. That is unless you WANT it to be camouflage with the newspaper/magazine/website that it's placed in.
3. TRUST your graphic designer. They are the expert in effective aesthetics. You aren't. Man this bugged me on a daily basis, and is one of the many reasons I now work in video games. Thank goodness I now get to work for a boss who's a competent artist. In graphic design, your boss is your half-whit client who ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL will want you to non-uniformly scale a typeface.
/rant
Unknown One
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Back to back double and triple commercials.
I agree. The portrayal of stupid men in advertisements are generally extremely insulting to men. Not only does it re-enforces the idea that men are stupid and dumb, but also that women need to put up with their stupidity. It's very stupid all around.KilledByBill said:
If you're really interested in advertising, may I humbly suggest The Age of Persuasion, from the CBC? Terry O'Reilly does a bang-up job getting into the psychology of advertising with excellent examples of the genre from different time periods, and the presentation is second to none. No matter who is selling, he delves into it all - whether it's marketers shlocking peanut butter, or churches trying to increase their congregation numbers. Dude has a perfect voice for radio as well. Season 3 is up now, and they're working on getting Seasons 1 and 2 available.
I dislike
1. Ads that run back to back
2. Ads that show up every commercial break
3. Most ads in general.
For 1 and 2, you can imagine how fuding terrible it is if its one of the class of annoying ads
*Verizon, Microsoft 'i'm a PC' etc.
It's to the point really where I prefer to just bypass adverts entirely.
1. Ads that run back to back
2. Ads that show up every commercial break
3. Most ads in general.
For 1 and 2, you can imagine how fuding terrible it is if its one of the class of annoying ads
*Verizon, Microsoft 'i'm a PC' etc.
It's to the point really where I prefer to just bypass adverts entirely.
Terrascape
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Ads are great if they are 'good'. But I can count the amount of ads I've genuinely liked watching on one hand.
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