Things in advertising that piss you off?

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-Personally, I can't stand when commercials have children with missing teeth to make it look cute and stuff. Those kids aren't cute and are pretty ugly.

-Companies enforcing stereotypes. Really?? An over charismatic African-American male advertising KFC?? STOP THIS SHIT IMMEDIATELY!!

-When companies replace a feeling/emotion with the name of their product/service. "DON'T JUST FEEL HAPPY! FEEL JOHN & CLARKS INSURANCE!", "Feel LottoMax Happy today!".
 
Advertising.

And old advertising, you know the kind that just has a picture of the product and a logo that just says "CONSUME!" in some variation. At least put some effort into your work, advertisers!
 
- stupid jingles

- lame attempts at humor (see Geico's caveman commercials)

- dumb mascots (see Geico's gecko)
 
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I got my degree in advertising. I love the medium and I believe that it has been one of the main causes for the incredible downfall in mankind's spirituality. Despite that though, it's a beautiful medium. Or at least I find beauty in the way it manages to permeate human beings.

Kinda reminds me of religion, but with a modern makeover.
 
I hate how people in advertising are the model of perfection. Flaws are EVIL. Obviously they have to focus on flaws and getting rid of them because that's what their product ultimately is supposed to achieve, but still, that's what I hate about it.
 
I hate those adverts with people in them who have obviously been dubbed over with someone else's voice.
What was so bad with their voice that it was considering better to give them the most unconvincing voice ever?
 
dygiT said:
-Companies enforcing stereotypes. Really?? An over charismatic African-American male advertising KFC?? STOP THIS SHIT IMMEDIATELY!!
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Wait. So a black man can't be in a KFC commercial?


RACIST!!
 
UK Gaffers should know this one.

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"Ya buy one, ya get one free, I said ya buy one, ya get one free"

Fuck off.

Oh and why pick the most annoying person ever? Change him for a woman in a bikini, baps out, and I'll be having new windows in. Twice.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
I got my degree in advertising. I love the medium and I believe that it has been one of the main causes for the incredible downfall in mankind's spirituality. Despite that though, it's a beautiful medium. Or at least I find beauty in the way it manages to permeate human beings.

Kinda reminds me of religion, but with a modern makeover.
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disgusting
 
BowieZ said:
I hate how people in advertising are the model of perfection. Flaws are EVIL. Obviously they have to focus on flaws and getting rid of them because that's what their product ultimately is supposed to achieve, but still, that's what I hate about it.
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this is why I love low budget local TV ads. they don't have money or a lot of style but, man, are they sure have real people. people with flaws.

it's a great change of pace from the onslaught of models you see in most generic ads.
 
I hate how they fuck with sound levels. IIRC they lower the sound quality so they can make it louder while getting around the rules against that. WORSE AND LOUDER. YES, THANK YOU TIME WARNER.
 
The typical TV commercial family...its made up of:

1) A 45 year old doofus looking husband
2) A 31 year old MILF-tastic looking wife
3) An 18 year old son
4) A 13 year old daughter
5) A 10 year old daughter

The image of what a family looks like is so distorted..its like the husbands married the wife when she was 12 and started having kids..
 
You know those 5 mins cheap ads that looks like they were made in the 80s or early 90s? You usually have your typical grandma or man who sucks at acting trying to sell a product and it ends with a blue screen with a lot of uninteresting details with the narrator saying : "AB KING PRO usually sold for 200$ can now be yours for only 4 payments of 29.99$! call us in the next 10 minutes and you can get 2 extra FREE items". Here in Quebec, we have those ads coming from the US or english Canada with horrible french voices and we still hear the horrible english voices behind them, so it's twice as horrible then what you guys have to deal with.
 
dygiT said:
-Personally, I can't stand when commercials have children with missing teeth to make it look cute and stuff. Those kids aren't cute and are pretty ugly.

-Companies enforcing stereotypes. Really?? An over charismatic African-American male advertising KFC?? STOP THIS SHIT IMMEDIATELY!!

-When companies replace a feeling/emotion with the name of their product/service. "DON'T JUST FEEL HAPPY! FEEL JOHN & CLARKS INSURANCE!", "Feel LottoMax Happy today!".
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Clicking some YT links here led me to this... I don't even understand what it is supposed to be... UK, madness, proper English devolving into a series of gurgling noises.

But I am personally annoyed by advertisments that exploit the stupid, the beautiful and the famous. Also cannot stand unnecessarily perfect depiction of real products.
 
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Hey, it's just the way things work. Ten centuries ago people gathered to listen to a dude speaking latin (and sometimes to another dude telling epic stories in their language), now we have the people worshipping some brands. And if it exists, it's because there is an audience for it. That's the beauty of capitalism, specially in terms of communication.
 
Every Gillette commercial pisses me off. They're so badly made! And putting Tiger Woods in them doesn't make it cooler. I wonder what kind of people buy their crap after seeing them and thinking "Hey, if Woods use it, I have to get it as well! Then I'll be the coolest guy ever!"

Gillette should be banned from ever making a commercial again.
 
dygiT said:
"Feel LottoMax Happy today!".
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Hello, fellow Canadian.

I was responsible for some of the Atlantic Canada LottoMax ad campaign, but thankfully not that one.

I try to stray away from products as feeling as much as possible!
 
I can't stand poorly marketed or poorly timed advertising. There is nothing worse than watching TV at breakfast and seeing a tampon commercial. Or seeing GoDaddy.com commercials in Band Hero. What 13 year old girl (target audience of the game) is going to need to use GoDaddy.com?
 
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