Eyebrow death

[Rsmacker]

Normally I couldn't give a toss about adverts and wouldn't do the company a favour by promoting their products for them, but this fucking advert is driving me mad. These kids are demonic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY&feature=related

[Snoogans]

It's fucked up, but it's better than that bloody drumming gorilla!

[RacerX]

Ha ha ha!

Um, what bloody drumming gorilla? (wince)

[Snoogans]

The last Cadburys ad campaign featured a bloke in a gorilla suit playing drums along to Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight.
Youtube is probably your friend here, if you can be bothered....

[VitaminG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBwnKQEJkiM

[zeegler]

Those aren't so bad at all. In fact the Gorilla one is kinda cool. Over hear they seem to think that the idea is to make commercials as annoying and detestable as possible, and I guess they think that will sell their product.

There's a couple of dog food commercials, I forget the brand, but it's just a dog eating out of a bowl, and the audio track is just the sounds of the dog eating. It's fucking repugnant, and makes me sick. I have to flip channels when it comes on.

Then there's the slew of commercials featuring the songs of that annoying Feist chick, or whatever her name is. There's commercials for GM, Ford, Mac, and a whole bunch of other shit that have her songs in the commercials. I think she has the most irritating voice I've ever heard, and her music sucks shit.

[hunter8]

man that is sooo weird. lmfao.

[Mrs Tekky]

The point of advertising is not to be the nice commercial or the most well liked - you want to be the most talked about, the one that gets all the attention. Sometimes being the most irritating gets the most attention.

Just like people on message boards!

[Spivonious]

As long as they don't start using that damn crazy frog.

[Endrik]

I despise commercials but watching Finnish tv channels it's not too bad... many are made with a great sense of humor

[zeegler]

The point of advertising is not to be the nice commercial or the most well liked - you want to be the most talked about, the one that gets all the attention. Sometimes being the most irritating gets the most attention.

Just like people on message boards!

They might get attention, but I will go out of my way to avoid buying products that are featured in annoying commercials. Kinda defeats the purpose of advertising.

[Newc]

Exactly. I avoid products that use lame gimmicks like sexual innuendo (the "Orgasmic Shampoo", etc) or repetition ("Head-On", etc), or Billy Mays

[VitaminG]

in the end, it doesn't matter if you boycott the product because the ad is annoying. If you then complain to everyone you know about how goddamned annoying that commercial is, a whole other group of consumers who might have missed the campaign are made aware of the product. That doesn't mean they are going to rush out & buy it because you said the ad was awful, but it will raise their awareness of the brand.

The advertisers don't care if you love or loathe the commercial, only that you talk about it and remember it.

[RacerX]

I love In The Air Tonight, so that ad was great! Thanks, VitaG!

[VitaminG]

no probs, Ron. I've always liked the ad too. First time I saw it, I thought it might've been some WWF ad illustrating the plight of gorilla's in captivity with dramatic Phil Collins soundtrack. And then the camera pulls back to reveal a drum kit!