Are you influenced by ads

[RoJoHen]

I will be more likely to be influence by ads to buy a new product rather than an existing product. I mean, I'm not gonna watch a Coca-Cola commercials and decide to buy some Coke, but if Coca-Cola came out with a new flavor or something, I might be inclined to pick it up and try it.

 

[Hermiod]

Oh, don't be silly. That's just a load of rich, creamery butter.

I, like a few other posters so far, am negatively influenced by the content of certain ads. There are products I would have considered buying that I now won't because of the way they are advertised.

 

[Hunter X]

I know I've been influenced by food ads, but it's silly for anyone who was raised in a culture that inundates you in advertising to say you're not influenced in some way. We just don't see the full effects of the influence because it's part of what we accept as normal.

 

[Trubinator]

Everyone is. Lots of people write ads off as crap and claim they have no effect on them, but they conveniently forget that the purpose of advertising is not to make them purchase things they have no interest in ; the purpose is to get them to buy things they ARE interested in. So if you're hungry and you see an ad for Taco Bell, you may go out and eat there.

 

[gh4chiefs]

I rarely if ever was influenced on the basis of an advertisement, except maybe for a videogame or console when I was a kid as I would already have a prior interest in it. Do people really purchase things based on what they see on tv/billboards??? I guess its a statistical probability which is why there are ads, though this still baffles me a bit.

Actually the utter stupidity of a lot of ads have just the opposite effect upon me.

 

[FordSVT]

Only by food ads. Sometimes an ad will introduce me to a new product I hadn't seen before (Example is Betty Crocker's Warm Delights). Sometimes it reminds me to get something that I enjoy anyway (such as buttery popcorn).

Advertisements for cars I really don't get. No one's sitting on the couch watching a car ad and suddenly thinks, "I have to go get that car!" That's sort of a big purchase that you would do some research into instead of just following an ad.

Right, but if you're already in the market for a car and an advertisement comes on for a model you previously hadn't considered, you might put it on your list if you find it attractive, are impressed with an award it received, etc.

There are a dozen or more makes and models in every category, and most people usually have it narrowed down to just a couple for no real good reason other than maybe a friend has one, or they saw one and liked the looks of it. It's easy to make someone say "Oh, forgot about that Mazda" or whatever.

 

[Amaris]

Oh, don't be silly. That's just a load of rich, creamery butter.

I'm glad someone noticed!

I, like a few other posters so far, am negatively influenced by the content of certain ads. There are products I would have considered buying that I now won't because of the way they are advertised.

I've done that before, too. It happened with the Toyota Yaris commercial. I kid you not. In this commercial, there was this little piggy bank and a Yaris sitting next to it. The little piggy bank is cute and has been instilled with some sentient traits. Well, the Yaris rolls up while the announcer is talking, and the piggy bank starts shaking in fear and backing up little by little, (I guess because the Yaris is saving you money) and some kind of laser from the car slices the piggy bank in two. I was pissed. I actually wrote them a letter wondering whether their advertisers stuck firecrackers up frog's asses as children!

I mean, this commercial was so mean spirited I couldn't help but hate the product. To this day I will never consider a Yaris. It left enough of an emotional hit on me that I don't even look at them as options. I bought a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, where we don't do that shit.

J.

 

[Starbreaker]

Food ads really get to me. Sometimes I'm at Burger King before I realize what's going on.

 

[dru]

Well wouldn't you know it! NOBODY here is apparently effected by ads *snorts*

If you think about where most ads are aimed, that isn't too surprising. Around this site we're not young or new moms. We're also jaded.

 

[freak]

Yes, sadly I am. Even though those Sonic commercials erk me every time, I'm always influenced by them. It gets irritating sometimes as well too.

 

[Iasius]

Consciously? Very rarely. I certainly don't remember ever having intentionally clicked on an online ad, for example.

Otherwise I suppose I am sometimes influenced by the "I know this brand and don't know that one" effect of past ads or things like that.

 

[Sakrysta]

I was surprised when I started watching shows online instead of on TV how much unnecessary junk I suddenly knew nothing about. Seriously, I do occasionally catch a commercial that interests me in a product - usually something new.

For example, mosquitoes find me delectable. I can't spend any time outside in the summer without becoming a banquet for biting whiners. So, when I saw an ad for this bug-repellent fan thing that you clip on your belt, I figured it was worth a try, and next time I was out shopping, I picked one up. So far, it seems to work pretty well. The instructions do warn you that if you move around a lot it will be less successful, which makes sense. I mainly need it for standing on the porch potting flowers, so for that purpose, it seems effective.

 

[Mistral]

The only thing advertising has done for me in the last few years is make it impossible to listen to Bob Seeger's "Like a Rock".

 

[Sephiroth]

if it's something new that either looks tasty or usefull, but anything advertised to me in a talking pop-under, unskipable commercial between youtube/college humour videos, talking banner ad, or the like, I put on a list and I refuse to purchase

 

[Sephiroth]

The only thing advertising has done for me in the last few years is make it impossible to listen to Bob Seeger's "Like a Rock".

and that song goes on FOREVER and it's painfull to listen to, it's on the jukebox at my favorite restauraunt and a regular there plays it every time

 

[Harvey]

Surely I'm influenced by advertisements, although the slew of ads for cars (I'm in no financial position nor have any interest in purchashing one at the moment) and various medications (most of which are for afflictions I do not suffer from) probably aren't intended to be as effective on me as they are on older, richer demographics.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

If you've ever been on a street, and seen more than one fast food place on the road, and chosen one over the other, you have in some way been influenced by advertising. People saying they haven't are imo only right in an overt sense.

 

[Mistral]

If you've ever been on a street, and seen more than one fast food place on the road, and chosen one over the other, you have in some way been influenced by advertising. People saying they haven't are imo only right in an overt sense.

I think I've been influenced more by what kind of food the fast food joint serves-the grease to salt ratio is something I at least pay lip service to.

 

[Amaris]

I think my favorite words in any ad are "New" and "Improved".


J.

 

[wamdue]

I confess I am not someone who watchs all the ads for all the TV shows I watch, but yeah sometimes I am, I remeber watching an ad for a branded cider, that I happen to have a few boxes of in the garage, and god did it leave me craving one, so I went down to get one.

If you've ever been on a street, and seen more than one fast food place on the road, and chosen one over the other, you have in some way been influenced by advertising. People saying they haven't are imo only right in an overt sense.

what if neither stores are chains, dont advertise or are fairly generic in there appearance.

Like people have mentioned, I have decided not to buy a product due to how awful an advert is, and yeah when I first got my PVR when I would record EVERYTHING I was sometimes left not aware of the latest advertising craze, the general public were blabbing on about.