Do You Actually Watch Commericals?
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I like commercials. They make me laugh. Local commercials are my favorites.
Some of the local commercials are amusingly bizarre:
The auto dealer that stood on top of his rather tall sign. This was several decades ago and it looked pretty convincing, so he probably actually stood up there!
A more recent auto dealer whose ads frequently a female "customer" pursuing him to show an unwanted degree of gratitude. She's been in so many of that dealer's commercials I'm beginning to wonder if the character is portrayed by the guy's wife.
The window company ads that featured a boy throwing a baseball through a window, conveniently covered by the retailer's lifetime breakage warranty.
The chimney sweeps wearing their top hats. One commercial even features "customers" in colonial era costumes to show how such services have continued to be necessary over the centuries.
The auto dealer that stood on top of his rather tall sign. This was several decades ago and it looked pretty convincing, so he probably actually stood up there!
A more recent auto dealer whose ads frequently a female "customer" pursuing him to show an unwanted degree of gratitude. She's been in so many of that dealer's commercials I'm beginning to wonder if the character is portrayed by the guy's wife.
The window company ads that featured a boy throwing a baseball through a window, conveniently covered by the retailer's lifetime breakage warranty.
The chimney sweeps wearing their top hats. One commercial even features "customers" in colonial era costumes to show how such services have continued to be necessary over the centuries.
Nope. When they break for commercials, I start channel surfing to see what else is on. Depending on what I find, the program I was watching may or may not get me back.
If I'm watching live, I usually don't pay attention to commercials. If I recorded something, I'll fast-forward through them, but if something catches my eye, I'll stop and go back to see what it was. I wonder if commercials these days are designed that way... To get someone's attention even when they're fast-forwarding through them.
These ones?
I HATE that with a passion. On TV, there's not usually much difference, so it's not so bad, but online that's a completely different story. Go watch a TV show at a network's site, and you'll have to watch a few ads. Those ads are almost uniformly much louder than the show. It really pisses me off because usually when I'm watching something like that it's in the evening after my kids have gone to bed. I have the volume down so that I don't keep them up, then along comes a commercial that is uncomfortably loud and it wakes up my kids. I've gotten pretty good at knowing when it's coming and turning off the speakers before the ad starts, but it's still a major nuisance. The negative experience associated with the product certainly doesn't entice me to buy it.
As for me, I avoid ads whenever possible. Most of the TV I watch is recorded so that I can watch it later and skip the ads. I even refuse to watch any Youtube videos that have ads. If an ad comes on first, it's suddenly not worth my time and I'll go find something else. Likewise, I don't even notice banner ads on the internet. My kids will comment on an ad sometime on a page I'm looking at and I have no idea what they're talking about. I've even missed stuff on some webpages before because the content is in a part of the page usually occupied by ads. I just completely avoid looking at those areas of webpages.
I DVR almost everything and fast forward through the commercials. Tivo was really good about picking up the beginning of shows after commercial breaks, but Dish's DVR won't let you do that.
If I'm watching something on Hulu, I just surf.
If I'm on Netflix, I don't have to worry about it!
If I'm watching something on Hulu, I just surf.
If I'm on Netflix, I don't have to worry about it!
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Oh, that's just a load of rich, creamery butter.
Mute.
And/or I flip through the channels, go to the loo, fetch another cupper, put on some washing/hang it up to dry, do the dishes, entertain myself on-line, go to the corner-shop...
But I rarely watch anything on commercial channels anyway (which has saved me a small fortune in cable-bills
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And/or I flip through the channels, go to the loo, fetch another cupper, put on some washing/hang it up to dry, do the dishes, entertain myself on-line, go to the corner-shop...
But I rarely watch anything on commercial channels anyway (which has saved me a small fortune in cable-bills
)I rarely watch commercials. I almost always watch shows with DVR rather than live, and fast forward through most commercials, although occasionally one will catch my eye and I'll slow down for it.
I almost never watch anything live. It's all time shifted with my DVR. I fast forward through all ads.
Sometimes (your poll doesn't have an option for this.)
I really watch very little "sitting in front of the set" television; when I do I often mentally tune the commercials out, but every now and then there'll be one which is clever or entertaining enough that I'll watch. When watching online I'm also occasionally confronted with ads, and these get more or less the same treatment - tuned out unless they somehow catch my interest.
I usually watch the BBC so the only "ads" I see are for those promoting their own shows, and even those can become annoying. As others have mentioned I rarely just sit in front of the television without my laptop or some knitting, so when any kind of ads come on I have somewhere else to focus my attention.
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