Yeah, that commercial always brought on a bizarre cognitive dissonance. The phrase (and the woman's reaction) made it seem like a good thing, but the way he said it sounded like an insult.
Most Annoying Commercials
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Yeah, that commercial always brought on a bizarre cognitive dissonance. The phrase (and the woman's reaction) made it seem like a good thing, but the way he said it sounded like an insult.
You want to talk annoying commercials? Just mention Steve Mizerany to anyone who ever lived in St. Louis... 
There's been a radio commercial that's been played for at least 3 years that I wish would just die:
1877 Kars For Kids
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, sorry for putting the stupid jingle in your head.
1877 Kars For Kids
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, sorry for putting the stupid jingle in your head.
That, but for me, the woman's scream/laugh was the worst part.
The local (maybe nation wide) Target Department stores make a point in December that they are having a "Holiday Sale," and not a Christmas sale. Then on December 26, they promptly have a "After Christmas Sale."
Pick one already.
Not to get into this silly argument again, but there's nothing contradictory about that at all. There is more than one holiday in December, so they are covering all their bases, but the After Christmas Sale denotes the specific (and biggest selling for retailers) Christmas holiday.
The commercials I hate are the ones for Miracle Whip where they get various c-list Jersey Shore-level celebrities and "normal" people to talk about how much they hate Miracle Whip in the most hyperbolic terms imaginable ("I'd leave my wife if she used Miracle Whip"), trying to establish themselves as the outlaw salad dressing/sandwich spread that doesn't play by the rules, I guess. Why are you wasting my time talking about your shitty product then?
The T-Mobile 4G commercials that blatantly ripped off the Mac vs PC setting and dynamic suck too, and rely on the same gimmick of grossly misrepresenting their opponent's alleged shortcomings in order to make themselves look better. The one thing they have going for it is that they replaced the annoying Mac kid with a hot chick in a pink and white dress.
Aye, it's clever three times, after that all mileage is lost
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that aint the type of head ache I have
I'm surprised no mentioned this annoying piece of shit
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ox4ZtRuICs[/yt]
That seems to come on every other minuet.
You know, I was scrolling down the thread, planning on posting this exact ad, which only proves the advertisers were definitely doing something right.
If you ever watch Top Gear repeats on the TV channel Dave, you'll have noticed that webuyanycar.com sponsor it. They've harnessed the psychological crowbar their jingle has inflicted on our collective minds by converting it from music into different-sounding car doors closing. You still instantly recognise the jingle. That's how embedded it now is.
As you say, they do this stuff because for certain "mindshare" type businesses (like webuyanycar.com), you need to occupy as much of the person's memory on the topic as possible. For instance, I absolutely know that there are other companies doing the same thing as them. I also absolutely know I've seen adverts for them, using a similar tactic. I still couldn't for the life of me tell you the actual name of any other company doing this. The only one that my mind can recall is webuyanycar.com and their fucking jingle. So if I needed a quote quickly, and couldn't be bothered to google it, I would probably use them at least in the first instance. The advertising works.
Funnily enough, it was their radio advert that managed to get my attention before their TV advert, especially as at the time I was listening to more commercial radio than I was watching TV.
I find that the power of radio commercials is, for your money, much greater than that of TV - I think they tend to be less expensive to make overall, and can be disseminated easily to a huge target audience who listen to commercial and local radio in the background at work or in their cars and bedrooms, and who very rarely feel the need to change stations just to avoid the advert break - maybe in case they miss the next song coming up or the next part of the programme. Not to mention the increased opportunities for companies to advertise (which also helps pull in extra money for the station) through sponsorship of certain segments of a radio show, be it of sports bulletins, travel updates, weather forecasts, and even (in one desperate case I remember) time checks.
At school, our group of friends and acquaintances would, in idle moments, quote each other certain memorable (and clever) radio adverts for things such as TAB Clear (hey, remember that?) and Gold Bier. Of course, at the time, I had barely an inkling of how effective those campaigns were, but it wasn't till later that I appreciated the advertising strategies used.
They've truly created a monster.
It's something that advertisers of a hugely successful campaign tend to do a lot, referencing the meme (visual, aural, musical etc.) created by the original campaign through increasingly creative means, thus reminding people either subliminally or superliminally of the brand while keeping things fresh and inventive. A good example is a series of print and poster ads for a certain brand of vodka with a distinctively-shaped bottle. (You know the one...)
Now back to our scheduled programme with this annoying commercial break:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2T6YdEcp6w[/yt]
The local (maybe nation wide) Target Department stores make a point in December that they are having a "Holiday Sale," and not a Christmas sale. Then on December 26, they promptly have a "After Christmas Sale."
Pick one already.
Not to get into this silly argument again, but there's nothing contradictory about that at all. There is more than one holiday in December, so they are covering all their bases, but the After Christmas Sale denotes the specific (and biggest selling for retailers) Christmas holiday.
Yep, exactly. In Canada and the UK, and maybe elsewhere as well, there's this thing called Boxing Day after Christmas. It's a bit like our version of Black Friday. I'm assuming this is the American Target chain. It's likely they just took after that holiday.
Here they usually take the opportunity to mark down their prices to clear out their inventory of all the excess Christmas merchandise.
Shouldn't those two spots be in opposite order?
$10,000 to the man who brings me the head of the guy who came up with those fucking Magic Jack commericals.
Yeah that Anthony guys voice is annoying as hell, but I wouldn't mind the paycheck he gets for every time its played or aired.
Throw in the head of the one who keeps playing that annoying radio one the starts with a .
(Skidding crashing sound, followed by a phone ringing)
"Hey buddy its Mike your phone cut out are you still coming? Call me"
that plays every break in the music
Especially since, in the one I saw, the bride and groom one, the bride calls Miracle Whip "disgusting" and "doesn't want to live in a world" where it's an option. And wouldn't let her husband feed it to their future children.
So, you want me to buy this disgusting stuff??