Do any of you ever avoid a thing because of the ads for it?
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Yes. Everything.
I tend to avoid anything I can remember seeing an advertisement for, as most advertisements never tell the truth about their product. (I was mistaken and naive when I believed companies couldn't outright lie about their products on television.)
Unless it's needed for a medical reason. At that point not getting it because of the ad could hurt someone. IE me or anyone who actually trusts me enough to buy important stuff for them.
I tend to avoid anything I can remember seeing an advertisement for, as most advertisements never tell the truth about their product. (I was mistaken and naive when I believed companies couldn't outright lie about their products on television.)
Unless it's needed for a medical reason. At that point not getting it because of the ad could hurt someone. IE me or anyone who actually trusts me enough to buy important stuff for them.
Oh yea, advertisements make me want something less all the time. They just kinda... disgust me...
This, this, over 9000 times this. Whoever was in charge of that fuck-up needs to have their genitals introduced to a food blender.MetalMagpie said:
I have been indifferent to halo 3 and didn't buy it in the end thanks to obnoxious gamestop ads that made it overseas thanks to blip.tv.
I don't even play online but fuck that power armor preorder crap.
Also remember this?
This almost made me not buy links awakening.
I don't even play online but fuck that power armor preorder crap.
Also remember this?
This almost made me not buy links awakening.
This on so many levels.capper42 said:
But, I will never be convinced by an advert, other than a video game one, to purchase a product. Word of mouth from a friend or relative is the only way to get me to try new stuff. That or just sheer curiosity. Adverts annoy me so much I mentally block them out.
The movie 'Man on a Ledge'. I got so sick of the bored sounding cop saying the title I thought, well if that guy doesn't care, why should I?
And I was going to mention the Dead Space 2 'ad' campaign... I didn't touch that series after I got bored playing some of the original Dead Space.
And I was going to mention the Dead Space 2 'ad' campaign... I didn't touch that series after I got bored playing some of the original Dead Space.
For everyone who is lucky enough to have not seen it 5000 timescapper42 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-9QFvhQWo
On the other hand we also have the compare the market/meerkat which everyone loved
Well I wasn't going to buy them anyways.
But there a advert for some type of tissues I can't remember the name and it had a new "man pack" out which is basically a extremely small box of tissues for the same price, and the advert basically was about how easy it was to knock it behind a cupboard, or under a chair. If I wanted to buy tissues I don't want ones where I have to crawl on the floor to bloody find them.
What the hell where they thinking with that advertisement, if you want me to pay for something I could use toilet paper for don't make a advertisement telling me how shit it is.
But there a advert for some type of tissues I can't remember the name and it had a new "man pack" out which is basically a extremely small box of tissues for the same price, and the advert basically was about how easy it was to knock it behind a cupboard, or under a chair. If I wanted to buy tissues I don't want ones where I have to crawl on the floor to bloody find them.
What the hell where they thinking with that advertisement, if you want me to pay for something I could use toilet paper for don't make a advertisement telling me how shit it is.
Yeah.. Thats one of the reasons i quit watching TV, 20 minutes of whatever you are watching and then 15 minutes of crap someone is trying to sell, and every single one of these commercials are full of shit and give you only the good parts of their 'special offer', and girls singing about tampons isnt something i want to hear constantly.
OT: probably everything, if i need something i will buy it and not because someone said that this particular item is better than other items.
OT: probably everything, if i need something i will buy it and not because someone said that this particular item is better than other items.
Not really avoid. For me, the products that seem to have the most annoying commercials/ads are products that I don't usually buy. However, if I find myself in a situation to buy something that has annoyed me with ads, there is a good chance I'll go with something else.
Slim Jims - I love em but hardly ever buy them since they're junk food. I pretty much have to go out of my to buy them so they stay on the list of snacks I'll consider when on a road trip.
Old Spice - The latest round of ads are strange to me. They're highly annoying yet I enjoy. The products have never been on my radar since I have sensitive skin and anything that's heavily scented causes bad things to happen to me.
Slim Jims - I love em but hardly ever buy them since they're junk food. I pretty much have to go out of my to buy them so they stay on the list of snacks I'll consider when on a road trip.
Old Spice - The latest round of ads are strange to me. They're highly annoying yet I enjoy. The products have never been on my radar since I have sensitive skin and anything that's heavily scented causes bad things to happen to me.
Two more UK examples: Dolmio and Wonga.com ads. Creepy-ass puppets are no way to sell your product. (It's a shame that Dolmio sells one of the few spaghetti sauces at my local store that seems like it's more than just a bunch of sugar and water with maybe one tomato chopped up and thrown in.)
As pretty much every single Brit has said, Go-compare. I dislike most of the insurance ads, but I hate one with a passion.
Marketing people, how stupid are you?
The thing that I find almost kind of funny about them is that their big thing right now is that you can get 1000 nectar points if you get insurance from them. So they're big advertising base right now, is not that they're really easy too use, or they're really cheap, but that I'll be able to have a £5 shop at Sainsburys.MetalMagpie said:
Marketing people, how stupid are you?
Same here, gave up TV for a few reasons.cerealnmuffin said:
- Too many ads
- Male bashing (apparently we're all incompetent and lazy and if not for the children and the wife we wouldn't be able to operate kitchen appliances)
Last night though I tuned into Fox to watch Bones, a show that I have been watching on Netflix. The ads were so bad, it seemed like you would get 3 minutes of the show and 5 minutes worth of ads. Being used to only watching TV shows on DVD and Netflix, I found this unwatchable. I did finish the episode but I remember very little because the show was so broken up between blocks of ads.
That's exactly what I was thinking of. For quite a while, I had no idea what Go Daddy was, and I didn't want to look about for it in case it was in fact some malware-pushing POS that scraped together enough money to hire ex-porn actresses for a commercial.Worgen said:
OT: If the ads are like Go Daddy, where they don't actually tell you anything about the product, I will avoid it on the principle of "They don't know how to actually sell their product, therefore they don't actually know about their product."
Well, I work at a videostore where we are expected to blare advertisements upon all our TV's nonstop from the moment we open to the moment we close. Sometimes I just can't bring myself to watch some of the films advertised, even when I know they're gonna be good. I need a cooldown period before-hand, after being forcefully immersed in the film's ad campaign. >_<
More of a response than I thought there would be.
I wish marketers would catch on to the fact that they can do damage to their sales or ratings by producing terrible ads. I wish the Escapist would figure out how to not fail all over itself with this Space Janitors thing.
Thing is, I know that it's not necessary because when you actually make something really good, all the publicity you need is generated by the people who like it. Look at Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. Much of the software I use is stuff I heard about from people who's judgement I trust, or from doing my own research.
You don't need ads. All you need is to have just a little talent at what you do. If you don't have that, then stop trying to impersonate a creator and go flip burgers or something, because the best thing you can do for humanity is to not taint it with your products.
The Escapist could also learn from this. I'm never going to join the publisher's club because the Escapist does not show signs of being run by people who know what they're doing, especially with regards to money. That's the clearest message that comes through in the ads on this site and the way that they deal with them, and also from the things that came to light when Extra Credits left. I have never bought a single product advertised on this site and I'm not going to, and any willingness I'd have to look past the silly name of Space Janitors and give it a try has been eroded by the ads. Try to be good at what you do, Escapist, it'll work better for you than what you're doing now.
I wish marketers would catch on to the fact that they can do damage to their sales or ratings by producing terrible ads. I wish the Escapist would figure out how to not fail all over itself with this Space Janitors thing.
Thing is, I know that it's not necessary because when you actually make something really good, all the publicity you need is generated by the people who like it. Look at Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. Much of the software I use is stuff I heard about from people who's judgement I trust, or from doing my own research.
You don't need ads. All you need is to have just a little talent at what you do. If you don't have that, then stop trying to impersonate a creator and go flip burgers or something, because the best thing you can do for humanity is to not taint it with your products.
The Escapist could also learn from this. I'm never going to join the publisher's club because the Escapist does not show signs of being run by people who know what they're doing, especially with regards to money. That's the clearest message that comes through in the ads on this site and the way that they deal with them, and also from the things that came to light when Extra Credits left. I have never bought a single product advertised on this site and I'm not going to, and any willingness I'd have to look past the silly name of Space Janitors and give it a try has been eroded by the ads. Try to be good at what you do, Escapist, it'll work better for you than what you're doing now.
I hardly ever see commercials any more due to the wonders of internet tv 
However, I did catch and advert for Geordie Shore which was so hilarious I did get an urge to watch it...but I fear it will take itself much more seriously than its commercial did.
Internet ads still annoy me though, especially the ones that advertise 'hot women in your area'. No matter how attractive a woman may be, I have no desire to have her 'in my area'
However, I did catch and advert for Geordie Shore which was so hilarious I did get an urge to watch it...but I fear it will take itself much more seriously than its commercial did.
Internet ads still annoy me though, especially the ones that advertise 'hot women in your area'. No matter how attractive a woman may be, I have no desire to have her 'in my area'
