Poll: Commercials

[velcrokidneyz]

depends, some commercials i love, like any informercial where it asks "Has this ever happend to you?" and the picture is in black and white and some over exaderated thing happens, like those snuggie commericals where the person is under a blanket, the phone rings and then as they are trying to answer it the blanket slips off and they look sad.

On the other hand i HATE these recent toyota commercials, the kid is such a douchebag.
heres one of them(theres quite a few)
for some reason i cant embed it(i copied the code right from youtube, but ill just post the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbKlKpZ7fQ

im glad to know im not the only one who wants to punch this kid

 

[bak00777]

depends, some commercials i love, like any informercial where it asks "Has this ever happend to you?" and the picture is in black and white and some over exaderated thing happens, like those snuggie commericals where the person is under a blanket, the phone rings and then as they are trying to answer it the blanket slips off and they look sad.

On the other hand i HATE these recent toyota commercials, the kid is such a douchebag.
heres one of them(theres quite a few)
for some reason i cant embed it(i copied the code right from youtube, but ill just post the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbKlKpZ7fQ

im glad to know im not the only one who wants to punch this kid

well i know theres a few videos on youtube of people complaining about these commercials, and alot of the comments on the commercials video pages show people dont like them.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

There are some positively wonderful commercials out there, but I'm highly unlikely to ever watch them in their original context because I don't watch commercials. Basically I refuse to be advertised at - it's fine if I want to watch your amusing commercial, but if you're attempting to force me to sit through commercials, clever or otherwise, just to get to content I actually want to see? I'm going to ignore the crap out of those advertisements on principle alone.

It always baffles me when I'm somewhere else and they just watch television (instead of pre-recording everything) and don't mute the commercials (why would you ever NOT do that?!).

 

[Hollock]

I only like them if it's clear there's true passion for the product from everyone in the commercial, like this one

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

-Commercial captchas that need research
(I was posting here on The Escapist and a captcha came up that asked me "what is the name of Toyota's research department?" or some such nonsense, and I honestly didn't know, or really care and my worry was that I wouldn't be able to make a post until I brought up a new window and looked up information on Toyota)
Side-note to the Escapist: I'm not a publisher's club member yet, I do plan on it though, and I understand that times are hard, and you need money, commercials are a perfect way to do it, and commercial captchas aren't THAT intrusive, but seriously, if the information isn't IN the captcha, then it helps nobody unless you really need to lower traffic fast. P.S. If I buy the membership and have to deal with advertising captchas I'm gonna be pissed

Actually, those take any answer you give, it's an advertising survey. It once asked me what I though about FedEx and I just facerolled and it worked. The company that runs that captcha system is just a shady product research group.

 

[smithy_2045]

Some are amusing, most are terrible.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Not to get too far off topic, but the original purpose of both Cable Television and Satellite Radio was to have commercial free viewing experiences.

It's good to see how well that worked out.

 

[wildpeaks]

I've grown up watching Culture Pub (a weekly tv show about the backstage of advertisement from all over the world), so I'm slightly biased: I love [creative] commercials

Some years ago, that show even created a large online repository of 30+ years of ads from all over the world [http://www.culturepub.fr/themes] if you want to check it out.

On the other hand, I don't know how north americans and canadians stand to have so many commercials cuts on tv: we only have a single cut in the middle of 1h30 movies and between shows ; there are even no ads at all on public-funded channels in the evening.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

This is epic.

 

[GeorgW]

Your last poll option is cut-off.

Thanks, fixed. It worked before, that's odd...

 

[flaming_squirrel]

This is epic.

Matt Berry (the volcanoes voice) is an absolute legend. If in doubt youtube 'one track lover'.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

If it's an amusing beer ad or a preview for a TV show, that's fine with me. If it's entertaining or legitimately informative, then go nuts.

Banner ads that take up space however are an annoyance, and I go out of my way NOT to use products that are advertised in obstructive ways. Billboards are almost entirely pointless as well, in my estimation. As if I'm going to buy the newest model Audi S4 or start using a different cologne because of a pretty picture. A complete waste of money on their part.

I'm also no fan of the flagrant false advertising for some new Subway sandwich or McDonalds burger that ends up looking nothing like the picture when you go and ask for one in person. Honestly, how the hell do these chains get away with such blatant lies? Your TV sandwich has 35 pieces of meat, and my sandwich has 4? Fuck you, Subway. Seriously.

Again, ads are fine if they genuinely inform or entertain. But most of them are horrendous wastes of time and space.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

This is epic.

Matt Berry (the volcanoes voice) is an absolute legend. If in doubt youtube 'one track lover'.

As legendary as Matt Berry is, in The IT Crowd, he just can't replace Chris Morris.

 

[Poopster]

I love funny and weird ads...The serious ones get a meh from me

 

[kasperbbs]

I like funny commercials ,unfortunately we dont have those in my country ,theres just 'our product is the best in the world' types. I hate those.

 

[Igor Florian]

They're just great sometimes, because they can bring us information about some produts that we may need. Well, it's not like you see something very useful everyday on comercials, but it's magic when a comercial helps you.

And we can not forget the break for the beer and the popcorn!

 

[Caspertjuhh]

endless hate here.... I hate them screaming at you. WHY DO THE COMMERCIALS HAVE TO BE 150% LOUDER THAN THE TV SHOW YOU ARE WATCHIN???????

 

[Nimcha]

We've had some pretty great commercials here in the Netherlands, a personal favourite:


And this:


Aaaand finally:

 

[EeveeElectro]

There's some of the stupid ones that I find funny, like the natural confectionery adverts, and the Meerkat one, the Wrigley's 5 gum.

This one too

 

[Queen Michael]

I like TV commercials because they make TV-watching cheap. Now if only they weren't so stupid...