Worst/Best Radio Ads

heldel00

The ad for Double Base Eczema cream where the man and the woman actually make the "dum duh dum dum dum" sound.
Surely they could have used a real double bass!

Del.Monte

dxhound2005 wrote: »

You know an ad is a success when you have people on the internet inventing conversations based on what they heard on the radio. I saw it before with the Curly Pieces ad.

Not really as people rarely remember the product - just the Ad even if it's good.

dxhound2005

Del.Monte wrote: »

Not really as people rarely remember the product - just the Ad even if it's good.

How do you know this?

Del.Monte

dxhound2005 wrote: »

How do you know this?

It's just an opinion, but even judging from the number of people who post here about particular Ads and who can't remember what they are advertising.

plodder

That GAA ad with ".. calling bagsy(?) for the lift, tight hair cuts and gettin' the shift.." :mad:

dogmatix

Ol' Donie wrote: »

All GAA ads make me sick.

All of the "it's what we are" bollocks is so condescending. So obviously written by some ad agency who've never been to a match between them.

I swear I actually saw an ad with #youarehurling at the weekend.

The RTE self promo GAA ads are as bad - "listen to the noise, listen to the heartbeat of the people of Ireland..." or this from last year "is it sweet? is it SWEEEEEEEET?". I think it is the same pompous, windbag of a GAA commentator in both.

cml387

Del.Monte wrote: »

It's just an opinion, but even judging from the number of people who post here about particular Ads and who can't remember what they are advertising.

and oddly enough, more likely to remember the name of the company if the advertisement is bad.

Quick....what is the ad with the cake wagon lady advertising

Birneybau

The new 'Fleadh T.v.' ad is just irritating.

mrsdewinter

plodder wrote: »

That GAA ad with ".. calling bagsy(?) for the lift, tight hair cuts and gettin' the shift.." :mad:

What?? That's a class ad! I'm a fairweather GAA fan - at best - and it conjured up a whole hape of the feels for me.

endofrainbow

The ad for Budapest Dental whose work is excell ent and Mary can guide you through the whole pro cess.

plodder

mrsdewinter wrote: »

What?? That's a class ad! I'm a fairweather GAA fan - at best - and it conjured up a whole hape of the feels for me.

a hape of something all right. Just a bit OTT for my taste, and your man's voice sounds a bit old for a minor, in my book.

nice_guy80

tesco mobile ads for phones for kids returning to school

terrible

Bellerstring

Whatcha do wit de bicuits...?

Ol' Donie

dogmatix wrote: »

The RTE self promo GAA ads are as bad - "listen to the noise, listen to the heartbeat of the people of Ireland..." or this from last year "is it sweet? is it SWEEEEEEEET?". I think it is the same pompous, windbag of a GAA commentator in both.

Ahem.

That ad is not for GAA, it's for NCBI (National Council For The Blind, Ireland).

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

The new 'Fleadh T.v.' ad is just irritating.

It's up there with that ad involving the child vomiting into the handbag. I turn down the volume whenever I hear it.

Advertisers: nobody wants to hear a child vomiting into their earpiece, let alone an irritating burst of Irish trad music when one is insufficiently inebriated.

PeterTheNinth

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's up there with that ad involving the child vomiting into the handbag. I turn down the volume whenever I hear it.

And there's another ad that lists "irritating noises", one of which is very sharp feedback which almost made me crash the car the first time it blasted out the radio at me. On the one hand these gobsh1tes spend money on ads telling us all to be careful on the roads and that absolute nonsense stop, sip a coffee and sleep.... yeah you heard it.. drink a stimulant and then sleep.. And on the other hand they permit advertisements to be aired that are so distracting that they could actually cause accidents all on their own.

ford fiesta

endofrainbow wrote: »

The ad for Budapest Dental whose work is excell ent and Mary can guide you through the whole pro cess.

and she will travel with you too!!

heldel00

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

And there's another ad that lists "irritating noises", one of which is very sharp feedback which almost made me crash the car the first time it blasted out the radio at me. On the one hand these gobsh1tes spend money on ads telling us all to be careful on the roads and that absolute nonsense stop, sip a coffee and sleep.... yeah you heard it.. drink a stimulant and then sleep.. And on the other hand they permit advertisements to be aired that are so distracting that they could actually cause accidents all on their own.

Maybe its just me but when TodayFM is leading into the news bulletins they have this background music that has a notorious whine in it.
I actually thought there was something wrong with my radio the first time i heard it. It really hurts my ears!

cdeb

Did you know?

All our lectures.

In Dublin city centre.

Are available live online.

And they're also.

Recorded.

He'd drive me mad as a lecturer

Amalgam

The Bazil Ashmawy ads for his radio show. That margarine tub level of smugness could cause someone intestinal distress..

hullaballoo

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

stop, sip a coffee and sleep.... yeah you heard it.. drink a stimulant and then sleep..

Just to be a pedantic siht but caffeine takes 40mins-1hour to have any effect as a stimulant so if you're knackered, you'll be able to sleep but probably only for as long as it takes for the stimulant to kick in depending on your body. A 40-minute nap is pretty good for recovering from drowsiness if you suffer from it.

Longer naps are a bad idea, so if you've taken a drink of coffee and try and sleep for 1.5-2 hours, you'll wake up probably around the 1 hour mark and feel like utter ****.

Anyway, that's all pretty much an aside but hopefully someone will find the info useful.

Ol' Donie

Soooo how come if I can't do anything till I've had a coffee it makes me fierce narky?

What sort of a nap do I need to fix that?

hullaballoo

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Soooo how come if I can't do anything till I've had a coffee it makes me fierce narky?

What sort of a nap do I need to fix that?

I have some pills that will sort that out for you. Let's call them "coffee pills." They send the blah-de-blah straight into your bloodstream irrespective of your metabolism, so you won't need the nap. Just get up, slam a few pills, and go.

It's brilliant. They're just made of powdered sugar but people will pay arms and legs for them. They are made out of powdered whey and coffee essence and they contain secret cultures (none of which are subversive historically) and fortifying vitamins that are absorbed directly by the body to give you immediate gumption. Only $40 a pop as well, hard to believe.

Anyway, I'll be awaiting PMs.

hullaballoo

hullaballoo wrote: »

I have some pills that will sort that out for you. Let's call them "coffee pills." They send the blah-de-blah straight into your bloodstream irrespective of your metabolism, so you won't need the nap. Just get up, slam a few pills, and go.

It's brilliant. They're just made of powdered sugar but people will pay arms and legs for them. They are made out of powdered whey and coffee essence and they contain secret cultures (none of which are subversive historically) and fortifying vitamins that are absorbed directly by the body to give you immediate gumption. Only $40 a pop as well, hard to believe.

Anyway, I'll be awaiting PMs.

Mod: Banned for scurillous drug shilling.

Also send me some of those yokes. I don't work for nothing

Del.Monte

I've noticed the return recently of the Ads for various colleges in Dublin which encourage people to call into their 'campsuses' on places such as Westmoreland Street and Dawson Street - conjures up images of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon or Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...with apologies to Basil Fawlty.

HeidiHeidi

Mrs Brownses Boys is back. It's only mid-August.

We'll be hearing those ads for the next four months :mad:

(at least this one doesn't feature the hysterical whinnying laugh of last year's one - or maybe it does, I was half asleep when I heard it)

Ciaran_B

Tagra Wardrobes have a new woman doing their ads but she says the same thing as the previous woman; 'Too many clothes? There's no such thing' etc

I preferred the previous voice.

optogirl

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Tagra Wardrobes have a new woman doing their ads but she says the same thing as the previous woman; 'Too many clothes? There's no such thing' etc

I preferred the previous voice.

& the cringe inducing 'I might let the husband have some of the space' or some other shi*e to that effect. :rolleyes:

dogmatix

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Ahem.

That ad is not for GAA, it's for NCBI (National Council For The Blind, Ireland).

But it's still a bloody annoying ad! No offence to the blind of course. Actually wait a minute, they are not going to be reading this anyway unless boards.ie is avaliable in braille. That might work - a bit like that blind bloke out of the movie "Sneakers" with his braille reader that reads words of a screen.

But on a wider note - being a charity is no defense. We all know and hate the annual Bothar xmas irritation marathon featuring the unspeakable goat. Which reminds me that it is only 3 months to the next airing of said ads - god help us all.

L1011

dogmatix wrote: »

Actually wait a minute, they are not going to be reading this anyway unless boards.ie is avaliable in braille.

Virtually website is available in braille with a braille terminal; or in audio via screen reader - they need to be shockingly poorly designed not to be. The old m. mobile site would work perfectly.

I'd be surprised if there aren't blind or partially sighted boards.ie users using one or both of those.

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

Virtually website is available in braille with a braille terminal; or in audio via screen reader - they need to be shockingly poorly designed not to be. The old m. mobile site would work perfectly.

I'd be surprised if there aren't blind or partially sighted boards.ie users using one or both of those.

That's interesting to know.

I wonder if any of these readers read the radio forum. You'd think so, right?

dxhound2005

dogmatix wrote: »

We all know and hate the annual Bothar xmas irritation marathon featuring the unspeakable goat. Which reminds me that it is only 3 months to the next airing of said ads - god help us all.

Please don't assume that just because you hate it everyone else does.

davef1000

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Please don't assume that just because you hate it everyone else does.

He's right though, in this case. We had a poll last week and every single person in the country hates the Bóthar ads. (You may have been away that day.)

Del.Monte

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Please don't assume that just because you hate it everyone else does.

Judging from the various threads on Boards I would think it's safe to say that most people can't stand Goat and his pals. There was a YouTube video with Goat getting blown away but I can't find it now.

Gen.Zhukov

Del.Monte wrote: »

Judging from the various threads on Boards I would think it's safe to say that most people can't stand Goat and his pals. There was a YouTube video with Goat getting blown away but I can't find it now.

I think PeterTheNinth might help with that one. Might even have made it iirc.

dxhound2005

davef1000 wrote: »

He's right though, in this case. We had a poll last week and every single person in the country hates the Bóthar ads. (You may have been away that day.)

Speaking of Christmas (I know we're not there yet), this was voted best joke at the Edinburgh Festival.

Insomnia is awful.

But on the plus side – only three more sleeps till Christmas.

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Speaking of Christmas (I know we're not there yet), this was voted best joke at the Edinburgh Festival.

Insomnia is awful.

But on the plus side – only three more sleeps till Christmas.

Jaysis.

I guess you had to be there!

I wasn't too bothered by the Bóthar goat at first, but it grated so bad in the end. It's some satisfaction to think of the blaggard on a spitroast somewhere in Ethiopia, though.

Still, nothing is as bad as the panto ads. They ruin Christmas.

dxhound2005

I just checked the thread and people have been complaining about the goat for years. I think one in particular is a bit obsessed. But that means the ad has been working for a long time, otherwise it would not be re-used. Probably something to do with it being memorable.

I wouldn't pay any attention to the views on this thread, or on the Radio threads in general. It's mostly one long whinge about what are actually the most popular presenters and most listened to programmes in the "real world".

Any chance we could bring posts praising Best Radio Ads up to say 25% of the input here? It would make the place a bit more cheerful.

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Any chance we could bring posts praising Best Radio Ads up to say 25% of the input here? It would make the place a bit more cheerful.

I think many of us are optimists by disposition, but it's just human nature to take the piss out of the car crash stuff.

I dont know about you, but faking positivity about ads on the radio sounds more depressing than many of the ads :pac:

None of this ad stuff is malicious anyway.

Well ... maybe just the anti-goat movement.

davef1000

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Well ... maybe just the anti-goat movement.

And those feckin' windows.

And Curly Pieces.

And the patronising Women's GAA ads.

Not to mention them bloody windows.

Tesco making everything more complicated than it has to be.

And Appliances Delivred.

And MyTaxi.

But mainly those GODDAMN WINDOWS.

Ol' Donie

davef1000 wrote: »

And those feckin' windows.

And Curly Pieces.

And the patronising Women's GAA ads.

Not to mention them bloody windows.

Tesco making everything more complicated than it has to be.

And Appliances Delivred.

And MyTaxi.

But mainly those GODDAMN WINDOWS.

*high five*

Ma' man.

Birneybau

There's nothing worse than what sounds like Nevin Maguire voicing a goat asking repeatedley 'Are we there yet'...

hullaballoo

The goat has a Cork accent, no? Nevin has a caricature of a Navan accent.

Birneybau

hullaballoo wrote: »

The goat has a Cork accent, no? Nevin has a caricature of a Navan accent.

You're bang on. Think he does the voiceover at the end.

PeterTheNinth

Be seen by a GP..

IN MINUTES

ON F**KING SKYPE

Trebor176

Birneybau wrote: »

There's nothing worse than what sounds like Nevin Maguire voicing a goat asking repeatedley 'Are we there yet'...

hullaballoo wrote: »

The goat has a Cork accent, no? Nevin has a caricature of a Navan accent.

Only another few months to go

Dan Jaman

That fake competition ad for the Opel Forgettable car.
Lame.
Just... lame.
I suppose it sounds great to a caffeine-addled bunch of 20-somethings in an agency somewhere.
But it's just lame.

NufcNavan

What about the dog poo ad? Terrible stuff?

Agrian Brian

Just communicate your message in a sober and to the point manner in your advert. No need for jokes, catchphrases etc...

statto25

Rowa Gummy Bears....Anger Rising!