Worst/Best Radio Ads

Turbulent Bill

The Mercedes C-Class (?) ad is wrecking my head. "When your brand is strong, strengthen your intuition" and other such middle-management guff. I actually thought it was satire, then realised it wasn't...

depaor01

Ah yes. The Irish Cockney French woman is back. Must be January. Still no real French voiceover people in Air France? C'est Merde!

As for that other discover Hyundai crapology - she sounds like she's auditioning for a dirty phone service... since last November! Remember we used to buy cars? Now we 'discover' them.

Sigh.

endofrainbow

Ben Dunne gyms: cheaper *then* more expensive *then* .😲

5555555555

New land rover ad.

Woman tells man to stop interrupting her presumably to show how empowered she is .

Why not just not have him in the goddam ad ??

Are stroppy women land rovers new target market ??

dogmatix

The Suzuki car ad - over-excited (and over-acting) idiot telling us how the new suzuki wankmobile or whatever the hell it is called is now all his and we had all better head down to the dealer before all the nice new cars are gone, Gone, Gone! Sure, it they all do sell out (which being Suzuki I would highly doubt it), would they not just import in some more?

What is it about car companies that they seem to believe they cannot advertise cars unless the ads are somehow "funny"? So they go and contract some talentless irish ad agency filled with writers who think they are the next Oscar Wilde who produce terribly unfunny, moronic ads that the car companies review and say - "yes, that suits us just fine - now all we need is some fu*kwit actor to voice the thing".

I find that the toyota ads are patronising and condescending but at least they are not trying to be funny.

Gen.Zhukov

Annoying drone waffle.......espresso,

Annoying drone waffle.......piazza,

Annoying drone waffle.......sorento,

Annoying drone waffle.......pizza,

And of course.....










Rome.

***k off !

fricatus

That ad for 3 mobile where the guy is apparently doing business with someone speaking Spanish (I think Madrid is mentioned). Annoying on so many levels: from the hipster Dublin prat going on about "all-you-can-eat dayda" to the assumption that Google Translate will be good enough for dealing with clients, to the casual, snide knock-Johnny-foreigner remark about "whatever the hell she's saying". Gob****es!

plodder

fricatus wrote: »

That ad for 3 mobile where the guy is apparently doing business with someone speaking Spanish (I think Madrid is mentioned). Annoying on so many levels: from the hipster Dublin prat going on about "all-you-can-eat dayda" to the assumption that Google Translate will be good enough for dealing with clients, to the casual, snide knock-Johnny-foreigner remark about "whatever the hell she's saying". Gob****es!

That one annoys me too. Everything about it. The very idea you might want to actually know a few words of Spanish yourself to do business with a Spanish person. How quaint.

Barna77

fricatus wrote: »

That ad for 3 mobile where the guy is apparently doing business with someone speaking Spanish (I think Madrid is mentioned). Annoying on so many levels: from the hipster Dublin prat going on about "all-you-can-eat dayda" to the assumption that Google Translate will be good enough for dealing with clients, to the casual, snide knock-Johnny-foreigner remark about "whatever the hell she's saying". Gob****es!

He might loose his job if he relies on google translator...

buckfasterer

That ad for the play Cripple of Inish Mann or however it's spelled is making me turn over when it comes on. It's been on forever and it's only starting this Friday The way he says Mammy at the end really bugs me aswell.

Mr E

buckfasterer wrote: »

That ad for the play Cripple of Inish Mann or however it's spelled is making me turn over when it comes on. It's been on forever and it's only starting this Friday The way he says Mammy at the end really bugs me aswell.

With a list of actors who, realistically, 80% of listeners have never heard of?
Plus that miserable piano music doesn't help either.
I'm sure it's a great play, but it's a terrible ad.

Aska

Dacia Duster add with his swiping right and doing the dirt on crap

Any of the Ben Dunne adds as previously stated, next one will probably state 'you wont be shot outside a Ben Dunne gym'

The Ciara Kelly promo for her unscripted friday shows is cringy

Del.Monte

Aska wrote: »

Dacia Duster add with his swiping right and doing the dirt on crap

Any of the Ben Dunne adds as previously stated, next one will probably state 'you wont be shot outside a Ben Dunne gym'

The Ciara Kelly promo for her unscripted friday shows is cringy

I find the Dacia one particularly offensive and I'm not remotely prudish. Why does a presumably (?) sexual, laddish slant have to be put on the Ad. Incidentally, whoever thought that calling a car, a duster, was a clever marketing ploy? Next in the range - the Dacia Wheelie Bin. :rolleyes:

thesandeman

^^

I always just think of the Making A Murderer series when I hear it. I never realised it was for a car.

QueensGael

That miserable Hyundai wan is annoying me more than any of the sh*te Laya healthcare ads, which is some achievement

dogmatix

Your woman with the irritating D4 accent is back on Toyota, bleating on about how she feels she is making a real contribution to her childrens future by driving the pampered little darlings to school every day. Jesus wept - did Toyota ever stop and think about how stupid and contradictatory that sounds?

Red Alert

The TV license ones about Sci-Fi, current affairs, drama etc. "It's time to use the force"

Mr E

dogmatix wrote: »

Your woman with the irritating D4 accent is back on Toyota, bleating on about how she feels she is making a real contribution to her childrens future by driving the pampered little darlings to school every day. Jesus wept - did Toyota ever stop and think about how stupid and contradictatory that sounds?

They're double teaming them on some ad-breaks. I've heard the D4 lady with the lazy kids AND the "de insurance, de car tax, de price of a holiday" guy as separate ads in the same ad break.

dxhound2005

Del.Monte wrote: »

I find the Dacia one particularly offensive and I'm not remotely prudish. Why does a presumably (?) sexual, laddish slant have to be put on the Ad. Incidentally, whoever thought that calling a car, a duster, was a clever marketing ploy? Next in the range - the Dacia Wheelie Bin. :rolleyes:

I think you might be just a little bit prudish.

QueensGael

Mr E wrote: »

They're double teaming them on some ad-breaks. I've heard the D4 lady with the lazy kids AND the "de insurance, de car tax, de price of a holiday" guy as separate ads in the same ad break.

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of, incorrectly gave the credit to Hyundai - it's a loathsome campaign!
Priz ofa hal-dah

whisky_galore

Nerdlingr wrote: »

F*ck me, the Air France one is back. :mad::mad:

And a Renault one with more faux French accents worthy of Allo Allo.
Honestly, two massive French companies that can't find a single French person to voiceover their ads?

whisky_galore

buckfasterer wrote: »

That ad for the play Cripple of Inish Mann or however it's spelled is making me turn over when it comes on. It's been on forever and it's only starting this Friday The way he says Mammy at the end really bugs me aswell.

The music makes it sound as if it's a play about a mass murder rather than a comedy.

Oops69

The Toyota hybrid ad with the Bogman talking about his savings "Dats de price of a holiday", unfortunately the country is wash with neanderthals who think and talk like that so the ad will probably work.

depaor01

De holiday would be ten times better if he spent 20 grand on it and didn't bother buying de new car...

Oops69

depaor01 wrote: »

De holiday would be ten times better if he spent 20 grand on it and didn't bother buying de new car...

20 k on a holiday!!, he wouldn't be able to build his tasteless bungalow if he did that or there mightn't be an Irish bar to go to and 'Shure isn't dat all you'd be wanting"

Brendan Bendar

Oops69 wrote: »

20 k on a holiday!!, he wouldn't be able to build his tasteless bungalow if he did that or there mightn't be an Irish bar to go to and 'Shure isn't dat all you'd be wanting"

The auld “shure we arrived in Lanzarote and we set up camp in The Four Green Fields” attitude.

Spanish lad in charge gave us free dhrink and grub for the whole of the last day.

(Why wouldn’t he,scrotes dhrank as much in a week as Spanish customers would drink in 9 months)

I know the type.

chosen1

Oops69 wrote: »

The Toyota hybrid ad with the Bogman talking about his savings "Dats de price of a holiday", unfortunately the country is wash with neanderthals who think and talk like that so the ad will probably work.

Imagine having a different accent to ones self!
The nerve!

anewme

Del.Monte wrote: »

I find the Dacia one particularly offensive and I'm not remotely prudish. Why does a presumably (?) sexual, laddish slant have to be put on the Ad. Incidentally, whoever thought that calling a car, a duster, was a clever marketing ploy? Next in the range - the Dacia Wheelie Bin. :rolleyes:

I said a fair few pages back that I ABSOLUTELY hate that Dacia ad. I don’t find it offensive, just mind blowingly cringeworthy and the voice over sounds like a dirty aul fella in an anorak getting excited.

Not sure who they are aiming it at either, anyone I’ve seen in those Duster yokes are grey haired retired folk.

Brendan Bendar

anewme wrote: »

I said a fair few pages back that I ABSOLUTELY hate that Dacia ad. I don’t find it offensive, just mind blowingly cringeworthy and the voice over sounds like a dirty aul fella in an anorak getting excited.

Not sure who they are aiming it at either, anyone I’ve seen in those Duster yokes are grey haired retired folk.

Lad was ‘getting string’ no mistake there.

Saw a mare in a Duster outside the Golf Club a few days ago and I’d give her a belt of the Big Dog, for sure.

Just sayin’:cool:

statto25

Oops69 wrote: »

The Toyota hybrid ad with the Bogman talking about his savings "Dats de price of a holiday", unfortunately the country is wash with neanderthals who think and talk like that so the ad will probably work.

So he's a neanderthal because his accent doesn't appeal to you is it? You don't live inside the Pale by any chance?

Oops69

chosen1 wrote: »

Imagine having a different accent to ones self!
The nerve!

nothing to do with the accent, it's the mentality associated with this stereotype represented by that accent which is nauseating ,the same could be said for the mentality associated with the D4 accent ,but I guess that nuance is lost on you .

Oops69

statto25 wrote: »

So he's a neanderthal because his accent doesn't appeal to you is it? You don't live inside the Pale by any chance?

Maybe see a surgeon about the chip on the shoulder and I'm not from the Pale .

Dr_serious2

Oops69 wrote: »

Maybe see a surgeon about the chip on the shoulder and I'm not from the Pale .

And what accent do you have by the way? Semi-Americanised I'll bet because you're just so modern.

statto25

Oops69 wrote: »

statto25 wrote: »

So he's a neanderthal because his accent doesn't appeal to you is it? You don't live inside the Pale by any chance?

Maybe see a surgeon about the chip on the shoulder and I'm not from the Pale .

I've no chip at all, just trying to fathom out how a persons accent would make them a neanderthal.

Dr_serious2

statto25 wrote: »

I've no chip at all, just trying to fathom out how a persons accent would make them a neanderthal.

A small number of self-hating Irish people (the ones who took on the affectations of the British in centuries past) despise anything that makes us unique as a culture. They probably hate 'diddly-ay' music 'bogball' and anything else that is unique to this land.

plodder

Aska wrote: »

Dacia Duster add with his swiping right and doing the dirt on crap

A terrible ad. Doesn't work at all.

Any of the Ben Dunne adds as previously stated, next one will probably state 'you wont be shot outside a Ben Dunne gym'

I shouldn't, but LOL!

whisky_galore

Dr_serious2 wrote: »

A small number of self-hating Irish people (the ones who took on the affectations of the British in centuries past) despise anything that makes us unique as a culture. They probably hate 'diddly-ay' music 'bogball' and anything else that is unique to this land.

Football and folk music aren't unique to Ireland.
Try again.

uncommon_name

anewme wrote: »

Not sure who they are aiming it at either, anyone I’ve seen in those Duster yokes are grey haired retired folk.

Our cleaner drives a Dacia Duster. I find it quite amusing. I mentioned it to her one time as I thought maybe she bought one on purpose and she had never realized this before. And she is absolutely rubbish as dusting. :pac::D:pac::D:pac:

Aska

How many kids does Clare Daly have, jesus everytime I hear the Toyota hybrid add with the woman and the three kids I think it's her

stabeek

Bon Secours clinical services for bowels related sicknesses advert this morning. A riposte to the Blackrock Clinic advert some months back for pathologies in the same part of the body?

dogmatix

stabeek wrote: »

Bon Secours clinical services for bowels related sicknesses advert this morning. A riposte to the Blackrock Clinic advert some months back for pathologies in the same part of the body?

Ah yes the good old Blackrock clinic with their meaningless "when your experience needs ours" slogan.

Or the mater private A&E - designed just for you as long as you only have an accident between the hours of 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and open on Saturdays (but only when the moon is full and venus and saturn are in the conjunction).

Del.Monte

dogmatix wrote: »

Ah yes the good old Blackrock clinic with their meaningless "when your experience needs ours" slogan.

Or the mater private A&E - designed just for you as long as you only have an accident between the hours of 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and open on Saturdays (but only when the moon is full and venus and saturn are in the conjunction).

Not to mention the need to have access to a Platinum credit card or top of the range medical insurance. Disgusting parasites!

fricatus

dogmatix wrote: »

Ah yes the good old Blackrock clinic with their meaningless "when your experience needs ours" slogan.

Or the mater private A&E - designed just for you as long as you only have an accident between the hours of 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and open on Saturdays (but only when the moon is full and venus and saturn are in the conjunction).

Del.Monte wrote: »

Not to mention the need to have access to a Platinum credit card or top of the range medical insurance. Disgusting parasites!

Or that one for the Beacon Clinic (I think) - “This is modern medicine”. Yeah, because in the public hospitals they’re still using leeches and getting the patients to drink half a bottle of whiskey before they saw off their arm!

stabeek

Del.Monte wrote: »

Not to mention the need to have access to a Platinum credit card or top of the range medical insurance. Disgusting parasites!

Clearly they could lower prices if they didn't produce or run advertisements, but once one starts, in classic arms race fashion, the others have to follow.

In a few ways, it's inappropriate they should be advertising on population-wide radio. It's a classic medieval trick, if you announce a malady enough, people will think they have it.

whisky_galore

Aska wrote: »

Dacia Duster add with his swiping right and doing the dirt on crap

Awful ad. Might understand if it was for a Ferrari, not a budget yummy mummy troop carrier.

Del.Monte

Vanonomics man - there's a hit on him if I win the Euro Millions. :mad:

Brendan Bendar

whisky_galore wrote: »

Awful ad. Might understand if it was for a Ferrari, not a budget yummy mummy troop carrier.

Eh....... more room in the Duster,mate.

Easier to get ‘established’ on the approach path, like.

Macdarack

MATRISSSSSSISS DELIVERED !
shocking ad I think, did they not even play it back and say, ah slow it down bud.

padd b1975

Mr E wrote: »

They're double teaming them on some ad-breaks. I've heard the D4 lady with the lazy kids AND the "de insurance, de car tax, de price of a holiday" guy as separate ads in the same ad break.

"Price of a Holiday" is the type of loon you could easily get buttonholed by in a Drumcondra pub on the night before an All Ireland Final.

emeldc

That goon on the Toyota ad;
'De savins on de fuel, de car tax and de 'nsurance, dats de price of a holday'
FFS, employ someone that can speak :mad:
Edit: having a quick read, I see it’s a favorite among others