Worst/Best Radio Ads

Wertz

Hmm, jor el beat me to it again, and I'm in full agreement with him...are we supposed to start buying more so we can recycle more? I thought the whole idea behind waste management was to STOP producing as much, not to increase it.
In lieu of posting about that ad, I'll instead mention the one for Zurich Motor Insurance, featuring yet another annoying couple in their car calling each other muppets and such...wrap yourselves around the nearest lamppost and do the listening public a favour...

Endfloat

It's open, its opel, it's open it's opel! (in an incredibly gay voice)


Grrrrrrrr, F*ck! It's so bloody annoying I just want to bash the production engineer for recording it!

Q102 by the way.

ManFromAtlantis

that ad for aa roadwatch with the kid in the background saying 'call the aa '...while his parents ignore him.............. is so so so sooooooooooo annoying. anyone agree? i just turn off radio when i hear it.

Green Giant

ManFromAtlantis wrote: »

that ad for aa roadwatch with the kid in the background saying 'call the aa '...while his parents ignore him.............. is so so so sooooooooooo annoying. anyone agree? i just turn off radio when i hear it.

You should probably be asking 'anyone disagree?'
Everyone I've mentioned that ad to feckin hates it...and with good reason. Who in their right mind came up with it, I'd love to know

jor el

Irritating children in radio advertising are the backbone of this entire thread. From AA child to slurry Chill.ie child, they can all go to hell.

Ciaran B

That Twix ad with that woman banging on about how the guy making her tea didn’t use the proper cup and didn’t buy her a Twix. It’s bad enough listening to her smug drone but when the guy capitulates and tells her he’ll go to the shops and buy her a Twix I really despair. Grow a spine you whipped coward and tell her to give up the chocolate bars because she’s piling on the pounds and tell her how she disgusts you every single day. Obviously this won’t sell many bars but that’s beside the point.

jor el

Stupid Subway ad with some gormless idiot "eating" while talking about the sub of the day :rolleyes: When will these people just go away?

Tallspoon

ah sure Super Value...Real Food...Real People!!!

I would have thought that these attributes would hardly distinguish them from the competition.

Big Tone

No so much ads but Promos on RTE...what is it with them and their constant repeating of Promos lately? Has anyone else noticed?

Last night alone they played the same promo for The Clinic 3 times in an hour and similarly for their midweek movie Legally Blonde which also got 3 airings in a hour, not to mention the promos for The Late Late Show during Tubridy on Saturday night!

So, its official, with the ads drying up RTE are now filling the slots with self-promos!!!!

Fozzie Bear

Just total and utterly taking the piss. Its Monday the 20th of October FFS. Halloween has not had a chance yet to cause its usual bonfire and fireworks induced mayhem on dogs and old people and we are listening to Christmas ads on the radio. Permanent TSB/3pay credit cards are the offenders. Start your "winter" shopping while Jingle bells rattles away in the back ground. Whats next people? Valentines ads in November? Summer sales ads in February? Why don't we just have Christmas all year long and get done with it. At the rate we are going we will be having ads for it in June next year!

mike65

Those horribly awkward ads by various English regional tourist bodies. Almost textbook examples of what not to do.

Mike

Wertz

I see someone in AA or their ads people are reading...the dreaded child and his backseat bullsh*t (Call the AA!) has been left at the roadside and replaced by a shiny new ad featuring two great goys having all sorts of japery with an AA sticker...apparently one of the goys doesn't need to wear the sticker on his face (hilarity personified) because "They have his details on computer?"...yes our old favourite the high rising terminal is back to rub our noses in their vast knowledge and charming californian mannerisms.
I hope the AA go the way of the Icelandic banking system...

DublinWriter

What's with that guy on the ad for Louis Mulcahy pottery? Weirdness.

Tallspoon

...any advert "says she" or "says he" in it."

Pigletlover

DublinWriter wrote: »

What's with that guy on the ad for Louis Mulcahy pottery? Weirdness.

Love the end of that ad - An Daingean...Dingle. WTF??

jor el

VW have some ad with a guy having a nightmare or some such, and crying. Fooking annoying, and stupid. Die advert people, die!

Basq

jor el wrote: »

VW have some ad with a guy having a nightmare or some such, and crying. Fooking annoying, and stupid. Die advert people, die!

"Katie... who's Katie?"

DIE SLAG!

Toto Wolfcastle

I love the ad where some guy is playing Eddie Hobbs and saying "I'm the biggest whiner in Ireland." I don't know why, but it makes me laugh.

Not idea what it's for though.

DublinWriter

janeybabe wrote: »

I love the ad where some guy is playing Eddie Hobbs and saying "I'm the biggest whiner in Ireland." I don't know why, but it makes me laugh.

Not idea what it's for though.

Some directory inquiry service.

I love the way at the end they have to say "This ad is guaranteed Eddie Hobbes free" as a legal disclaimer.

DarkJager

Oh my ****ing god....that advert where the woman/fella are in the nightclub and she asks if he has condoms - he doesn't know to which she replies "sure you might have clymidia, bye now!". I still can't get over how ****in awful it was...

Wertz

janeybabe wrote: »

I love the ad where some guy is playing Eddie Hobbs and saying "I'm the biggest whiner in Ireland." I don't know why, but it makes me laugh.

Not idea what it's for though.

Yep also a fan of this ad....it stands out from other directory services by NOT hvaing an ad that annoys me. Not sure why it doesn't...just something funny about it...

DMC

I'm sure its been said here in the past, but Deirdre O'Kane and Costcutter. Oh sweet suffering lamb of Jesus.

"from our cheery telephone "hell-ooooo" to the greetings we give to our husbands "and what time do you call this?" "

Just who made her the Voice of Mna na hÉireann?

Oh, and to top it off, the NASTY jingle at the end... "always more to offfaaaa"

Horrible.

FlutterinBantam

Tell ya sommat, if I had to listen to that voice for more than uno ora per diem.....hey .... anyone got a cure for ropeburns.

swingking

WTF is with that stupid ad with Brenda and her splenda. Aargh, I want to kill whoever invented that ad. And why do the women in these ads have stupid posh accents????

Big Tone

A couple of those TV licence ads are quite funny, particularly the one where the woman has heard that there's a recession on the radio so she's baked a cake for the licence inspector, "there's rum in the cake...lots of rum!"

Heckler

"wow, awesome. Chill.ie have done it again..........". You don't even get the chance to tune out because its on ya so fast. That kids voice drives me nuts !!! Any ad using a child acting like an adult should be banned. The whole concept is patronising. If a child can tell its a good idea you would be a dope not to recognise it as such. AAAAGGGHHHHH.

jor el

Anyone else sick to the teeth of eircom's never ending stream of patronising ads? "Live a richer life", me arse. Yeah, you can live a richer life if we deem you worthy enough to be able to avail of one of our overpriced and under performing products. And you'll need to be rich to afford it.

DavidLive

jor el wrote: »

Anyone else sick to the teeth of eircom's never ending stream of patronising ads? "Live a richer life", me arse. Yeah, you can live a richer life if we deem you worthy enough to be able to avail of one of our overpriced and under performing products. And you'll need to be rich to afford it.

Nice rant!

Well said!

Mr E

Speaking of Eircom, whats an Uber Warlord?

Poochie05

Still on the Eircom topic, they talk about downloading the latest flick, is there a legal way to do this? Or are they suggesting illegal activity?

GhostInTheRuins

I have heard, unquestionably, the worst, most annoying radio ad of all time today. It's a christmas song with lyrics about garmin sat navs, sung by an incredibly annoying american. Words cannot express how disgustingly torturous it is to listen to. I'll be honest, once it came on for the third time I felt like smashing my radio into tiny little pieces.

Mr E

Yep, heard that this morning. Very very very bad ad. One of those "so-bad-I-change-station" ads. Not the desired effect.

spank_inferno

I heard that Garmin add and changed channels too.
The whole "mom & apple pie" american accents dont play well on irish radio
There is also another one "thats right I'm cheating on the big apple, & not because I'm a shrill harpee but because of some poxy provincial shopping centre"

I know many americans and none of them speak like this.

tbh

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I have heard, unquestionably, the worst, most annoying radio ad of all time today. It's a christmas song with lyrics about garmin sat navs, sung by an incredibly annoying american. Words cannot express how disgustingly torturous it is to listen to. I'll be honest, once it came on for the third time I felt like smashing my radio into tiny little pieces.

still - can't fault their logic - there's many the 6-lane highway in Ireland where this yoke could prove useful :rolleyes:

jor el

Mr E wrote: »

Speaking of Eircom, whats an Uber Warlord?

Also, what's 3 Mega-broadband?

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

It's a christmas song with lyrics about garmin sat navs, sung by an incredibly annoying american.

Haven't heard this one, thankfully, but did they have the same ad last year? I vaguely remember some ultra-annoying Garmin ad last Christmas, but have luckily forgotten it now.

I'm just waiting for that fuuking Barry's Tea Christmas ad now, then I'll be switching off the radio altogether, till the new year.

As for crap, fake American accents not working on Irish radio, can someone please tell Clearwire this? It's been 5 years, enough already!

Pigletlover

Heard that Garmin ad today, thought it was going to be the same one as last year, but it's ten times worse (yes that is possible), has to be heard to believed.

Firetrap

How about the ones for food hygiene (I think) where the woman in the ad starts saying to herself if I get food poisoning I won't be able to go to the party and meet Dave and someone else will meet him instead and they'll get married in a big castle...There's a male equivalent of it as well where some other bloke get a promotion.

extopia

Let's not forget the "Have you lost your lust for life" ads. WTF?

GhostInTheRuins

extopia wrote: »

Let's not forget the "Have you lost your lust for life" ads. WTF?

Don't you talk about it down the pub?

Keith186

123.ie fecking ads are so annoying. You just want to strangle everyone involved in making that sh1t, especially if you've been driving for a while and keep hearing it over and over.

Cunning

THE ONE that irriates me at the moment is for some car
[could be a crysler?}
where a woman goes to santa with her kid and santa says

HO
SHOULNT THAT BE HO HO HO
EXTRA HO'S ARE EXTRA LUV...
ETC

then goes on about how you dont have to pay extra bla bla bla
then at the very end

DELIVERY AND BLA BLA BLA... NOT INCLUDED
[they avoid the word extra but they might aswell have said it}

jor el

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

It's a christmas song with lyrics about garmin sat navs, sung by an incredibly annoying american.

Heard that this morning. Screaming Baby Jebus, what are these people thinking when they come up with this stuff? Same tune as last years, but so much more annoying.

Wertz

lol just coming in to express my vehemence for the garmin ad, but looks like I've been beaten to it....hated last years' but it was positively grammy-winning in comparison to this dirge.
You know I honestly believe that certain ad makers use the annoyance factor in the mistaken belief that it'll somehow brainwash it's way into consumer's heads.
Lane assist? For Irish drivers? lmao..."Please get into the left lane, Please get into the left lane, please get in..."
I was toying with the idea of buying a garmin 250w the other week...now I think I'l just get a rival's product...

Jip

I actually like that Garmin ad ! Maybe it's because I like the original tune.

Basq

There's one ad I can think of that's worse than the Garmin ad..

The one with the Scottish husband & wife shouting to each other about the Mint Viennetta.

I hate this ad.. the accent grinds on me, the fact that they're shouting makes it even more annoying and it goes on 20 minutes (or what seems like) too long!

youcancallmeal

jor el wrote: »

Also, what's 3 Mega-broadband?

Only noticed this after you said it, they really are taking the p*ss with that!

tSubh Dearg

I don't know what it is about the Hot Press ad that I dislike but really it makes me want never, ever buy their magazine.

brettmirl

tSubh Dearg wrote: »

I don't know what it is about the Hot Press ad that I dislike but really it makes me want never, ever buy their magazine.

+1

But what annoys me about it is the way they say "Hot Press, available every 14 days".

The 14 days thing just grates me....just say god damn fortnight!

extopia

A syllable shorter, but is it really a big deal?

smaoifs

basquille wrote: »

There's one ad I can think of that's worse than the Garmin ad..

The one with the Scottish husband & wife shouting to each other about the Mint Viennetta.

I hate this ad.. the accent grinds on me, the fact that they're shouting makes it even more annoying and it goes on 20 minutes (or what seems like) too long!

That's the most bizarre ad. "Andy where's the bag of ice cubes?"........let me think, the oven maybe?!