Worst/Best Radio Ads

MarkHitide

It takes the form of an ad. offering an position of employment as a sex worker, with details of type of applicant sought and future prospects-

Coriolanus

Some bank ad.

Oh my gosh, we're having a baby.

Who the fúck says gosh?! This isn't 50's America ffs

dulpit

Coriolanus wrote: »

Some bank ad.

Oh my gosh, we're having a baby.

Who the fúck says gosh?! This isn't 50's America ffs

Agreed, it's on the telly too... Wrecks my buzz... And also any ad for the Gaiety... They must spend a fortune on advertising..

squonk

Coriolanus wrote: »

Some bank ad.

Oh my gosh, we're having a baby.

Who the fúck says gosh?! This isn't 50's America ffs

She sounds like a cylon with a low battery! The ad is stupid in the way it's structured. Her: 'Oh my gosh! We're having a baby', Him: 'So, I thought it was about time, started a saving account and bought a ring'. My interpretation: ****e, I've just knocked her up, I suppose I'm stuck with her now

MarkHitide

tesco; marty whelan; baseball bat-
kitchen strewn with radio fragments-

Owryan

MarkHitide wrote: »

tesco; marty whelan; baseball bat-
kitchen strewn with radio fragments-

And then you have to go to Tesco to replace what you smashed.

Very good advertising on tesco's part lol

coonecb1

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Theres an ad currently running on Newstalk for a car parts store, I think its called Jims Garage or Daves Garage??

Its very hard to understand your man reading it as he speaks like an inner city drug dealer. At the end of it he belches into the microphone, yeah thats right belches.

Who the hell comes up with this kind of tripe?

I actually like that ad, it's funny

(And I'm usually hyper-critical of radio ads)

telekon

MarkHitide wrote: »

tesco; marty whelan; baseball bat-
kitchen strewn with radio fragments-

I hate all Tesco ads due to my hatred of all things Tesco.

C14N

MarkHitide wrote: »

The current radio for Ruhama.ie; tasteless.

Yeah, what got me about that one was she said something along the lines of "nobody choose a life in prostitution". That got me thinking that that can't be true. There are plenty of countries where prostitution is legal and regulated, there have to be some girls who think to themselves "this is the job for me!". Heck, even in Ireland there have to be a few who just decided to do it.

squonk wrote: »

Her: 'Oh my gosh! We're having a baby', Him: 'So, I thought it was about time, started a saving account and bought a ring'. My interpretation: ****e, I've just knocked her up, I suppose I'm stuck with her now

Lol, exactly what I was thinking when I heard it.

Coriolanus wrote: »

Some bank ad.

Oh my gosh, we're having a baby.

Who the fúck says gosh?! This isn't 50's America ffs

Their acting is terrible too.

The Master.

There is one for Harris for heating just now (mabye only on Nova)
sounds like a couple reading the newspaper but the guy is trying to tell the woman about a deal but he keeps pausing between every word! uhh Harris uhh for uhh heating uhh boiler uhhhhh service.

L1011

Barnardos ad. I'll hold what I was going to say, but aargh. Actually have to turn the radio off till its over now, lest I change channel and find its on there too.

squonk

Not sure if it's national but there's an ad on Clare FM for the ISPCC I think it is. Starts off with a kid saying something like 'Nobody likes me. I'm annoying and a pain in the arse...' which is all well and good and you're thinking 'poor kid' but then he somehow morphs into a US kid judging by his accent when he goes 'and I can't take a punch either. I take it like a gurl, a whiney liddle gurl'. If the ad went on any longer I'd expect to hear 'Aw geez coach, put me up to bat! I'm sure gonna do my best for ya!'. Where did they get this fella? We're 4,000 miles from the nearest part of the US/Canada so why his accent is like that I don't know!

neris

squonk wrote: »

Not sure if it's national but there's an ad on Clare FM for the ISPCC I think it is. Starts off with a kid saying something like 'Nobody likes me. I'm annoying and a pain in the arse...' which is all well and good and you're thinking 'poor kid' but then he somehow morphs into a US kid judging by his accent when he goes 'and I can't take a punch either. I take it like a gurl, a whiney liddle gurl'. If the ad went on any longer I'd expect to hear 'Aw geez coach, put me up to bat! I'm sure gonna do my best for ya!'. Where did they get this fella? We're 4,000 miles from the nearest part of the US/Canada so why his accent is like that I don't know!

its a national tv and radio campaign. can be a bit hard hitting but usually alot of those ads are

C14N

squonk wrote: »

Not sure if it's national but there's an ad on Clare FM for the ISPCC I think it is. Starts off with a kid saying something like 'Nobody likes me. I'm annoying and a pain in the arse...' which is all well and good and you're thinking 'poor kid' but then he somehow morphs into a US kid judging by his accent when he goes 'and I can't take a punch either. I take it like a gurl, a whiney liddle gurl'. If the ad went on any longer I'd expect to hear 'Aw geez coach, put me up to bat! I'm sure gonna do my best for ya!'. Where did they get this fella? We're 4,000 miles from the nearest part of the US/Canada so why his accent is like that I don't know!

I thought it was quite effective, particularly the part about taking a punch. When I was about 10, admitting to feeling pain if someone punched you was a sign of extreme weakness, which is ridiculous.

I liked the ad for some bank (can't remember which one but it wasn't one of the traditional Irish banks). Started out with a woman saying "I'm starving" and her husband/boyfriend says "Well you know what you'll get from me" before rhyming off some fancy meals. A voiceover says "it's always nice to be pleasantly surprised" and introduces some sort of account with a special interest rate they have. Kind of made me laugh, although I guess I just liked it because it actually made the point and wasn't horrible.

coonecb1

It really p*sses me off how we've completely surrendered control of the English language to the Americans, and how unquestioningly we imitate their words and pronunciations.

There's one ad that really gets me, it's of a child struggling with his abc's, and he pronounces the letter Z as 'Zee' rather than 'Zed.'

Happens on two separate occasions in the same ad.

Ciaran_B

"You're thinking, there goes my bonus."

No, I'm thinking 'there goes my radio' after I hurl it across the kitchen.

L1011

Ciaran_B wrote: »

"You're thinking, there goes my bonus."

No, I'm thinking 'there goes my radio' after I hurl it across the kitchen.

I'm thinking "that company has such ridiculous deadlines, a paid-for clone of Google Docs really won't help much", and then throwing the radio away after I hear it for the 50th time that day.

barneygumble

The Barry's teeeeeeeaaaaaa ads are back again with their cloying sentimentality.

I'm sure he's a lovely bloke, but if I never hear Ray Houghton mangling vowels again, it will be too soon.

C14N

coonecb1 wrote: »

It really p*sses me off how we've completely surrendered control of the English language to the Americans, and how unquestioningly we imitate their words and pronunciations.

There's one ad that really gets me, it's of a child struggling with his abc's, and he pronounces the letter Z as 'Zee' rather than 'Zed.'

Happens on two separate occasions in the same ad.

It's always been Zee for me. Zed always seemed to bring the thing to a horrible, baseball-bat-to-the-head close. Zee rhymes with Vee.

dulpit

C14N wrote: »

I thought it was quite effective, particularly the part about taking a punch. When I was about 10, admitting to feeling pain if someone punched you was a sign of extreme weakness, which is ridiculous.

I liked the ad for some bank (can't remember which one but it wasn't one of the traditional Irish banks). Started out with a woman saying "I'm starving" and her husband/boyfriend says "Well you know what you'll get from me" before rhyming off some fancy meals. A voiceover says "it's always nice to be pleasantly surprised" and introduces some sort of account with a special interest rate they have. Kind of made me laugh, although I guess I just liked it because it actually made the point and wasn't horrible.

KBC Bank if I'm not mistaken...

There's an ad for comfort keepers or something, the one where a woman says something like "sometimes dad forgets to take his medicine, and I don't have the time to look after him". Make the time, he's your bloody father you selfish cow.. :mad:

neris

national fish and chips day today apparently just heard their brutal ad on pat kenny.

Lapin

neris wrote: »

national fish and chips day today apparently just heard their brutal ad on pat kenny.

And every ad break on Newstalk since.

As much as I like fish n' chips, I think I'll wait till Friday.

califano

Visit Carlow "Just say Catherine sent you!". Ugh she tilts the bejebus out of me.

jimmyw

dulpit wrote: »

KBC Bank if I'm not mistaken...

There's an ad for comfort keepers or something, the one where a woman says something like "sometimes dad forgets to take his medicine, and I don't have the time to look after him". Make the time, he's your bloody father you selfish cow.. :mad:

Yeah that ad is really annoying,she sounds like a real posh bitch and her dad is only an inconvenience to her:(

I know she is only an actress but annoying none the less:rolleyes:

barneygumble

dulpit wrote: »

KBC Bank if I'm not mistaken...

There's an ad for comfort keepers or something, the one where a woman says something like "sometimes dad forgets to take his medicine, and I don't have the time to look after him". Make the time, he's your bloody father you selfish cow.. :mad:

I emailed the company concerned (myhomecare.ie) to complain about the ad.

To their credit, I got a polite response apologising for any offence caused, which they say is of course unintentional.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Marathon Sports have an ad out for travel packages to Wimbledon at the moment.

'The fresh cut grass, the most pretigious lawn courts in the world', FEEL THE HISTORY, FEEL THE PASSION, RAWWR!!!! :rolleyes:

Do you know if I was going to buy a package to Wimbledon I'd choose a different company purely on the basis that Marathon Sports advertising campaigns have been bugging the hell out of me for too dam long at this stage.

Lapin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Marathon Sports have an ad out for travel packages to Wimbledon at the moment.

'The fresh cut grass, the most pretigious lawn courts in the world', FEEL THE HISTORY, FEEL THE PASSION, RAWWR!!!! :rolleyes:

Do you know if I was going to buy a package to Wimbledon I'd choose a different company purely on the basis that Marathon Sports advertising campaigns have been bugging the hell out of me for too dam long at this stage.

Ah give poor Wimbledon a break.

They've had a rough time of it in recent years

Vinnie Jones fecked off to the lure of the silver screen.
A bunch of celtic tiger fat cats tried to uproot them to Dublin.
But they got lucky and ended up in Milton Keynes as the MK Dons instead.


..................................................:pac:............

DEFTLEFTHAND

Lapin wrote: »

Ah give poor Wimbledon a break.

They've had a rough time of it in recent years

Vinnie Jones fecked off to the lure of the silver screen.
A bunch of celtic tiger fat cats tried to uproot them to Dublin.
But they got lucky and ended up in Milton Keynes as the MK Dons instead.


..................................................:pac:............

At least the supporters club AFC Wimbledon are back in the football league. Don't worry a new breed of The crazy gang will ride again. :pac:

fifi234ie

Every second ad on the radio that seems to be voiced by Fair City actors.

Lapin

^^^

Its what they do in their spare time, when they're not driving taxis.

neris

creepy ad for netflix where the voice tells the kids hes not their daddy but their mommy

NIMAN

I am currently wondering how blatantly erroneous adverts are allowed to be aired by the Advertising Regulator (if there is one).

I think there's an ad for eMobile at present which uses the term "at last a truly unlimited mobile service".

Now call me old-fashioned but for me using the terms in BOLD means that it should be totally unlimited.

And then at the end of the advert they say "fair usage policy applies".

For me, this is plain old false advertising.

dulpit

NIMAN wrote: »

I am currently wondering how blatantly erroneous adverts are allowed to be aired by the Advertising Regulator (if there is one).

I think there's an ad for eMobile at present which uses the term "at last a truly unlimited mobile service".

Now call me old-fashioned but for me using the terms in BOLD means that it should be totally unlimited.

And then at the end of the advert they say "fair usage policy applies".

For me, this is plain old false advertising.

Fair usage applies, but to be fair to emobile they're pretty damn generous with their fair usage, it's set at:

45,000 minutes, 10,000 texts and 15GB of data.

There are 44,640 minutes in a 31 day month, so no issue there.
10,000 texts works out at 13.4 texts an hour, every hour of every day of a 31 day month.
And 15GB is just generous.

And if you go over your call (impossible) or text (pretty damn hard) allowance they charge you an out-of-charge fee of €0.00 per minute/text. They do, however, charge €1 per 50MB over the 15GB. So there is that.

NIMAN

dulpit

Not complaining whether their 'fair usage' policy is good or not.

But if you are going to tell people you are offering Ireland's first truly unlimited package, then the words 'fair usage' shouldn't come into it. End of.

C14N

dulpit wrote: »

Fair usage applies, but to be fair to emobile they're pretty damn generous with their fair usage, it's set at:

45,000 minutes, 10,000 texts and 15GB of data.

There are 44,640 minutes in a 31 day month, so no issue there.
10,000 texts works out at 13.4 texts an hour, every hour of every day of a 31 day month.
And 15GB is just generous.

And if you go over your call (impossible) or text (pretty damn hard) allowance they charge you an out-of-charge fee of €0.00 per minute/text. They do, however, charge €1 per 50MB over the 15GB. So there is that.

The only thing I could think of that's a problem is the data. The first two seem basically unlimited as it is but 15GB of data could be easily used up if you use it as a primary internet device in a good area. They could have made it a lot higher too as 3's unlimited data is at something like 3700GB.


I'm tired of hearing eircom Musichub ads. Yes eircom, I do like organising my CD collection, stop judging me. The service is no replacement for having a real collection.

Also Lyon's tea ads:
A: "Master Blender, how do you get the tea to taste so rich?"
B: "Well it's depressing"
A: "I understand, it's a mystery"
B: "No, it's the pressing"

Ugh, hate hearing that. What does a mystery even have to do with being depressing? And then we get the line "a taste that's richer than...that rich fella who own's the internet!". ffs.

Welsh Megaman

''Hi, Kathryn Thomas from Carlow here...''

:mad:

Aoife1979

Ronan Leonard wrote: »

That fecking ad on RTE radio 1 for the tv license. The one where the gob****e sings pay yourself. Wish he he would piss off he can't sing.

Ah I love that Ad! And thats the whole point, he's not supposed to be singing well. That's what makes it Funnier!!!

neris

Heard one for meteor about euro 2012 with some put on female European accent from the voice over. When you listen to it, it's one of the regular voice over actresses

Mega Buddy

The ad for Bord Gais Energy. Have no idea who the female on the ad is, but she certainly can not pronounce the word 'energy'. She says enegy! Truly frustrating.

C14N

I think it was an Axa ad I heard this morning where the girl in the ad used the word "tousand" instead of "thousand" and "tree hundred" instead of "three hundred". Sounded quite unprofessional for a big insurance company.

pwurple

^^Heard it as well... cringe.

neris

mario rosenstock deserves a boot in the hole for his latest offering trying to tell us how fantastic "the power" of radio advertising is

mike65

"They're the Irish (and listen to more crap ads than anyone else)"! :mad:

L1011

How long that ad is going to last with "cream crackers" in it, I've no idea.

Drackedie

C14N wrote: »

I think it was an Axa ad I heard this morning where the girl in the ad used the word "tousand" instead of "thousand" and "tree hundred" instead of "three hundred". Sounded quite unprofessional for a big insurance company.

Yup, that one is one of the many currently doing my head in!!

Drackedie

3 ads this morning making me cringe/want to kill the radio:

The Pharmaton one where your one sings "wob bom a loo bop... got a man named Jay-Z..". This ad drives me crazy - as does the other Pharmaton one with singing in it (can't remember the song, now).

The Volkswagen "take a deep breath and relax..." ad. Aarrgghh!!

The Lotto ads, in particular the one where she is going to smother herself in honey and go around the rockies making mating noises. Come to think of it, the "ready, theady" Lotto ad with they guy walking on coals does my head in too...

tommytee

i dont get this ad at all, not really annoying me yet but I fear it will, when the (Presume she's american) buts in and says MAXOL, MAXOL,

Going Forward

That annoying one about stray cats on Newstalk.
Spay me, please.

Going Forward

C14N wrote: »

I think it was an Axa ad I heard this morning where the girl in the ad used the word "tousand" instead of "thousand" and "tree hundred" instead of "three hundred". Sounded quite unprofessional for a big insurance company.

But we also comlain when other companies use professional voice over artists claiming to be joe public or their employees (think FBD for example), so hard to win on that one!!

She does drop the ball a few times but starts out fairly well IIRC, and I dont really mind it now!

fricatus

tommytee wrote: »

i dont get this ad at all, not really annoying me yet but I fear it will, when the (Presume she's american) buts in and says MAXOL, MAXOL,

Jesus I heard that ad yesterday and felt like ripping the radio out of the dashboard and fcuking it out onto the M9 at 120 km/h. What are they trying, some sort of Phoebe/American hippy chick vibe?