Trócaire Ads

Lapin

Why are these Ads broadcast down a phoneline?

Is it to give the impression that the speaker is busy distributing aid in a disaster stricken area and is taking time out to appeal by phoning for donations. Or is it to save cash by not hiring a studio to make the ads. I wouldn't find either explanation very plausible so I'm simply curious as to why they do it. I think other aid organisations used the same method in the wake of the Haiti disaster but I'm not 100% here. Trócaire always do.
Why .

JonathanAnon

It's just a trick to help convey that the money is all going to the people who need it, and that (like you said) they have people on the ground to distribute the money / food / whatever...

Remember Gervais' parody of this on Red Nose Day a few years go...

FlutterinBantam

Lapin wrote: »

Why are these Ads broadcast down a phoneline?

Is it to give the impression that the speaker is busy distributing aid in a disaster stricken area and is taking time out to appeal by phoning for donations. Or is it to save cash by not hiring a studio to make the ads. I wouldn't find either explanation very plausible so I'm simply curious as to why they do it. I think other aid organisations used the same method in the wake of the Haiti disaster but I'm not 100% here. Trócaire always do.
Why .

It's to give the easily duped punter the impression that the hoop doing the ad. is knee deep in blood and guts and bodies, so helping to relieve the public of more of their hard earned cash.

Barname

very effective ads

so effective

I am contacting my bank Monday to cancel my DD to them

enough

I cant afford radio ads for my business yet they blow my donations on stupid radio ads

the anti power of advertising demonstrated.

goingpostal

I prefer to donate to Oxfam, or Concern, secular charities, at least I can be sure my money won't be used for proselytizing. Although Concern spend a fair bit on radio ads too. This website http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities gives a good list of the best charities, judged by how well they use their money.

Southsider1

goingpostal wrote: »

I prefer to donate to Oxfam, or Concern, secular charities, at least I can be sure my money won't be used for proselytizing. Although Concern spend a fair bit on radio ads too. This website http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities gives a good list of the best charities, judged by how well they use their money.

Have you evidence that non secular charities use the money for "Proselytizing"?

goingpostal

Southsider1 wrote: »

Have you evidence that non secular charities use the money for "Proselytizing"?

Have you evidence that they don't? I am not saying that they do, but the doubt would always be there, for me. Most charities, whether secular, or religious, have a stunning lack of transparency, when it comes to how they use the money.

Southsider1

goingpostal wrote: »

I prefer to donate to Oxfam, or Concern, secular charities, at least I can be sure my money won't be used for proselytizing. Although Concern spend a fair bit on radio ads too. This website http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities gives a good list of the best charities, judged by how well they use their money.

You imply that the religous charities are "proselytizing" their beneficiaries.

goingpostal wrote: »

Have you evidence that they don't?

No, I don't but I didn't imply one way or the other. You did! I spent six months in Africa a few years back with a christian charity and saw no evidence of them doing anything other than feeding, clothing and educating the people they were assisting. There was no religous aspect to it at all. Feel free to give us your examples of them influencing their beneficiaries. I'd be most interested to hear.

goingpostal

I merely stated that by donating to non-religious charities, the possibility of my money being used for proselytization is removed. That possibility can not be discounted when dealing with a charity that proudly professes its Catholic origins http://www.trocaire.org/thecatholicchurch In the absence of evidence either way, which we agree on, only doubt exists.

Lapin

So anyway. To get back to my original question........

tbh

they usually use those ads for ongoing situations - like the floods in Pakistan for example. So my thoughts would be, it gets the ads on the radio quicker than if they had to go to a studio.