NCI ad on YouTube - advertising fail, anyone?

hatrickpatrick

Don't think we're allowed to embed youtube vids on this forum so here's a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKOA4f7779A

This ad is now airing as a pre-ad for many videos on YouTube (the proliferation of such ads I fear is going to kill youtube completely, making it an incredibly nasty viewing experience IMO) and I have to say I've never see nanything quite so off putting.

I'm not sure what it is about the ad that makes my skin crawl. Maybe it's because it seems so desperate to get people to like it, maybe it's the incredibly fake smile of the narrator especially in the last frame which makes one seriously question the veracity of the claims she's making, maybe it's the garish graphics.... I'm not sure.

The funny thing is I know people in NCI and from what I've heard it's actually a nice college to go to, most people I know there really enjoy it.
Is this an advertising fail or am I the only one who just gets an immensely bad vibe from it? As I say I'm not sure what it is, I don't think it's the content of what she's saying (although it is all fairly generic, recycled slogans that every college in the country uses, "I want to succeed") it's just something about the delivery.

Anyone else find this ad a bit horrific, or am I just tired and completely overreacting? I found the "chaos sweeps the globe" campaign on YouTube slightly annoying when it was around, but this one for some reason really irritates the sh!te out of me

DrumSteve

I cant say ive ever watched an ad on youtube.

MrStuffins

First thing that came to my mind was:

"I definitely would!!"

hatrickpatrick

MrStuffins wrote: »

First thing that came to my mind was:

"I definitely would!!"

Oh I mean you would, yeah, no question about that

Kintarō Hattori

That ads been on the go a while now. I can't say I've ever really given it much thought. You might be over analyzing it just a tad OP.

El Weirdo

There are ads on YouTube?

BTW, you can embed YT videos in here.

Firefox11

El Weirdo wrote: »

There are ads on YouTube?

Yes. There are some people still using IE to browse the web apparently.....how quaint.:D

Nulty

I'm in that ad

Kurz

As much as i hate ads, i would like to recommend adblock plus to the op. Youtube instantly becomes adless like the old days. And it gets rids of the ads from rte player and all those. BANG! And the ads are gone! as the great Barry Scott once said.

Micky Dolenz

youtube is class. The biggest jukebox in da world.

PrincessLola

Firefox11 wrote: »

Yes. There are some people still using IE to browse the web apparently.....how quaint.:D

but I use Firefox and I see ads. Am I doing something wrong?:(

MrStuffins

PrincessLola wrote: »

but I use Firefox and I see ads. Am I doing something wrong?:(

Ads on the internet drive me nuts!!

Almost as nuts are the prices at Bill's Discount Furniture Store!

southcentralts

I like to watch advertising videos on youtube, but hate when they show an advert before they load the video!

superluck

Rip off college sponsored by FF cronies.

You may as well wipe your ass with some of these college diplomas and degrees.

I'd never judge a man or woman based on their qualifications, never.

MrStuffins

superluck wrote: »

Rip off college sponsored by FF cronies.

You may as well wipe your ass with some of these college diplomas and degrees.

I'd never judge a man or woman based on their qualifications, never.

Except for whan they have an NCI qualification apparently!

kowloon

It has a certain Borg collective conciousness vibe to it.

Vicar in a tutu

Kurz wrote: »

As much as i hate ads, i would like to recommend adblock plus to the op. Youtube instantly becomes adless like the old days. And it gets rids of the ads from rte player and all those. BANG! And the ads are gone! as the great Barry Scott once said.

I just done that there, Genius:pac: Life is so much easier now:)

Canis Lupus

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that advert...