Even more adverts you despise

IamtheWalrus

The Lidl ads are rancid but we're discussing them so maybe that's successful marketing? Although I don't believe that's the angle they're going for.

brianregan09

Areas wrote: »

Saw it during Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 on Friday in the IMC Galway. Everyone at the screening laughed at the end of the Nissan ad. No one understood it.

Please tell me what its about because I still don't get it and our whole screening of Guardians were clapping and laughing like seals

ligerdub

brianregan09 wrote: »

Please tell me what its about because I still don't get it and our whole screening of Guardians were clapping and laughing like seals

It's some sort of female empowerment angle.

It seems to be a theme at the moment. You see it with Orbit/Wrigley's where the girl is taking the penalty, another one where they have girls playing sport "don't you deh" give up, another one for Always Ultra (fair enough I guess) where she's "owning it" onstage, and the standard of them all "its4women".

Anyways, the young lad is being beaten up by bullies on the housing estate so the big strong tough girl, as all females are in marketing and film these days, comes in and saves the day with her brutish strength. The guy needed the girl to save him, in a reverse of the standard Hollywood fare of the damsel in distress.

It's garbage!

silverharp

^^

I just checked the Youtube video again and they have disabled comments and not showing dislikes, lol

ZeitgeistGlee

silverharp wrote: »

all kinds of things wrong with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6rDlRQtio

Saw this last night before GotG Vol. 2, first thought it was going to be an ad for bullying/mental health, then maybe its4women only for the Nissan logo to pop up at the end. Painful stuff.

Genuinely would love to meet the team who developed and green lit it, because it sure as **** didn't make me want to rush out and buy one to protect my fragile masculinity.

Penn

The most depressing thing about the ad is the old woman who thinks an old Nissan Micra has been going out and buying bread and milk for her...

ButtersSuki

Nissan ad needs a redub with "Whooooooooa Body-form, Body-form for you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asXw2a4kQLc

It would actually make more sense.

ButtersSuki

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Saw this last night before GotG Vol. 2, first thought it was going to be an ad for bullying/mental health, then maybe its4women only for the Nissan logo to pop up at the end. Painful stuff.

Genuinely would love to meet the team who developed and green lit it, because it sure as **** didn't make me want to rush out and buy one to protect my fragile masculinity.

I actually read your username as ZeitgestGee.......:D

Birneybau

The Mace ads with the nightmareish Emoji heads *shudder*

Shannon757

^^^^
Those ads have made me actively avoid Mace.

DivingDuck

Birneybau wrote: »

The Mace ads with the nightmareish Emoji heads *shudder*

Just came here to post this.

If that big orange head isn't dance-chasing me in my dreams tonight, I'll be surprised.

rubadub

I couldn't put my finger on what the mace ads reminded me of, just copped it's like those freaky aphex twin videos where the faces stay static

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xRyLxjUqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4agXcHLySs

cianx

The new Aldi advert for baby food and wipes with the talking teddy bear. They have the bear as a Corkonian with an extremely exaggerated accent, talking about 'awaaaaaard winning straaaaaawberry puuuuuuuree'.

ButtersSuki

rubadub wrote: »

I couldn't put my finger on what the mace ads reminded me of, just copped it's like those freaky aphex twin videos where the faces stay static

Nah, the best Aphex Twin video is for "Windowlicker" - if you haven't seen it, I encourage you to do so, it is simply a work of creative genius (all 10+mins of it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBS4Gi1y_nc

Great work from a Limerick(born) man!

erica74

The Oral B ad with the patient in the dentist's chair saying

I didn't even know Oral B made a toothpaste

Yes. You. Did.

fussyonion

The ad for Toddlebox.
Creepy, amateur CGI graphics and pure cringe.

DivingDuck

fussyonion wrote: »

The ad for Toddlebox.
Creepy, amateur CGI graphics and pure cringe.

More nightmare fuel! That terrible 90s-style CGI with babies' mouths moving needs to be stopped.

Have no clue what the product is, but the ad is so terrible that out of spite I actually refuse to go to the website and give them the traffic.

madmaggie

The Oral B ad. The dentist prefers the electric toothbrush to the manual. Well, surprise, surprise.

LushiousLips

The Lidl add where the couple are shopping and the tight bastard is questioning everything she's putting into the trolley. God I'd love to slap him

Pentecost

Areas wrote: »

Saw it during Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 on Friday in the IMC Galway. Everyone at the screening laughed at the end of the Nissan ad. No one understood it.

Saw it today initial reactiion was "wtf is this about?!". Secondary reaction being "Oh there's yer man that was in Fair City apparently getting beaten up by a 12 year old"

Gen.Zhukov

madmaggie wrote: »

The Oral B ad. The dentist prefers the electric toothbrush to the manual. Well, surprise, surprise.

Oral B really take the mick with these ads.

There was a new one a few weeks ago. Two women on a couch. One has nice teeth and the other has the teeth of a camel. Nice teeth gives her bud some Oral B product to try. Just 3 days later, camel mouth has a set of chops to rival anyone in Hollywood !

Total horsesh!t.

Looks like some ad standards crowd thought the same as it was pulled.

Squall Leonhart

It's a radio ad.... but oh how I HATE that new ad for Hailo becoming My Taxi!!

rubadub

LushiousLips wrote: »

The Lidl add where the couple are shopping and the tight bastard is questioning everything she's putting into the trolley. God I'd love to slap him

they also say yer man is from Cavan, perpetuating a negative stereotype. There is some other ad with some line about supporting a team "even if its Mayo", no idea what that means but I thought there might be complaints about the Cavan thing.

Not sure if this was posted about that cancer ad a while ago.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0221/854247-asai-cancer-advert/

The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland has upheld in part complaints against the Irish Cancer Society for its controversial campaign 'I want to get cancer'.

92 complaints were received about the advertising.

According to the ASAI, the common theme running through the complaints was that the wording used was "offensive, insensitive, disrespectful and upsetting to cancer survivors, current sufferers, bereaved families and those who may currently be undergoing tests or waiting on the results of same".

However, the Irish Cancer Society said that cancer is a complex disease, and highly emotive and by promoting such a hard hitting campaign it was trying to inform people more about the disease and encourage them to seek out facts.

In upholding the complaint, the ASAI considered that there was a tolerance in society for charity advertising to be more provocative than commercial advertising, nevertheless, it said "care was needed when addressing such an emotive issue as cancer, particularly when using provocative copy".

The committee noted the level of complaint and the distress that had been caused to complainants.

The advertising campaign started with 'teaser' advertising where the advertisers were not identified and the wording 'I want to get cancer" featured.

The following day, the reveal advertising appeared and the identity of the Irish Cancer Society was revealed.

The ASAI found that while some of the advertising was very clear in explaining the context of the message they found that other vignettes on TV had not been clear as to what the individuals meant by wanting to 'get cancer', and were therefore likely to cause distress to consumers.

Other complaints related to the campaign and the line "By 2020, 1 in 2 of us will be getting cancer in our lifetime" were not upheld by the ASAI.

It was not "the following day"

optogirl

madmaggie wrote: »

The Oral B ad. The dentist prefers the electric toothbrush to the manual. Well, surprise, surprise.

I didn't know Oral B made toothbrushes!

FaceTurnedAway

"The clever human chooses energia"! Seriously? I think the folks from 'Mad Men' would find it difficult to comprehend that this is how to manipulate people of the 21st century.

Initially I thought they were like a lame attempt at being manipulative, but given that they're being repeated so often, I feel like I'm being brain washed. Is one actually supposed to think they're stupid if they don't switch. They're obviously hoping that any frequently repeated ultimately gains belief. I think these ads are very brain washing to people who are short attention spanned or impressionable. If I wasn't as cynical as I am, these ads could have won over my subconscious.

At least they've switched from their other ad... about a year or two a go they had this ad where they (as usual) made a male spouse out to be pretty thick, with him taking about 24 hours to comprehend how cheaper is better. One thing I do know, is that these ads must be costing them an absolute fortune. You hear them all over the radio too.

I assume there's some sort of catch - just like there was with Airtricity when I sold for them a few years backs. Make them sign a contract and just up the standing charges.

Go Harvey Go

rubadub wrote: »

There is some other ad with some line about supporting a team "even if its Mayo", no idea what that means but I thought there might be complaints about the Cavan thing.

Probably something to do with Mayo's luck in All-Ireland finals in the last 30 years?

Hippo

It's the time of year again for the GAA championship ad, and this year is as insufferably self-important as last year's - 'a unique bond that can't be bought or broken', 'all that you know to be true' etc etc ad nauseam. It's not exclusive to the championship, RTE do it for the rugby as well but oh fcuk am I ever sick of it.

castletownman

Christ that lad with his sister in the Lidl trolley cam ad makes Francis Brennan come across as tolerable

bottlebrush

Does nobody shop in Lidl on their own anymore

storker

The one that makes my teeth itch at the moment is for car insurance, Allianz or Axa I think. It actually says "...every day <Insurance Co> helps Irish families to live their lives to the full..."

How brain addled or spaced out does someone have to be to produce this kind of codswallop? And what about the senior managers who give it their seal of approval? It's bloody car insurance!!! One of life's great grudge purchases. From the ad, you'd think it was bottled adrenaline or something...

(Dis)honorable mention to the banks with this "...we're always there for you..." balderdash. Yeah, that's why you don't want people coming into the branches and why a robot answers the phone and insults our intelligence even further by pretending to be human.

Ironic that these "touchy-feely" adverts are made by institutions with the biggest reputations for delivering financial wedgies to customers.