What commercial have you watched that has turned you off a product?
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M$http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs
I mean, they even admitted that their commercial was annoying--but they still ran it!!
Who came up with this ad? Hmm, Let's repeat the same phrase over and over and over in an annoying way. That will make people LIKE us.
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Not only did they run it; it usually had the same commercial running twice back-to-back.
I saw this question and immediately thought of this...clicked on the question and there it was.
Yes, that is incredibly annoying.. but actually I think the repetition is so effective that many people bought it anyway.
ooo extra points for video example.
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I think Jeff wins for best comment of the week!
MARKETERS TAKE NOTE!
THE HEADON TECHNIQUE ONLY WORKS ONCE!
THE HEADON TECHNIQUE ONLY WORKS ONCE!
THE HEADON TECHNIQUE ONLY WORKS ONCE!
Don't try it again, you'll just be lame.
AHHH!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/43624764_4db3eaac1f_o.jpg
Hmm, maybe they figure that after watching the commercial you will NEED the product....
Yes, the commercial is good about making you remember the product. However, I know of NO ONE who actually bought the product.
For a funny read, check out Wiki's page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
Best quotes:
Manufacturer Miralus Healthcare decided not to include any factual claims about the product in the spots after the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureaus objected to the claim that HeadOn provided "fast, safe, effective" headache relief made in an earlier spot.
Dan Charron, vice president of sales and marketing at Miralus, told the Los Angeles Times that nobody in the focus groups had told him that the ads were annoying. (Apparently the focus groups felt that stating the obvious was not necessary??)
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Hey, I agree the music is too repetitive. But I like this ad because:
This is the actual owner, not an actor.
You see his stock and place of business, not a mock up or a sound stage.
It is obviously a local ad.
I like local ads that feature the owner. Here in NW Chicago we have a suburban cell phone store that has for years featured the propriator ("Your Phone Zone girl") who has aged over the years and now the ads feature her teen age son, now touted as "Your Phone Zone Boy."
It adds to a sense of community, which is so lacking in our homoginized society. So don't hurt the big guy doing a lame rap and dance for this store, instead be glad his business is continuing and he can get customers.
It has a certain charm.
It appears many others also agree instead of a ton of links to watch the lexus videos when you hit google it's a long list of people annoyed as hell.
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I was going to say the same and then I saw you had already gone there. These are the most egotisitic and conceited comercials out there. They really do endorse "the Haves and the Have Nots." I will never consider buying a Lexus even if I find a great deal on a used one, because of this commercial.
For example, not even Wanda Sykes voice could distract me from these terrible looking "courses."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tv5U09Hazs&feature=related
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Some time back, the Quizno's commercials featuring the "spongmonkeys", basically ugly rat-looking things which were their mascots at the time. Turned me off their subs indefinitely, I haven't had one since I saw that ad.
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During a bout of insomnia, I once watched a 30-minute infomercial for a Pfizer product. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which Pfizer product it was, for the commercial did not provide that information. In fact, out of the entire time I watched it, the word Pfizer was not said even once--only the logo flashed briefly on the screen a few times.
From what I could surmise it was an ad for a COX-2 inhibitor pain reliever. Pfizer sold two of those at the time. The only way to get the drug's name was to call the toll-free number on the ad and then Pfizer would send you literature on the drug.
Another example was the drug Sarafem. Sarafem is the same drug as Prozac, but marketed to women with Pre-Menstrual Dysmorphic Disorder (the medical version of PMS). It really bothered me that 1. it was marketed under another name without any reference to the fact that it was Prozac, and 2. because the symptoms of PMDD were described in such vague terms, the commercial was essentially saying that up to 50% of the population (aka all women) could stand to be on this product.
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I would be using them anytime soon.
J.
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M$http://farm1.static.flickr.com/241/2945750072_28390271a3.jpg?v=0
Not quite a commercial but still
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In second place, just barely less bad than the King is the newer Burger King commercials with the two ukelalie players. I do not want to picture dirty scrawny pimply hippies as I'm about to eat, thanks.
And in third, the Burger King commercials in which they prank customers by giving them a Big Mac instead of the Whopper they ordered. If I was that customer, forced to spend part of my precious lunch break on their "prank", I would have been ripshit at them. Wanna guess how many of those customers' reactions to the "Smile you're on camera!" reveal *didn't* make it to air?
I seriously have to believe that the Burger King marketing department is secretly on McDonald's payroll.
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Yes. This is an insult to my intelligence.
Advertisers must realize that for every idiot who responds to an abrasive , loud or deliberately stupid ad, many other consumers are mentally noting what company has insulted them and vow to never shop there/buy that brand/use that service.
Repetition just seals the memory. I will never buy Geico, or Head-On, or Sham-wow, or any other product whose marketers thought they could annoy me into buying their product.
Stupid ads just remind me how bad your corporate concept is, and that you think so little of me as to insult me with blaring, repetitive or ignorant advertisements.
Honestly I was annoyed the first time I saw it and said man that is stupid. Since repeat views it's gotten funny and I enjoy them.
Treadmill accident commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2_Chcev3A
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M$That said, I do have some specifics:
WTF is up with the commercials for Cox Cable? It's like they were trying to do a spoof of a rap video, but they didn't quite take it far enough, so you don't know if they're serious or not.
Drug company commercials have no business even being on TV.
The screaming man who hawks "magic putty" and the younger screaming man who hawks some other crap both annoy the piss out of me.
Apple's advertising is annoying and ingratiating, especially the channels through which they advertise(the ambassadors and fake bloggers and fake customer satisfaction surveys and so on that clogs social media these days).
The sell your scrap gold/get a reverse mortgage/get supplemental life insurance commercials which prey on older people really bother me, too.
Advertising within the plot of a TV show or movie(crime dramas do it, and the shows targeted to women are especially bad about it), where actors conspicuously drink a brand of beer or use a particular kind of cell phone, strike me as pandering and annoying.
I thought the headon stuff was funny, but I'm totally over Christmas jingles. I won't not buy garmin because of it, but they're starting out in negative opinion territory with me.
One commercial that's guaranteed to send me scrambling for the remote to turn the channel is the damn campbell's soup commercials where the guy grunts while eating his little single serving soup thing. Any commercial that focuses on the sound of bodily functions like slurping or smacking turns me off, but something about that commercial particular really strikes me the wrong way.
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Oh man, that is a brutal commercial, I hope somebody lost their job
BOO!! This is one of my favorite commercials!!
Oh I've got another one. This ladder locks "firmly in place":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhMfzc9RbU