Advertising

0 likes 11 Jul 2014

Are a lot of companies shooting themselves in the foot with bad adverts that cost them millions to run, a fortune in costs to advertising companies to come up with campaigns and I think a lot of lost sales when they F*** it us.
Take the latest BT advert which states
1.3 million Infinity customers are Unhappy with the service. not quite what I would have thought to be a good advertising campaign.
The advert actually states that 9 of out 10 Infinity customers would recommend the service, as they have over 13 million users it doesn't take a genius to work out that more than 1.3 million wouldn't recommend it.
There are many other adverts that I think are counter productive, can you thin of any ?

meat2pleaseu

Sex God

0 likes 11 Jul 2014

I generally won't buy anything thats advertised by a celeb, annoying children, that makes out that i will be 'cool' if i buy it, is advertised in any way with football or being 'a bloke' (ie football, drinking with 'the lads' in the pub etc)....in fact, i'm a bugger to sell anything to lol

Unknown User

0 likes 12 Jul 2014

I always look for the hidden message in advertising spin. You know the sort of thing:
"Leaves your hair up to 90% flake free!"
1% is "up to" 90%!
rolleyes

Fobs

Sex God

0 likes 12 Jul 2014

The ones that annoy me are the 'body products' adverts that put the 'small print' at the end of the ad - "90% of users agree out of a sample of 126 people"
Which from a friend of mine in the advertising business means - a pollster standing outside of a Boots with a particularly attractive 'deal' on that product, sponsored by the manufacturer.
:doh:

Unknown User

0 likes 12 Jul 2014

Glad to see it is not just me that finds some advertising a joke, bordering on fraud, offensive to an average intelligence level and often annoying (especially a safestyle add where someone dressed as what can only be described as a clown SHOUTS at me, I vowed never to use a company that thinks it can enter my home through the medium of a TV and scream at me to buy from them).
I do love the new words they come up with to imply a technical breakthrough, stick hypo into a word or add thermo and other such words to others to make it sound so technical it must work.
Have you ever tried the cillit bang coin cleaning trick, 4 hours of being submerged in the stuff neat and it looked no different yet on the TV it looks like new in seconds lol

I often wonder what is being put in to products to give the better result or better taste when something is taken out, washing powder that are suddenly bleach free and getting better results or fabric softners, sugar free, E number free, preservative free but still have the same shelf life, are these new additives better or worse for the products, will in 40 years we be hearing about the effects of the new additives they are using ?
Rim blocks for loos, once the best thing you could buy according to the manufacturers, then they told us they harbour germs and we should use the self sticking gel, now the latest campaign is telling us to go back to the rim blocks because they spin round.

Unknown User

0 likes 12 Jul 2014

I am looking forward to buying my new 157 blade razor in the future, one blade used to give me a nice clean shave, then I had to have a 2 then 3 and currently 5 blade razor to get a decent shave, could hair be like germs perhaps, becoming resistant to blades so you have to keep adding more lol

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As for celebrities, what a joke, using a someone who played a bent copper in the Bill to advertise security products. that really makes me feel safe with their products, what does Judith Chalmers know about the product she advertises that is any more than the rest of us. Yes some celebs who have come to fame through gardening programmes might know a bit about fertilizer but we all know they will promote the one that offers them the best income.
I do like Brian though, but he can be a bit of a stalker following families to the end of the earth to tell them about possible savings.
Meerkats are quite good actors but did they get their wealth from Russian oil or some other illicit manner (manor).
I suppose after the world cup we will see more footballers advertising products, no doubt if offered a contract to promote something Suvarez will bite their hands off wink

Meeko

Sex God

0 likes 13 Jul 2014

I'm very fussy when it comes to buying things. OK I'm tightand don't watch adverts but if I want something I'd research it, find all the info I need to know and make my choice and where to buy it from.
Its not hard really either there are only a handful of marine/reef shop in out area that I'd even walk through the door of. I don't go anywhere else apart from the local pub that serves a great pint.
But if a celeb advertised them I'd be tempted to avoid the place. The last so called celeb we had from our town, people used to bow down to him like a God dunno

thats till he tried to eat the landlords missus in a fight (brave bloke).
To me it makes no difference if you're famous or not. I wouldn't know if you if you had been on Big Brother etc.... I buy a product not the person making money advertising it.

sara2010

Orgasminator

0 likes 13 Jul 2014

what i get grumpy about in adverts is the mascara ones that claim to make lashes longer and thicker, then the small print says they use lash inserts (fake lashes)

Unknown User

0 likes 13 Jul 2014

Quote by sara2010
what i get grumpy about in adverts is the mascara ones that claim to make lashes longer and thicker, then the small print says they use lash inserts (fake lashes)

If you want a good mascara like that - Benefit "they're real" - is fab :thumbup:
Just saying smile

Unknown User

0 likes 13 Jul 2014

what about ant-ageing creams
L'Oreals latest offering boasts that it contains
Glycolic Acid
and
3% Pro-Xylane
Which we all of course know wink

are .......
Glycolic acid is used in the textile industry as a dyeing and tanning agent, in food processing as a flavoring agent and as a preservative, and in the pharmaceutical industry as a skin care agent. It is also used in adhesives and plastics. Glycolic acid is often included into emulsion polymers, solvents and additives for ink and paint in order to improve flow properties and impart gloss.
Due to its excellent capability to penetrate skin, glycolic acid finds applications in skin care products, most often as a chemical peel performed by a dermatologist, plastic surgeon or licensed aesthetician
Xylan (CAS number: 9014-63-5) is a group of hemicelluloses that are found in plant cell walls and some algae. Xylans are polysaccharides made from units of xylose (a pentose sugar). Xylans are almost as ubiquitous as cellulose in plant cell walls and contain predominantly ?-D-xylose units linked as in cellulose.
Typically the content of xylans in hardwoods are 10 - 35 % of the hemicelluloses and in softwoods they are 10 - 15 % of the hemicelluloses. The main xylan component in hardwoods is O-acetyl-4-O-methylglucuronoxylan and in softwoods the main xylan components are arabino-4-O-methylglucuronoxylans. In general softwood xylans differ from hardwood xylans by the lack of acetyl groups and the presence of arabinose units linked by ?-(1,3)-glycosidic bonds to the xylan backbone.
Some green algae contain xylan, especially macrophytic siphonous genera, where it replaces cellulose. Similarly, it replaces the inner fibrillar cell-wall layer of cellulose in some red algae.
Xylan is one of the foremost anti-nutritional factors in common use feedstuff raw materials.
mmmmm sounds like the perfect thing to make me seem younger lol

nellie1

Sex God

0 likes 14 Jul 2014

I am lucky because i watch so little TV that i don't see many adverts smile

If we happen to be watching TV then we turn the sound down for the adverts and use the break to make a drink :) we tend to only watch sport on TV anyway.
When buying new items i research and buy what i feel is the best :)