On a short Butlins break before Christmas. Ditched my TV licence quite a while back as I just wasn't watching TV, since then I think I've turned my TV on about 20 times to watch netflix or prime, watch mostly on my phone. Now I have access to normal TV for a few days I'm glad I did. The amount, plus the awful quality of adverts these days, I mean they always sucked but good god lol. I mean perfume and aftershave adverts that literally mean nothing, do they really sell anything. Not really a rant just me grinning and feeling the need to whine lol. So what ad is grinding your gears at the moment.
The celebrations ad (I think?) Whoop whoop? I mean I suppose it's marketing 101 but it seems as though almost all popular media has transitioned to this technique of creating something short, stimulating and memorable to be easily repeatable by the perhaps less thoughtful individuals in our society. This has only been exacerbated by the likes of tiktok and other social media platforms with short form video content. The problem is that short, stimulating and memorable is often achieved through better or worse. So the ads and content themselves often propagate stereotypes and hatred. Look into that celebrations ad and take from the above comment what you will. Music too, "pop" music played on local radio stations these days is genuinely torturous, not even words often but nonsensical syllables repeated and repeated to the same two notes, it's not just that it's bad, it's that it can't possibly get any lower without being a child with a xylophone and that's genuinely debatable. There's the rant
I'll look into the celebrations ad, I'm sure I've seen it in the last few days. I really think I've never bought anything due to an advert, maybe if it was Tesco's saying they have something buy one get one free or something but I was probably going to buy it anyway just cool that I get two. Things like coke versus pepsi, I prefer pepsi and most people have there preference so what's an ad going to do.
I wonder what an AI created ad would be like, if every single ad were fed into it? Nicole, are your trolleys on the right way round love, for that Friday feeling with hands that do dishes?
Jean Paul gaultier, metal clad ladies and shirtless sailor's, uhm haven't you done that before, Johnny Depp looking rugged with a wolf or American muscle in the desert, none of them worked I'm afraid cos I still smell like a cheesy armpit.
Perfume and after shave adverts completely removed from reality. I think an advert showing some bloke with a beer belly splashing on some Ralph Lauren Polo and saying 'I hope this works tonight, I need all the help I can get' would go down much better.
Barfume ads have never made sense... But yes, the quality and creativity of adverts seems to have declined in the youtube age. Would adverts like cog even get made now?
Lol it literally just came up and I'm telling my missus to get out the way as it ends so I can listen for "Sausage" lol
I quite like the Jean Paul Gaultier ones, they're both completely on brand and amusingly silly, although they don't seem to show the one with the butt slap anymore. The perfume adverts of models/celebrities staring vacantly into the camera and whispering a word can f**k right off though. I miss the Honda adverts, there used to be a whole exhibit of them in the Media Museum in Bradford and they were ace.
Any time I watch actual broadcast TV now it’s horrible. You’re telling me I can’t skip the adverts?! What kind of stone-age bullplop is this?!
It gets worse. Some of the streaming things, the channel 4 one for example, put unskippable ads in the streamed shows too. I'm assuming there is a pay-to-remove option but, I am cheap and can't be bothered looking.
Unfortunately to make money ads are a thing, Netflix made more money per head off of their cheaper ad supported tier than they did for the paid levels because of ads, so no doubt we will go full circle at some point everything streamed with have ads and you'll not be able to escape adds on anything streamed or other wise. At least with TV recorded content they are skippable with fast forward, the shift to streamed will mean you just have to wait.
My daughter had never known broadcast TV. Imagine her confusion when, at the age of 5-6 at a Centre Parcs, the concept was thrust upon her without warning or preparation.
"Yes, little one, this is what life used to be like for Daddy when he was young. There were only three channels, we couldn't skip adverts and we used to have to wait for a whole week in between episodes. There was no Internet, and we used to go outside for fun!"
Good god how did we survive, absolutely barbaric. Oh and we had to manually set a video recorder to record something so we didn't miss it and usually could only set like 8 timers.
