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FTA-TV Ads that piss you off (3)
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NSWCROW
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Classic case of people trying to justify their job / salary
Was nothing wrong with the old guy and his french wife ads....sure they were simple , but hardly annoying.
So what does Budget go and do ??
Agree totally, that little alien thing put me off so much I never even knew the company the ad was about until you mentioned it in this post.
In the KFC ad where a kid bowls Michael Clarke, the ball he's holding is different to the one that knocks over Clarke's wicket.
carlton draught ads are just woeful
Stupid gatorade cricket ad where they go on about some randoms batting average at age 16 compared michael clarkes average at the same age. What does that even mean? How does comparing batting averages 10 years apart even work. Someone with no knowledge of cricket wrote that ad me thinks
I love when he says "Geez!". It looks like he wants to punch someone for not letting him say "Mother*..."
scout
Norm Smith Medallist
"We're here."
Too soon. They're pulling the plug on a stack of jobs, but they're still here to sell their products & take our money.
Too soon. They're pulling the plug on a stack of jobs, but they're still here to sell their products & take our money.
grizzlym
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It's certainly disingenuous and in poor taste.
Missed out two words.
"We're here to stay."
It feels as genuine as a Rolex watch in Bali.
There's some knew radio ads with a checkout person stiltedly and "deadpanly" asking customers to stop fighting over M and Ms.
I gather it's for M and Ms/
Shit ad.
Just once, I'd love to hear some ponytail-wearing marketing flog to admit they came up with a shit idea.
I gather it's for M and Ms/
Shit ad. Just once, I'd love to hear some ponytail-wearing marketing flog to admit they came up with a shit idea.
I also seem to recall when Ford pulled out they ran a bunch of ads saying how proud they were to still be manufacturing in Australia and "were here to stay"
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I didn't think it was possible but the Nimble ads have got worse.Now it's 2 German guys in a sauna in a car where the motor should be.WTF ?
And there probably be one just as bad in a few months.
Who seriously will wear an empty KFC bucket in their day to day life? It's like it's a parallel universe.
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Been a fair backlash on those Holden ad's.
Can't believe they haven't pulled them.
Brain fade from whoever decided to give them the tick.
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Probably the same morons that will wear a watermelon skin on their head.
Next time you go to McDonalds or Hungry Jacks you should put the package on your head.Perhaps you'll start a trend.
It's like General Motors are actively trolling the ranks of unemployed and soon-to-be-unemployed Holden workers. C*ntbags.
Might be the long-term ploy they've got in play. Everyone dumps the Holden brand in disgust. GM quietly remove the brand from the marketplace altogether some time later.
grizzlym
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No, the answer is much simpler than that: the local end has a marketing budget to spend, and spend it they will.
They'll be plenty of people on agency and client side who'll ant to milk the last of GM's marketing money. That's what's happening now.
The ads are pretty much the literal articulation of the communication strategy post pull-out i.e. "we're not here anymore but we still care for you".
As a strategy that's fine (kind-of), but when it's wrapped-up in such lazy half-baked creative that 'aint thinking about the message or tone, you get the offensive road accident currently on our screens.
I'm betting that sometime in January, you'll see a massive re-think of this offensive rhetoric, but it won;t be from the Australian marketing department or agency.
But until then, we'll have to put up with the offensive and totally disingenuous sign-off line: 'we're here to stay'.
Sheer BS and spin. And to the cynical lining-up of their brand whores, sorry, I mean brand ambassadors, how on earth could you appear in such an offensive ad? Oh yes, the message doesn't matter, it's all about the money.
HBF
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And the fact channel 9 play it all the time during the cricket.
Some rubbish ad for a phone that goes on way too long...........with kids singing that awful 'Royales' song. Words can't describe how bad it is
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I'm surprised he can get through the ad without using the word "motherf....r" (he can't get through a movie without using it).
