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| Reviews of TV ads and the often, unintended message. Since I work in broadcasting, I can not identify the companies directly. |
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| This insurance company thinks they need to find "the world's best spokesman, in the world". First it is so important that they will use a very expensive helicopter (which they had to pay for to film the commercial) to invade his privacy. So, in-order for me to get good service the only person who can help me is this very expensive spokesperson. And then only when he finds me, wearing his blue phone. So why should I call one of their agents, when the one who works the best deal is this other yahoo. If they have enough money to hire the prop helicopter and the camera helicopter to shoot this commercial it is no wonder they only want one person handing out special deals. I will run right out and call this group! | ||
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| We all know women that have so much make-up on that we believe they must have put it on with a paint roller. Now there is an ad for a leading make-up company that is actually promoting their new product that goes on with rollers. I would not want to be seen putting any make-up on with a mini paint roller! | ||
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| OK now the insurance company normally represented by a lizard has a new slick hair spokesperson who thinks that I should call the lizard because the Waltons took too long to say goodnight. Is attacking middle America a good way to sell anything? At least the lizard and the mentally challenged CEO did not say it. | ||
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| So one of the budget travel agencies gets you great low room rates. And they go so far as to give you a check for the difference if someone books the same place for a lower price. So far so good. Now here's the rub. Their ads show a guy in a hoover craft coming to the resort to deliver the check. And in one of them, the guy gives the keys to the aircraft to valet parking. He can't watch while the guy plows into a Mercedes. So the image they want me to believe is that they are so fugal, that they save me so much money that they can afford a hoover craft and unlimited damage insurance? I think I will go to a budget travel website that just mails me the checks. With out the overhead of the hoover craft they can probably save me even more money. | ||
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| There is something really wrong with a satelite tv network promoting how good their all digital network is. How great there digital high definition signals are. Digital, digital, digital. But the ads are shot on film and it may even be 16mm film. If they are so committed to digital quality why did they not contract with an ad agency that works in high definition digital production? So I should invest in their digital technology? | ||
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| One of the tissue companies wants you to try out a different mom. They even have a web site for it. Whats with that? If the tissue my mom gives me isn't soft enough I should get a new mom? They have guys leaving "mom" because they do not like the food they get or the music she puts on the radio and many other gripes. Up till now I have actually used their nose tissues, but not any more! | ||
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| Another tv ad campaign that is driving me nuts is another insurance company. This one has a lizard as it's spokesthing. And the president is such a dummy he thinks he can fall backward and have a six inch lizard catch him. He also comes up with some really lame ad phrases to take to the board and then does not take the advice given him by the lizard. This president also leaves the first dollar he ever earned laying around and then the lizard steals it from him for potato chips. I just can't wait to run out and buy the insurance for all my prized stuff from these "business men" even if it only takes 15 minutes to get their great deal. | ||
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| There is a general insurance company with a lovely looking set of ads. They are made up of people and objects in boxes. Therein lies the problem. Is my life to them so simple that it is just a series of boxes. One with my wrecked car in it. One where I can pick my money off a tree (I must need a money tree to be a client.) A box were I appear to be a dollar bill. A box with my insurance agent and his large vault and a blue phone (my call is apparently not important enough for a red phone.) Since I do not live in isolated boxes, my car wreck would kill my money tree and I am not the face on a dollar bill, I don't think I want these people on my side. | ||
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| As I watch TV ads, I am struck often with the idea that the ad's creators are not actually watching the message that is actually conveyed. As I see these ads, I hope to post my reactions here. Since I work in the TV industry, I will try not to actually identify the sponsors (so as not to bite the hand that feeds me.) | ||
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