Advertising you just don't get

[Nikolai]

Shampoo ads for one. But then again I'm male and very much not in the target group.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by DaShi


It's just a problem for people who watch Star Trek.

I think nerds have no problem getting it up. It's getting it on that's the problem

[molly bloom]

Any advertisement which has badly dubbed English over visuals where people are clearly speaking a language other than English.


Any advertisement which YELLS AT YOU FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE ETERNITY BUT ISN'T SELLING YOU A HEARING AID.

Advertisements for confectionery that consist of barely dressed women fellating chocolate. Thanks, but I'd like my confectionery without drool on it, if that's all right.

Nigella says, 'Do you want my melons ?'

[molly bloom]

Oops! It should have been this picture:

[Dis]

the coors lite commercials on NFL (NBC games). what's up with those? Makes beer commercials look bad.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Elok
On that note, Time-Life advertises a Xian rock collection during MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. Kinda strange that they paid money to try and sell religious music during a show hosted by a pair of atheists...

how do you know they are athiests?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Elok
On that note, Time-Life advertises a Xian rock collection during MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. Kinda strange that they paid money to try and sell religious music during a show hosted by a pair of atheists...

What do aethists have to do with rocks in Xian?

[Elok]

Originally posted by Dis


how do you know they are athiests?

https://www.wikipedia.org

[Sir Og]

I'v been wondering not at specific ads but at the fact that 90% of ads during football games on one of the cable channels are of detergents, laundry softeners, tampons and other products that IMO opinion are exclusively bought by wemen. These marketing people who place these ads during football games are either clueless or know something that I don't know but it is surely strange.

Something similar is the ad that I heard last week on the only rock radio that we have here. They were advertising a Latin American soap opera that runs on one of the TV stations. Advertising tv shows on radio is strange in itself but advertising soap opera on rock radio really left me thinking WTF.

[Alexander's Horse]

molly, she's so hot I can't watch her show

ads I don't get - Pepsi ads - 40 years of them and I never felt even slightly tempted to switch from Coke

[-Jrabbit]

Regarding targeting, people should be aware that the lowest ad rates are for ROS or "Run Of Station" placement. This means that the station will run the ad whenever they choose, basically as filler during otherwise unsold time. The advertiser gets increased frequency, but the ad ends up runing in the middle of the night, on obscure and inappropriate programs, etc.

[Sir Og]

That makes sence Jrabbit.
But it still does not explain why people would advertise tv soap opera on rock radio.

[-Jrabbit]

Oh, there's no doubt that plenty of stupid media buying decisions are made. It's the sort of thing that keeps Ming gainfully employed.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Regarding targeting, people should be aware that the lowest ad rates are for ROS or "Run Of Station" placement. This means that the station will run the ad whenever they choose, basically as filler during otherwise unsold time. The advertiser gets increased frequency, but the ad ends up runing in the middle of the night, on obscure and inappropriate programs, etc.

That would explain pepsi commercials

[Dis]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
molly, she's so hot I can't watch her show

ads I don't get - Pepsi ads - 40 years of them and I never felt even slightly tempted to switch from Coke

perhaps it is because Coke tastes better than pepsi? (which is true)