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Do you mean advertising in general? Or specific things about it?
What bothers me most is the use of deception to get someone to view ads. If it looks like a letter from the government about treasury bonds, it should not have a car dealership ad inside. |
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Freuhgs
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The repetition of ads that are overdone and I see over and over and over and over and over again. |
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JeffyB
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Too many advertisers use ads which are dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. This makes alot of ads simply un-watchable by educated people. I use Tivo and skip most ads because of this. |
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jbone907
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Advertising bothers me becuase I find it obtrusive. I don't need companies telling me what I need. I am a capable adult who can make my own choices and do my own product research.
I also hate the sheer redundancy of it all. The same ad cycles through 400 times a day. The ads are usually stupid attempts to be funny. They even make me STOP buying certain products just becuase their commercials make me wanna puke.
I no longer watch TV or listen to the radio in an effort to remove advertising from my life. TV is crap anyway. Banner ads on websites are easy enough to ignore. |
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Guru
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It bothers me that advertising is geared to the lowest total denominator.. commercials these days assume you are an idiot... |
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Luis
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I don't like the big and annoying ones. They're a bigger problem in the USA granted, any time I'm there it's like constant visual pollution.
My argument is that over-saturation of the market leads to desensitization to the marketing, and it thus becomes ineffective, so less is more in advertising, and companies don't get that.
It's a proven thing, people don't look as much anymore. The target number was like 3000 ads per day in any form, and we're up to 5000, so we just don't care anymore.
That's why smart companies are worrying more about store layouts and promotion then advertising. |
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Ken O
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Umm, yeah. Marketing now focuses on extreme thought intrusion based on psychological studies of how the brain works. They exploit our medical knowledge and psychological understandings to get your money by using specific colors, subconsciously audible sounds and visual stimulus. Did you know that increasing nagging in children for a toy is a common business practice? Psychologists have studied your children so that they know how to present a commercial to them so that they go nag their parents for it, understanding that 41% of their toy sales come from a child naging about it until the parent gives in...
They don't care about you or their product, only about care about your money, being put in a few choice people's pockets. And they're greedy, every year they have to make more, so they devlop increcingly unethical practices. |
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Spiral Wizard
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Yes,
Almost all advertising is fear based.
It plays on people fears of not being cool enough, safe enough or being thirsty hungry, wet, dry. All the most effective marketing and advertising shows you you have a problem (highlights a particular fear) and how their product solves that problem.
I took a sales training seminar that trained us to do that exact thing create fear in our customers because fear motivates people 5 times more effectively than pleasure.
I wish it weren't true, but it is. Look at any ad... and figure out it's "Fear Factor" |
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Beth
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The thing that bothers me about advertising is people trying to push a product to a demographic that doesn't fit. For example, if you have a radio station that caters to younger adults and teens, you don't need to advertise your hospital for its cataract eye care. I worked in advertising for a couple of years and found clients always wanting to spend their money where it didn't make the most sense. |
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Jason J
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Just repetition. I hate seeing the same ads over and over again. |
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Andrew C
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Yeah there is.... and of course i could |
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Kandoo
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Yes and No.
I mean with out ads we wouldnt know whats better and whats new.. you know..
and the things that does bother me is that they're so fake.. they make their products seem so flawless and perfect.. They're is always a catch to almost everything.. And i also hate the dieting commercials because most of them are pills and its like.. EAT RIGHT AND EXCERSIZE.. that it..
another thing that annoys me a little are the fast food commercials.. the food on the commercial never look anything like the thing you actually get..
I just wish the commercials were real and didn't hide anything.
thats all
as for the research i could do it just dont want to |
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o_ya_sure_you_betcha
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I'm bothered because I pay attention. No research needed there.... hmmmm....maybe into my empty head.... |
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Taco Flavored Kisses!
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Yeah. On this subway commercial, there was this little league baseball team, and they make you feel bad about eating unhealthy. I'm really healthy, just the way I should be, (no offense to anyone), but it might be offensive to others, and that bothers me. Maybe I could do research on it-I don't feel like it or have the time, though. So, yeah-what bothers me is that a lot of these food commercials might make some people lose self-confidence. Not only that, but I hate hearing the same stuff every time I watch TV. If you watch the commercial to much, you might actually buy/try out the product. That's another thing, too-it kind of pressures you into buying the product/s. That's what they're trying to do anyways, though... |
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gramzy1991
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There's a commercial for FSN. They always have a Pittsburgh Pirate on there and they always say " FSN, Pirates Fans First ". It makes no sense what-so-ever. I don't think I'd want to research my argument to prove the point that the initials have nothing in common with saying. |
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x_LITTLE_RED_♥_MCR_x
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i dont like it how now businesses use sexual themes to promote their products.
have u seen the dairy queen commercials with the ice cream and the waffle cone??? kind of sexual........
i even saw a commercial for roofing...and what do ya know....a girl in a bikini was laying on the roof. |
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