Worst Bank / Building Society TV advert
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Since when was Nationwide 'not for profit'?
No shareholders, so not for profit.
Apart from keeping a reserve all profits should go back to members, the problem is much of the profit is retained within the management team, so little different to many banks.
A lot of charities have a similar approach though.0 -
I don't think I've seen the offending Nationwide ones, but thought the one for the student account wasn't all that.
The Halifax ones don't annoy me as such but I don't think they're good adverts either (I wouldn't even advertise a 11-17 account with Scooby Doo!)0 -
I despise the Nationwide adverts.0
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I like the Nationwide ones. A bit different, and rely on the viewer having a bit of intelligence. The FCA one with 'Arnie on caterpillar tracks' on the other hand...No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0
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Don't get me started on a certain insurance brokers use of He Man characters!0
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trailingspouse wrote: »I like the Nationwide ones. A bit different, and rely on the viewer having a bit of intelligence. The FCA one with 'Arnie on caterpillar tracks' on the other hand...
We must hold different views of 'intelligence'.
They're pompous nonsense!0 -
I'm not quite sure what intelligence the Nationwide adverts require you to have. I get the point of them but they're a bit too aspirational and pretentious for my liking.trailingspouse wrote: »I like the Nationwide ones. A bit different, and rely on the viewer having a bit of intelligence. The FCA one with 'Arnie on caterpillar tracks' on the other hand...0 -
We were NW customers for many years, then they closed all the Estate Agency branches in our town the nearest branch was a 44 mile round trip away. We moved to TSB and found a bank branch that is like going back in time. We use the Internet Bank, but any problems are soon sorted by a trip to the frienliest branch I have ever used/
TV banking Ads? They are all on a par with ALL TV ads for me. Absolute nonsense, usually what is shown bears no relation whatsoever to the product or service which is supposedly advertised. There is one in particular which carries the script "72% of 50 women agree". I almost fell off the chair at that one - that will be 36 women then?I think this job really needs
a much bigger hammer.
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veryintrigued wrote: »Don't get me started on a certain insurance brokers use of He Man characters!
Oh I like them - they made me laugh!0 -
The concept of Halifax trying to coax me into banking with them with puppets and cartoon characters still winds me up, with the implication that I'm a simpleton that gurgles and claps when I see Scooby-Doo to the point I base financial decisions on it.
I did hear one of the Nationwide poem ads on the radio and just thought it was silly and bland. I can't stand when companies try too hard to seem "down to earth" and "in touch with peoples' lives" or some such w*nk. It's the same attitude which means half of the adverts on TV have a soundtrack of strummed guitars and whistling.
Nothing, however, is worse than MoneySupermarket. You don't want to know what I'd do if I had diplomatic immunity, a closed room and whoever thinks up their adverts. I'd let Nationwide read me poems all day if it meant I never had to see another Epic Something with accompanying hashtag. Second prize going to that thankfully now gone Confused.com advert with the dancing robots, which I've always thought would have been improved with a large electromagnetic pulse right above it.urs sinserly,
~~joosy jeezus~~0
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