Spill the beans... on which TV ads convinced you?

A.Jones

We usually flick the sound off when adverts come on, as they usually increase the volume above whatever programme you were watching. So it is easiest to mute the sound, then turn it back on when the programme starts again. The adverts are then just ignored.

Plumjam

alfacat wrote: »

the only advert that ever inspired me to buy that specific product was the Berocca ad with the four people who seemed to randomly walk off the street to do in-sync choreography on the treadmills to "living on the ceiling" by Blancmange. Loved it!! Loved Berocca too, but they became rather dear so I have now downshifted to Boots own with Guarana... to be fair the flavour isn't as good and they take longer to dissolve, but the end result is the same.

Try Sainsbury's Revive. The 'Each tablet typically provides' is identical to Berocca and they're £2.20 for 20 tables and always on 3 for the price of 2. I find that they taste more like Berocca if I use about 250mls water and they dissolve really quickly.

poor_country_girl

As we have to have sky to get any TV, and they seam to turn the volume right up on their adverts we hit the mute button instantly. We haven't heard an advert for about 6 years now, and sometimes amuse ourselves trying to figure out what it is they might be advertising!
If they EVER give us an upgrade to Sky+ for free then we will have the joy of FF'ing through them altogether! - now how do we get sky to do that again?

Lotus-eater

Computer battleships when I was 14, looked brilliant on the TV, I lusted after it for ages, pile of poo when I got it at Christmas

Learnt my lesson well, never trusted an ad since.

shammyjack

Never been influenced to buy anything promoted through advertising in fact the reverse . If it needs to be advertised it is probably second rate or useless.

Good products sell by word of mouth or personal recommendation .


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Aldahbra

I bought some hippo shaped biscuit things for my kids because of a TV add. They pestered me for them and when we got them they were awful and we ended up throwing them away.

I didn't learn though because we later bought some orio buiscuits because the kids wanted to eat them in the way shown on the advert.

mavisangelica

Red_Doe wrote: »

The other one which did it recently was the ad for Heinz tomato soup, a taste I associate with nostalgia from my childhood. .

Me too. I hadn't had Heinz Tomato Soup since I was a girl but saw the add and the next time I was shopping bought some (they did have an offer on as well).

horleyflyer

I have been an ad cynic since the age of 5 much to my Mum's amusement. I try never to buy anything that has been advertised recently on principle and I prefer to watch BBC channels to avoid them .
However my youngest likes a bit of Tiny Pop and the toy adverts on there at 6.45 in the morning frankly make me want to stand in the garden and scream !

allybee13

Recent examples for me are buying PG Tips teabags to get the cuddly monkey and buying Birds Eye stuff to get the sinister little polar bear.

Luckily I have a terrible short term memory so I've usually forgotten about an ad by the time the programme comes back on.

Favourite ad right now is the Phones4U one with the creepy little girl. Fantastic! So many ads just leave me puzzled and thinking "what the heck does that have to do with xyz product?"

tdodd

Some are entertaining. Most are an irritating waste of time. As others have said, using Sky+ to record and then skipping the ads is our preferred modus operandi. Sometimes we leave them running while we make a cup of tea or catch up on some emails. We seldom watch them.

I buy things based on want/need and internet research. I won't be sold to by anyone, especially an ad on TV or anywhere else. I block ads in my browser too. They're just a waste of bandwidth, and if they're those dreadful animated ads a further irritant too.