Worst Bank / Building Society TV advert

veryintrigued

veryintrigued wrote: »

The Nationwide 'poetry' series.

Truly awful.

Now bettered by the 'sisters' nonsense.

Who on earth pays the cheque for this dross?

No_6

I ignore all the adverts but use all of them. for money
I can make and then close when required.

SnowTiger

Alliance Building Society had drab adverts.

They got better after the merger with the Leicester Building Society.

Building societies gave us some good adverts: 'Arthur Daley' advertising The Leeds' Liquid Gold account, paying a whopping 10% interest; The Woolwich 'are you with...'; and an easy Sunday morning with Halifax.

jonesMUFCforever

Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?

SnowTiger

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?

We all like to think advertising doesn't affect us.

PROLIANT

Nationwide and HSBC peddling their ant-Brexit, Marxist political agenda, usually with some champagne socialist celebrity virtue signalling.

Stuart_W

Anyone else remember the Open your bank account Britain tune?

thor

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?

I actively avoid companies who have annoying ads and I suspect I am not the only one. So remembering them does not actually mean the ad has been successful.

IanManc

I detested the Leeds Permanent Building Society ads with the ultra irritating song:

"Say the Leeds and you're smiling
Every Leeder knows
Say the Leeds and you're smiling
As your money grows ......".

I was a Leeds Permanent customer at the time and none of us were known as Leeders, and you can easily say Leeds without smiling so it was all cobblers anyway.

The staff in my local branch hated the television adverts as much as I did and wouldn't display the accompanying posters until they were forced to by their area management.

Mnd

Nothing really wrong with the advert as such but the Lloyds bank horse and the tag line "The listening bank"...they didn't listen when we asked them not to shut the last bank in town