When was the last time advertising worked on you?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I ask this cos everytime I go to a pub now I think god I must try Guinness again, maybe it's nice. I know I don't like Guinness, I am certain, it's not nice and yet obviously their ads have worked so well that I actually want to like it. I am going to end up trying it again soon, god it's inevitable. Get out of my head Guinness.

― Ronan, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

new I must try that answers.

― Ronan, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The pop charts or so everyone keeps telling me.

― Tom, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ALL THE TIME! I want to buy some Clarks childrens shoes because of their fantastic adverts with Ca Plan Pour Moi and Electricity on them. And the mental little kids! And as for the BABIES in adverts, well sign me up for a bumper pack of Pampers. I am very suspectible to advertising. I usually love it, but at times there is a saturation point when instead of feeling GLEE you just feel the HORROR aka Pat Bateman. The current car advert which uses twee Moe Tucker and the VU is BIZARRE and jerks me out of my reverie whenever it comes on.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't conciously recall anything recently, but I'm sure that there are loads that have influenced me subconciously.

― Nicole, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Now is the time to reveal the grebt Mentality Towers ad break game DO OR BUY! You either have to do what's in the advert or buy what it's selling. Fatal advert in this context - J.Edwards jumping over 2 cars!! (Though if you interpret it as "falling on your arse" it works)

― Tom, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

all the mofo time! and it's always for crap stuff like corn pasta (tastes OK, don't bother if you're not actually gluten allergic tho) and bloody GLAMOUR magazine. grrrrrrrr.

― katie, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I get sucked in by the Clarks kids too, even though I know that Clarks shoes are horrible. But I need no advertising to convince me that Guinness = bladdy GORGEOUS.

Disturbingly, since I moved into my nice new flat I have been pricking up my ears at Pledge/Air Wick/Mr Muscle sink unblocker ads... thinking 'ooh! how time saving and handy! refillable too!' etc

― Archel, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mostly makeup /cosmetics e.g. Rimmel watermelon flavour lippie, Neutrogena moisturiser and food e.g. Creme egg McFlurries mmmmm. I am very shallow and foolish.

― Emma, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was upsized at the cinema a while ago (the week after seeing the bit about it Ghost World). I went to the Ben and Jerry's counter and asked for a double, and the guy behind the counter pulls out a double cone and says something "Are you sure you want this? Look at it. You can one of these big wafer thingies for 40p more." Shocked by him desecrating the thing I' asked for, I took the upgrade.

― Graham, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel particularly happy when a product I buy all the time anyway comes up with some good ads, too. I need not feel guilty that I am selling out to the capitalist ad-pigs cos I have been bought long ago.

Has nobody been persuaded by New Portugese Wine Explorers???

― Tom, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

man&boy rocks u r all gay

― Tony Parsons, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The only time I ever WANT its help is when I'm at the s/market and its NEW TOOTHPASTE time and I stand there like a baffled donkey overwhelmed by a multitude of choices and desperately TRYING to think of an advert that will help me choose and I can't ever remember a single bastard one. No wonder my teeth are rubbish.

― Ray M, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You want Aquafresh - protection AND whitening. Just ask any interfering shop assistant who happens to be stacking shelves near you. Or John Peel.

― Archel, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You are not trying hard enough Ray! Remember, brush fresh! Brush clean! Wash yr teeth with DENTURE CREAM ahahahhahah not really it was Aquaclean as I recall. BUT ALSO think of the annoyance of "wow! it must be the baking soda!" - baking soda in toothbaste != appealing.

Adverts also put me off things - ie Wrigleys gum => I feel sorry and upset for the poor squished jelly babies and its crying friends, the Carphone Warehouse => I cried at their adverts once THE BASTARDS and also ANOTHER advert which is poss. for gum where it shows glum and bored dentists with no clients cos everyones teeth are grebt. Makes me want to rinse mouth in sugar every night so the poor dentists don't all kill themselves in despair.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No Ray. Remember: Whitening, Protection; Protection, Whitening.

― Graham, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The other day, I was walking along the road with my girlfriend and we walked past a big poster for Just Juice and we both stopped in front of it, looked at it then went straight into the shop next to it and bought some. (I don't mind this though because I like Just Juice)

I haven't bought Doritos for a looooong time as a direct result of their Friendchips ads

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I got sucked into buying this damn thing.

― Chris, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sitting on my friend's couch a few months ago,really hungover,a mc donalds ad comes on,and we both decide we really want a big mac...so we leg it down to mc donalds,spend the last of our money for the week on one each,and they were fucking disgusting...normally i like big macs but this was horrible,all soggy and undercooked...i haven't eaten one since...

― robin, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't recall buying anything on the strength of an advert recenty.

― jel --, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I want one!!

― brg30, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It didn't post my jesus playing soccer figure goddamit......

― brg30, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

At the beginning of the summer there was a large ad right before my street for Dos Equis and damn if everytime I walked by there I didn't think how good that would taste, I had to force myself not to be a victim of advertising... so I bought Corona instead, though Dos Equis is better...

― Mary, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a commercial for some resort last year. I'm thinking Atlantis but I'm not sure if that's the one. Anyway it was the most beautiful commercial I'd ever seen and I got excited whenever it came on. The resort came down in a raindrop to the ltitle girl, it was lovely.

We spent the last week college visiting so basically I'm deciding which colleges I want to go (out of an already narrowed set) to based on the advertising they can do during our visits. How very evil. (It worked at Dartmouth and Williams.)

― Maria, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.jewsweek.com/images/cruisead1.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you Nick?

I spent a long portion of yersterday reading old magazines. I was siezed by a great desire to run along grey English beaches wearing a chiffon ballgown, mohair sweater and wellingtons. So much so I even e-mailed someone about it. You would be amazed at the amount of times the beach-ballgown thing crops up in fashion shoots. (Idea is still tempting, even in cold light of day. Anyone fancy lending me a ball gown? Bah, media is an evil mind bending tool.)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the trailer for the mummy

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Um the e-mail was just telling them. This was not a person who would facilitate beach-ballgown running.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an old prom dress that's pink and shiny and puffy, fly me to England and I'll give it to you. (Please?)

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

has anyone ever bought an exercise machine off the telly?

― nellie (minna), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Better Pasta Pot commercials have made me feel terribly insecure about the quality of my pasta up to this point.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

highly bizarre advertising here.

Was checking my email (yes, that's a real address) and if you don't know, BUST is a feminist magazine, very young and fun and sex-positive (there's a erotica feature called 'one-handed read' in every issue. The free webmail service is loaded with popups and spam, though, but you can block most of it. I sent out an email, and the confirmation screen had an advertisement on it:

http://cdn2.adsdk.com/CDN/62804/RNC_9087d_300x250_04_PA.gif

Intrigued, I clicked and was taken here:

http://getregistered.org/?site_id=0000108478&media_id=0000159091

Whaa??????

As the 2000 Presidential election demonstrated, every vote counts.

Whaaaaaa?????!!!!11?!??!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 7 February 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i got an at&t phone because of the verizon 'good' guy

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 7 February 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.