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This commercial for Charter is currently the worst commercial on TV, to me. I know cable commercials are low hanging fruit they're all generally terrible and it doesn't seem to matter either way, but it's so bad, and seemingly endless, that we laugh every time it comes on. It just moves from one joyless, robotic scene to the next, on and on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZj2bOETKik My favorite part is when the black dude and pants lady do that neck dance move  Look into their eyes. That is the look of a man who knows he is not going to make it as an actor.
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Oxyclean posted:Speaking of annoying marketing gimmicks. Cell phones/laptops/tablets are so bad for this. There's one now that's just so blatant, the Surface tablet/laptop thing. The Surface side of the screen features a chorus of happy sounding people singing about how much they love their computer and all of its features, the Mac side of the screen features some dumb sounding idiot who doesn't even sing on key. It's also weird that they chose to have multiple people singing for the Surface, even though you only see one arm, like trying to subtly reinforce that the Surface is the popular choice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_CrXh227Q Ugh, god it's the worst. I guess Apple deserves it though, they kind of kicked it off with the Mac and PC guy commercials.
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Similar to the people who make ads to play on youtube not putting any vital information before the skip mark, Pandora's ads drive me crazy with how much of a waste they are. Pandora is essentially a radio app, in that people put it on and usually walk away from it, or have it on while driving or doing other work. I can't recall a time that I ever pulled up Pandora (online or mobile) and actually attended to it. You put it on, the music starts playing, and you pretty much never look back at it unless you want to skip a track or station. So why, why, why are a significant portion of the ads VIDEO ads with no voice-over, just random music?? Do the ad people think that people just sit and watch Pandora's screen until a video ad pops up? Do they not understand that the ad format should be in the traditional radio style? So many of the video ads on there never even say the product name. It's just baffling and annoying.
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jidohanbaiki posted:So Pandora adds can have video, but let's face it, no one sees those so it's idiotic when there is an add highly dependent on visuals on Pandora. Once there was a Clash of Clans ripoff add that was just dramatic background music. I just thought it was a strangely short, misplaced track until I eventually happened to glance over at my phone while the add was playing. Movie trailers and car commercials are also pretty guilty of not making a more radio-like add for Pandora and just slapping their unchanged TV spot on there. Panera Bread had a similar one where the slurping was the whole point of the ad. They added two noodle-y soups to their menus, which I guess had very different flavor combos. The ad was a voice-over describing one, then you'd hear ssssslurrrrrrrrrrrp, then he'd describe the other, and you'd hear another slllluuurrrrrrrp. And the point was supposed to be like, ha ha, oh hey, you can't HEAR the difference in these soups! Head on over to Panera. But the slurping sound was just so disgusting sounding. Ugh. There was another one for Coke or something that had the HIGH-DEF sounds of a Coke being poured and fizzing, which is supposed to be appealing, but I don't want to feel like I'm having a Coke poured directly into my ear canal on my morning commute.
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