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That B&Q ad campaign, and other annoying devices in advertising
Posted by Bigsby on 4 January 2009 - 9:08pm.
It may be only me but that new B&Q campaign where the actors are asked to come over like regular B&Q staff before and after their bit in the ad (and, oh, the cameras are still rolling, getting all those off-camera comments) drives me potty.
That, and cutting out swathes of a song to make it fit the time limitations of the advert - viz. You've Got A Friend a couple of years back for the AA ads.
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IGGY POP
Don't see much UK TV but saw a bit today and there was IGGY selling car Insurance. No YouTube clip i'm afraid.
What ever next, Johnny Rotten selling Butter ? wait a minute !!
Actors?
You'll be telling me Howard doesn't actually work for The Halifax next...
Almost but not quite
A few adverts at the moment are using "almost" Sigur Ros tunes.
Bloody annoying.
Ehrm....
isn't that just what adverts are like these days?
Current bete noir
That sofa add where they run through some acronym, then the voiceover says 'let's go through that again'.
I quite like the instrumental version of "There she goes", tho..
But I am getting sick of the ubiquity of Stuart Maconie.
I don't think it's Stuart Maconie
Rather, it's a 'soundalike', I believe. I'm reasonably certain Stuart commented on it on R2 a few months back.
Blimey......
Its a bit much when you can be annoyed with someone because someone else sound like them.....
Next you'll tell be the Weetabix ads proclaiming the miscellany of variations you can pull from eating weetabix with different fruits isn't that annoying professional geordie wheo comperes at all the bloody folk festivals
As a smug freeview
with hard-disk owner, I haven't got a clue what you're on about. I can also fast forward through the set up's/reminders on any Channel 4 hour long documentry making it last just 23 minutes. Surely it can only be months before advances in technology rids me of those remaining 23 minutes.
ITV
have already done that in our house. It take no minutes to watch one of their dramas using that method.
The DFS "Rockstar" ad
Will be used to torment lost souls in the fires of Hell for all eternity.
We've reclined on the DFS sofa ads before
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/7544-phoney-maconie%3F
In the Guardian recently, Senor Maconie was most insistent that he is not guilty.
...let's go through that again...
Depeche Mode
my ears were offended by a fey Depeche cover version by some poplet or other on some ad or other. I sure *can* get enough. In fact I just did. Awful.