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Annoying commercials of 2015.

ChocoMingo

ChocoMingo

Well, this was borrowed from the RadioInsight community and I wanted to know what was the most annoying commercial or commercials of 2015.

Here in Tampa Bay, although not TV, but radio, some of the Keiser University commercials seem to get old. However, the Morgan and Morgan commercials are good and IDK about Gold & Diamond Source. IMO, I can't think of any annoying commercials in Tampa Bay. To some, Fuccillo Kia (formerly Precision Kia) of Wesley Chapel has "huge" in the end and that what makes it annoying to some, but probably not me, LOL. :)
 
Jonathan7157 said:
Well, this was borrowed from the RadioInsight community and I wanted to know what was the most annoying commercial or commercials of 2015.

Here in Tampa Bay, although not TV, but radio, some of the Keiser University commercials seem to get old. However, the Morgan and Morgan commercials are good and IDK about Gold & Diamond Source. IMO, I can't think of any annoying commercials in Tampa Bay. To some, Fuccillo Kia (formerly Precision Kia) of Wesley Chapel has "huge" in the end and that what makes it annoying to some, but probably not me, LOL. :)
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Let's get rid of the obvious, in no particular order:

Politicians and their (allegedly) no-official-contact-allowed PACs/unions/corporate favorites.
Lawyers.
Car dealers.
Medications that (allegedly) help old men get it up.
Every other kind of medication.
Car insurance, especially GEICO and Progressive.
Ads for a station's own newscasts, especially during sweeps months. "RADIOACTIVE LAWYERS WITH VIAGRA HEADED FOR DOWNTOWN!!!! FREEWAYS CLOGGED!!! LIVE LOCAL FIRST COVERAGE AT 10!!!!"
Stomach-stapling doctors.
Plastic surgeons.
 
Car commercials are always really annoying. They always show some car driving up the side of a mountain, or through a desert, or pulling a large object like an airplane. Like that has any practical application for the person buying the car.
 
In our market, Atlanta, we have a dealership under the name Ivory Chevrolet who earlier this year used a CGI dancing elephant named "Mr. Big Stuff" dancing to--what else?--the early 70s song Mr. Big Stuff. I cannot unsee the spots where he's shaking his rump at us.
 
Yes, car commercials are the worst, especially when they go something like "we're a Hyundai, we have more horsepower than your Honda." Because driving 50 over the speed limit is what I live for.

Geico is the kings of annoying commercials. Think of a random commercial that looks like a movie trailer but leads to a car insurance ad.

And an honorable mention is the Time Warner commercial that goes "we'd like to apologize about our service." Because that's still a lie.
 
A radio spot got me irked. Some Joe BMW and his wife go to a grocery store and asks a produce clerk about wine. When the clerk shows he's wine illiterate, knowing only about his produce wares, the couple take him to be a pathetic cerf as they toddle off to the commercial's focal point, a shop that specializes in wine. I'm a produce clerk and I don't know diddly squat about wine. But our customers will knowingly allow us to get a steward to help them. This commercial perpetuates the notion that the Joe BMWs and their spouses think they don't stink when they break wind.
 
This hasn't quite become "annoying" yet, but it ranks as one of the really stupid examples of bad copy writing.

Those of us who watch the retro diginets (Cozi, Me, Antenna, H&I, etc.) are inevitably bound to see at least once every other hour the commercial for the staircase chair lift. It starts out by citing the fact -- and it is a true statement as far as I can tell, having confirmed it with a supervising ER nurse I am acquainted with -- that falls in the home are the #1 cause of injuries to senior citizens. The next line always makes me laugh:

"So our advice is to not fall." Duh.

I should also point out that this ad, being so poorly written, has failed to achieve the primary goal. I cannot for the life of me remember the advertiser's name.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I should also point out that this ad, being so poorly written, has failed to achieve the primary goal. I cannot for the life of me remember the advertiser's name.
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That would be Acorn Stairlift Co.

I'm fascinated by the ads on diginets for HDTV antennas.
The fact I see these ads is because I already have a working HDTV antenna.
*eye roll*

Wouldn't those ads be a better fit on the .1 channels where cable viewers would see them?
Putting HDTV antenna ads on a .2 is like preaching to the already converted choir.
I guess it pays the bills for the diginets but the ads themselves are marketed to literally no one that can see them.
 
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MarcB said:
Just saw one for "Beats by Dr. Dre" headphones. Can't believe people are shelling out $200-$300 on a crap product. I know several DJs who told me the "Beats" headphones are junk. The $20 Sony headphones they have at Walmart are much better.
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For the same reason kids pay $150 for Air Jordan shoes even today, years after he retired. It's all about the celebrity.
 
Robnoxious said:
That would be Acorn Stairlift Co.
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Thanks. You did better than they did on name retention. Excuse me while I likely forget their name again five minutes from now. :rolleyes:

Robnoxious said:
I'm fascinated by the ads on diginets for HDTV antennas.
The fact I see these ads is because I already have a working HDTV antenna.
*eye roll*

Wouldn't those ads be a better fit on the .1 channels where cable viewers would see them?
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I wondered the same thing, thought about it and then concluded that one of two scenarios are probable answers: (1) They did that because some cable carriage agreements with stations include one or more subchannels ... KTLA/5 did that in their last round of negotiations, resulting in Antenna TV on 5.2 being on almost all the cable systems in the Los Angeles region; or (2) they are per inquiry ads and are running haphazardly as a result.
 
I'm happy to report that I am blissfully ignorant on this topic for 2015 because I DVR virtually everything I watch, so the only commercials I am seeing are blasting past on fast forward.

On the rare occasions I will forget to set the DVR for a program, and will be forced to watch in On Demand. Since the networks have rigged On Demand so that you can't fast forward, they usually replace the commercials that originally aired with the same one or two commercials that are repeated ad nasueum during every commercial break. Now THAT is annoying.
 
There are commercials all over TV for "pain relieving" neck and back braces, targeted at seniors on Medicare. But the worst of this lot has the poorest animation since Clutch Cargo.
It features a single drawing of a young pig-tailed girl, and a single drawing of a grandma in an easy chair with a bowl of soup on her lap and a cat laying on top of the chair. The only "animation" in these scenes is their flapping mouths. (At least Filmation cartoons had the characters' eyes blink. Not so here.) Then some graphics and live action in the middle of the spot. We return to the girl with the same drawing as before, then they show the grandma with one leg on a skateboard (again, a single drawing with flapping mouth), made to "move" in perspective with After Effects, in front of a background that looks like it was drawn by a 4-year-old, saying "Catch me if you can, kiddo!"
There is another version of this spot, where the characters have been changed from white to black - and it uses the same voice track. They just changed the grandma's head to look more African American, and darkened the bodies, but the drawings are basically the same as in the "white" version.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
IMO it seems like pretty much anything we see during Sunday NFL games (including later today) rank up there as "annoying commercials" candidates.
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The only exception is the Super Bowl commercials. They are so funny. LOL. :D

I would also like to include Bright House and Winters and Yonker to the list of Tampa Bay's most annoying commercials.
 
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The worst commercial this year has to be the coloring book for adults (Colorama) sold at least once every few hours on [insert diginet and triple digit cable channel here].

The pictures aren't bad looking, but they advertise it as a 'stress reliever', which makes me laugh. Some lady on there says "I can't wait every night to jump into bed and COLOR!" Only thing I can think is that I'd hate to be her husband...

They advertise the many things us responsible adults can do with the book such as framing the picture and giving it to a friend, using crayons, colored pencils, and markers to color them.

Best part comes at the end with another frumpy lady exclaiming: "With Colorama, I almost feel like an artist!"

This comes from our friends at Telebrands...purveyors of occasionally interesting stuff. Makes you wonder if they picked up a pallet of coloring books at a tax auction and then wondered "how and the heck do we sell all these?"

...and even though they are not from 2015, any of the 1-877 KARS4KIDS...K-A-R-S Kars for Kids commercials and/or the 2 minute long ASPCA commercials with sad music, sad abused cats/dogs, and a 'B-List' celebrity are still king of annoying commercials. Either one of those are 100% guaranteed to get me to change the station.

Radio-X
 
MarcB said:
Just saw one for "Beats by Dr. Dre" headphones. Can't believe people are shelling out $200-$300 on a crap product. I know several DJs who told me the "Beats" headphones are junk. The $20 Sony headphones they have at Walmart are much better.
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Beats are now owned by Apple
 
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