The types of ads and products or services being advertised says a lot about the state of radio today. Over-indebted, management-top-heavy stations, desperately squeezing pennies here and there, accepting ads from any low-life scam artists.
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I don't know if this one has made it to radio yet, but on TV the one for catheters definitely gets me screaming! Having survived several surgeries that involved my wearing a catheter for a while after each, I never want to hear that word again, even though I know it's for a somewhat different kind of device.
The series of ads that bugs me the most is the Ad Council ads that equate proficiency in hip-hop deejaying, vandalism and videogame "ownage" to having "what it takes" to get into college.
US Copyright Office'....big whoop, that doesn't mean jack. The star name is not recognized by any astronomical entity whatsoever....totally ridiculous ad
Let's see. Somebody came up with an idea for selling 40 million things he doesn't own for 40 bucks a pop to people who can't own them.
The idea behind the ad may be ridiculous, but the company behind it is run by geniuses.
Regards,
TSB
Let's see. Somebody came up with an idea for selling 40 million things he doesn't own for 40 bucks a pop to people who can't own them.
The idea behind the ad may be ridiculous, but the company behind it is run by geniuses.
Regards,
TSB
Are you a Phillies fan? They usually throw them in the outfield in the bottom half of an inning.Blackroc said:
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I haven't heard that one yet...it must be some kin to the one that I have heard however that keeps admonishing me "don't throw mercury in the trash....don't throw mercury in the trash" accompanied by a bunch of 'boing boing' sounds. So I no longer throw my mercury in the trash. I throw it in the pool instead. I guess I'll have to start tossing my batteries in there now too
-Anything with Ernie Boch, Jr. in it
-Anything where they ask you to call a number to get "free information" on how to ___________ (apparent scams)\
-More for the Providence-area people: remember the Alperts commercials?
-The worst was during the final days of 104.1 WBCN, they were airing the AshleyMadison.com commercials, essentially an escort service for guys looking to cheat on their wives. Horrible, especially when WBCN was trying to do a thoughtful farewell.
Jacko
-Anything where they ask you to call a number to get "free information" on how to ___________ (apparent scams)\
-More for the Providence-area people: remember the Alperts commercials?
-The worst was during the final days of 104.1 WBCN, they were airing the AshleyMadison.com commercials, essentially an escort service for guys looking to cheat on their wives. Horrible, especially when WBCN was trying to do a thoughtful farewell.
Jacko
Anyone ever hear the Moynihan lumber commercials? I used to hear them on 1030 WBZ, now I just hear them on 98.5 the Sports Hub, it has that really loud, shrill jingle at the beginning? God that annoys me. The "rock" version of the Kars for Kids ad really annoys me too, and WBZ plays it a LOT during middays.
Ugh ... that horrendous mortgage refinancing ad on WRKO that they either play at EVERY single commercial break or they have Kuhner or one of the other lunkheads read. Ad rates must be cheap as hell over there.
To venture into TV for a minute (I know there's a thread for New England TV, but it's germane to the thread here): there's an auto spot showing a middle-aged man with his son, looking for a "dependable truck, unlike my son here". The "son" looks devastated and the receptionist looks aghast. In the very competitive autiomotive market, is THIS the way to sell a vehicle?
I know I'm repeating myself but if I hear/see that "So good... so good..." car ad one more time, I'm probably going to need a new one since the one I have won't survive being thrown out of the second floor window.
you're going to throw your car out of the second floor window???
I'm not sure I would call it worst or obnoxious, but I was getting sick of hearing the New England Toyota Dealers spot. You know, the one that goes "...and it feels so good (SO GOOD! SO GOOD!), we pump our fists up in the air (SO GOOD! SO GOOD!), we're living proud, so we shout it loud and it feels so good!"
It's a campaign jingle called "So Good (The Boston Song)" that was done for Toyota by WiDiT Publishing. It's a Boston based company founded by Vince & Eytan that creates songs, jingles, anthems, slogan and more for companies. I realized after looking it up that it's only in New England that they are airing it. There is an official YouTube video for the full song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-woOtfcgs
After watching it, I sort of like it, even though I can close my eyes and vision the song playing during a gay pride parade! Nothing at all against alternative lifestyles, just a funny observation!
It's a campaign jingle called "So Good (The Boston Song)" that was done for Toyota by WiDiT Publishing. It's a Boston based company founded by Vince & Eytan that creates songs, jingles, anthems, slogan and more for companies. I realized after looking it up that it's only in New England that they are airing it. There is an official YouTube video for the full song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-woOtfcgs
After watching it, I sort of like it, even though I can close my eyes and vision the song playing during a gay pride parade! Nothing at all against alternative lifestyles, just a funny observation!
And of course that was inspired by Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline; a song that got played at Fenway once (something to do with an employee who had a new baby) and it caught on and became an everyday thing just before they came to bat in the bottom of the 8th. A rally song, like the Angels' rally monkey thing. Yeah the crowd loves doing the so good! so good! thing and it's caught on at other parks too. (Local connection of course is that he wrote the song about Caroline Kennedy after seeing a pic of her as a kid, on a horse.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynfrH5GHlw
The only thing is the song is done to death. Many people like me change the station when it comes on (a station like WBOQ).
Geez, why not bring back the bottom of the 5th Macarena while you're at it, or do YMCA or whatever (OK OK some people get a kick out of it). Anyway that's where the SO GOOD! came from. And I am sick of that song. It once was fun...I will say though that it was performed at Yankee Stadium
as a tribute/memorial to the Boston bombings and I have no problem with that. Where it began, I can't begin to knowing...
(When the Red Sox had a swoon at the end of '11, ESPN did a parody version of it
"Red Sox decline--LOSS! LOSS! LOSS! SO BAD! SO BAD!" Despite being a Sox fan, I found it
rather funny. As Homer Simpson once put it, "It's funny because it's TRUE."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGKH67GQBps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynfrH5GHlw
The only thing is the song is done to death. Many people like me change the station when it comes on (a station like WBOQ).
Geez, why not bring back the bottom of the 5th Macarena while you're at it, or do YMCA or whatever (OK OK some people get a kick out of it). Anyway that's where the SO GOOD! came from. And I am sick of that song. It once was fun...I will say though that it was performed at Yankee Stadium
as a tribute/memorial to the Boston bombings and I have no problem with that. Where it began, I can't begin to knowing...
(When the Red Sox had a swoon at the end of '11, ESPN did a parody version of it
"Red Sox decline--LOSS! LOSS! LOSS! SO BAD! SO BAD!" Despite being a Sox fan, I found it
rather funny. As Homer Simpson once put it, "It's funny because it's TRUE."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGKH67GQBps
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Oh and looking at the link I notice that it isn't Toyota but Ford doing that ad, at least according to the comments. One says "The blatant ripoff of another crappy song doesn't help it either." But who knows.
I'm playing the video in the background right now and given the production of it etc. it's actually not so bad. But it gets overplayed (but they bought the airtime and risk a backlash when it gets played too much.
OK here's the bridge "Neighbors, family..." which I hadn't heard before; again the production is pretty good, but overplayed. And there is that connection to that other song I mentioned.
There have been other projects connected to sports teams; when the Blue Jays won a couple World Series (and even just before then) there were "Blue Jay Albums" put out to benefit a charity, with song spoofs of Achy Breaky Heart, Let's Go All The Way,
Bad Bad Leroy Brown, some Beach Boys songs etc. (along with the team's unofficial theme: "OK! Blue Jays! Let's! Play! Ball."
Now if I hear Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show on the radio I won't mind, because that isn't overplayed...
I'm playing the video in the background right now and given the production of it etc. it's actually not so bad. But it gets overplayed (but they bought the airtime and risk a backlash when it gets played too much.
OK here's the bridge "Neighbors, family..." which I hadn't heard before; again the production is pretty good, but overplayed. And there is that connection to that other song I mentioned.
There have been other projects connected to sports teams; when the Blue Jays won a couple World Series (and even just before then) there were "Blue Jay Albums" put out to benefit a charity, with song spoofs of Achy Breaky Heart, Let's Go All The Way,
Bad Bad Leroy Brown, some Beach Boys songs etc. (along with the team's unofficial theme: "OK! Blue Jays! Let's! Play! Ball."
Now if I hear Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show on the radio I won't mind, because that isn't overplayed...
You are correct. My fault! Goes to show you though, how all of these vehicle spots seem to blur. There are SO many of them! Radio aside, watching the 11 o'clock news on just about any local station yields at least 3-4 spots for car dealers. I guess sales are down and they are all scrambling to get sales up.
Speaking of which, remember the jingle/song from the lead singer of Smash Mouth (Steve Harwell) used at the beginning of the summer? That one was for Toyota I believe and it was also overplayed. "Fun in the sun... everybody needs some".
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No problem! I heard the ad again today about 2:22 pm on Red Sox radio while driving my....Toyota Corolla.
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