Commercials that I hate

Postby **Beveridge** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:25 pm

The Target Circle Week commercial.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:30 pm

Not sure if any of you in here have Roku, but my hate for them is that they run the same ten commercials in the same order. My sister watches a lot of Bones, CSI, NCIS, etc and it's the same ads over and over and over on whatever channel that is.

Emeril gets two ads for his channel.
Martha Stewart get an ad for her channel. According to her ad, apparently she's a bit of a multi-tasker.
There's an CSI ad where Doug is a delivery guy on ho island and ends up getting choked out while getting back into his truck. That one is on so much that even when my mom sees that it's on, she's like "don't do it, Doug!"
And I can't forget The Marriage Pact, The Lincoln Logs show, and the ads for the Kevin Hart movie and the Weird Al movie, both of which have been out for almost a year now.

Had I typed this out over the weekend, I could have told you the order that they are always being run.

When you see repetitive commercials - especially one for the service/platform you're on or using - it's usually a sign the carrier hasn't been able to sell the ad space in the normal way. Instead of having 30s or whatever of dead time in an ad break, they backfill with low-dollar advertisers that allow them to plug the gap with repeat ads, but usually the service/platform will thrown in its own advertising in those instances rather than give a partner discounted (or free) air time. Martha Stewart and Lincoln Logs, for example, I think are actually on the Roku Channel, right? So they're advertising without having to buy the time.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:37 pm

there's a Hulu commercial/bumper thing that is absolutely terrifyingly bizarre. A family of "tvs" (like their heads are screens) sit down on the sofa and watch a feral human sit in a box as a sitcom audience laughs

just **** weird as ****

Postby **iamjs** » Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:27 pm

Not sure if any of you in here have Roku, but my hate for them is that they run the same ten commercials in the same order. My sister watches a lot of Bones, CSI, NCIS, etc and it's the same ads over and over and over on whatever channel that is.

Emeril gets two ads for his channel.
Martha Stewart get an ad for her channel. According to her ad, apparently she's a bit of a multi-tasker.
There's an CSI ad where Doug is a delivery guy on ho island and ends up getting choked out while getting back into his truck. That one is on so much that even when my mom sees that it's on, she's like "don't do it, Doug!"
And I can't forget The Marriage Pact, The Lincoln Logs show, and the ads for the Kevin Hart movie and the Weird Al movie, both of which have been out for almost a year now.

Had I typed this out over the weekend, I could have told you the order that they are always being run.
When you see repetitive commercials - especially one for the service/platform you're on or using - it's usually a sign the carrier hasn't been able to sell the ad space in the normal way. Instead of having 30s or whatever of dead time in an ad break, they backfill with low-dollar advertisers that allow them to plug the gap with repeat ads, but usually the service/platform will thrown in its own advertising in those instances rather than give a partner discounted (or free) air time. Martha Stewart and Lincoln Logs, for example, I think are actually on the Roku Channel, right? So they're advertising without having to buy the time.

They're all Roku stations that are being advertised and I kinda figured it was dead commercial space that wasn't being filled. But it's weird that it's only one specific channel (in this case, Ion Network) that has this repetitive loop of Roku channel promotions and that they haven't changed anything about it in months. If I go onto Buzzr, The Price Is Right channel, or the MST3K channel, they all have different ads. Actually the MST3K might just promote itself during the breaks so that might not be the best example.

But the point being is that they not only have the same ad rotation, it's in the same order. At least change the order to show that you're trying I guess.

Postby **Kaiser** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:59 am

It's not that I hate it, but it seems like the new Nissan Sentra commercial was written by AI. A couple is in their Sentra, and get a video alert or something that their dogs are destroying their home. The woman says "Time for sport mode" like terminator arnold, then doesn't speed up. They get home, she opens the door smiling and says "Party's over boys." No cut to the dogs' reactions because they're still eating the family's document shelf.

Lady your house is f*cking trashed. The car didn't get you there fast enough to prevent anything.

Postby **meecrofilm** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:03 am

I haven't seen that one, but yeah that sounds pretty pretty dumb.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:13 am

there’s a slew of really bad commercials right now. The Shai-Chet “what a pro wants”, the wingstop “no flex zone”, Google pixel with people making fake photos to a really annoying Cardi B song…

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:19 am

Mimh is right. Not a golden age of commercials right now.

Postby **iamjs** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:36 am

I think the hatred towards the "what a pro wants", the "no flex zone", and "don't let me go" ads might be the one thing that everybody on social media can agree on.

Postby **CBear3** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:28 pm

Wow, so glad I haven't been watching TV lately.