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If I hear this tv commercial one more time…….

It’s REALLY annoying

No wonder the comments are turned off

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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An ad about personalized ads? I guess someone — such as Meta a.k.a Facebook — has to put a good word for them, since I won’t. I imagine the creator of this obviously expensive video was also expensively paid for the job. I don’t watch TV, so I had not seen this until right now.

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Agreed, an extremely annoying ad that’s getting way too much air time!

OscarCP wrote:

I imagine the creator of this obviously expensive video was also expensively paid for the job.

There’s a logo that appears right at the end indicating it’s for Meta/Facebook.

With a reported income of $117 billion in 2021, they can obviously more than afford such extravagant ads!

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alejr: “There’s a logo that appears right at the end indicating it’s for Meta/Facebook.”

When wishing someone was paid well for the job, I was referring to the person or persons who actually created the ad, not who ordered and paid for it. I know something about how ads are made, and even if I didn’t, I still would guess correctly that this is a big publicity job. I saw who paid for it in the commercial.

No question that at Meta/Facebook they have enough money to pay for many ads like this one. And that whoever OKed this ad about ads must have plenty of money to do it, but good taste, not so much.

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I have never seen that commercial but I’m constantly seeing these ones for medicare advantage with either Jimmy Walker or Joe Namath (depending on which demographic they are targeting) or car shield with Ice-T.  It’s some kind of used care warranty (lol).  Get a dvr I suppose.  I have one and try to only watch stuff on it or if I am watching tv pause and let it record so I can fast forward the commercials.  Also that weird haynes mens underwear commercial with that accent guy, very disturbing.

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I haven’t seen this commercial either but I am getting extremely bothered by the amount of, and lack of intelligence in TV commercials these daze.  I can see the day fast approaching when I won’t be watching TV at all.  Those 5 minute long “Infomercials” are the worst.

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Myst

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It’s just mirroring society.

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Wow. Ok. That’s all I can say but it lands under a major heading for the worst commercials ever for 2022. Too many to count. I’ve manipulated my remote to auto shut off for dumb intermissions. “Grab remote, hit Off, count to 10 and back On” unless another follows, which is way more than likely to happen. Repeat app. Who’s in charge these days for ad design hitting the air waves? And what was that anyway? Seriously. But it’s getting hits from us so they thrive. Crazy world of nonsense.

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This is a commercial … Clydesdales

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The commentary here keeps reminding me why, once first DVDs and then streaming without commercials became available — for a price — I stopped watching TV altogether, years ago. News and commentary I get from reading newspapers online and listening to NPR: radio is still good. I never paid much attention to TV news where sometimes, when endlessly focused on some news considered big, but with no forthcoming further details, one sees journalists interviewing themselves.

It’s not just that the commercials may be getting worse: I have always find it irritating to have a dramatic scene interrupted by an advertisement of, let’s say, toilet cleaning detergent. Ads disrupt the flow of the story and make it harder to follow the plot of subtle and intelligently scripted shows. And all to what end? To sell me stuff I’ll never buy just because I saw an ad about it?

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Our TV is parked on three different PBS channels, our DVR, and a Roku box that gets me to Netflix, Kanopy, and The Criterion Channel (but soon will suspend Netflix and only bring it back to binge when enough things I want to watch add up).

The only commercial TV I watch with any regularity is ESPN for Formula 1 auto racing. We F1 fans are extremely fortunate that for three(?) years Mother’s has been funding telecast of the races uninterrupted by commercials. But I’m afraid that will end at the end of this season when ESPN’s contract with Formula 1 also ends. That will be a sad time.

Occasionally I’ll record something like Tucci’s Searching Italy on CNN to DVR but my recent experience with that was so painful that I’m sadly happy it was only four episodes this year. The ratio of commercial time to content time was obscene, and Comcast’s DVR (at least the one we have) makes it so difficult to accurately skip commercials that we end up sitting through them just to avoid the aggravation.

 

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opti1: I have lived for some years in Europe, and in addition of channels with no advertising at all that transmitted some decent entertainment plus news, funded by the national governments, there were also commercial ones that corralled all the ads into half-hour segments between programs, so the programs themselves were not interrupted with incongruous advertising.

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Myst wrote:

This is a commercial … Clydesdales

I’d forgotten about those wonderful Clydesdale ads….mahalo!

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I can report more “bad news” on the ad front. Radio is worse. Yesterday evening the news consisted of five commercials, two spots telling me that the radio station is famous for covering the news, and two minutes of actual news, mostly the same content as for the previous hour. This was followed by 15 minutes of sports talk (opinion) by local fans calling in, and an in-depth analysis as to why the local team lost again. Then more commercials for ED and dry eye treatments. I mostly use the radio to get the weather forecast and have never owned a TV, yet I seem to survive and even prosper. I can get more news on my tablet computer using the AP app, more quickly, than any radio or TV provides. Easier there to ignore the ads as well.

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If you live in the USA, try the news on National Public Radio (NPR) and see if that suits you.

Commercial news are not really good and never been great either; they are OK for local news, particularly if one is mostly interested in local crimes and disasters.

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If you live in the USA, try the news on National Public Radio (NPR) and see if that suits you. …

Additional info about this option: In most areas of the U.S., NPR stations can be found between 87.5 and 93.0 on the FM dial.

I would expect that NPR’s website would have a feature to help you locate the NPR station(s) closest to your location.

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some college stations are also good!

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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Many NPR stations are college stations. Including Community College ones. For example, near where I live, there is one (WBJC) specialized in classical music plus news in Baltimore that belongs to the Baltimore City Community College, while two in DC are from universities: one (WETA) dedicated to classical music and the other (WAMU), to popular music, commentary on current issues and the news. It used to be also a country/bluegrass music station, but it ended that part in 2015, to great uproar, and those doing the C/BG programs, including the most admirable and justly revered Mary Cliff, scampered to a low-powered FM station ( WERA-LP ) that now I can only listen to from my place on the Internet.

There is, also in DC, one Jazz and community-issues radio station run by the Pacifica foundation that is “community supported” by donations and so free of ads.

Commercials:

Radio:

All NPR stations are sort of commercial free: they have what I like to think of as “non-commercial commercials” where they plug in flattering descriptions and, or give thanks to their various commercial and assorted charitable foundations’ sponsors. This can go on for a while. They do this mostly in much the way I described commercial TV stations in Holland did it, by corralling their non-ads ads and thanks into segments between programs, or between different parts of some of their long news and commentary programs.

TV:

There are also TV stations that are affiliated to the PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service; these are, same as the NPR radio stations (and sometimes paired together with one of them, as in the case of WETA radio and WETA TV, around here) also commercial-free, sort of.

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No television. No advertisements.

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Biiljoy wrote:

Joe Namath

Check your zipcode!
Is he so broke he has to try to con seniors?? Disgusting!!

BTW I have seen this commercial in a different shorter (??) form. Since it is tuned out’ it took many (annoying but they all are) repetitions for me to realize it was facebook. don’t betta on meta.

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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I remember my parents got cable and I was surprised to find that there were still commercials, after all we were PAYING for it!! ROTFL

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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wavy wrote:

ROTFL

It’s really not a laughing matter, it’s disgusting, and one of the main reasons why I don’t get “PAY” TV.

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Well just remembered on that we really find annoying!
The Hyundai commercial were the couple gets out of their car at a bar and finds the remaining parking space too small to enable anyone to get out of the car after it is parked. A remote is used to park the car, leaving the other cars blocked.
I always think “hope someone keys the car!”
I know thats probably evil too

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One of the series of ads most detested of all time by me: The ones of Geico with the gecko. It seemed to be always back after ten minutes. I even got him in an endless series of Geico junk emails. And I never bought any kind of insurance from Geico. But at least they tried. Oh, yes, they did.

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And from my experience MORE expensive that alternatives.

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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One of the Top 5 worst ads is the one where a real jerk in a pickup truck with big illegal tires sticking out 10 inches past the fenders pulls up in a parking space right next to the car of a woman who is getting ready to enter her car.  The jerk sees her but of course doesn’t care and walks away.  She has to use the “new option” to pull her car out of her space so she can get in.

So now, the ad would have us believe, we have to pay for these new options so we can easily deal with all the jerks in parking lots and elsewhere.

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That and a bowie knife

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