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minor things that make you fume

chrismpw said:
What's worse is advertisers must know how annoying they are and how ineffectual they are. So if an ad annoys 10,000 people, and wastes countless hours of their lives taking up tv space or bespoiling the built environment but brings about 1 sale they're happy with that.

Terrible humans.
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Good advertising works though. A well marketed low quality item will sell more than one nobody knows about. Carling sells a shedload more than in a month than much better beers combined will shift in a year.
 
ClausThomsen said:
Good advertising works though. A well marketed low quality item will sell more than one nobody knows about. Carling sells a shedload more than in a month than much better beers combined will shift in a year.
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Which is why, as a mechanism for selling turd, it should be banned- or at least people should be aware enough to not be fooled.

Like they say though - one born every minute - which means the rest of us have be bombarded with the mental and visual graffiti.

A serious drawback of this is I've become conditioned to ignore signs, letters, tv broadcasts etc - just like I stopped reading the top half of any letters at work because it was just trite mission statements. Sometimes I miss important stuff in letters - like medical appointments ffs.
 

ClausThomsen said:
Good advertising works though. A well marketed low quality item will sell more than one nobody knows about. Carling sells a shedload more than in a month than much better beers combined will shift in a year.
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I remember being on a management course in the 1970's. One of the elements was Marketing and Advertising. The lecturer gave an example of a toothpaste manufacturer (can't remember which one) who put an advert on ITV. This showed someone putting the toothpaste on the toothbrush which covered the head of the toothbrush in toothpaste. Within a couple of years, the company had to put an extra shift on to meet increased demand, due to people putting more toothpaste on their toothbrush instead of a little dab. The lecturer claimed that this was the best example, at the time, of the success of advertising.
 
Methuselah said:
I remember being on a management course in the 1970's. One of the elements was Marketing and Advertising. The lecturer gave an example of a toothpaste manufacturer (can't remember which one) who put an advert on ITV. This showed someone putting the toothpaste on the toothbrush which covered the head of the toothbrush in toothpaste. Within a couple of years, the company had to put an extra shift on to meet increased demand, due to people putting more toothpaste on their toothbrush instead of a little dab. The lecturer claimed that this was the best example, at the time, of the success of advertising.
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No doubt It works but its so 'kin annoying.
Here in Australia, I think Ad revenue has dried up a bit and we're getting the same few Ads all the time.
They've started filling in the time between programs with jarg up coming tv film reviews, disguised as critical disection...I really like the way this film, etc, etc. - Its Gene Wilders willy wonka ffs.
 
chrismpw said:
Too many parents don't have the first clue how to parent. This is what happens when generations of kids are brought up being told they're special - they become entitled and think they can do anything they like. Add to that the law can do pretty much squit against them and it's the lord of the flies.

Even here in sleepy north wilts there's been outrage because kids with catapults have been out murdering families of swans and cygnets on the river. I'd put money on every one of their parents arguing their kid would do nothing wrong.
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There was a post on Facebook about prisoners getting fed up of having to social distance or whatever, and the amount of parents going on about their sons doing time and how it's not right how they're being treated, a long with the "he's a good lad 2 more years till I see my boy again" proud of their little criminal offspring.
 

Methuselah said:
I remember being on a management course in the 1970's. One of the elements was Marketing and Advertising. The lecturer gave an example of a toothpaste manufacturer (can't remember which one) who put an advert on ITV. This showed someone putting the toothpaste on the toothbrush which covered the head of the toothbrush in toothpaste. Within a couple of years, the company had to put an extra shift on to meet increased demand, due to people putting more toothpaste on their toothbrush instead of a little dab. The lecturer claimed that this was the best example, at the time, of the success of advertising.
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I've nothing credible to back it up with other than word of mouth but I'd heard something similar about the "Can you manage 3 Shredded Wheat?" being another good example of changing consumer habits to increase demand.
 

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