Commercials

Do you get pamphlets in your mailbox from supermarkets & other stores advertising their specials each week ?

 

Oh man, I hope no Australians come by here.


I don't really watch tv, and my email and browser are on lock, I don't get advertised to much. On the radio sometimes.

Food advertisements will do it for me if I'm hungry, and I suppose every now and then I could be interested in like an exhibit or something that's advertised on the radio.

 

Not consciously I don't.

 

i'm pretty sure i do. i buy stuff, and a lot of stuff is advertised in tv commercials, so odds are there is some overlap in the stuff i buy and the stuff that is advertised.

 

Advertising influences me mainly in making me hate whatever is being advertised and avoid buying it.

So advertising can make me aware that a product exists, but I can't recall too many times that I wanted to buy a product because of the advertising. I've definitely seen ads that piss me off and make make me consciously avoid products.

Packaging and names can influence me to some degree though. If a product has a really gross name and ugly packaging, I'll sometimes not buy it just because it is so repulsive.

 

so, no eggo blue waffles for you?

 

I regard all commercials as misleading bullshit unless I know otherwise, so I try hard to avoid them. I hate people who try to deliver a targeted ad to me, based on their snooping.


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I guess I kind of do.
I drink Pepsi because Jeff a Gordon is sponsored by it. >.>

 

I've never even heard of such a thing

 

You could say I buy the products despite the commercials.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IZqRdznPs8"]Coors Light Love Train Commercial - YouTube




Hotwater

 

Light beer?!?!?!?!!!!!

 

You have a problem with that




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some of the commercials are funny/trippy:juggle:

 

I don't watch too much tv, but I guess my roommate had something on the other day and I caught this commercial then went out and bought toaster strudels...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR0AUXiBSi8"]Hans Strudel Pillsbury Toaster's Strudel TV Commercial Super Bowl 2014 - YouTube

 

I don't watch commercials, I DVR or use services which provide no commercials and ignore ads everywhere else - I am sure some of the things I own were advertized somewhere but I buy what I need not what someone else tries to convince me to buy

 

too many white people in the ad?

 

I chose a dentist because he's the only dentist in the area that bothers with tv advertisements and he spoke directly to my fear of dentistry in his commercial.

Other than that, no. I turn commercials down or off. I also don't eat processed food so food commercials are pretty wasted on me. I'm pretty conscientious of ingredients so when choosing shampoo and toothpaste and stuff like that in more likely to be influenced by the ingredient list.

 

I enjoy the more funny commercials but I make it a point not to buy it. So I find Irminsul's comment about her buying Pepsi very honest but yeah, to also be honest, I find that a pity... If it's really your fav brand of coke because of the taste that's a good reason.

I have caught my mind once after noticing Pepsi that I would buy that rather than Coca cola because those adds are everywhere so the brand name and their fake happiness that they like to be associated with it is forced down your throat... but to simply buy the next big brand name instead just because of that would be too silly of course.
I buy a bottle of coke every now and then, it's tastes pretty good and is almost €1 cheaper a liter compared to those 2.

 

How can you resist Coca Cola when it has the ability to bring friends together?