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Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

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ShirtlessBob said:
Pepsi has yanked the Kendall Jenner ad.
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So I watched it (the plan all along?) and it seems kind of pointless and perhaps tone deaf regarding the seriousness of actual protests. But is it really worth the uproar? The ad shows a vaguely non-themed feel-good street party with some music and dancing, but I guess it's pure evil and Pepsi must now be boycotted because... the protesters were nice to a cop? Or what? I'm not sure this ad is worth civil war, but that's where we're at now. I'm no fan of Pepsi (my answer to "is Pepsi okay?" is almost always "water please") but I'm guessing this faux scandal is getting them a lot more press than the airheaded feelgood ad would have. I never would have noticed it.
 
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Any of the Tecate commercials. **** them with sandpaper. It's like Battlefield Earth in sh_tty beer commercial form.
 
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Anyone just see the Progressive Ad on the Ducks - Preds game?

Susan Lucci!
 
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Anybody listening to I(Heart)Radio? The ZipRecruiter adds are so horrible that just listening once makes me cringe. But, no, IHR (or maybe just WIBA AM in Madison) runs this ad at least once during every commercial break. I sometimes turn the volume off and just forget to turn it back up again.
 
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While they are not TV commercials, and it is not really "annoying" so much as it is bizarre:

In Grand Central Terminal, on the walls of the corridors, they have some really large frames for advertisers to put up posters (something like 5' x 10', say). Most of the time there is one advertiser using all of them; sometimes they have advertisers alternating between one and the other.

In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
 
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FreshFish said:
In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
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That reads like excellent ad placement by Haagen-Dasz.
 
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FreshFish said:
While they are not TV commercials, and it is not really "annoying" so much as it is bizarre:

In Grand Central Terminal, on the walls of the corridors, they have some really large frames for advertisers to put up posters (something like 5' x 10', say). Most of the time there is one advertiser using all of them; sometimes they have advertisers alternating between one and the other.

In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
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This reminds me of a really unfortunate juxtaposition in the DC Metro a few years ago, at Pentagon City, Crystal City, and other DOD-contractor-heavy stops. One half was Save the Children posters of little brown kids, amputee, blinded, living in squalor. The other half were slick, hyper-macho shots of gleaming Grumman or Boeing death machines, with slogans like "we get the job done!" or "all that's left is the invoice!"

There has never been a more true representation of American foreign policy.
 
MadTownSioux said:
Anybody listening to I(Heart)Radio? The ZipRecruiter adds are so horrible that just listening once makes me cringe. But, no, IHR (or maybe just WIBA AM in Madison) runs this ad at least once during every commercial break. I sometimes turn the volume off and just forget to turn it back up again.
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Refuse to use that service. TSN Radio is an iHeart company and they refuse to let their internet stream cross the border.

Fortunately, there are other services that do.
 
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