Adverts that irritate and entertain

MoeTheMan2025 · Thu 30 Oct, 2025 01.21

bilky asko wrote: Wed 29 Oct, 2025 13.56 Their adverts have always tended to be quite minimal in their claims - I presume it's because they can't actually advertise the benefits you supposedly get from using the oil on your skin.

Minimal? This advert is literally nothing at all!

dosxuk · Thu 30 Oct, 2025 08.29

MoeTheMan2025 wrote: Thu 30 Oct, 2025 01.21
bilky asko wrote: Wed 29 Oct, 2025 13.56 Their adverts have always tended to be quite minimal in their claims - I presume it's because they can't actually advertise the benefits you supposedly get from using the oil on your skin.
Minimal? This advert is literally nothing at all!

And yet we're all here talking about it.

MoeTheMan2025 · Thu 30 Oct, 2025 09.11

dosxuk wrote: Thu 30 Oct, 2025 08.29
MoeTheMan2025 wrote: Thu 30 Oct, 2025 01.21
bilky asko wrote: Wed 29 Oct, 2025 13.56 Their adverts have always tended to be quite minimal in their claims - I presume it's because they can't actually advertise the benefits you supposedly get from using the oil on your skin.
Minimal? This advert is literally nothing at all!
And yet we're all here talking about it.

Because that's brand recognition

thegeek · Tue 04 Nov, 2025 11.01

bilky asko wrote: Wed 29 Oct, 2025 13.56 Their adverts have always tended to be quite minimal in their claims - I presume it's because they can't actually advertise the benefits you supposedly get from using the oil on your skin.

A bit like the advert for caffeinated shampoo, which makes no mention of why you might want to put caffeine on your head, or what benefits it might bring you.

Blewatter · Tue 04 Nov, 2025 22.21

The problem I have with the ad isn't that it necessarily breaks the rules of a conventional advert, but I just don't think it does the job very well. Sure, it shows the logo, and it does show the product, but the clips have a fast pace, and you don't see the finished product in its packaging, like the cardboard box. I tend to recognise the packaging of something first, before the logo; things like basic colours and images. If I don't see it, then I wouldn't know what to look for. This does sound like a me problem, but I don't think I'd be the only person who follows that logic.

MoeTheMan2025 · Fri 07 Nov, 2025 14.38

Alexia wrote: Mon 27 Nov, 2023 23.39 Slightly offtopic and should probably go on a TV Forum of some kind if there was one around but...

...one of those old advert compilations has gone up on YouTube -- apparently BBC2 / Lambie Nairn let Pizza Hut use not one, not two but three of their ident concepts to flog, to quote Spike from Buffy, "melted cheese on bread" ?

(starts at 1:12)

I know this post was of 2 years ago, but did Alexia overlook Pres Cafe?

Alexia · Sun 09 Nov, 2025 14.17

MoeTheMan2025 wrote: Fri 07 Nov, 2025 14.38
Alexia wrote: Mon 27 Nov, 2023 23.39 Slightly offtopic and should probably go on a TV Forum of some kind if there was one around but...

...one of those old advert compilations has gone up on YouTube -- apparently BBC2 / Lambie Nairn let Pizza Hut use not one, not two but three of their ident concepts to flog, to quote Spike from Buffy, "melted cheese on bread" ?

(starts at 1:12)

I know this post was of 2 years ago, but did Alexia overlook Pres Cafe?

Yes. Deliberately so.

MoeTheMan2025 · Mon 10 Nov, 2025 20.26

Alexia wrote: Sun 09 Nov, 2025 14.17
MoeTheMan2025 wrote: Fri 07 Nov, 2025 14.38
Alexia wrote: Mon 27 Nov, 2023 23.39 Slightly offtopic and should probably go on a TV Forum of some kind if there was one around but...

...one of those old advert compilations has gone up on YouTube -- apparently BBC2 / Lambie Nairn let Pizza Hut use not one, not two but three of their ident concepts to flog, to quote Spike from Buffy, "melted cheese on bread" ?

(starts at 1:12)

I know this post was of 2 years ago, but did Alexia overlook Pres Cafe?
Yes. Deliberately so.

Oh, that's good. I would too. I tried in mid-2024, was a fucking nightmare.