I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There was an ad recently on UK TV for some shitty food delivery company,and had a constant loud doorbell sound.

    I emailed the TV channel and said myself and everyone I know have stopped watching their channel because the advert was so obnoxiously irritating.

    They emailed back a month later and said they’d asked the advertiser to redo the advert due to multiple complaints

    We can make a difference if we make an effort!

  • Rylyshar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Any ad that runs on youtube. Literally. All of them. You have paid for the privilege of ruining my enjoyment of whatever I was trying to see. Eff you and the product you rode in on.

  • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    i disliked an ad in tv before 2000 and decided to not buy the deodorant stick then because of that. like 10 to 15 years later i accidently bought the product- long forgotten that this was the one with that bad ad and actually liked the product and bought it regulary for some time (then remembering how bad that ad was, but okay the product was good actually). that was until they decided to put more plastics into packaging as well as less content into it (same price for package) just to make it more costly for me thus more profitable for them, whilst producing more litter and destroying more resources just for profit. The higher price would not have been too bad, but creating more litter for more profit made me then search a better product. then found a bio product with all natural contents, very few plastic packaging and even less pricy.

    That ad made me NOT buy it. So that was the worst ad i’ve ever seen in two ways: it reduced my willingness to buy their product to far below zero lasting for a decade and i did not even want to try the product that i later found to be actually good, so worst case for the vendor AND the customer.

    However that product later also had the “best” Price raise (by less content) for me ever as that made me search and find the then newly existing even better and more natural, less pricy product of their competitor.

    Maybe good CEOs are rare.

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      The point of ads is to entice you to buy sonething. Theres a higher chance of me buying something I dont remember the ad for than one that I make a point to avoid because of how terrible the ad for it was.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      You got it! Aside from anything seriously offensive, these are ALL better ads than the ones we’ve completely forgotten about.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    I think any ad that has the disclaimer guy say about 300 words within 3 minutes at the end has a place in my worst ad bucket. These are mostly drugs. and I don’t remember a single specific so it’s a sure sign.

    also those smiling people eating their salad.

    and that one ad with iPhone that people are jumping about with colors splashing and so little detail on the actual product.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      9 months ago

      The law on drug ads is that if they tell you what the drug does, they also have to tell you all the side effects.

      But if they don’t tell you what the drug does, they aren’t required to say the side effects.

      So they used to make two versions of the ad. One that was all about making people feel good about a drug by showing smiling happy people living a good life with lots of wholesome moments then “ask your doctor if zexophlam is right for you.” Then they’d have another ad that tells you what zexophlam does and send a few minutes listing the side effects. But lately I haven’t seen the second type that lists the side effects. It;s just the first type that doesn’t tell you what the drug does.

      Last one I saw kind of made a joke about it where someone is about to tell you what the drug is and they keep getting interrupted. Haha, how clever you are in avoiding telling me that a pill can give people diarrhea or whatever.

  • nikosey@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    there was an old ad with a kid sitting on a dock fishing, eating a bologna sandwich and singing “my bologna has a first name, its o-s-c-a-r. my bologna has a second name its m-a-y-e-r”…

    nothing wrong with the commercial except it turned out to be an ear worm that would live in my head FOREVER. my brain trots it out at least once a month for no good reason. usually more.

    ive never bought bologna and i’m low key mad at Oscar Mayer so maybe this counts?

  • hitagi@ani.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.

  • GARlactic@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Literally any ad. I hate advertising in all forms and it does nothing but piss me off. If your ad is intrusive enough, I’ll remember it well enough to never buy your product.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    1·
    9 months ago

    The Quiznos ad with the talking chinchillas.

    Most people didn’t even know what those things were. I heard them being called weasels and rats and deep-fried hamsters and even beavers.

    But, no. Photos of chinchillas, with talking human mouths superimposed. Ended up being the most fingernails-on-a-chalkboard commercial I have ever come across. Sure, there have been worse commercials in terms of raw stinkers or stupidity, but this one was by far the most repellant one I have ever personally experienced.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    All the anti-smoking ads. I don’t support smoking, but the anti-smoking ads are so dramatic I’m surprised they’re allowed by the Geneva Convention on psychological warfare.