Do you have Charlie Brooker's book? I read a bit every night and on the bus, I can't help but burst out laughing at his insults.

i majored in marketing and i can safely say it's one of the most disgusting endeavors that one can do. i don't regret studying that, because it has made me realize a lot about a lot of things but yeah, marketing and advertising are fucking awful.

but it seems that, especially now a days, people tend to hire the most stupid, uncreative people in the business to do advertising, or they try to cope their lack of creativeness with -relatively- cheap tricks (like buying 10000 spots a day on 50 channels to put a semi catchy, annoying bit and have it stick, but instead get people to hate them or, worse, forget what the ad is trying to sell).

I dont Danny no. He is one of those people you can invest faith in isnt he. When you watch anyone talk about popular culture they either have a braindead twat "Isnt Hollyoaks great" attitude or theyre so-much-smarter-than-you-that-they-deliberately-dont-have-a-TV.
Screenwipe should be as regular as old people dying from flu

I assume you know my quote was from Bill Hicks. And i lived with a marketing student for a year, together with having my teenage years flooded with cynicism towards pack behaviour. So the whole concept angers me unless its simple and easy to understand. I press MUTE on the telly and do something else when the ads are on because they fuck me off so much.

of course!!! that bill hicks bit, always makes me laugh, yet he's true in his anger...if dude would have written his jokes down and gotten irt published, he would be deemed a philosopher by now.

the whole time i was in college, teachers would say "watch the commercials, see what they are trying to do, analyse them", i tried it giving a crap twice, saw how transparent they were and then made a point of skipping them, the mere second i glimpse at one makes me sick.

you know what new "marketing strategy" they started implementing for the ads around here? they broadcast the shows at like half volume so you have to crank the tv up just to listen to it at a good level, then the commerciales hit and they are at top fucking volume. your action of muting the set when the ads come up reminded me of this and why i started doing that too.

this thread reminds me: everyone here should chekc out the film how to get ahead in advertising. it's funny! and british!

i have to mute the tv when ads come on, or i go nuts. It really does feel like fresh air in my lungs when i hit mute..
mmm Mute

Low-budget commercials for local businesses are a special kind of bad.

i hate those FUCKING GOD FORSAKEN TACO BELL COMMERCIALS.
and basically all commercials.
but i like this one on VH1 about mosquitos in africa. it makes very little sense but it's rather entertaining.

you said it.

I like how bad local ad campaigns can develop recurring themes, character development and even border on their own mythology over time, yet still remain horribly amateurish and badly executed.
Sometimes I wonder if they're actually trying to be that bad, which would be awesome.