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Title: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: BFSMP on December 13, 2016, 02:35:50 pm
Who agrees with me that the House of Fraser TV Christmas Advert is not only over worked, over produced and over infuriating, but it is also totally meaningless as a Christmas advert. <*< <*< >>:-( >>:-(


And the music is just downright annoying.

Jim.

Link to Advert - Admin:  https://youtu.be/L2uPAWrgL6s

Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: TheLongBuild on December 13, 2016, 03:28:04 pm
But you are talking about it so has not gone unnoticed..
Music is ok..
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: BFSMP on December 13, 2016, 03:43:16 pm

But you are talking about it so has not gone unnoticed..
Music is ok..


I'm talking about it because I'm so peeeed off with it being on almost every other advert break, SO THAT YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT. <*< <*<


may be the music is ok in context....i.e. on radio 1, but it's a lousy choice for a lousy inane advert with no meaning to Christmas >>:-( >:-o


Jim.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: tigertiger on December 13, 2016, 03:59:30 pm
I have to agree with Longbuild on this one  %%
And I never thought anyone would do a cover of the Fugees big hit.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: dougal99 on December 13, 2016, 04:10:56 pm
Record commercial television and skip the adverts. I have no idea what you're talking about and I like it that way!
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Netleyned on December 13, 2016, 04:23:52 pm
Some of the ads have better content
than some of the progammes imho  %)


Ned
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: mrlownotes on December 13, 2016, 04:28:02 pm
Record commercial television and skip the adverts. I have no idea what you're talking about and I like it that way!

Ditto - We record everything we want to see, then fast forward all the adverts. It also means we can skip through all the unnecessary boring bits in any program.

And as for Christmas ----------

********    Bah Humbug  **********

I'm on the wrong side of RETAIL to appreciate Xmas.


GrumpyGuts signing off  >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: davidm1945 on December 13, 2016, 05:07:13 pm
I'm on the wrong side of RETAIL to appreciate Xmas.


GrumpyGuts signing off  >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o >:-o


Working Boxing day are you? >>:-( >>:-(

I had 20 years working for a "well known electrical retailer" and I don't miss it one little bit! Happy Christmas day......


Dave.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: NFMike on December 13, 2016, 05:12:09 pm
Some of the ads have better content
than some of the progammes imho  %)


Ned
Which is why, like dougal, we record everything we think is worth watching - commercial or beeb and with the help of Radio Times. We never just sit down and turn the box on on the offchance there might be something worth watching.
In fact our biggest problem is avoiding spoilers as we watch almost everything at least 24 hours after transmission  :-)
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: mrlownotes on December 13, 2016, 05:34:30 pm
Working Boxing day are you? >>:-( >>:-(

I had 20 years working for a "well known electrical retailer" and I don't miss it one little bit! Happy Christmas day......


Dave.

No, I meant that I'm on the buying side (hence 'out of pocket'  >:-o ) rather than on the selling side and loads of quids in the till  :-)) .
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: captain bligh on December 13, 2016, 05:41:35 pm
If you live in the south west the Drakes circus advert has been the same since it opened ten years ago I reckon  %) %) %)

Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Nemo on December 13, 2016, 07:27:56 pm
But you are talking about it so has not gone unnoticed..
Music is ok..

And that is the entire point of advertising!  All publicity is good publicity - even if it's bad.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Brian60 on December 13, 2016, 07:30:31 pm
I have to agree. I can't honestly see the relevance to xmas whatsoever, at least previous years from them have been and can be seen to have a xmas theme. But animals bouncing on a garden trampoline? Apart from the young girl coming down to find it in the garden on I suppose is xmas morning, it could be any day of the year.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: davidm1945 on December 13, 2016, 07:41:44 pm
No, I meant that I'm on the buying side (hence 'out of pocket'  >:-o ) rather than on the selling side and loads of quids in the till  :-)) .


Ah I see....well have a thought for the sales staff when you take your faulty product back on Boxing Day. Remember it's not their fault and they probably don't want to be there either.


Dave.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: NFMike on December 13, 2016, 08:01:35 pm
I have to agree. I can't honestly see the relevance to xmas whatsoever, at least previous years from them have been and can be seen to have a xmas theme. But animals bouncing on a garden trampoline? Apart from the young girl coming down to find it in the garden on I suppose is xmas morning, it could be any day of the year.
Isn't that the John Lewis ad?
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: dreadnought72 on December 13, 2016, 08:21:52 pm
I work in Retail and can't afford TV.  %%


Andy
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: malcolmfrary on December 13, 2016, 09:07:02 pm
Isn't that the John Lewis ad?
Wouldn't it be ironic if, having got really teed off with the House of Fraser ad that was actually the John Lewis ad, John Lewis' was visited instead?
Are people in advertising really that devious?
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Capt Podge on December 13, 2016, 10:54:57 pm
I work in Retail and can't afford TV.  %%
Andy

In which case, you have been blessed. My TV licence works out VERY expensive when I work out how many programmes I actually watch from start to finish, last count = 16 so far this year. >:-o

It's just as well we have MBM - something worth reading / looking at. :-))

Regards,

Ray.
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Martin (Admin) on December 14, 2016, 12:24:52 pm
 
I like the John Lewis advert and strangely, the Apple Ad?!!

https://youtu.be/sr6lr_VRsEo

https://youtu.be/aFPcsYGriEs

( Is that Robert (Brad Garrett) from 'Everybody loves Raymond'? )



Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: ray123 on December 14, 2016, 01:45:28 pm
only thing with the apple advert is he got the port & starboard lights in his neck the wrong way! :}
Title: Re: Christmas TV Adverts
Post by: Martin (Admin) on December 14, 2016, 04:17:01 pm
 
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