Comments on: Advertising ‘isn’t a guilty pleasure’

By: Tony@TacticalTV

Tony@TacticalTV — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:35:00 +0000

Joe makes some good points. You know things are bad when agencies fall over themselves to avoid using the word ‘advertising’ in their names or descriptions of what they do! How about a little pride? Be an adman/woman and proud of it!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:21:58 +0000

You watch “Two and a Half Men”, you accept you have to watch ads. You even feel entertained and informed by some of them. Or it’s an excuse to go pee or make coffee, or both. But for the love of God I cannot understand how anyone would subject themselves to the teeth grindingly frustrating experience of trying to watch a movie on pay tv. The number of ads. is bad enough, the repetition of an ad. within one break is ridiculous and does not benefit the advertiser. It is enough to drive me weeping to the nearest bookshelf. Ah! Hang on a minute! Do Angus & Robertson own Channel Nine?

By: Alan Marshall

Alan Marshall — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:14:11 +0000

Yeah, but Bewitched and The Gruen Transfer aren’t repeated ad naseum like learning a song parrot fashion. That’s the essential difference.