Ads that have made you want to avoid the product.

[Dr. Cakey]

I don't know what it is called but some shampoo always shows a naked woman covered in water and slowly pans up to her tits but instead goes to her hair and makes it fly around while someone says buzz words like "masterfully silky" or "gloriously smooth".
I wouldn't buy it anyway because it is for women but the ads just make me hate it, especially when you realise that it had to be filmed in front of a large group of people.

I believe that's for the popular Every Single Shampoo Commercial Ever Made brand.

Ads I hate, ads I hate...why I can I suddenly only think of ads I liked? Like that Last of Us commercial. That was cool. Damn good music, too.

Uh, I guess I'm going to have to go with the iPad vs. Surface ads. They do make me want to use a Surface just so I can find out how wrong they are, though.

 

[antidonkey]

There have been plenty over the years. 99% of all ads for Axe products, the old PC vs. Mac ads, the slim jim ones that ran on this site years ago, the Jameson Whiskey ads......mainly because they were so long, and I'm sure there are other but that's all that's coming to mind now. I find most beer ads from the big three breweries to be annoying but not enough to not purchase the products. The beer itself does that all on its own. I don't watch a whole lot of TV any more so I don't see commercials nearly as much as I used to.

 

[Yokta]

I locked my hypothetical Australian Election vote in for the Labor party for two reasons: One, the Coalition's NBN plan is bollocks, and two, they ran an ad where they covered the Labor logo in filth, sat it next to a bag of garbage and a broken old tv, and told us to "Have a Labor/Greens Spring Clean" without uttering a single word on why we would ever want to do that. Just "Don't vote for the Labor party because they are FILTHY GARBAGE! See? See the logo in the garbage? That's them! They stink!"
This ad was disgusting, juvenile and ignorant, and any political party who thought it was sufficient to sway voters' opinions must have a horrendous idea of our average intelligence.

But if your political sidings differ to mine I respect your opinion and allow you to use your vote as you see fit.

 

[william12123]

Lumosity. I hate those adds, and I hate any add that makes claims as vague and BS-y as "based on neuroscience". Advertisements that make false claims are one of the few things I feel ardently passionate about. If I ever got rich enough to support myself, I would lead a crusade against certain forms of advertising. If you claim ANYTHING is based on science, I want to see the peer reviewed studies you're based on.

"Food porn" adds gets me all the f'n time though. I hate seeing an add for pizza hut and starting to crave pizza. Their pizza isn't even that good...

Sorry if I'm aggressive, advertising just makes me SO MAD.

 

[Rariow]

The PS4/ PlayStation Plus add running on YouTube. That fucking song. The most annoying, nasal whine I've ever heard.

I mean, I'll still get one once the generation's over, but that music has made me involuntarily twitching every time I remember that add is associated with Sony.

As for TV adds... I don't have a TV capable of doing anything but playing DVDs and VCRs, haven't had one for five years, and don't plan to get one, because I became so irritated with stuff getting interrupted for adds that I kind of rage-quit TV.

 

[Akytalusia]

every last one of them. no exceptions. if i see an ad of -anything- it loses disposition points with me.

 

[Varrdy]

Pretty much any ad that pops up while I am trying to do stuff online - they are either totally unrelated to the subject matter of the site I am on and / or they purposefully put the pop-up in an area I need to click on - slamming anything in my face usually makes me hate it by default!

I appreciate that advertising needs to exist and that it's very useful but I am dumbfounded by the notion that anyone would think that obnoxiously ramming stuff into our faces would in any way endear us to the product!

That Skoda advert where a team of bakers made a full sized Fabia out of cake was pretty cool though!

 

[Story]

Just echoing the Axe Body Spray ads and the Go Daddy ads. I hate that kind of special pandering Go Daddy gets a special mention in that for a long time, I didn't know what the heck they were trying to sale to me. I thought they were a porno site for years. Then again, I'll be fair and say I'm not exactly the audience for those ads anyway so...meh.
Some celebrity endorsed ads baffle me as well. The most recent of which is the Beyonce Pepsi ad and the Nelly Cheerios ad. Which I don't know, they are kinda painful for me to watch, partially the later.

I don't mind watching ads either. But I tend to remember ads I like more than ads I do not like though. For example, I think the "Most Interesting Man in the World" ads are hilarious.

 

[Giyguy]

All of the ads suck, actually, save a few.

All of the beer ads all suck because they're still doing the "only manly men drink beer" shit, even though we're going through another women's rights wave, so it always seems sexist and the men in the commercial end up looking like a bunch of self satisfied, egotistic yuppies or rednecks.

All of the deodorant ads after the first few Terry Crews/Tim and Eric Old Spice ads suck because they're all trying to ride on the success of the Terry Crews commercials and they fail horribly.

All of the car ads suck because all of them are the same 5 angle shots of a car driving across a non-specific long road while some douche talks about payment plans and loans and then the car does a power slide or something for a final shot. the Volkswagen German engineering one with the medieval slingshot was funny, but that's the only one on, so it gets boring real quick.

All of the infomercials suck because they always portray people as the most incompetent screwheads and then attempt to sell you something completely pointless that will break down and not work the first time you use it.

All of the commercials that start out with some random pop song and don't actually tell you about the product or service suck, because it sin't even trying to get you interested in the product, and thus fails at what it is supposed to do. It's those commercials that you always mute when you can't skip em.

All of the perfume commercials suck, because you can't actually smell the perfume. plus, they desperately try to make up for this by trying to ineffectually turn you on. you see one model, you've seen em all.

All of the other commercials suck because various reasons. Also, they get in the way of what you actually want to see.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Those singing shitballs Quiznos trotted out back around 2005.
I hated those ads so fucking much I stopped eating at Quiznos entirely (still haven't gone back).

 

[Queen Michael]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Moviebob trying to sell that damn book of his. Maybe I notice it more because adblocker snipes the rest? And he made the ad even more annoying when people complained, yeah... pure class there mr Chipman

He changed it? How did he change it?

 

[MailOrderClone]

Two of them. First, this Miracle Whip ad where the advertisers attempt to paint eatable sandwich glue as counter-culture, hip and edgy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1vtZR16RY

And this advertisement for Dr Pepper, consisting of the company literally saying "you can be a unique individual by dressing just like the rest of us and drinking the same soda pop that we do".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7y0XeinGQ

 

[Queen Michael]

And this advertisement for Dr Pepper, consisting of the company literally saying "you can be a unique individual by dressing just like the rest of us and drinking the same soda pop that we do".

Well, no. They're sending that message, but they're not literally saying it.

 

[Laughing Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LY3clRO5ZA

Toyota, this add just plain wound me up. Ford, Fiat, BMW, VW that's a small list of car manufacturers that make engines that are smaller, lighter, more efficient and here's the important thing more powerful and in better handling cars than anything these crappy Toyota petro hybrids can hope for, yes Toyota their is indeed a better way, shame it's with another car manufacturer.

 

[loc978]

Generally I don't judge a product by its ads. If I did, I would probably never buy anything again. All subtlety seems to be gone these days, in favor of the blatant application of Edward Bernays' theories on human gullibility... like the car commercials of the 60s all over again. Disgusting.

However... I had been toying with the idea of trying out the Total War series lately... until a Rome 2 ad on another site (I think it was ModDB) popped up from the bottom of the screen unbidden (seriously, didn't even mouse over it), taking up a good 3/4 of my monitor. Add to that nonstandard placement of the "x" to minimize it again, and the fact that it locked up Shockwave for a few seconds when I clicked the x... well, the company pissed me off with that one, I won't be trying their games any time soon (I am aware the ad was probably designed by an outsourced company, though, so I doubt this will be forever).

 

[Towels]

Diablo 3. "More fun and depraved than a couple swapping orgy!!"
Why the hell wasn't Gauntlet Legacy like that?

Then again I am a bitter, single loser. Clearly I'm not the target audience, but this doesn't stop me from taking off my headphones in disgust from hearing someone orgasm with someone else. The ad is literally fucking my ear. It seriously makes me want to punch Blizzard in the fucking face, and I like Starcraft 2.

On the other hand, I do like the PS4 ads. That guy has a pretty cool monologue.

 

[AntiChri5]

Hey everyone, with the current annoyingness of those damn Killzone Mercenary ads popping up all over the screen (oh how I despise that game now) I got to think are there any other advertisements that have made me want to avoid the product they are advertising (yes, I am actually going to avoid that game due to the ads, not that I have a Vita anyway)?

I think there was another group of ads that made me want to avoid the product but they seem to have slipped my mind at this stage.

What ads, if any, have made you want to avoid a product?

I couldn't agree more, man. These ads for Killzone are so damn obnoxious that i have come to despise the game.

 

[TallanKhan]

In terms of specific adverts the Vimto advert with the anthropomorphised fruit in the car that keeps popping up all over the internet makes me want to kill someone. And to this day the default sound that the Samsung Galaxy S3 makes when recieving a text takes me back to that awful advert with David Beckham which just makes my blood boil.

I don't often find adverts themselves to be a huge turn off for products but I do very often take exeption to the advertising medium used. As a point of principle I won't buy a product or purcase from a brand if i am forced to sit through unskipable video ads for the product/brand in question as I find this to be a really intrusive advertising format.

In my capacity as a very dedicated insomniac with alot of time to spare I have even started sending messages of complaint to companies who advertise using the above mentioned intrusive videos. I was suprised to find you usually get a response, and more often than not from an actual person, albeit one who expresses a rather insincere regret at your displeasure. It does make me wonder though, if enough of us complained, if we made enough noise and caused enough hassle would they think twice about advertising like this in the first place?

I do believe we allow ourselves to be exploited by advertisers. There was a time when companies courted customers with their advertising, now they just subject us to it.

 

[CleverCover]

Generally, an ad that stops me from doing anything, like watching tv, posting on a forum, watching a show quickly...so, unless it's on a billboard or a bus stop, not gonna ever touch your product you annoying bastards.

Captcha: propane accessories. For the love of...now you're trying to sell me something too?!