Showing posts with label Ads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ads. Show all posts

Friday, May 26, 2023

Internet Ads

 I laugh at internet ads.  I know, I know, that's how the service providers stay in business.  TV works the same way.  

But I clicked on enough ads of things that I would never buy (women's clothes, shoes, weird gadgets), so I never get tempted.  And those are the only ads I get now.  LOL!

It is my way of deceiving the advertisers...  They play their games, I play mine.  

If I want to actually want to buy something, I research it in Consumer Reports or some neutral expert site first.  ðŸ˜›

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Laughing At Ads

The insurance companies are really competing on ads these days.  One long-running ad as been about Flo and Jamie from Progressive.  Another is Mayhem from Allstate.  The Flo ads were getting boring.  Jamie was always the idiot.  But they have one now that cracks me up.  It shows Flo landing on a desert island and succeeding to catch fish and start a fire with "The Price Gun".  And back at the office, Jamie asks why "the one item" she would choose to take  was that iten and she says it helped her. 

So someone else asks Jamie what one item HE would bring.  Jamie says he would have chosen a boat.  LOL!

The Mayhem guy (Allstate) amazes me.  He is an evil person, but he is also understandable in insurance terms.  He is the tree that falls on a house, the cell phone that distracts you into a car accident, the kid who swallows the wedding ring, etc.  This guy cracks we up. 

I hate seeing the same ad over and over again, so the number of different ads by one company is appreciated.  They don't have the least effect of what company I do business with, but as far as having to watch commercials goes, "clever" and "varied" is appreciated.

A couple side notes...  My dad's response to commercials was to hit the mute button.  Well, I always found the sudden 3 minutes of silence more annoying than the commercials AND he often fell asleep so I would have to take the remote out of his hands and turn on the sound again when the show started.

Te other thing that annoys me about commercials is that there is a repeat pattern.  Commercial A is followed by commercial B then A is repeated and then C. And I've even seen ABAB recently.  Maddening. 

The Weather Channel keeps complaining to me that I am blocking their ads.  I ignore them.  It's not like I care about their ads one way or another, but they slow down my access to the information a want. 

Looking Up

 While I was outside with The Mews, I laid back and looked up.  I thought the tree branches and the clouds were kind of nice. Nothing import...