Can You Believe Companies Spend So Much on These Annoying TV Ads?
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I hate most of the Advertisements on TV and cant believe that companies pay thousands of pounds to get someone to create them. Take the Frebreeze one. There is a bin full of rubbish in the kitchen and the guy is putting flowers on a clothes dryer. Why doesn’t he just empty the bin. 
Do any adverts annoy you?
I must admit I have started shouting at the tele. But I would never pay to not have them. The Christmas ones are not too bad though.
Most of the adverts annoy me specially the charity ones don't mind some Christmas ones tho Kevin the carrot 
I stopped watching adverts most of the time ever since i could pause live tv. Now i’ll just pause when the tv show is about to start, go and make a cup of tea or something, then come back and im able to skip all the adverts
jms19 I think most people use the adverts to go to make a cuppa or go to the loo etc, i cannot imagine anyone actually sitting there to watch them
Saying that thank goodness we have adverts, if we didn't ITV would be asking for money for a second licence to fund their programmes , like the BBC do
Not so much the adverts themselves but they always seem to increase the volume so it startles sometimes.
Yes they are annoying and rubbish, very rarely do they make a decent commercial now, plus not once has a commercial made me want to go out and buy what they offering
martinlufc5637 I agree with you. The only impact adverts used to have on me was entirely the opposite of their intentions because it would make me actively avoid their product! I don't even watch 'normal' tv these days as neither of us can stand the ads.
Besides the heavily guilt-ridden charity ads, one in particular is annoying me now. The little girl who goes to a shop and asks for chocolate for her mum. Using the innocence of her tiny voice to sell something unhealthy. Find ads with kids annoying anyway (seem more manipulative) 
Who in their right mind let a little child out of their sight so they can get a large bar of chocolate paying with buttons and toys. Not in this day and age. !!!
Yes some of them are a but repetitive or just really loud and noisy. However, I found my mute button on the remote until my programme comes back on or I do something else instead or just change channels.
I really can’t believe that stars really endorse some of products and companies think we’re all stupid and buy them just because there’s a famous person.
Pjran The fact that some 'star' is being paid a fortune to advertise a product is very off putting for me and I won't buy the product because I feel I am just paying the 'star'. If the company has that much money - just reduce the price of the product!
the trouble is research shows that celebrity endorsement does work (usually). Ad companies spend a lot of money testing this - if it didn't work they wouldn't bother. It can go wrong occasionally but usually it works.
didbygraham They should come round to me and ask those same questions as it has the opposite effect on me. So called 'stars' don't impress me.
didbygraham Absolutely. A proper well-known actor advertising a product will encourage me to buy it.
What about the pot noodle one . A woman with a donkey on her shoulder and a guy screaming tassssssty . It goes right through me ekkk
I can't really think of an advert that has succeeded and make me want to buy their products. The cashback sites Quidco and Topcashback have done adverts in the past but I was already with them many years ago. I don't tend to buy expensive branded products in supermarkets and if a product has some sort of celebrity endorsement on the box its normally expensive to pay for the celebrities sponsorship so never buy those products either. I guess they are more effective with people prepared to spend more for products and not value focused.
I have used US streaming services with a VPN and those adverts are more frequent although perhaps the advert break doesn't last as long not sure but the frequency is definitely more annoying than the UK. Some US adverts are good but some are worse than the worse adverts here.
The UK adverts are nicely spaced so you can go to the toilet, make a cuppa or a sandwich etc but if ITV realises it can get more adverts to be seen like the US with more frequent breaks that don't last as long I think that will be far worse. I think 1 minute of adverts every 10 minutes or so would be difficult to make use of for toilet, tea or a sandwich so you would pretty much have to sit through them or do a quick bit of channel scanning just to see what else is on.
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