The Toyota-athon lady sets my dog’s off every time. It’s something about the pitch of her voice.

They often show that commercial back to back…

They waste their money on me .I mute nearly all commercials .

"BULBHEAD"....I will never buy anything from these clowns.

In my entire life, going on 70 years now, I don’t believe I have ever been influenced by any advertisement, via any media, to buy anything they’re selling.

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How many commercials did you hear over and over when you were a child that you still remember?

My bologna has a first name, it's O s c a r.... LOL

We called it a “jingle”.
For me: “Mikey likes it!”

Because they are working.

It’s called TOMA, aka Top of Mind Awareness. You flood the subconscious with images and messages until it becomes ingrained in your mind. It doesn’t trigger an impulse to buy until a need exists. Billboards along the highway do the same thing.

When I need paper towels I always reach for “the quicker picker upper”. The add doesn’t make me buy them, the familiarity of the add aids in building brand loyalty and offers me the comfort to reach for their product.

Yeah, another one was Ipana tooth paste with that damn beaver.

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Yeah, another one was Ipana tooth paste with that damn beaver.

Sharon Stone did toothpaste ads?

The pharmaceutical ads have product names that sound ghetto.

"Fasenra, go get Trelegy and Dupixent! Breztri, you gonna make us late again!"

Most posters here are saying they're aware of the commercials and annoyed by them, you're not the target customer. I've gone into plenty of homes, where 1-2 TV's are on, ALL THE TIME, besides the amazing waste of braincells within those households (and electricity being wasted), such advertisements that are constantly put into rotation will get through to a bunch of these people which will result in a purchase of their product.

Advertisements are created to specifically target a certain customer, while they may seem innocuous or, very general, the idea is to get a fraction of that group to 'buy-in'. Once they're made that purchase and unless their experience with that product is horrible, that customer is more often than not, going to buy that same item again in the next round, thus the cycle is born.

Former ad testing person here… not sure if that qualifies as a bona fide or not…

The research firm I worked for measured only one thing: after people were exposed to your ad, did that ad persuade them to purchase your product?

A good ad shifted 6% or more of persons to try your product. An ad that persuaded 2% was considered ineffective.

Too many ad tests measure “recall” of the brand name and ad agencies produce ads that drive brand name recall… but you can remember an ad and NEVER have any intention of buying the product. I used to say: “I’m in the Cadillac demo, I’m a prime candidate to purchase a Cadillac… I already know the name Cadillac, why spend money reinforcing something that is already as reinforced as it can be… tell me something about Cadillac that moves me away from Mercedes or Lincoln.”

Constant repetition drives name recall, of course. But our research indicated that after 3 viewings, most people “learned” what they could from the ad and subsequent viewings did NOTHING to drive more recall or persuade them to choose a brand,

But brand managers felt they could/can save production costs by running the exact same ad whenever they could. They thought/think they’re being smart. They’re really just wasting ad buy dollars.

The pharmaceuticals commercials drive me nuts. Don't the Dr's and med folks have bigger control over what I need/get than I do? I'm sorry Maya is having problems with her hooters, but I just don't see why everyone needs to be introduced to them every 5 or 10 minutes. I wish the best for her, but it's not like I can run down to Wally World or Autozone and buy her a bottle of those meds.

Have you ever noticed that many TV commercials are actually two versions; a short one and a longer one?

One will be like 10-20 seconds while the other will be like 40-60 seconds.

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Sharon Stone did toothpaste ads?

Wait a minute...wasn't that "nice beaver" Priscilla Presley?

The Empire Carpet phone number is forever embedded in my brain due to repetition of the commericals when watching kids shows in Chicago in the 70's and 80's.

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The Empire Carpet phone number is forever embedded in my brain due to repetition of the commericals when watching kids shows in Chicago in the 70's and 80's.

Good lord, not to mention all the car ads like Bert Weinman Ford with Linn Burton doing the ads, First Metropolitan, Schmerler Ford, Nelson Brothers... with no way to purge from the recesses of my mind.

I don't mind most of 'em, but the goofy bastards at Ziprecruiter usually say their name at least nine times in every commercial.

I call that COMA aka Crap of Mediocre Assholes.

If someone is stupid enough to need the name repeated nine times to write it down, would you hire them?

"The poverty is unimaginable...". I've only eaten one rutabaga all week, if you don't send me money I will starve. Oh, and did I mention that I'm a holocaust survivor?

Hey folks, howsabout we extend our charity to our own people first? Just a thought.

And let's not forget the king of it all Mike Lindell. I'd happily burn a pile of mypillows just to spite that cocksucker.

(Yeah, I'm in one of those moods today...)

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The Empire Carpet phone number is forever embedded in my brain due to repetition of the commericals when watching kids shows in Chicago in the 70's and 80's.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Back in the day in Chicago was Courtesy Ford. It started with "Jim Moran the Courtesy Man" shouted loudly. They would then cut to his latest gimmick
Typically it would involve some poor sucker trying to swim across Lake Michigan with hourly updates on his progress. My Dad was not impressed but at ten years of age it was great entertainment. He later moved to Tampa and sold Toyotas.