other than why they are funny... do you pay attn to products to purchase?

rarely. only if it catches my eye while skipping through them or I'm out of interesting per-recorded stuff on Tivo

yup...cos I love adverts...I majored in Marketing, so find them fascinating

I do but only because I used to work in Marketing for a CPG firm so it was my job to pay attention to them and I never broke the habit

what types of commercials are interesting? what do you think need to be done?

needs to be done i meant

bellanyc make them fun...tie them into an online campaigns that are more two-way

richard, do you think that ads on the web are useful? to be honest, i know ppl ignore them more than tv.

bellanyc well the online campaign shouldn't be an ad, it should be more encompassing.

look at what JJ Abrams has done with Cloverfields online movie campaign, and apply that to advertising...that would be cool

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Love commercials. The best part of the show. Hate JJ Abrams, though. You know what's good in a show? A plot. Maybe an ending too.

thanks. i do like what they did. i also like to lead the audience by wonder of a particular product rather than telling them what it is

i love watching commercials! although not in the states. it's really really different over there. they're so much more cheesy/hammy/terrible

actually some are lovely. but as a percentage theres more crap overall.

do you watch commercials purely for design or more for products?

depends... there are a lot of really beautiful commericals that can even be really emotive. it's a shame that it's then for a car etc

usually it's the quirky ones or intelligent funny ones that get me.

get you to do what?? buy something you didn't want to in the first place?

yeah. only one things made me want to do that. it was a phone company here called 'three' they had little evil cute animation!

i so wanted to be 'apart' of them lol.

since you used their service based on the ads, was it a good move? were you satisfied with them after?

lol. i never joined up in the end, by the time i went to they looked like they might go bust.

theres some other weirder adverts post that too.

that is EXACTLY the answer i was looking for

that commercial. well done and very interesting.

but....

you were just interested in watching it, not really reading it right??

yeah. i don't know. i have a firefox extension that lets me block ads with one click. it gets used a LOT. lol.

a lot of advertising to me is just a bit pushy, like when someone is too eager to help you in a store. back off! i'll get what i want thanks

so you use it when you start looking and it isn't interesting? do you have to be grabbed in the very beginning?

it has been my thought that it takes 5 seconds to keep someone interested... if hooked in 5 seconds, ppl will click thru

do you agree??

hmm... i think it depends on the person. i don't click an ad till i've watched it all the way through. and i do thatunless it catches my eye

right

but if you were hooked in 5 secs, after viewing the entire ad, will you click thru?

depends if i liked it. i almost never buy something unless i already wanted to in the first place. the ad is usually a reminder.

i think 'oh yeah, i wanted one of those' not oooh i want one now. i need a bit more wooing.

lol.

eeeek... but im a designer/image person so i'm a little more wise/jaded about it all.

what kind of wooing?? lol. seriously. and it's early morning there, why are you still up?

i think the same way about what you want to see... etc. jaded

I have a love/hate with commercials. If its funny great. If its not, mute