Adverts on TV

02.10.05, 13:42
What do you think of the adverts on Polish TV at the moment, and how would
you compare themn with the ones back home? I notice an awful lot of beer
based advertising and mobile phone networks these days. Back in the day it
was all washing powders.

What's your favorite and least favourite ads on Polish TV and why?
    • speer Re: Adverts on TV 11.10.05, 22:50
      Polish Ads are very very boring. Everything is made for those idealistic
      conservative-catholic families... so there is no fatnasy, nothing in those
      stupid ads.
      • nasza_maggie Re: Adverts on TV 12.10.05, 01:15
        Because as far as ad agencies are concerned, that's what 'surveys' seem to
        confirm.... Poles don't like anything overboard.
        • bartis_ervin Re: Adverts on TV 12.10.05, 09:40

          Well, I really enjoyed the Plus GSM ads. I think they are hilarioussmile
          Since my Polish is not so good it was a bit hard to understand in the beginning.

          Did you see them?

          Ervin
          • speer Re: Adverts on TV 12.10.05, 10:55
            Yes, PLUS GSM ads were made by some cabaret (but I do not know the name of this
            cabaret). As far as I know Plus Gsm is not so happy about those ads, because
            they advertises rather the cabaret and not Plus gsm smile
            • nasza_maggie Re: Adverts on TV 12.10.05, 15:27
              You mean the 'abstract' ones with Kabaret Mumio. I liked them also.

              here they are on the left hand side. You can vote for your favourites:
              reklamy.plusgsm.pl/index.html
              • usenetposts Re: Adverts on TV 13.10.05, 00:26
                I have to say at the moment I am getting annoyed by a lot of the medicine ones
                telling me I'm ill with the flu. I don't like people telling me I'm not very
                well. It's like they're trying to use the opposite of faith healing on me on
                the TV and talk me into feeling ill. I resent that.

                I also resent being told to "always read the label" or to consult with a
                pharmacist or doctor. Wouldn't reading the label once be enough?
    • portulaco Re: Adverts on TV 13.10.05, 12:57
      I studied advertising in the university in Oporto, I got quite acquainted with
      Brazilian one which I still consider the best in the world, not only for the
      sense of humour but also for the right-moment-right-time style.

      Regarding Polish advertising I think that generaly it's in the average with
      some exceptions obviously, like those from Orange and some from Idea.
      Interesting too are those about the importance of using the seatbelt, very good
      for the stuborns. In fact even a small dog can smash a passanger seat like
      paper if loose inside the vehicle during an accident, it could be nice to make
      people aware of this too, anyway the one with the girl and the boy talking in
      the back seat and after the accident you see the guy vanishing from site whyle
      the girl stays is quite good.
      About medicins smile Yes generally they're boriiiiiiiiiing! But I like the one of
      APAP with the old fellow picking up the 70 year old girlfriend in the white
      Duży Fiat.
      One that makes me sick is about some credit line with some girl screaming like
      in the movie Nightmare on Elm Street.

      By the way... what is your opinion about the one from some credit line to buy a
      house where the granma uses the granddaughter's vibrator to bake a cake? tongue_out
      • usenetposts Re: Adverts on TV 13.10.05, 23:56
        portulaco napisał:

        > I studied advertising in the university in Oporto, I got quite acquainted
        with
        > Brazilian one which I still consider the best in the world, not only for the
        > sense of humour but also for the right-moment-right-time style.

        OK. All I know about Brazilian TV is the soap operas.

        Do you know any sites that show samples of these Brazilian ads?

        >
        > Regarding Polish advertising I think that generaly it's in the average with
        > some exceptions obviously, like those from Orange and some from Idea.
        > Interesting too are those about the importance of using the seatbelt, very
        good
        >
        > for the stuborns.

        Yes I was quite impressed by this latest seat belt ad. But I have to say that
        in my country having a public information film called "stop wariatom drogowym"
        (stop lunatic drivers) showing people in straight jackets colliding with each
        other would be considered pretty controversial. It is not considered right in
        most civilised countries to vilify people with mental illnesses in order to
        make a point, even a good point.

        I wonder how someone with a serious mental illness who had had during times of
        severe depression needed to be confined to a straight jacket would react to
        that modern day freak show in the name of public information?

        >In fact even a small dog can smash a passanger seat like
        > paper if loose inside the vehicle during an accident, it could be nice to
        make
        > people aware of this too, anyway the one with the girl and the boy talking in
        > the back seat and after the accident you see the guy vanishing from site
        whyle
        > the girl stays is quite good.

        Yes indeed. I have to say it is a very good information film.

        In the UK in the 70s, we had "clunk click every trip" said by Jimmy Saville, a
        Radio 1 DJ, and the famous distorted image of a hammer hitting a peach.

        > About medicins smile Yes generally they're boriiiiiiiiiing! But I like the one
        of
        >
        > APAP with the old fellow picking up the 70 year old girlfriend in the white
        > Duży Fiat.

        I don't think I've seen that one.

        > One that makes me sick is about some credit line with some girl screaming
        like
        > in the movie Nightmare on Elm Street.
        >

        I've seen that. I was amused by it the first time, but it's not the thing you
        wanna experience several times a day

        > By the way... what is your opinion about the one from some credit line to buy
        a
        >
        > house where the granma uses the granddaughter's vibrator to bake a cake? tongue_out

        I can't remember seeing that one.

        I got one of these e-mails recently that go around the circuit with these funny
        films on, and it had an ad for this ice cold minty chewing gum. The guy is also
        sitting in the back of a car with his girl, a bit like the seat belt one, and
        he gives her a couple of gums and then takes a whole handful at once himself.
        The next thing his head has frozen, and the girl screams and the driver screams
        and screeches to a halt, at which point his head snaps off onto her lap, but
        his eyes are still moving around. Truly gruesome. I can't imagine why anyone
        would want to advertise a product that way unless they were in the pay of the
        competition.
        • portulaco Re: Adverts on TV 14.10.05, 11:33
          Hi usenetposts and Bartis_ervin!

          I've browse google brazil in order to find some interesting site with Brazilian
          advertising but the results were not as I expected, maybe gustavinho knows
          where to find it, curiously in European Portuguese advertising is "Publicidade"
          and in Brazilian Portuguese they say "Propaganda" which in European Portuguese
          means war propaganda.

          "OK. All I know about Brazilian TV is the soap operas."

          Do you like Brazilian soap operas? I laugh a lot listening to "Escrava Isaura"
          with Spanish dubbing in TVN smile)))

          "But I have to say that in my country having a public information film
          called "stop wariatom drogowym" (stop lunatic drivers) showing people in
          straight jackets colliding with each other would be considered pretty
          controversial"

          Quite odd sense of humour they have I must say. In my childhood when the fields
          in Winter were frozen me and the other lads used to skid in the ice as if we
          were cars doing U-turns with the handbrake, falling and doing the sound of
          tyres squeaking and glass braking maybe it would be better idea to film some
          children doing the same instead, unfortunetly I don't have any film with me
          doing that otherwise I could send it to some advertising agency...

          Talking about funny commercial films, I saw many years ago an American
          advertising from fifties about some farm in the midwest breeding chicken. The
          add started with a cartoon chicken showing the facilities and the process of
          killing them, so the cartoon was at a certain part beheaded and still
          explaining happilly how it was till the moment of saying "Well I'm a little
          dizzy it's over now". I was speechless but I guess in fifties that was
          considered funny...

          "In the UK in the 70s, we had "clunk click every trip" said by Jimmy Saville, a
          Radio 1 DJ, and the famous distorted image of a hammer hitting a peach."

          I saw that in the BBC series "Crash??" about car safety and road accidents, in
          Portugal only in 1993 started to be compulsory the use of seatbelts.

          In 2003, the same day I bought a VW Polo, when driving in a one way street some
          guy in Citroen Berlingo didn't saw the road sign and collided violently head-on
          with my car, it was enough for it to go straight to the junkyard, I just recall
          the windscreen cracking and my glasses flying away. If I wouldn't be belted I'm
          sure I would smash myself against the dashboard or fly to the street, thanks to
          the it I didn't had a scratch, I just stayed perfectly glued during the
          colision.
      • bartis_ervin Re: Adverts on TV 14.10.05, 09:53

        "In fact even a small dog can smash a passanger seat like paper if loose inside
        the vehicle during an accident, it could be nice to make people aware of this too"

        Not so long ago I saw a bilboard and saying about the importance of seatbelt for
        dogs. I thought that it is a very good idea. If I remember well I saw somewheer
        around pl. Bankowy.
        Definitely the seatbelt ad is very good. It is not shocking, but it goes inside
        your head and next time when you sit in the car you remember the girl's face.

        Ervin
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