Commercials playing over and over again

Posted by Tricia in Friday, June 8th 2007   

LOL I’m sitting here watching late night TV as I work on the computer - again. What else is new huh?

Don’t you hate it when you’re watching TV - at any time of day - and the same commercial plays two or more times either in a row, or perhaps 6+ times during a half hour show?

Is it the television stations that are messing up or are the advertisers really asking for their commercials to be run that often? Don’t they know we hate it?

Just tonight I’ve seen the same ad for no exam life insurance over and over again! It’s nuts! There’s a few others that I’ve seen repeated several times too.

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Angie (16 comments.) said in June 8th, 2007 at 11:02 am    

When this happens to me, I usually get really confused. It’s like a skip in time and my mind is flailing wildly trying to find a foothold in reality.

It seems that if an advertiser wants to buy 30 second spots they should make 30 second commercials. They must have really bad advertising agencies and media buyers.

Tricia (485 comments.) said in June 10th, 2007 at 3:40 am    

We have a DRV and we often skip through the commercials … so when we see one over and over again it’s like hey did we go to far? Did we skip past part of the show too? It can be confusing. Of course I’d rather be able to skip past the repeat commercials using the DVR than watching an untapped program and see the same commercial over and over again!

I do think that the advertising agencies or media buyers must be messing up! You’re right.

Dubai news (4 comments.) said in June 11th, 2007 at 7:32 am    

based on the idea you can ignore the ad once, listen another time, then maybe get interested then finally spend the energy to actually listed for the product name so you can remember it they have to repeat it 6-7 times to get past the average viewers resistance plus trips to the fridge durring the breaks.

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