Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 11, 2022 9:50:26 GMT
Kind of the antithesis of this thread, but here's a great rundown of how the Guinness 'Surfer' ad was commissioned and made: We have been watching TOTP2 on BBC4 with the girl and she cant quite get her head around adverts becoming 'phenomenons' and constantly getting songs to number one. |
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Post by TheSaint on May 11, 2022 9:57:30 GMT
Click "Play" button on YouTube.
Download a free audiobook with your 30 day trial at Audible.com.
10 seconds of YouTube video.
That advert for Visit Qatar with the loud as fuck singing, that completely fails to mention the human rights abuses.
10 seconds of YouTube video.
Learn 100 fart jokes with TikTok.
And they wonder why people install uBlock Origin.
You could just get Youtube premium. |
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Post by dfunked on May 11, 2022 10:03:26 GMT
SmartTubeNext ftw. I did try YouTube premium via India for a while, but fuck it, I do 90% of my watching on a shield TV so might as well just save that £1.27 a month.
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Post by simple on May 11, 2022 11:14:31 GMT
I’m always fascinated by companies who deliberately make the user experience worse to try and drive people into upgrading and paying. Presumably it works but it feels counterintuitive to try and push people away to keep them like that.
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Post by TheSaint on May 11, 2022 11:28:36 GMT
Well nobody would ever pay if the free version was better.
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Post by LFace on May 11, 2022 11:30:44 GMT
SmartTubeNext ftw. I did try YouTube premium via India for a while, but fuck it, I do 90% of my watching on a shield TV so might as well just save that £1.27 a month. Coupled with S0undTV for that ad free twitch experience as well and you're laughing |
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Post by askew on May 11, 2022 11:35:55 GMT
Click "Play" button on YouTube.
Download a free audiobook with your 30 day trial at Audible.com.
10 seconds of YouTube video.
That advert for Visit Qatar with the loud as fuck singing, that completely fails to mention the human rights abuses.
10 seconds of YouTube video.
Learn 100 fart jokes with TikTok.
And they wonder why people install uBlock Origin.
You could just get Youtube premium. £13.99 innit?
I know they were trialling a £5.99 package - sans YouTube Music - in certain countries, which might be the right choice.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on May 11, 2022 11:53:12 GMT
YT Vanced all the way for me.
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Post by baihu1983 on May 11, 2022 12:37:43 GMT
Using YouTube via the Xbox app is painful now thanks to all the ads
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 11, 2022 12:47:00 GMT
Dear YouTube: Do you people not understand that we just wanted to once again see the video of that bloke in the back of the van covered in paint and swearing at his mate who was driving, and not an ad for JustEat narrated by a bloke deliberately trying to sound like he's got a weird cadence. Thankyou.
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Post by simple on May 11, 2022 13:13:45 GMT
I turned off ad personalisation so all my ads are for pyramid schemes and deliveroo Well nobody would ever pay if the free version was better. But Amazon just invented tv that you don’t need to subscribe to “freevee” if you will. Bezos is benevolent. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on May 11, 2022 14:33:19 GMT
I got an advert on YouTube once that was over 50 minutes
I also find many YouTube ads to be offensively presumptuous
"So you're interested in playing Valorant huh?"
No
"You're wondering what League of Legends is all about"
No. Fuck off
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Post by TheSaint on May 11, 2022 14:40:25 GMT
You could just get Youtube premium. £13.99 innit?
I know they were trialling a £5.99 package - sans YouTube Music - in certain countries, which might be the right choice.
Yeah that is pretty steep but I probably watch more Youtube a month than regular broadcast TV so I really want to avoid adverts. I'd also imagine everyone here is savy enough not to have to pay for it in £s which makes it much cheaper. |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on May 11, 2022 14:44:33 GMT
I got an advert on YouTube once that was over 50 minutes Happens a lot with kids programmes, probably due to the way kids don't mind watching loads of episodes mashed together randomly, e.g. my son keeps hitting an advert which is just a channel pushing their 2hr video of random Caillou episodes. |
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Post by dfunked on May 11, 2022 14:45:11 GMT
The entire music videos as an ad always made me laugh. Yeah, I'm not sticking around any longer than the 5 seconds it takes for the skip ad button to appear...
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Post by simple on May 11, 2022 15:28:53 GMT
What is a lifetime of experience worth?
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Post by Danno on May 11, 2022 15:34:47 GMT
What is a lifetime of experience worth? A fancy funeral |
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Post by Aunt Alison on May 11, 2022 15:46:46 GMT
50p
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Post by dogbot on May 11, 2022 15:56:25 GMT
If I use the YouTube client on Android, it shows me a TikTok advert every single time. Never anything else, just the TikTok ones.
Mostly, I just use Brave for YT stuff, so no adverts.
When I worked at the Ad agency, folks got very upset with people saying that they blocked or muted adverts. 😁
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Post by スコットランド on May 11, 2022 15:59:37 GMT
£13.99 innit?
I know they were trialling a £5.99 package - sans YouTube Music - in certain countries, which might be the right choice.
Yeah that is pretty steep but I probably watch more Youtube a month than regular broadcast TV so I really want to avoid adverts. I'd also imagine everyone here is savy enough not to have to pay for it in £s which makes it much cheaper. I just cancelled my YT Premium, once it expires I'll do the cheapo Argentina trick. |
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Post by rawshark on May 13, 2022 23:45:27 GMT
The best YouTube ad I ever had was a half hour long one meant for incels.
Starts off with a woman in bed complaining to a camera how a guy got her in bed with one sentence, and how she found his phone and would reveal it to the internet as revenge. So begins an animated story where a guy promises to give this secret sentence away for free but first subjects the viewer to 29 minutes of talk about “feminazis”. I will never know if he kept his promise because I was only amused by the repetitious hate speech for about two minutes.
Still better than the sponsorship ads on ITV2.
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Post by X201 on May 14, 2022 5:06:18 GMT
That Chris Ramsey and his missus' show trailer that keeps playing. Did they not even rehearse it once? They realise that those get played over and over and are supposed to make people want to watch your show right?? I’m normally a tolerant person, but this one is seriously getting on my tits now |
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 14, 2022 13:35:53 GMT
I just saw the moneysupermarket ad with Dame Judy Dench.
It's not an especially annoying ad, but I just spent the entire thing thinking 'why is she doing this??'
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Post by dogbot on May 14, 2022 13:37:36 GMT
Because they gave her a supermarket full of money, Bill.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 14, 2022 13:57:08 GMT
But why does she need that money?
Why does she need it enough to do that kind of shit?
Does she have a crack habit or something?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2022 14:03:51 GMT
Maybe to pass onto her grandbabies.
Don't Japanese advertisements regularly hire big Hollywood actors? There was a line of old ads I recall which featured Tommy Lee Jones and a Shiba Inu.
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Post by dogbot on May 14, 2022 14:19:31 GMT
But why does she need that money? Why does she need it enough to do that kind of shit? Does she have a crack habit or something? I suspect there is a point beyond which one says no to the offer of shit loads of money for a few minutes work, but I don't know what it is. Also, I imagine it's different for different people, as well. I would do shit adverts, too. |
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Post by britesparc on May 14, 2022 16:33:57 GMT
As someone who's spent most of the last fifteen years making TV promos for a living, I'm tempted to write a really long blog post explaining why the ad for Piers Morgan's new show is objectively terrible.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2022 16:42:10 GMT
"Piers Morgan"
Did it for you.
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Post by X201 on May 14, 2022 16:49:12 GMT
Maybe to pass onto her grandbabies. Don't Japanese advertisements regularly hire big Hollywood actors? There was a line of old ads I recall which featured Tommy Lee Jones and a Shiba Inu. Not just Hollywood stars. Kenny Dalglish was in one selling whisky |
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