Could the commercials on AAR be any cheesier?

[ProfessorPlum]

I know they are a young network and need to take whatever advertisements they can, etc., etc.

But man oh man are those commercials cheesy. Get rich quick schemes, weight loss natural products, hypnosis, personal injury lawyers. Not that some of the products might not help some people.

Maybe someday they'll get some better advertisers . . . or maybe not. Maybe this is targeted to their audience who is at home.

[NYCGirl]

1. It's radio, man. That's who advertises on radio. NT

[ProfessorPlum]

2. Yeah, you are right.

Love your sig photos.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. On Sirius AAR channel about 6 months ago

they were playing commercials for Sean Hannity's show. I would rather listen to the cheesy ads than commercials for Sean the Nasty Pundit.

[otohara]

4. AM Radio Ads are Worse

than FM's

[Kurovski]

5. Exactly

radio ads in general are not particularly sophisticated.

Cruise around the dial one day and you'll hear for yourself.

[kcass1954]

6. I get AAR on Clear Channel...

I get to listen Mark the Walmart manager in Pompano Beach talk about his great company at least 3-4 times per hour.

:puke:

[ProfessorPlum]

7. Christ. At least I'm spared that.

.

[immoderate]

10. I live near Pompano Beach

And I am tempted to track him down.

"Gee, Mark, Wal-Mart was the ONLY company that wouldn't tell you how long it takes to be a store manager? And that just impressed the shit out of you?"

--IMM

[Connie_Corleone]

8. I can't stand the teeth-grinding commercials.

What happened to the OnStar commercials?? I don't mind those so much, as long as they don't have someone on there screaming in pain.

[MindPilot]

17. OnStar is not so bad, but I wanna hear outtakes

you know there are OnStar calls they can't put on the air.

"Hello, OnStar, how can I help?"
"Hey yo, where can I find me a crack dealer?"

[Mandate My Ass]

9. I never cared

or even noticed too much, until the teeth grinding one.x(

[Career Prole]

11. E-mail the sponsors and tell them you will buy their product "because

you heard it on AAR."

Whether or not you actually buy the product I leave up to you. :D

[Blue Belle]

12. OMG the Ovaltine Ad...

That one bugs the crap out of me... that and the Bad Breath doctor.

oy veh. :eyes:

[chalky]

13. If I hear ONE MORE VARIATION of the "What's the catch?" commercial

I'm going to have a stroke.
Over the past months I've heard it from some quickie-building company, some vision correction company, and two weeks ago Geico has started inflicting one on us.

JeezusPleezus but where the hell is the creativity in the marketing community these days??!!?!?

[funkybutt]

14. Man! I was just thinking the same thing

I use headphones at work and the commercials are SO BAD that I take the headphones off...but I guess my timing is off b/c when I put them back on, it's just more terrible commercials.

Some days I just dont' have the patience for AAR.

[MindPilot]

15. on KLSD San Diego, they run ads for the hillbilly station

which is also CC. And they use it to taunt us: "We're keepin' our country progressive...country music that is!!"

I have to turn the radio down for the teeth-grinding commercial. (BTW the Dr's NightGuard sucks. My g/f tried it and it is useless; no way to make that damn thing fit.)

There is some guy yelling at me every fifteen minutes about a land auction. I think he is trying to be irritating.

At least Gola Wolf Richards is gone.

[leeroysphitz]

16. At least Gola Wolf Richards is gone.

I found that gibberish somewhat amusing...

[MindPilot]

18. yeah, the first 14,000 times...

after that it wore a bit thin.

[leeroysphitz]

19. Only 14,000?

See, now that's yer problem. Once you get to around the 20,000 mark it all falls into place and starts to make sense...

[longship]

20. Scams

I hate the scams.

Like the ad that sells the ability to cure vision problems without surgery and without glasses. As a person who has been myopic for fifty years I know that it's bullshit. Do people actually fall for that?

[BrewerJohn]

26. Then there's the skin remedy

with the "testimonial" from a guy who claims to have had eczema for 15 years...but he can't pronounce the word without stumbling.

[MsTryska]

29. *lmao*

i always crack up ont hat one...i think to myself - "they couldn't afford just one more take?"

[DS1]

21. Can they be any more frequent?

J.H.C.!

[fob]

22. Hey! I don't know about you but I have pruchased several steel

buildings over the last 6 months! Do you know how many uses there are for a 40' x 100' steel building? And the construction costs are way less than conventional buildings!

:evilgrin:



That said, I admire a company being so bold as to advertise steel buildings on a liberal radio program, I hope their sales DID go through the roof (as it were).

[ProfessorPlum]

23. You know which one I like?

Purple Ocean.org has a hilarious Darth Vader and Emporer/Grand Moff Tarkin sendup in one commercial (this is the streaming version) that has a really droll impersonation of Peter Cushing and compares the forces of Capital to the Evil Empire.

Nice.

[MindPilot]

24. One I like is for the Iraq vet's website, operationtruth.org (?)

"This is the sound of an RPG...this is the sound of a bunch of people talking about something they know nothing about".

[ProfessorPlum]

25. Is that Jesse "The Body" Ventura?

It sounds like him - but would he be making that commercial?

[NYCGirl]

27. Yes, that is Ventura. NT

[MsTryska]

28. Well as others have said....that's AM radio.....

anyways....soemthign interesting with Air Atlanta....

when they first started a lot of the commercials were geared towards as far as I could tell anyways - older men - lots of erectile dysfunction, herbal enzyte type stuff....


now it seems geared towards Women and a generally younger crowd: ovaltine, excema meds, vitamins and stuff.


interesting change, at least to me.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. Still running a ton of PSAs in Chicago

Wish I'd taken advanced placement math so I, too, could be a rude, condescending bitch to my shiftless underlings and skip out of work early to play golf in the country...

[Blue Belle]

31. Waaa? What do you mean??

The "Attractor Factor" is going to change my life!! I just know it!! :sarcasm: