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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy are there so many insurance commercials on TV and why are they all terrible?
It's not like one or two of them are bad, every single one of the 1,000,000,000 insurance company commercials makes me want to shoot out my TV and make me wish I had got those 30 seconds of my life back. Why is that?
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)I admit that the one on TV is a bit pretentious, but really--isn't he lovable? Wouldn't you like to see him crawling along your window screen on a rainy morning?
whistler162
(11,155 posts)they aren't bad.
Beartracks
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Archae
(46,261 posts)They are so stupid.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)it would be:
We take your money!
Paid actor: And?
No, thats it
we take your money.
IcyPeas
(21,741 posts)dem4decades
(11,241 posts)I even liked Flo more. Funny I buy my insurance by price, not TV ads.
Initech
(99,914 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...in all seriousness, I have never quite been able to understand advertising, and why it looms so large in our culture. I remember asking Dad when I was four years old, "Daddy--why should anyone believe anything people say about their own product?" I've never received a good answer...
3catwoman3
(23,815 posts)to fulfill a curriculum requirement and came away saying, Advertising is lying for a living.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)Flo, Doug and his Emu, for example.
I do like some of the Geico commercials though.
Ocelot II
(115,276 posts)only because they have to. So the ad people have to try to come up with something quirky and amusing to get attention, like the gecko or Limu the emu or Flo, all of whom have become irritating. I do get a little kick of the State Farm ones depicting some weird disaster, though.
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)Earth-shine
(3,850 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)the problem is that it's an abstract product.
you cant show a picture of the product. you cant rly show someone using the product, except w pictures of disasters small and large.
so, yeah, it is just all about name recognition.
Marthe48
(16,691 posts)They are on the local radio, and show up during You Tube shows.
I read they are annoying because the company wants you to remember them, no matter how awful the association is.
I often wish that geckos and emus ate human flesh.