What do you think about advertisements? Do you hate them with all the energy you can muster? Do you like them a lot? Are they a necessary evil or something else?

Let's talk about it. You can talk about any types of advertisements from radio to TV to magazines.

Adverts are a fact of life. I accept that. What I hate is the way they have increased over the years.

Take magazines for example. Year by year, there seem to be more pages of adverts in a minority of magazines. Okay, I know adverts are an important source of revenue but they're still annoying.

Adverts have also destroyed my TV viewing, which is why 99% of the movies/TV shows I watch are watched on DVD now.

In Britain, an hour long programme usually has three advert breaks. Soon, it'll be four, I bet. What annoys me is the way in which the adverts are inserted. No joke, I have watched action movies where adverts are inserted right in the middle of an action sequence or horror movies where the adverts are inserted during a tense scene.

Adverts, I like them. In moderation. Too many of them annoy me. But they're a fact of life.

ACDC Girl · **Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:05 pm**

I hate advertisements they are so stupid!

Jeremy · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:19 am**

I agree with Starfleet Dentist. I've seen some magazines that there are more adverts than articles in it!

Five - seveN · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:42 am**

AAARGH... Butthead... Ads.... They're soo stupid and annoying and time-consuming and.... :@:@:@:@:@:@:@

superwoman · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:45 pm**

I hate tv comercials! But we don't have That many breaks here thou. Maybe 2 in one hour or is it 3...? But we do have two channels whitout advertisements, so that's good. I almost only watch those channels.

And some filmmaker here in sweden has sued a tv channel for makeing these breaks in his films. I hope he win.

lionhead · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:02 pm**

In Holland we even have the news coming in the middle of a Movie (on SBS 6)! and whats even worse, there is a commercial before and after the news as well!

i live in a sad, sad world.

superwoman · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:04 pm**

We have that aswell... or at least we had that. I think that's why they get sued by that film maker...

B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9 · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:10 pm**

yea i hate that when you're watching a really good show or something, and suddenly you get inturrupted with "breaking news" or something like that!! GRR!

superwoman · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:18 pm**

^Yeah!

I'm just glad that the channels overhere that doesn't air all that stuff has the best movies and all the good series... like voyager!

But I don't watch tv that much cuz of all the breaks.

Superman · Fleet Admiral Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 10220

I think adverts are one of the reasons so many people have flocked to DVD boxsets.

I love the Rocky movies but whenever they're on TV, they're full of adverts. Worse still, it's always in the most inconvenient place.

I hear that it is worse in America. I've been told there are advert breaks after title sequences and before end title sequences. Any truth to that?

ACDC Girl · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:07 pm**

I hate the advertisements that show girls being used as objects. if you know what i mean.

lionhead · **Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:54 pm**

Yeah, totally hate that.........

IntrepidIsMe · **Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:10 pm**

Yeah, nobody likes advertisements. Sooo annoying. That's one of the appealing things about XM, too. But I'm not gonna pay 10 bucks a month for it,

Birdy · Socialist Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 13502 Location: Here.

lionhead · **Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:13 am**

BBC doesn't has them and cinenova. But for the rest i can't think of any other channels without commercials.

superwoman · **Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:08 pm**

Oh I know a great page that work against big company advertisements and women as objectivs. It's quite funny. There are persons that actually sabotage billbords and stuff and there are pic of some of those advertisements there.

Like this one.
http://home.graffiti.net/swedishflesh/scan4.jpg
(scan is a swedish meat company)

But this is my absolute fav!!! It's quite mean, but totally hilarios!

http://www.reklamsabotage.org/galleri/billb/eu.jpg
(the left one: on the outside. the right one: on the inside.)

Got it from this page, but it's swedish so i guess no one really cares

http://www.reklamsabotage.org/index.php

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

Moderate advertisement is ok... However, advertisement is money, so most companies are excessive with it in order to make the most money out of it.

D_Star · Lieutenant Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 151

The whole point of cable was to be free of ads, the theory being you pay for the programming via your cable bill. But look at where we are now.