Do multiple ads sway your opinion
 

We will be inundated with numerous ads in the coming year and a half. Would LOVE ads to be minimized but not sure how your accomplish this without a dvr.
What a waste of funds, thinking about many many charities that could use these funds!

They do not and are so annoying. I agree that the money could help so many in this world and serve a better purpose.

We like to think we are immune
 

We like to think we are immune but, we are not.

When you say year and a half I believe you are talking about the election. As to ads your thought actually applies to all advertising.

As to using a DVR to escape advertising. You actually, even if you/I don't want to admit it see the ads as they race by. I will confess to doing a rewind to see what Home Depo, or Lowes is pushing in stuff I am interested in. This time of year garden stuff. I will tell the truth. Once they have you in the store, do you ever leave with only the item you responded to the ad for?

As to charities. You will be shocked as to what some charities eat up in overhead. What they pay to managers, trips to Vegas for the charity convention etc etc etc

Really old story. We for years bought TV Guide(television guide) through the boy scouts. We felt good giving to the boy scouts. It actually cost a little more than we could have purchased the same thing for elsewhere. After several years I checked, the scouts received a penny or two for allowing the subscription service to use their name.

Absolutely dreading the next 18 months of political ads. About time to turn to streaming.

I don't see the connection between multiple ads and money for charity. Most ads are paid for by companies who make a profit and pay taxes. They wouldn't buy the ads if it didn't increase their profits. I wouldn't be in favor of requiring profitable companies to divert their advertising budget to charity.

Less air time available for Morgan & Morgan.

We have a saying in my old country; “Good wine needs no advertisement.” I use google and reviews to decide. If someone or something advertises a lot, I wonder why? What’s wrong with it?

I don't really watch much TV at all. I have an ad-blocker on my web browser, and I put any "card stock" that comes in the mail, directly into the recycle bin without looking at it. Since I'm registered as "unaffiliated," I rarely get any targeted ads, because they're looking to target mostly Democrats and Republicans - and I'm neither. Anyone knocking on my door looking to tell me about their campaign is sternly invited to get off my property before I call the police and press charges for trespassing. It keeps them from coming back for round 2.

I submit we are not the demographic that the ads are directed to. Those generations behind us make decisions on sound bites and the shorter the better. They will look to their phones and tablets since they don't watch a lot of television but television will still be used just in case the target demographic is watching, especially at a sports bar or other group gatherings. We are just a casualty of their marketing....and that can be political or toothpaste.

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There are lots of examples of how advertising works. At Walgreens, a bottle of 100 plain aspirin tablets will cost you seven times as much if you choose the Bayer brand instead of the Walgreens brand. But, apparently Bayer can charge that much because they spend millions on advertising.

Is it really illegal? I could not find anywhere in Florida law that it was for political purposes.

Alleve or ???
 

There are many people who will only buy the brand name or the "real" name of the product, i.e., "Bayer" or as you said, "Walgreen's aspirin" by name. I have a friend who will only buy "Alleve" while I spend a pittance of what Alleve costs for "Naproxen."

I'm not really sure that kind of mindset is a product of advertising, but I'm also not sure that advertising doesn't have something to do with it either. :shrug:

Why do many hospitals dispense only "Bayer?" It has to go beyond advertising and we -- the public -- are not privy to or aware of the "real" story. Even with some kind of "deal," the price they pay for Bayer still has to be more than what, say, Walgreen's aspirin would cost.

It is interesting that a lot of people think that, if they buy Walgreens aspirin, they are buying a generic product, but, if they buy Bayer aspirin, they are buying a brand name. Not true. Bayer and Walgreens are both brand names and neither company holds a patent on aspirin. Any company can sell aspirin and put their name on it. I suspect that Bayer pays hospitals to use their aspirin as part of their marketing plan.

True. Companies cannot do good, unless they do well.

:bigbow:

This raises an interesting point. This past Spring I had severe seasonal allergies. My cardiologist recommended Zyrtec. Zyrtec costs an arm and a leg for 30 tabs. Shortly after that I had an appointment with my primary care and told him about it, he is on a tear to bring drug prices down and he told me NEVER to buy brand name. Get onto Google and find the generic name for drug and buy that. In my case I could buy 365 tabs for $14.00 from Amazon.

To add insult to injury Zyrtec proved to be too powerful for me so I now have about 27 tabs of Zyrtec sitting in the closet!

You can break the Zyrtec in half and take just half at a time if it's too powerful for you. Johnson & Johnson manufactures Zyrtec. It also manufactures most of the Cetirizine (the generic name of Zyrtec) on the market in "generic" or "store brand" bottles.

Many of the generics and store brands are manufactured by the same pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the brand names. Walgreens isn't a pharmaceutical company. It doesn't actually manufacture ANY medicines at all. Every single Walgreens-labelled medicine is made by some other company. It's entirely possible that their aspirin IS Bayer, but with the Walgreens label.

I just purchased some Claritin tablets at Walmart. The Claritin brand tablets were a dollar each. But, I bought the Walmart "Equate" brand for 13 cents each.

I like the well done funny ads and may watch them quite often. I usually tape whatever I am going to watch and just fast forward any type of ads unless it is clever and creative. And I would not even be able to tell you what the ad was about in many of these. Often it is unclear what they are selling.

Political ads are most of the time poorly done so if I have seen them once then that is enough.

Here in the Villages we are the target market for things like hearing aids, walk in showers, ED treatment, cosmetic surgery, joint replacement, golf carts, etc.... We are still a target, just not for the products and services typically advertised on National Television. And we are all a target market for our ability to vote, because a very high percentage of seniors exercise their right to vote, and because we live in the largest swing state in the country.

The ONLY time I actually watch a commercial on TV is during the Super Bowl. period. If watching LIVE TV, example golf, I tend to switch to another channel or such. But most times I DVR and watch a show later - FForwarding (4X) thru the commercials. I think the ONLY things I'd watch LIVE is another moon landing or the last hour of the World Series, Golf Final, Stanley Cup 7th game 3rd Period - as last night.

We have DirecTV and Netflix - watch TV almost always after 5PM only.

Political ads... OMG! THE WORST!!! Will Never spend 1 second of my attention on them - HATE! :cus::cus:

Mass advertising never really works on intelligent people.

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An Alien wedge
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Plus hundreds of 'Greater Distance,' 'Unsliceable' 'Straight as an Arrow' golf balls.

I like the golf ball commercial that says it is "the ball that changed the ball". Really?

I respectfully...disagree.

Hang on a minute, while I prove it by digging around to find my...Ron Popeil's Pocket Fisherman.







:D

1. Zyrtec has been available in generic and "drug store brand" for a couple of years now, and with B1G1 and "Extra Bucks" promotions from CVS and Walgreens, is actually very affordable. EDITED TO ADD: I just did a google search on the generic ceterazine hcl, 10mg, 30 tablets. You can get a bottle at Target for $7.19. Not as good at 365 for $14 but if you only want 30 at a time, you pay more per tablet. That's just the nature of retail.

2. You can take half a Zyrtec if a full one is too strong. That'd double your value and give you what you need. Half a zyrtec is actually the prescribed dose for cats with airborne allergies.

It's not like once I passed 65 I stopped buying home goods, groceries, personal care products, clothes, tires, insurance, electronics, etc. And I have more discretionary income now to boot.

If any overall group is more likely to watch TV show live, including commercials, it's seniors. You'd think advertisers would be dying to reach us instead of ignoring and ghettoizing us!

That's an interesting point. In fact, I read an article today that advertisers are considering changing a long standing practice of targeting the age group that is currently known as Millennials, because most of them don't have any money and are living pay check to pay check. Also, retailers that sell "do it yourself" products such as the Home Depot ignore that age group all together because very few of them would ever attempt to fix something.

Hah -- and more for Attorney Dan Newlin!

But Dan got me $500,000,097 when somebody hit my 7 year old Jeep.

I am really tired of those adds that have “real people not actors”. I hit the mute button.

We TIVO almost all of our viewing and FF through the ads. They're ALL annoying and for the most part don't influence us. I too dread the next 18 mo. or so with the political ads we'll be hit with. They do NOT influence us in any way---mostly they annoy us. For the same reason we don't watch most of the news (we get our news from other venues).

The only ads I watch are when there are funny/cute animals like at the super bowl. Ads in general irritate me, I avoid whatever they are advertising.

The worst -- the absolute worst -- are the medical ones for prescription RXs and their disclaimers win the prize!

Do people really believe those ads and then ask their doctor about them?