The Times TV Ads

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Russinating

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Seen another 2 new Times adverts today, and I'm still not sure what I think of them!

Half of me really likes them - they're short, simple, fairly self explanatory and gets you thinking.

The other half of me wishes they were a bit longer, and it also feels like they're lacking a tag line of sorts. It seems as though they should be the kind of adverts where you have 2 short ones (ie. these) towards the start of the ad break followed by a fuller advert at the end.

I'm wondering how many of them there are too? I've seen the oil plume, Obama, airfield and a couple of others. Would like to know what agency thought up the idea too.

Thoughts?
 
I hate adverts, i hate television adverts, i hate this advert, no advert deserves it's own thread, the content of the advert is irrelevant, i hate it.
 
Grrrrr said:
I hate adverts, i hate television adverts, i hate this advert, no advert deserves it's own thread, the content of the advert is irrelevant, i hate it.
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Aye, which makes paying for a license fee more acceptable. I'm sick of watching one programme to be rogered up the rear with 30 insurance adverts and an old woman being whirred up some stairs.
 
Some adverts are not that bad. Most are an annoyance but there are some that got a smile out of me, like the cadburys advert (both the gorrilla and the dont stop me now one). There was also that natural sweets advert, i cant remember the name of it, all i remember is BRING ON THE TRUMPETS!.

I can't realy judge the times ads yet as the only one i have seen is some oil flying into the air, then being ignited.
 
Why you need to advertise a newspaper I will never know, its not the sort of thing you will get some person going "oh look that paper is intellectual" or "that paper has loads of **** in it"
 
I work at the agency that produced the ads, although I don't work on that particular account.

CHI & Partners, if you're interested.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Aye, which makes paying for a license fee more acceptable. I'm sick of watching one programme to be rogered up the rear with 30 insurance adverts and an old woman being whirred up some stairs.
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The licence fee is an enormous can of worms, mixing infrastructure with content. I would pay for infrastructure but not content.

Advertisements are basically mental attacks, and are an important and culturally significant part of our lifestyle - which is why I don't watch tv, and use adblock :D free your mind!
 
pls don't turn this into a tv license (forgive me if that's the wrong spellin idfk) thread I'm liable to blow a gasket.
 
VonClinkerhofen said:
How is it paid for then? Higher taxes?
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Nope. In fact, Australia's taxes are about equal to the UK's. Except that you pay 17.5% VAT, and we pay 10% GST. :D

There's no tax premium to fund the ABC. The federal government simply allocates a certain amount from its annual budget. Any other revenue for the ABC has to be self-generated, eg. by the sale of its products.

Life is so much simpler without a tv license.
 
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