skittles commercial

[Bob]

The commercial they play online "harvest the rainbow" where the trunk of a skittles tree is growing from a kids gut grosses me out.

Anybody else seen it? What do you think?

[cadillacdude1975]

damn that one hit of acid from the 60's. that shit will haunt you forever.

[snarkalicious]

the one that I can't watch is the one for "lady shavers" where everything the woman walks past is trimmed into a neat little triangle...

Remember the Peter Gabriel "Big Time" video back in the 80s? I was a psych nurse in those days and I can't tell you how many patients had some sort of delusion that included that video...

[Jay]

I love my DVR and I can't stand watching commercials.

[pictureman]

I have cable teevee and a remote control. I have heard no commercials and seen very few commercials in months.

Of those I've seen I think of the client sitting around in the ad agency's office watching some of this drivel and thinking, "yeah, boy, that'll pack 'em it!" Or, sell Skittles, or whatever.

Read in AdAge recently (old habits are hard to break) that Burger King's new campaign for breakfast consists of The Burger King "breaking into" a McDonald's office to steal the "recipe" for their Egg McMuffin so that they (Burger King) can duplicate it.
Anyone seen this one?
I'd be curious to learn what whiz at that ad agency convinced the franchisees that this was a good idea.

[joedog]

Apr 28, 2010 16:43:10 GMT -5 pictureman said:

I have cable teevee and a remote control. I have heard no commercials and seen very few commercials in months.

Of those I've seen I think of the client sitting around in the ad agency's office watching some of this drivel and thinking, "yeah, boy, that'll pack 'em it!" Or, sell Skittles, or whatever.

Read in AdAge recently (old habits are hard to break) that Burger King's new campaign for breakfast consists of The Burger King "breaking into" a McDonald's office to steal the "recipe" for their Egg McMuffin so that they (Burger King) can duplicate it.
Anyone seen this one?
I'd be curious to learn what whiz at that ad agency convinced the franchisees that this was a good idea.

have you seen the krystal commercials??
those are from the johnson group here in chatty. BK just took it a step further.

[ScarlettP]

Apr 28, 2010 11:58:17 GMT -5 snarkalicious said:

the one that I can't watch is the one for "lady shavers" where everything the woman walks past is trimmed into a neat little triangle...

This one is MUCH better!

[joedog]

CLASSIC!!!

[gridbug]

Apr 28, 2010 14:00:14 GMT -5 Jay said:

I love my DVR and I can't stand watching commercials.

And you, sir, are a thief.

Commercials pay for those TV shows.

[Jay]

1) The TV channels pay for the TV shows.
2) The cable company pays for those TV channels
3) I pay the cable company.

I'm not a thief.

[gridbug]

Apr 30, 2010 9:21:37 GMT -5 Jay said:

1) The TV channels pay for the TV shows.
2) The cable company pays for those TV channels
3) I pay the cable company.

I'm not a thief.

You are paying for delivery, not content.

You probably would also copy someone else's CDs to get music or just grab mp3 files online, and if you could manage, install software from someone else's CDs, wouldn't you?

[Jay]

I'm not a thief. I watch commercials. I just watch them 10x faster!

[JC]

Apr 30, 2010 11:19:13 GMT -5 @gridbug said:

Apr 30, 2010 9:21:37 GMT -5 Jay said:

1) The TV channels pay for the TV shows.
2) The cable company pays for those TV channels
3) I pay the cable company.

I'm not a thief.

You are paying for delivery, not content.

You probably would also copy someone else's CDs to get music or just grab mp3 files online, and if you could manage, install software from someone else's CDs, wouldn't you?

Soo....you watch every single commercial that comes on tv?

If not, then you're stealing

[ScarlettP]

I just go to the bathroom, kitchen or back to the computer during commercials.

[RuneDeer]

Don't worry, Grid, if they don't snag Jay on TV, they'll get him online, at the bus stop, the radio or one of the forest of billboards currently flourishing in Chattanooga. Not to mention State Parks, according to a new story I heard last week. One way or another, they make you pay.

[Jay]

Apr 28, 2010 18:29:30 GMT -5 ScarlettP said:

This one is MUCH better!

With the way our prudish country is, they wouldn't show that commercial over here...

[pictureman]

A portion of the amount one pays to the cable company each month does go to the various program suppliers for content. We pay for content, delivery, system repairs, CEO retirement, sales commission, equipment, etc.

If I can get a "chip" to filter out objectionable language and content, why can't I get a chip to filter out commercials?
Or, at least the stoopid ones, like that Burger King in his hideous mask, or that ubiquitous pasty-white girl in the starched white outfit and bizarre red lipstick shilling for some insurance company?
Remember the Squelch knob on our old CB radios? Maybe something like that for teevee sets that we could tweak to filter out the most inane spots. Perhaps turn it down a little for the Superbowl; all the way up for "paid programming".

[NewsShooter]

Apr 28, 2010 16:43:10 GMT -5 pictureman said:

Read in AdAge recently (old habits are hard to break) that Burger King's new campaign for breakfast consists of The Burger King "breaking into" a McDonald's office to steal the "recipe" for their Egg McMuffin so that they (Burger King) can duplicate it.
Anyone seen this one?
I'd be curious to learn what whiz at that ad agency convinced the franchisees that this was a good idea.

I've seen it, and it's genius. It's refreshing to see a company admit for once that they stole an idea. It was done with wit and it will be remembered. I respect BK for their honesty about being thieves.

[pictureman]

I might confess to having stolen the secret to atomic energy, the secret to long life, or even the secret to the Secret Sauce, but I don't think I'd go on national television and confess to breaking and entering to steal the secret to assembling an English Muffin with a fried egg, Canadian bacon, and a "cheese product".

The HamBurgler must have been on assignment to get the eleven herbs and spices.

[JC]

I remember several years ago BK went after the Taco Bell market the same as they're going after MD now.

The tacos they sold then were about as nasty as the MD'ish burgers they have now :ick:

[ScarlettP]

I'm so very glad that I never noticed BK selling tacos.

I used to love BK Whoppers. I like grilled burgers with all the lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions... The last one I had was kind of nasty. Have my husbands amazing home grilled burgers spoiled me? Or have the products being mass produced and slapped together in some format that only the wrapping paper and cheese product hold it together gone down hill so rapidly?

[Jay]

May 3, 2010 5:36:31 GMT -5 ScarlettP said:

Have my husbands amazing home grilled burgers spoiled me?

This is probably right. A real burger at home can taste much better than mass produced, reheated fast food burgers.

[Jay]

Apr 30, 2010 7:02:15 GMT -5 @gridbug said:

Apr 28, 2010 14:00:14 GMT -5 Jay said:

I love my DVR and I can't stand watching commercials.

And you, sir, are a thief.

Commercials pay for those TV shows.

Duke study: TiVo doesn’t hurt TV advertising

TiVo hasn’t hurt television advertising or changed consumers’ buying behavior, reports a Duke University researcher.

Some predicted earlier this decade that TiVo and other digital video recorders, or DVRs, which record television programs and allow viewers to easily fast-forward and rewind, would kill television commercials.

But Carl Mela, a professor in Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, says that the ability to skip through the advertisements has had no effect on buying behavior and that not as many people fast-forward through television commercials as originally feared.

“Companies are afraid of a ‘TiVo effect’ and are changing their media spending as a result,” says Mela. “But we find no change in people’s shopping patterns when we compare a group that has TiVo with a group that doesn’t. The manufacturers’ fears seem to be overstated.”

Mela attributes the lack of impact to several factors:

• He says about 95 percent of people still watch television live and, as a result, cannot fast forward through the commercials.

• Even those without a DVR can skip commercials by using the breaks to go to the kitchen or flip to a different channel.

• While viewers fast-forwarded through about 70 percent of the commercials in shows they recorded, they still watch the screen to know where to resume play, meaning they are still being exposed to the advertisements.

• And the ability to record a show and watch it later means consumers are watching more television.

The results of the study come after three years of tracking consumer behavior in households with a TiVo and without. Mela and colleagues at the University of Chicago tracked viewing behaviors and purchases of new products, advertised products and store brands across 50 categories for the study.

Mela says he went into the study, funded by The Marketing Science Institute, Information Resources Inc. and TiVo, intending to measure how bad the DVRs were for commercial advertisers and consumer product manufacturers: “We tried a vast array of methodological approaches to find a DVR effect. And we just couldn’t,” he says.

The study will be published in the Journal of Marketing Research.

www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/05/03/daily6.html

[LimitedRecourse]

"The HamBurgler must have been on assignment to get the eleven herbs and spices."

I don't think he really 'worked' for McDonald Land. Mayor McCheese was always trying to get the policeman "Big Mac" to catch Hamburgler....but that dumpy Shake McMonster and those creepy FriesGuys always distracted him.

[pictureman]

LimitedRecourse, I'm impressed!
There are some Nielsen Focus Groups out there which would love to have you on their list.

[ScarlettP]

The only time I can remember being a Nielsen Family, they only wanted to know what we were watching at home. While I watch TV all day long at work, we were in the middle of reruns of everything in prime time and watched nothing but DVDs at home that week. So, returning my empty form was somewhat pointless.

[snarkalicious]

I love commercials. They are usually slick little pieces of work crammed into a minute and I never fail to be impressed with how much money a company will spend to advertise its' wares.

I read somewhere that the companies that spend the most on advertising are auto makers...

[pictureman]

Used to be Proctor & Gamble but economic times changed everything.

[ScarlettP]

I enjoy the E*Trade talking baby commercials. I thought Lindsey the Milkaholic was a stroke of adorable genius. Never even THOUGHT about Lindsey Lohan until she started a stink about the baby being modeled after her. *Doh!* Funny, no one ELSE connected the air headed toddler with the the washed up, forgotten performer until she sued for $100 Million.

www.popeater.com/2010/05/10/e-trade-lindsay-lohan-lawsuit/

(Link includes the video of the commercial if you haven't seen it. TO CUTE!)

[Jay]

Lindsay Lohan = Nutbag...

There are a ton of girls in the world named Lindsay...