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There must be one you love to hate, one they throw at you first thing in the morning on the way to work that can screw up your entire day…

Mine at the moment is definitely the Abu Dhabi Duty Free add.

It is so bad, that I’m compelled to listen to it every time it’s on – just to prove to myself how crap it really is – in that respect I suppose it is successful then.

I can’t believe that companies actually pay good money sometimes for advertising of this calibre!

would love to have a simple life with time to pay attention to radio commercials!

Anything that comes from the production cimpanies in Abu Dhabi as they're all pretty useless. Same voices, who can't act and aren't professional VO's, bad production, terrible mixng etc etc etc.

i dont hate any, but i love the ones on channel 4 with doctor evil

etisalat reach commercial especially the aussie "reach...bondi beach mate" (juz coz i'm from aust... )

dbxsoul wrote:There must be one you love to hate, one they throw at you first thing in the morning on the way to work that can screw up your entire day…

Mine at the moment is definitely the Abu Dhabi Duty Free add.

It is so bad, that I’m compelled to listen to it every time it’s on – just to prove to myself how crap it really is – in that respect I suppose it is successful then.

I can’t believe that companies actually pay good money sometimes for advertising of this calibre!

Join the club, I hate this one as well. On TV have you seen the Saudi Telecom Add for the World Cup, must be the longest ever.

simple solution: don't listen to the radio. Haven't done so in years. Works wonders

Boring!

I really liked the Oasis Blu ad with the guy singing the blues from the chain gang, that one was a stroke of genius.

I dont remember any radio commercials.

anything that BRANDS does gets on my nerves !!!

Barclays bank ad - trying to save like a rave anthem

scarlet wrote:Barclays bank ad - trying to save like a rave anthem

That's just the first of many.

Farf far far too much repitition on Dubai radio.

Someone should drag those evil marketers out to a field and shoot them.

It's no worse than anywhere else in the world!

As for Barclays - I hate that bloody crazy frog!

But if you remember an ad, then it's done it's job eh?

OK, so we advertising creative guru types should listen to our peers here!

I am pleased to say that my last radio ad won the Middle East RadioCast award for Best Commerical of the Year!

You may have hated it, but the judges liked it!



Knight

DK, you went to IRC?

My second post here, is there an intro thread I should post on first? Anyway, I really hate the power root cafe ads! The one with the lady trashing her husband's car...its like torture listening to that shit, terrible!

*edit: just saw the whole new members forum...oops!

Every single add that comes on the radio, for the reasons that Choc's gave above: utterly bloooody useless.

Chocoholic wrote:DK, you went to IRC?

Didn't go sweetie! I don't attend any of those award ceremonies...my work speaks for itself!



Knight