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  #3464061 24-Feb-2026 15:36
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I'm with Banksy on this:

 

 

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

 

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. F*** that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

 

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you.

 

They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

 

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  #3464071 24-Feb-2026 16:19
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On that note, there's a YouTube ad for a taco kit that has a prominent copyright notice on it. Explicitly copyrighting an ad seems very strange to me: wouldn't you want people freely advertising your product? But maybe they're trying to avoid the Banksys of the world editing and rearranging the thing?


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  #3464081 24-Feb-2026 16:37
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Another vote for Trivago - makes me curse out loud.

 

And also a vote for those stupid One NZ ads where a dopey guy goes to Scotland to find something or other - really don’t know what it’s about because I mute all ads. And it’s ‘to be continued’. Hate!





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  #3464093 24-Feb-2026 17:17
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Off topic - not a commercial, but a real estate agent and her marketing videos.

 

In the process of buying my last house, this one agent stuck out. Ok she's got the gift of the gab, which you can clearly see when she sells every second house around here.

 

But EVERY one of her showcase videos has the exact same script, minus a sentence.

 

I loathed playing the videos, it really wound me up by the 4th one!

 

 

 

Sheree Williams - 'Come, and see it in person'

 

edit- just seen this: Influencer agent: All the money in the world couldn’t convince me to leave Invercargill


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  #3464167 24-Feb-2026 20:05
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Am I misremembering, or were TV ads traditionally localised, at least to an extent? I just saw a Mitre 10-run one for "color changing lights", which they've obviously just picked up from overseas and run as-is.

 

I also don't recall us ever calling them "commercials". They were ads (or advertisements).


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  #3464170 24-Feb-2026 20:13
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Long gone now, but Craig Adair Cycles in Christchurch in the 1990s. That guy got in some minor crap for shouting and yelling so much during his commercials he actually toned it down, after seeing all the negative feedback in The Press.


 
 
 
 

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  #3464171 24-Feb-2026 20:15
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Behodar:

 

I also don't recall us ever calling them "commercials". They were ads (or advertisements).

 

 

Too imprecise. Ads can mean anything.

 

 





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  #3464388 24-Feb-2026 21:32
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Rikkitic:

 

Behodar:

 

Oh, that reminds me, those AI slop Skinny ones.

 

 

Skinny is a budget operation. I don't blame them for that. I have a really good deal with them for my phone. I also like that they choose an older somewhat withered model over a young hot one. How often do you see that on television?

 

 

 

 

They're not the greatest ads, but there are far worse. And unlike most advertising, this isn't just someone working for an ad agency having their face all over the media, but apparently an actual happy Skinny customer and ex Telecom engineer.

 

 

And the star of this groundbreaking campaign? 64-year-old Liz Wright from the Bay of Islands.

 

But Liz isn’t just any customer. Dubbed Skinny’s happiest customer, Liz is a former Telecom engineer and a loyal Skinny customer for over 10 years. Her easy-going Kiwi charm, warmth and humour make her the perfect face for this innovative campaign.

 





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  #3464389 24-Feb-2026 21:41
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Grammarly. I am a freaking paid subscriber. 


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  #3464391 24-Feb-2026 21:43
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networkn:

 

Grammarly. I am a freaking paid subscriber. 

 

 

 

 

Oh... that reminds me: Life360. Because same. Thinking of ditching it altogether it p's me off so much.





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  #3464433 25-Feb-2026 07:57
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networkn:

 

Grammarly. I am a freaking paid subscriber. 

 

 

I agree.  I've ditched Grammarly because of their ads.





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  #3464447 25-Feb-2026 09:06
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quickymart:

 

Long gone now, but Craig Adair Cycles in Christchurch in the 1990s. That guy got in some minor crap for shouting and yelling so much during his commercials he actually toned it down, after seeing all the negative feedback in The Press.

 

 

Lol! I remember C93 banning his ads as a publicity stunt! 


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  #3464448 25-Feb-2026 09:10
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There a few that I don't dislike. What they almost all do is demonstrate to me that I am not the intended market for whatever that product is. 


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  #3464515 25-Feb-2026 09:52
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Our warehouse team religiously listens to the same radio 6 days a week, thus, the same 40 somgs a day....and the adds.

 

This ones particularly punishing:

 

https://flixier.com/view/ruSPsOsK

 

 





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  #3464544 25-Feb-2026 11:23
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MikeB4:

 

A form of advertisements that really annoys me is goddam pop ups on web sites asking me review or subscribe or to moan about an adv blocker or beg for money(insert any NZ news site) before I have had a chance to look at their crappy web site. I normally exit and never return.

 

 

And then when you do go to leave the website you get another pop up.

 

”Before you go……”


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