Once again, I am late with TV Tuesday. But, as the old saying goes, it’s better late than never!
Companies pay billions and billions of dollars each year to drop commercials into our favorite programs in hopes of influencing our shopping habits, getting us to buy things, and toot their own horns. As long as people still have money to spend they’ll keep giving us ideas on how to spend it. So this week let’s take a closer look at the entity we call commercials.
1. Commercials: Annoying disruption or Interesting Advertisement? I look forward to the Superbowl every year for the new commercials as well as the actual football game. I guess it depends upon the commercial; usually I channel surf during the commercials, but I may hit on one of the commercials that I like that I will watch.
2. Is there a commercial that instantly has you reaching for the remote to mute it? Well, not to mute, but to surf to another channel. And not any one in particular; just commercials in general.
3. Jingles are one of the most useful tools in commercials, what’s your favorite (or least favorite if you prefer)? Favorite: any of the Coors Lite hard rock jingles with the “and.. and.. and TWINS!” lines.
~Bonus~ Has a commercial actually ever influenced something you’ve done or bought? Actually, yes. I have tried a number of products based on seeing the commercial. While I haven’t continued to use ALL of those products, I have at least tried some of those products (the list is too long to show here).
