TV ads - what would be the implications?

[DustyBawls]

I'm sick to the back teeth of certain adverts on the television and would love these to be removed:

Lottery/Lotto ads. The postcode lottery one is bloody annoying
Other forms of gambling, such as the online casinos
Bingo ads
Insurance / "Have you had an accident" type adverts - yes I have and that's why it's called an accident!
Loans
Making a will
Claiming money back from banks

No wonder people are in financial trouble - they're either taking out ludicrious APR loans or gambling!

If all of the above were removed, the benefit would be better tv viewing, but would there be any implications? Higher TV license?

[Sidney1st]

No one is forced the chase the ambulance or sink into debt.

Plus the licence is for the BBC so the other companies generate their own revenue through advertising.

Many adverts like those you've mentioned either are, or should be, shown after the watershed.

[Alanstevensonsgloves]

I was about to write a long reply, but "Someone's knockin on my dooooooor, someones ringing my bell"'!!!

[rufus lumley]

Me to but it’s eyes down for my first online game of the night na na na nah hey hey hey goodbye.

[Walton]

Easily solved by not watching the sh*t channels on TV

[LeadBelly]

TV licence money goes to the Beeb who don't have adverts-so banning ads wouldn't affect that as far as I can see.

A long time ago, I did some mathematical modelling for media selection in ad campaigns & always used the assumption that the effectiveness of advertising fell away after a certain number of views and started to have a negative effect when it got beyond a critical point of annoyance.
It seems that media people in agencies nowadays dont make the same assumption, or (more probably) dont let on to the advertisers paying for all the airtime that this is what may happen.

[Cirrus_Minor]

I have got to the point now where I totally detest adverts. Especially watching the none terrestrial channels where you end up paying for them, I usually record or pause so I can skip through them st speed.

[Foulthrow]

I haven’t watched ‘live’ telly for a long time (sport aside). Who sits through any ads these days?

[piston broke]

Money lenders where it says at the bottom of the page 1125% interest.

funeral cover. Bottom of page, you might not get back the money you pay in.

home equity. They give you nowhere near the value of your property. Although ideal for folk who have nobody close to leave their property to.

[wilks_bfc]

Was about to say the same thing foulthrow

If there’s two thing on at same time that we want to watch, and one is on the BBC, then that’s the one we’ll watch live and will watch the other later, fast forwarding the ads

[tiger76]

Any with Gary Lineker.

[tim_noone]

I love the funeral plan ones where over a cup of tea the cost of dying is gleefully discussed and looked forward to as the woman nibbles on a digestive!!!

[cutsy123]

I'm sick to the back teeth of certain adverts on the television and would love these to be removed:

Lottery/Lotto ads. The postcode lottery one is bloody annoying
Other forms of gambling, such as the online casinos
Bingo ads
Insurance / "Have you had an accident" type adverts - yes I have and that's why it's called an accident!
Loans
Making a will
Claiming money back from banks

No wonder people are in financial trouble - they're either taking out ludicrious APR loans or gambling!

If all of the above were removed, the benefit would be better tv viewing, but would there be any implications? Higher TV license?

Pause then fast forward

[Bfcboyo]

Adverts don't even work. I just automatically switch off when they come on.
Anyway must dash I have an appointment at Windle and Bowker this morning before dropping the motor at burnley tyre and battery and need to get home as northern lights builders are doing some work.

[clive40golf]

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[aggi]

It's only going to get worse. Smart TVs are now tracking what you watch (look at Samba on Sony tvs for instance), what apps you use, pages you browse, etc and using that to target advertising

[gandhisflipflop]

Them v i poo adverts at tea time really get to me

[Burnley Ace]

The biggest scandal is what money supermarket have done to Action Man!! It’s a disgrace

[ClaretEngineer]

The biggest scandal is what money supermarket have done to Action Man!! It’s a disgrace

We may see a resurgence in popularity for proper toys, get these children away from screens!

[houseboy]

No one is forced the chase the ambulance or sink into debt.

Plus the licence is for the BBC so the other companies generate their own revenue through advertising.

Many adverts like those you've mentioned either are, or should be, shown after the watershed.

As it is they are mainly shown during the day as that is their main audience, unemployed people who want to make a quick buck without working for it. I know not all unemployed people are scroungers, in fact most of them aren't, but there are significant numbers of them only to ready to sue whoever they can because they didn't look where they were going when they lightly stubbed their toe on a barely sticking up paving stone.
Incidentally do their reps still stand beside potential hazards waiting for someone to trip up.

[Sidney1st]

I've known a few people have an 'accident' on purpose so they can throw a claim in.

Bizarre thing to do, just a shame they weren't properly injured.

[JohnMac]

I'm sorry but nothing is as cringeworthy as the Oral B advert.

The happy clapping smiley woman hasn't got any sign of toothpaste whatsoever in her obviously cosmetically whitened perfect teeth grinning gob.

You may gather it winds me up, just a tad