Stupid Advertisements

I'm not sure if its mandated by the IPL Governing Council that all companies that advertise during the IPL matches should only make stupid advertisements, because each ad that was shown during prime time has been worse than the other. If there is one reason why I won't buy these products that will be because of their advertisements.

What do these ad film makers think? that they can boost sales with those crappy advertisements? I wish those companies that are paying a bomb to get these advertisements switch to better ad agencies and make sensible ads. This will not only help drive sales but also keep the brand image intact.

I have classified such ads into two broad categories, stupid ads and lame ads. Well some of them fall under both the categories and we can't help that. Here are some that i can recall.... (majority of them are ads for mobile phones made in India).


MAXX Mobiles: (Stupid Ad)
The series of ads featuring M S Dhoni where he say what features were there in his maxx mobile and that his phone has been stolen. I wonder if this ad was made by maxx mobile or one of its competitors, because what i interpret from this ad is that if you buy a maxx mobile it will be stolen for sure so either steal a maxx mobile from someone or don't buy one at all.

Couple of years back smasung used to advertise a special feature in its mobiles phones where if a handset is stolen the owner will be able to trace where the instrument is and potentially even catch the thief. Two years later maxx mobile advertises that their instrument is stolen and there is no way you can trace it!!!!

If you wish to watch this ad please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maxx+mobile+dhoni&aq=f


Spice Mobile: (Stupid Ad)

There is this ad where they show a dude watching Jodha Akbar in his mobile and his friend comes with another memory card. This dude removed his memory card from the phone and the next thing we see is all the Jodha Akbar characters including the elephant leaving his house. Then they fade out and show the Spice Intelligent Querty Phone with dual memory card slot?!?!?!? Will it not make sense to make a phone with one memory card slot that can handle more memory space in the form of extendable memory.

Buying one memory card with a bigger storage space is much more economical that buying multiple memory cards whose storage space adds up to the bigger memory card. Kudos to their R & D team, you guys should be in the museum.

If you wish to watch this ad please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fga_pu2DE8s


Carbon Mobiles: (Stupid & Lame Ad)
All the ads featuring Virendra Sewag and Gautam Ghambir for carbon mobiles are stupid and lame. There is this solo ad of Sewag where he tries to flip a mobile phone in his hand and moves his arms and head like a woman. Then he says, "I'm dashing. I'm carbon" in the worst english accent you can ever imagine. That ad was so lame that it went off the air in a day or two after its first telecast. I think even Sewag's kids and family members would've laughed their guts out watching that ad. I'll not be even surprised if Sewag himself requested carbon mobiles to remove that ad as he was losing credibility everywhere.

There is another similar ad with Ghambir where he does the same actions as that of Sewag slightly better though and says, "I'm solid. I'm carbon."

The third ad features both Sewag and Ghambir fighting to attend a call from some vidhya because both their sim cards are in the same phone (dual sim option!) and then later when the coach calls they ask eachother to answer the phone. Both these guys act as if they are gay in this ad.

If you wish to see these ads, please search on the internet and let me know when you find them. Unfortunately I'm unable to find these ads in youtube.


Micromax Mobiles: (Stupid Ad)
The advertisement is kind of ok but its their tagline that makes you wonder what the hell are they trying to say. It says "Nothing like anything." Why on earth will any sane human being buy a phone that is nothing like anything at all??? Also the ones where Akshay Kumar laughs like a lunatic, what was he thinking?


JK Cement: (Stupid Ad)
This is an ad I still wonder what the hell are they trying to say. They show this horrible looking chick (due to  excessive make up) walk out of the ocean wearing a red swimsuit (similar to the one Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra wore in Baywatch). Then the next think you see on the screen is JK cement. Short and stupid!

If you wish to watch this ad please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2cqlw3pwFw


Clinic All Clear: (Lame Ad)
This is the ad featuring either Bipasha or Asin where they show a big auditorium full of audience. Then Bipasha or Asin call upon a couple of girls, flash light on their heads and show the audience a magnified image of the same. The girl that scores a zero is considered the winner of the contest and zero mean zero dandruff! And the woman who scored a zero says, "YES I knew it!" How lame can you get?

If you wish to watch this ad please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9yNpE2fwN4


Hero Honda: (Lame & Stupid Ads)
Now here is one company that has a reputation for making the most stupid and lame advertisements of all times. Every single ad made by hero honda is horrible, just search for hero honda on you tube watch any ad you feel like you'll know what I mean.

Here is my message for hero honda, if you really want to know how make good and classy advertisements for two wheelers, watch the commercials of Bajaj. Even now we all remember the hamara bajaj song, hodibaba and the Pulser ad that had dramatised stunts performed by stunt artists was the just out of the world. Show what is possible in your two wheelers don't show all the impossible stuff and expect people to believe in your product.


Gariner Fairness Skin: (Stupid Ad)
This is the ad featuring actress Genelia, she starts off with says why do people speak so much about fairness creams, what's going to happen by talking so much and then ad goes on for 30 seconds where she and a voice over keeps talking non stop. What the hell are they trying to say???

If you wish to watch this ad please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoDnhSxnFhQ