I can’t believe this thread exists! I hadn’t seen it before, but when coverage ended this afternoon, was so bewildered by how shot those ads are that I wrote an original post. But then when I pressed ‘send post’, it timed out, and I lost what I wrote.
But true to STW form, the exact thread I wanted to start had already been started.
Now, as for the ad content, who actually thought that a watch re-seller would hold much cache with the viewers? I mean, even though I don’t drive one, I now associate Skoda with cycling. And those funny Wiggle ads? I’m still singing the jingle a year later. But Watchfinder?
I mean, it’s only one step above this:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NQZGXEcm0[/video]