Last thing that a commercial actually directly influenced your purchase?

I dont know why some brands even waste money on advertising. McDonald's, Coke even most American beers. People will buy them regardless at this point and no ad is going to sway anybody.

Diesel driving academy.

Not really but that commercial is burned into my skull for life.

As much as I love capitalism the world would be a better place without ads

The Billy Mays infomercials were always good. I was still a kid when he died but I would buy the shamwow or kaboom. As for regular tv commercials, maybe the Chick-fil-A milk shake commercials? I typically mute commercials.

Which did you purchase? A fifty cents Coke or hooker?

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dont know why some brands even waste money on advertising. McDonald's, Coke even most American beers. People will buy them regardless at this point and no ad is going to sway anybody

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That’s not true. A few weeks back I was watching TV around dinner time thinking about if I wanted to eat at home or go pick something up. A Burger King commercial came on and I thought “that looks good. I haven’t had a whopper in a while”. So off I went. Had I not seen that commercial at just that time I almost assuredly would not have eaten Burger King that night. But I did…and it worked.

Now, extrapolate that over a potential audience of a few million people and that one ad may have drawn hundreds or thousands of customers to BK that night that otherwise would not have been

I know I will never buy Oikos yogurt because of the terrible singing

Dr. Pepper

I dont drink soda's, pop or cokes much but during the bowl games I finally gave in and had one.