I spent most of the day at home, we also had a brief cycle-ride, some friends came round for dinner and their daughter and Fille watched some Twilightesque rhubarb on Ch4 til about 10.

In the whole day, I reckon I probably saw 2 poster adverts and about 5 TV adverts. That's rather a lot more than usual for me. Yet apparently the Average Brit sees (and hears, e.g. on radio) dozens of adverts each day.

Can anyone shed any light on this? How many adverts do people see each day? Do they work?

how many do you see
fkin billions a day over here,(if you watch tv all day,)

are they successful
and it depends on how gullible you are, most of us just take the piss out of them!

Like the plug-in glade smelly air fresner ads, no fucker wants to be that stupid woman whose life revolves around a "multiple scented stinky dispenser" thats got a smile a mile wide!

Not a lot of people know that typical air-fresheners work by releasing a substance that numbs the sense of smell, so the smell's still there you just can't sense it.

When I informed Mr Lunchista of this he was quite horrified and exclaimed "Bastards!".

I have my suspicions that the said substances are not unrelated to nerve gas.

that 'go compare' advert has wormed into my brain because its on the telly and the radio. a lot of adverts stick with me BUT i can't ever really remember the product. its for...insurance? which make? dunno. car ads are by far the worst at being uniform. cars are indisinguisable to me. its a car..sfw.

another reason to try and watch less telly. now i just record everything i wanna watch and when the ads come on i press skip.

I have to admit that over this last winter I have found less and less to watch on the tv, and now the evenings will be getting longer I doubt I will watch it at all, I usually have a radio playing in the background, where ever I am, and you tend to ignore all the adds and just sing along with the songs (even if you dont sound good)

There was a woman and her young son at the bus stop one day, and the boy sang the 'Go Compare' advert word perfect and in a mock opera voice too, incredibly loudly and with real passion.

It was very funny at the time but I suppose it does show just how easily adverts do work their way into our brains.

And for me it's that bloody 'We Buy Any Car' song...it sticks in my head for ages.

oh yes. but until i was actually close to the radio and actually listened to it one day,i had never figured out the 'dotcom' bit of the song. and hence the whole point ofthe advert was lost on me. thats why they have to repeat them so many many times

I object to car adverts the most. When do you EVER see the reality of driving in Britain today? No, it's always car sweeping through the apex of a bend on a deserted coastal road......freedom......power....luxury. Bollocks! It's queueing. Queue to get out of your road, queue to join a minor road with other people in tin boxes, also queueing. Queue to join major road. Trundle. Join queue to get into lane of other queuers all queueing to get into work car park. Reverse procedure 8 hours later. Fuck that.

So very very true Usernameisfree.

Sorry for swearing though