Am I alone? I hate it when some smart-Alec advertising outfit uses some prominent figure from the past to flog something to the masses.
My current hate is the series of adverts (something to do with electricity, I think) which portray Albert Einstein as a doddery comical old fool bamboozled by all this new shiny energy stuff. The radio ad versions also feature that old war horse, Angela Rippon alongside the Einstein actor with a music-hall comedic German accent. Appalling. 
Yes, Iāve seen the smart meters advert with āEinsteinā. Embarrassing.
We stream mostly from paid services so adverts are few and far between.
For now Iād suggest. Many of them now have cheaper ad supported services.
I was rather annoyed the other day when I started watching a new season of 1923 that I had to sit through a trailer for something I had no interest in, especially as theyāve increased monthly costs recently. (Paramount +)
Prime Video is comical - āthis feature will continue with limited interruptionsā - they mean adverts. If it wasnāt free with Prime membership Iād have ditched it.
Oddly or not I had the same reaction to that advert. Angela may have been on it on the tv too looking as though sheād leapt out of a āShakeān Vacā commercial.
Most adverts pass me by because I simply pay no attention. If I do notice one and it is bad, then I positively avoid the product. The occasional advert catches my eye/ear, and I might enjoy watching. But I can confidently say no TV advert has ever persuaded me to buy the advertised product.
From where Iām sitting, the McCains ad for their Gourmet Triple Cooked Chips/Fries has an impact 
I have watched just one advert in the last 20 years (Jet2).
And that was because a friend of my son had the starring role.
We have an Einstein lookalike guy in an advert for a supermarkets chain.
The 20 seconds cart filling contest.
A challenge to space time.
And he uses their shampoo!
I must have watched 10,000 ads for pick up trucks in my life, yet to buy one lol
1 must have seen 10s of thousands of ads covering many 1000s of different things and I donāt think ever bought a single one that I hadnāt already bought before seeing an ad.
Historical misappropriation in ads is nothing compared with this behaviour in film 
Seems when making historical films today itās important to ensure that actual history doesnāt get in the way of the āstoryā.
Just a shame today that ads are no longer entertaining, really miss the booze and tobacco ads, actually better than a lot of the programs they interrupted.
Like others I canāt think of a single item I have ever bought on the back of an advert but then the intent is often subliminal brand awareness rather than a direct sale.
Iād like to think the things which got me into Naim were
At the back of my mind though I wonder if that all stemmed from brand awareness arising from single page adverts in hifi magazines. I canāt remember any of them but I read so broadly that surely I must have seen them.
I wonder how weāre all going to feel when Naim use a virtual Julian to push the white logo stuff 
Whilst the use of historical figures is pretty poor I do think itās nothing new.
Agreed, in fact the first thought that most ads lead to in my head is āRight, Iām not buying one of those thenā¦ā.
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