I don’t watch much TV and rarely watch live TV, but I did so recently and was quite surprised by the adverts, particularly that there were so many for gambling. The theme of the gambling ones seemed to be “it’s great fun and you will love doing it” shortly followed by “don’t do it very much and you can get help to stop” which seemed quite incongruous to me.
However, the ones that really struck me were for a cruise line, advertising a “dream cruise”. The picture that accompanied them seemed to me to be quite horrifying, one was something like the picture below and others showed liners amongst beautiful scenery in fjords or whatever. The only thing that these adverts said to me was “environmental disaster”. I have never been on a cruise and certainly wouldn’t want to go on one after seeing these adverts.
Perhaps I am weird (many would say so!), but it makes me wonder whether these adverts actually result in people buying the product (gambling or cruises) . I am afraid that they put me off.
