Purina Advertising Overload

[107barney]

Purina is the only food one of my dogs can eat aside from home cooked vegetarian food. I'm glad they exist or she wouldn't.

[McheleM]

Originally Posted by Maximo

Maybe this is a sign of my age, but Purina chuck wagon commercials were huge during my childhood. Loved them, definitely appealed to kids.

I have wondered lately about tv advertising, what creates the big shifts in which products we see the most. Coke and Pepsi commercials were huge in the 80s and 90s, and then seemed to take a break after 2000, except for big events like the Super Bowl. Now they seem to be making a comeback.

Alka-Seltzer was a heavy advertiser, but I haven't seen a TV ad from them in ages. Men's razor blades and shaving cream aren't really big anymore.

Cars and pharmaceuticals are about the only consistent products.

I am so sick of erectile dysfunction commercials, and abilify/lyrica/serequel. Used to be a lot of the lunesta/ambien types too. My least favorite.....herpes medication commercials. There was one where the lady said "I have herpes". And then blah blah blah about the medicine and then stated "I take it, because I have herpes" and her boyfriend chimes in after that, something along the lines of "she takes it because she has herpes, and I don't. And because she takes it, I won't" why would you sleep with her knowing she has herpes?? Stupid! Stupid! Stupid stupid stupid!!!

Lol

[Ellie May]

Geico... All the time.

[yorkietalkjilly]

I'm sick of the ED commercials, too. So sick of hearing the word "erectile" on a multi-daily basis. Have gotten to the point I press the "mute" button every time I hear the silly music of their commercials. I pity parents having to deal with all these too-intimate commercials this day and time.