Great ads you have seen lately…
I love this ad…people are very hopeful and optimistic… I think that is good.
The Prudential blue and yellow magnet ad.
I like that one, too.
I think this Sprint ad is great.
It think this young woman has that “it factor” and she’ll get other roles. She does this commercial so much better than the others.
@mom2coIIegekids: I agree that the actress has the “it” factor. But I hate hate hate the ad, which seems to be suggesting that if you pay your premium on-time, your accident should be forgiven.
I love all the Prudential commercials that demonstrate the importance of saving regularly. I like the fact that they are educational, not just touting Pru and its products. For example, this one:
@mom2collegekids and @VeryHappy, I hate that commercial because it seems to suggest that her driving skills were to blame for the accident (she just “tapped” the bumper, maybe in parking the car or not stopping in time at a traffic light?), but she should be forgiven because nobody’s perfect. She comes across as feeling entitled. If you don’t know how to drive, take responsibility!
@flymetothemoon, I agree. I don’t like the content of that ad. But I do think the actress herself is fantastic. She’s got a very real persona in front of the camera.
this one made my daughter and me laugh hysterically:
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7HOA/downy-unstopables-air-refresher-boarding-school
@mom2collegekids, it is interesting you posted that ad. I just saw the ad on tv yesterday. The actress definitely got my sttention. The ad was a kind of a turnoff but the actress does have something.
@VeryHappy, that’s a great ad. I like the Prudential ads too. I like this one.
People freak out with numbers. Visualization using ribbons, dominoes, magnets…great ideas. I think I would like to take a class taught by that professor.
^^ Yes, yes – love that ad! Seriously, they are promoting retirement savings, a topic near and dear to my heart. They aren’t promoting Pru.
Kiddie, the Downy ad is great.
I don’t mind seeing those Prudential ads frequently–I don’t get irritated by them or tune them out, even though I’ve seen them so many times I could recite the dialogue. Is it the editing, the writing, the people in them–what makes them good?
While not the newest commercials, I find the Straight Talk commercials to be mildly amusing.
Kiddie, Mr. B rarely pays attentions to ads, but that ad “smells like he is away at boarding school” made him laugh! 
I think the Prudential ads are good because the fellow who’s talking is serious and friendly, but not condescending. Also, what he talks about is useful to everyone, and he’s not touting his company obnoxiously. He’s educating, not advertising.
One of my least favorite series of ads is for some air freshener that can get rid of odors “you’ve become nose-blind to.” Now they’re trying to sell us something we literally didn’t even know we needed. Hey, if I can’t smell it, it doesn’t need an air freshener.
…came in here because I read “great aBs”… thought it would be an interesting thread…stating as I slink away shame and placing myself in timeout to work on not being so shallow. ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQfK5TAViUc
This one always makes me smile (Fiber One Cookies/Rock You Like a Hurricane)
The Prudential “magnets” commercial is very interesting/effective. But depressing to see that while people tend to hope that mostly positive things will happen in the future, experience shows that they are, basically, overly optimistic, or, in other words, wrong. Bad things are gonna happen.
The “Accident Forgiveness” commercials turn me off. I think the people come across as whiney,making excuses/not taking responsibility. (Nobody’s perfect. But a lot of people do have perfect driving records. Why is that? Just lucky, I guess 
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If you really just “tapped the bumper” there would be no damage/no claim. Why specify a “station wagon” – is a station wagon less valuable than other cars? Or do the kind of people who drive station wagons deserve to have their bumpers damaged? The tone of the final “Hey, insurance companies: News Flash. . .” comment just sounds like a bad attitude to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHFdCSSV5C4
Cottonelle - Go Commando. I don’t like this commercial, but it did make me laugh. I had no idea what “Go Commando” meant. I had to look it up. Someone please tell me–this isn’t really a thing, is it?
Well…this thread is going right down the toilet.
dstark-- you ARE wearing underwear, aren’t you?
( I will never Go Commando unless I’m guaranteed Accident Forgiveness)