Charity TV Ads

[Lissa]

Do they work?

Do they make you want to put your hand in your pocket, or are there so many of them these days that they really don't affect you at all?

I'm getting to the stage where I'm starting to think,' FFS, not this ad again.'

Are they useful for raising money, or counter-productive?

no they dont work

IMO

especialy the african ones

rather give it to my own kids

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by Lissa

Do they work?

Do they make you want to put your hand in your pocket, or are there so many of them these days that they really don't affect you at all?

I'm getting to the stage where I'm starting to think,' FFS, not this ad again.'

Are they useful for raising money, or counter-productive?

Couldn't tell you Lissa .....don't have a telly


Ben

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

Couldn't tell you Lissa .....don't have a telly


Ben

I thought my mum and step-dad were the only wierdo's without a telly

I wouldn`t say the ads i`ve seen have made me want to get out and set up a direct debit and the NSPCC ones just reduce me to tears. I do give monthly payments to the NSPCC , Royal Deaf Socity and Amnesty International but it wasn`t the adverts that prompted me into doing it.

[Viney]

What did annoy me is i got a dvd the other day and Whatsherface, erm, that bird whos maried to that coldplay fellow pops up on my screen telling me about the poor africans etc who are dying from aids etc. Yes its sad, i have my own views on what should be done, but at the beginning of the film, AND you couldnt fast forward past it, or skip it, you had to watch it, just really wound me up as i hate having this stuff thrown in my face. If i want to donate, then i will, and i think in todays society, we are all more than aware of the plights of many people less advantaged than us, just stop throwing it in my face.

Heres a fact. only 23% of all monies rasied has to go to the charity that its advertising! The rest can be used for wahtever purpose within that charity, so check how much goes to the 'victims' before you donate.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Lissa

Are they useful for raising money, or counter-productive?

Counter Productive. It really gets on my nerves and I just turn it over or ignore it completely.

I wander how much those ads cost to make and do the charities pay to have them made...

Its almost annoying as the volume going up to 300 decibels when the s*dding adverts come on the TV anyway.

Once I've got our sky signal sorted out I'm getting sky+ so I can fast forward through the damn things.

They waste the money that people have already donated. If I put my hand in my pocket, I want it to go to some starving kid in Africa, not a marketing executive in London who makes twice what I do.

They dont work on me. I give to the charities thati feel are worth wile and i wantto support, not cos some idiot on telly tells me to do so.