{"id":2511,"date":"2009-03-17T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2009\/03\/bad_ads\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:10:57","slug":"bad_ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/bad_ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002679.html\">the Radio Sales documentary<\/a> on Radio 4 on Saturday ended with the infamous &#8220;Superscreen&#8221; ad.<br \/>\nOK. Here it is:<br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"200\" height=\"20\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http%3A\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/Superscreen.mp3\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nIn recent days there was another really annoying advert. A certain major soap opera was advertising a major event that took place in last Friday&#8217;s episodes. Radio advertising is the perfect way to drive audiences to this major event (even if it is up against Comic Relief night), but heard a few too many times, it does begin to grate a little. See what you think:<br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"200\" height=\"20\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http%3A\/\/www.adambowie.com\/audio\/Coronation_Street.mp3\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<em>[Obviously these are my own views, and don&#8217;t reflect those of my employer who thinks ITV is a fine advertiser who it&#8217;s happy to continue working with]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned the other day, the Radio Sales documentary on Radio 4 on Saturday ended with the infamous &#8220;Superscreen&#8221; ad. OK. Here it is: In recent days there was another really annoying advert. A certain major soap opera was advertising a major event that took place in last Friday&#8217;s episodes. Radio advertising is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}