TV commercials can be booooooring, especially when you see the same ones played over and over and over again. And why do they have to put in so many during movies?
When watching commercial TV, do you usually watch the commercials? Do you ignore them and go do something in another room (or use the restroom)? Do you mute them? Fast forward through them? Or, maybe you don’t watch TV or have a streaming service that doesn’t show commercials (now that’s nice!). Please tell us your answer in the poll below. Thanks!
I wouldn’t mind watching commercials but they have gotten sooo STUPID over the years
I mute them as fast as I can. They are so
stupid. I would love to tell some of them. I can’t use your product I’m not stupid enough.
i don’t pay attention to commercials but I mute car shield and Medicare commercials.So annoying.
Prevagin, Progressive and Liberty Mutual all get the Mute ASAP. The others I ignore or if taped I fast Forward.
That is what the mute button is for. It seems like the insurance companies are trying to outdo each other for producing the most stupid commercials and big pharma continually pushes to ask my doctor about their latest release, but the mute button helps me ignore them all!
I ignore them unless they happen to be about a new local eatery. If they start out with pictures of starving children or dogs I say vulgar words and change the channel. Unfortunately I have to do that a lot.
These are the type of commercials that are either muted or channels changed. Just how much of the money sent actually goes to the cause? Very little I suspect. Most ends up in the pockets of the high paid CEO’s, CFO’s and lawyers involved. As far as the starving children, take the money from making the commercials and give it to those people.
We support out LOCAL animal shelter. The people working there are volunteers.
Ambulance chasing lawyers, thumbs down. Followed by Progressive and Libeery Mutual. Stupid commercials for uninformed people.
I record everything, all the programs we watch. In the replay just fast forward through the comericals.
Husband will change the channel (wasnt an option)
TV commercials are when I run to the bathroom, or refrigerator.
The “IDIOTS’” making commercials now days took different marketing classes than I did. Most commercials don’t even tell the basic information required to sell or give address and phone info. Love the mute button.
I SECOND Ken and Wayne!!!
It’s kind of funny. I can be looking right at the TV during a commercial and my wife will ask me something about it. I don’t have a clue. I have actually trained myself to totally zone out and not hear a word. I’m quite proud.
I try not to watch any commercials since most of them are stupid or about products that I have no interest in. I either will fast forward thru them if I have recorded a show or put them on mute for a few minutes, then resume watching a show.
Don’t know any way to fast forward through them unless you record show and watch later.
If I do not want to deal with the commercials but want to watch a movie I record it then watch on a day I can. Otherwise I mute the commercials.
We don’t watch any shows live so we can fast forward through the commercials. That alone makes the expense of a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) worthwhile.
I don’t watch much football but when I do, I wait at least an hour into the game to start watching. I fast forward through huddles, penalties and commercials. If the game is boring, I jump forward 5 minutes at a time to see if the score changed. If so, I rewind and watch a few plays leading up to the score.
I mute on live TV and FF on recorded TV.
People triggered by commercials with non-white actors can either accept the demographic reality of the USA or admit something about yourselves.
The government is not forcing companies to change their actors. The companies do it because, guess what, that’s the purchasing audience.
Look in the mirror
Why would you even say that?!?!
I needed another option. “I don’t watch TV”. Facebook, You tube, and RV Travel take up too much of my time.
Most of the commercials are designed and made by Millennials so they don’t make much sense to this old codger
When a commercial plays I pick up my phone and say the company name plus complaints. Amazing how many companies lie and have many complaints from insurance company’s , car warranty companies. Some say they have an A+ BBB rating and they’re not registered with them. Try it, it’s quite enlightening.
For some time now we auto-record nearly every program we want to watch. We then FF through commercials. If we have to watch live programs, we mute during commercials. So many commercials now-a-days are just annoying and don’t contain much valuable/useful information about the product. Clearly directed at a different demographic than my wife and I are in.
About the only commercials we watch consistently is when Subaru puts on a new dog commercial driving one of their cars. Those are pretty cute. Doesn’t make me go out and buy a Subaru, but we do like them!
tells me Subaru’s are only good for dogs, so people should not buy them
I actually emailed a company about one of their commercials that I thought was demeaning to the people portrayed in it and they thanked me for the email and discontinued use of that commercial. Try that
Good survey. I’m aware of the impact of TV commericals, this goes for news as well. We are largely a product of what we watch on TV. I will watch the Superbowl ads for humor and inventiveness but I personally distain from commercials as a rule. I hope the end result is I’m a more discerning person.
It’s not a good survey because almost all the responders will actually do several of the choices depending on the situation.
Usually I mute; but if they are on a recorded show, I fast forward.
We record everything we watch to be able to watch when it is convenient and to be able pause and fast forward through commercials. Accept when we come across Green Bay Packer Rodger State Farm commercials. Have to watch those. Lol
Rogers are the one ads I make sure to FF thru
The network news are the worst offenders. Twelve minutes of news followed by a long list of pharmaceuticals, 30 second news snipet, 4 more RX commercials, 1 minute news snipet, more Rx commercials and finally a puff piece on something cutesy.
Who buys insurance from an emu, an elk or a man named Jake, or a couple of girls jumping rope on the pier?
Answer: Old People.
you forgot the 5 different lawyer commercials suing the pants off the insurance companies.
DVR at home & in motorhome. FF thru commercials. Might, rarely, stop on a car or food ad if something catches our eye. Only watch live if there is a serious breaking news story. Don’t even watch sports events, like the Super Bowl (if we watch) live. Besides not liking the ads, consumes too much time to watch live.
My Dish Hopper auto-Hops over most commercials, otherwise I use the 30 second FF button and get past that nonsense. When I’m streaming on Hulu or Paramount (which has commercials), I just mute the TV and set a timer on Alexa to alert me when they end.
After watching some commercials, I still have no idea what they were trying to sell me. ??
“A new store opening in your area.” – And they don’t tell me where it is located. ?? “This new car has 5 cup holders and a sound system.” – No mention of gas mileage or even if it goes anywhere – OR some little car shown to be mountain climbing. ?? Every insurance company can save me $500 over every other insurance company? I guess they all think I am stupid OR – maybe I am?? No wonder that every generation thinks the next generation is going to “hell in a hand basket” I guess we all become our parents and grandparents.
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I get up and go to the bathroom.
I have a dvr which can have multiple channels on so I can just flip to a different channel to avoid the commercials
Almost universally the volume of commercials is 2x what you have your volume set to, so I mute them if I’m not able to fast forward through them.
we record nearly everything and simply fast forward thru them.
When we can, we fast forward through commercials. When we cannot fast forward, then we mute them. Almost everything that we watch is recorded to watch later, hence our ability to utilize fast forward.
I usually run about doing other things during commercials. If the program is recorded, I just fast forward through them. This question can be answered two ways. You never stated if LIVE TV or Recorded TV programs.
I use commercials like a timer. If I can hear commercial I still have time to get something more useful done.
I USE commercials like a time. Wouldn’t let me edit.