Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

It's time to make your nomination for the most irritating commercial of 2008.  

Marketing magazine is asking readers to help it compile its annual list of the most irritating TV commercials.

Those ads most frequently mentioned by community members will be used to compile the final list of 40 ads that will be voted on by 1000 members of the public through an exclusive survey for Marketing conducted by TNS.

The resulting People's Choice list of the 20 most irritating ads will be published in the magazine and online on 14 January. Please give a brief description of the ad.

definately ads from gocompare...

 I'm confused dot com.

 

Arrrggghh!!

The Kelloggs ad (with the kid who's also Marco Pierre White's son in a different ad), 'you could be on the telly!'

'Woke up this morning feeling fine...'

Hi Have to agree with Kevin.S its got to be the I'm confused dot.com ads....

They are blooming annoying...

Difficult to choose as so many of those about but I have always absolutely loathed 'Picture the loan' - patronising, (verging?) sexist, unfunny...

 The C'Mon! Vauxhall ads are just so wrong. And the 'find more minutes' from a mobile company that I have blotted out because the ads are so bad.

Bugger the obvious ones like Pic the Loan; Gorilla/Trucks mash-up was truly appalling

The Orange 'I Am' campaign is just plain awful - i cant stand it - its so bad it makes me want to ditch my orange contract....

Actually I retract my last comment.... Nicola Clark is absolutely right the Orange 'I Am' campaign is just plain awful... What happened to the future is bright, the future is orange.. That was cool...

Sorry, I'm still having to err on a generic collection, namely any that have my near-teenage boys steering clear of any woman whose various orifices are either itching or set to explode.... which they then get together to discuss with others loudly in restaurants.

One person’s irritating is another’s unforgettable, and even annoying ads get through to the people they annoy. Thank God we have the IPA Effectiveness awards as well. I suppose that this poll does show that, good or bad, people can’t help talking about TV ads; and that they are more memorable than other ads (where are the most irritating online, print and radio ad polls?). And it shows that even Brand Republic commenters don’t skip all ads all the time! 

 Definitely agree with you about the more minutes one.  And I would like to add Herbal Essences!!  Hate that advert it is so sexists and pointless.  Would never by their product because of that advert.  What were they hinking?

Has to be Cadbury Gorilla/Trucks - appalling