Normally, people hate watching TV commercials.\u00a0 They will avoid watching commercials by pressing the fast forward button in recorded programs, change channels or go to the washroom in live programs.\u00a0 I can’t believe I watched nothing but commercials for almost half an hour today.\u00a0 I haven’t watched Hong Kong TV commercials for a long time.\u00a0 Although I watch TV programs from HK quite frequently, those program are usually commercial free.\u00a0 I am curious how the TV commercials in HK look like nowadays and what are the differences with those here in Canada.\u00a0 I downloaded a collection of HK TV commercials and watched it half-heartly this afternoon.\u00a0 Actually I am quite disappointed, out of the hundred or so commercials I watched, there are only a few good ones with a sense of humor or with artistic expression that is\u00a0 pleasant to watch.\u00a0 I always thought commercials in HK would be more interesting than those broadcast here.\u00a0 I guess commercials are just equally boring everywhere.\u00a0 Some commercials hire celebrities as speak persons, which I found quite this type of commercials often lacks substance and instantly turned me off.\u00a0 Ok, commercials with showering scenes by famous female stars are exceptions, but I still won’t buy those products because of the stars.\u00a0 Some commercials trying to be too informative, giving boring useless sales number to the audience so that they can forget in the next second.\u00a0 There is one clueless commercial featuring Chow Yun Fat with lots of weird visual imageries.\u00a0 It turns out to be the commercial for the new casino in Macau.\u00a0 No wonder the advertisement company can make an expensive commercial seems so meaningless, that is exactly the effect they want to archive.\u00a0 You can’t hard sell gambling in TV commercials.\u00a0 To my surprise, I found some ancient commercials from my childhood days still on air these days.\u00a0 The tag line of those commercials are part of the collective memories among people form different generations.\u00a0 Actually, I am more surprise those products are still in business.\u00a0 Who wants to by a product running an aging commercial?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Normally, people hate watching TV commercials.\u00a0 They will avoid watching commercials by pressing the fast forward button in recorded programs, change channels or go to the washroom in live programs.\u00a0 I can’t believe I watched nothing but commercials for almost half an hour today.\u00a0 I haven’t watched Hong Kong TV commercials for a long time.\u00a0 … Continue reading TV commercials<\/span>