Ads That Repeat All Day, Part 2

Here’s Some More Ads That Repeat All Day!

• Generally, approaching and during Safe Harboron Comedy Central and other cable channels, you will find that ads for diet supplements, phone services, mattresses and sleeping pills, and other things will triple in frequency, sometimes playing the same ad twice a break.
• The sneakiest use ever of the A1/A2 variant was shortly after the rulings that led to Side Effects Include.... Quite a few companies put out two different, yet very similar ads; the "reminder" ad would mention the name of the product, but not what it did; while the "help seeking" ad would mention what the product did, but not its name. This allowed them to circumvent being required to list side-effects. The practice died quickly.
• Anyone who has subscribed to MLB.tv (Major League Baseball's online streaming service) knows how horrifically the company abuses ALL FOUR of these themes. In fact, in the course of a single baseball game, lasting around 2 hours and 40 minutes, there are somewhere around FORTY commercials (of two varieties) for the same service that you were already using to view the game! Add in the fact that there are only about three distinct commercials to go around, and you get the idea.
• Other MLB viewers will get much of the same. Those using DirecTV's Extra Innings package to view their out-of-market baseball games will often find their entire commercial break populated by DirecTV commercials. Most noticeable when, on at least one occasion, four consecutive commercials of the "smear the competition" variety aired, all stating reasons why DirecTV is better than rival Dish Network (the anti-Dish commercials rarely air just one at a time, but blocks of two anti-Dish commercials combined with other DirecTV commercials are more common).
• Hulu does this a lot. On the plus side, there's only one commercial. On the other, it's always the same one.
• Let's just say that every online streaming service does this and leave it at that.
• Screwed with with a certain collection of "Go to this site" ripoff commercials (here is an example), where the content is essentially the same, but the address is different each time, because the two numbers that begin the address were randomly generated. They're using different numbers for different demographics/channels/times of day/etc. so they can figure out where their victims are coming from, then concentrate their scam ads more there. There's a page that explains it here, as well as another one which explains the scam itself (it's a pyramid scheme) here
• Quite common with syndicated shows where the commercials are entirely controlled by the local TV station. One local station in Georgia has run the same ad for a local state college twice during the same break, and the same ad for a doctor's office three times during another. (It used to be car dealership ads, before car sales tanked...)
• Parodied on Family Guy when Al Harrington's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man Warehouse and Emporium has a sale on Crudely Painted Not So Funny Plywood Cutout Folk Art. Like, over and over.
• French TV had an extremely annoying variation on this trope in 1998. It was one single 20 seconds spot for Mercurochrome band-aids, which started by the slogan (which was "Mercurochrome, le pansement des héros" - "Mercurochrome, heroes' band-aids"), then a 10 second scene, then the slogan 3 more times. This might have been a editing goof that ended up becoming a Throw It In moment for the advertising agency. In 20 seconds you could hear the brand name 4 times. Another version of the same ad had the 4 slogans at the end. Available hereand here.
• And the ad was remade in 2012 with the old footage
• Combined with Commercial Switcheroo in this Pedigree Dentastix commercial. The first commercial is for a ridiculous product called "Doggie Dentures", and the first thing the second one (which, by the way, has the same "setting" as the previous one) shows is a dog with a Dentastix treat in its mouth staring at the camera, while the announcer says, "You're...kidding, right?" as if in response to the previous commercial.
• ESPN partners with certain college football conferences (particularly the SEC) to show some second or third-rate conference games on limited distribution networks; a viewer has to subscribe to the obscure channel the game is broadcast on or order it through Pay Per View. Unsurprisingly, these games have few sponsors, and throughout the three hours of Florida vs. Crappy Sun Belts viewers will see the same commercials several times.
• FOX's playoff baseball coverage became famous for this around the middle of the 2000s. The network would relentlessly flog its upcoming shows with commercials that usually centered around dramatic line readings. The short-lived shows "Girls Club” have earned running joke status with baseball fans ("His father is the district attorney!"). House was also promoted in this way ("You're risking a patient's life!").
• Discovery Channel, And Animal Planet all do this on a regular basis. If one of their shows has a new episode coming up, expect to see it advertised at least once per commercial break.
• For a while, whenever cable channel FX would air short, repetitive commercials for whatever original "gritty" drama it was trying to push for the upcoming season. Sing it with me: "This time you've gone too far. This time you've gone too far..."
• INSANE amounts of AOL shilling in early days (Adult Swim appeared the same year AOL and Time Warner had finished their merger). And AOL commercials were really long to boot, taking the time they need to highlight all new features of AOL 7.0. Downplayed as time went by and dial-up went out of flavor, prompting AOL to become third-party transit service, and while still retaining some commercials, they were nowhere near as long, and were sometimes sandwiched between ad spots of competition trashing AOL. (whether or not Williams Street let the competitors' AOL-bashing ads air on purpose or not has not been stated).
• During the premiere of the series finale, most of the ads were shown more than once. The most notable offenders were this commercial for Ibotta and promos for the series finale, and Worst Cooks in America, which were shown during every break.
• And before the Cookie Jar TV block got cancelled, the Seat Pets ad would play once every half-hour.
• Whenever a new Pretty Cure series begins, Yamaha music schools and Top Confectionery will air two ads in a row on some episodes.
  • Towards the end of the series, they will constantly play the ad for whatever that series' most recent power-up item is. For the record, toymaker Bandai is a major sponsor of the series.
• TV Asahi, in between each show during the Nichi Asa Kids Time Block, ads for Kracie candy will play, the most common one being Nerunerunerune. Smile Pretty Cure! even made a reference to one of these ads in their episodes!

• Beginning with episode 30, you couldn't watch an episode of HuGtto! Pretty Cure without seeing a Furutan ad air during the program, as Furuta sponsored the program. Sometimes, like on episode 36, the ad aired before the program as well, causing the ad to appear twice in the span of a half-hour.
• On the final episode of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, an ad for Chu-ru dog snacks aired twice in the ad break before the show.
• This happened twice during the first episode of Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure. During the break before the show, an ad for a model of the VF-1 Valkyrie from Super Dimension Fortress Macross played twice, sandwiched by two other commercials. During the actual show, the ad for the talking Latte toy played twice, with the first commercial break playing the short version and the last ad break showing the long version.
• If you watched the livestream of Million Second Quiz, you would see one out of three ads for Subway (which would start the livestream anytime you opened it) and promos for NBC shows. Some of these ads repeated over and over, and it got annoying every time you restarted the livestream and had to hear "Four, four, it's the four dollar lunch!" or "Five dollar, five dollar footlong, any any any..."
• And then there's that Coca-Cola ad!

• For the whole Captain's Treasure House block, Discovery Zone ads would play during each show. Justified, as the Captain's Treasure House Block, as well as the Fox Kids block, had a tie-in there at the time  Another repeat offender on various shows were the ads for the Hasbro games Fishin' Aroundand Lucky Ducks. The latter ad also played on Nick Jr. quite often.
• Johnson's Kids Shampoo kept running the same ad a lot during 1999 on Fox Family. That same year, the Furby Babies commercial kept airing on the preschool block.
• There's yet another variant of this where the A1 and A2 ads play one after another. The Japanese McDonald's Happy Set commercials advertising separate boy and girl toys are always shown this way.
• This commercial for Sears Central Air Conditioning from the mid 1990's which would even air on kids channels in the middle of winter, sometimes three times in the same ad break! "What's the paper say about tomorrow? 'Nother scorcher! Cool!"
• Invoked by Reese's, with an advertisement mentioning déjà vu to represent the two cups in each package. The commercial is then played again

• From the early 2000's until at least 2016, a promo about a superhero called Action Pig that  also featured the titular character of Arthurkept showing up before airings of that particular show.
• On local subchannel Kids' Thirteen, it was common to see this ad for Caillou or this promofor Sesame Street after every show, since all the network did between programs was show promos for other shows
• During the PTV Park era, it was common to see "Check It Out" and "Another Pointer", as well as the ITVS spots. The three ones that aired the most frequently were with the one with a song about keeping water clean, the one with singing frogs in it, and How The Earth Got Its Sun, to the point where this trio of ads got played as late as 2009 on some affiliates.
• In 2009 to somewhere around 2013 PBS would always play promos of Martha Speakslike this after episodes of Arthur on most PBS stations but they were usually played a lot after Arthur and occasionally after the PBS Kids Go! shows or after Curious George episodes on most PBS stations.
• Around 2001, it was very common to see the Between the Lions "Between the Shows" promos on PBS' national feed. They usually came on after every other show, and sometimes played on two shows in a row.
• They also ran a lot of ads for Super Why!,The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, Martha Speaks, and Curious George. It was a little tough to escape, and it also played on other channels including Cartoon Network.
• In 2015, during the network's All-Star Curling Skins Game, Canadian sports channel TSN aired annoying ads for the Kidizoom smartwatch (manufactured by VTech, one of the event's sponsors) nearly every break, sometimes multiple times in a single break. Now, the bigger problem is that this ad, which seems to have been intended for constant airplay on a children's channel, was being broadcast during a mainstream sporting event. The closest comparison would be ESPN repeatedly airing a toy ad during a college football game.
• A commercial for one of the Spy Kids movies (either the third or fourth one) would air twice in a row every single time, at least on some Canadian TV channels. The fact that it started with a montage of kids screaming "Spy Kids! Spy Kids!" didn't help.
• On many websites streaming anime and Animesque shows an ad for Mister Sparky, an electrician service with a jingle at the end, would be played as the only ad before the videos. Some episodes would play the ad TWICE IN A ROW. Those who live near a Mister Sparky service can also see it before some YouTube videos!
• During one episode of the Steve Harvey Family Feud on GSN in February 2015, an ad for Activia yogurt was shown twice in a row.
• Radio station WPLJ would play the ad for the Liberty Science Center's Sesame Street Presents: The Body exhibit at least once an hour.
  • In the summer of 2018, they gave the same treatment to the radio ad for the SpongeBobmusical.
• On many TV talk shows and early morning programs in the early 2000's, the ad for Jenny Craig would play at least once a break.

• During the summer in the Tri-State area you can expect to see ads for local theme parks like Splish Splash and Adventureland overwritten during the middle of ad breaks. On the premiere of the "Here Come The Classic Yo-Kai!" episode of Yo Kai Watch, the former ad played three times, with one of those instances being two airings of the ads sandwiched between an Neutrogena commercial.
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• The commercial for the 2001 collection of Popples is comprised of two ads that are pretty much the same, but the only difference is that there's a different set of Popples being played with and the lyrics are altered to talk about those particular Popples.
• One of the commercials for the original Furbywas comprised of two of three short ads with the same set-up and music strung together: one where two girls play "Furby Says"and another with the same girls speaking Furbish A third variantbegan with a Furby sneezing and the narrator saying that Furbies need your care.
• The Shirley Temple Little Darling Collectionwas advertised on multiple channels, beginning in the very start of the The New '10s, and became a running joke on social media, specifically usage of "Animal Crackers In My Soup".
• These two commercials, for Booking and Angel Soft respectively, commonly appear on certain websites that insert video ads on their pages. Even worse, if a website that plays either ad is browsed on a mobile device while you are listening to music, the ad will pause the song and show the audio of the ad only until it finishes, despite the user not being able to hear it.
• During an August 2017 airing of Just One of the Guys on This TV Tampa, two different ads for some "broken glass for cash" service bookended a break.
• And there's the ad for "C-Span Studentcam", which is commonly seen on the HLN channel during local ad insertions. This ad isn't local though, so it's probably seen in other areas. This stopped airing once the contest ended in January 2018.
• These SpeedyCash ads will usually appear twice in a commercial break
• • Back when they had the rights to the show, this promofor Tweenies would play during the break in between every other show on the block. During the same period, whenever a "Move To The Music" promo played, half of the time, the song would be one from Tweenies, with the most frequently-played one being the show's version of "She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain".
• During the inaugural airing of The Muppets All-Star Comedy Gala on the Comedy Network, a promo for the network's holiday programming (in which Santa crashes a family's house to the family's dismay) aired at the end of almost every break.
• Crunchyroll tends to have this problem as well. It's not uncommon for all the ad breaks in a video to consist of a single ad repeated across the ad break (a total of ten times for the average anime episode).
• During The Hub's Animaniacs Christmas Eveevent, this ad for Ice Age: Continental Driftplayed every other ad break.
• Sometimes, this trope happens on non-TV platforms, with social media sites also suffering from this trope.
  • An example from Twitter was this videopromoting the Nickelodeon summer line-up that showed up a lot in the summer of 2019, along with ads for the reboot of All That. These ads most often show up on the day when the latter show is going to premiere a new episode, though it will also show up when they're about to premiere a new episode of a show (like the day Pups Save The Mighty Twins premiered) or a movie (like when they premiered Epic (2013)) that day.
  • Nickelodeon does this a lot for any big event. Perhaps the worst offender was the ads for their broadcast of The SpongeBob Musical, which took every single ad slot and had its ads start a week before the actual event, when most ads for new Nickelodeon shows or specials only showed up the day of said event. Complaining about the frequency of the ads became a meme among the animation community
  • Ads for BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! are also a common sight on Twitter. Whenever a new event is added to the game, the official account will promote it every five ad spaces. The collaboration with Hatsune Miku got slightly more promotion, with ads promoting it appearing every three ad spaces.
  • It also happens on apps as well. For example, on My Tamagotchi Forever, ads for Toreba and Love Nikki Dress-Up Queen will often show up. The former ad is so common that sometimes it will show up twice in a row when you're trying to do an activity that requires you to watch an ad, like continuing one of the mini-games or speeding up the sleeping time of your character.

  
  
  • In the summer of 2014, ads for Dora and Friends: Into the City! kept playing over and over again during every ad break, sometimes playing three times or more! Not helping matters is that the one they repeated the most was just footage of kids screaming Dora's name.

    Not even the UK channel is safe from this. During the morning block of shows around the time the UK channel got SpongeBob, an ad for the Nick Jr. cable channel featuring children singing the ending song of Blue's Clues and tossing around a stuffed animal of Blue kept playing every break
  
  
  • On December 14, 2018, before an airing of a Spongebob episode, this Kumi Kreator adplayed FOUR times in a row!
  • Another favorite commercial of Nick Jr from the late 90's to early 2000's was the series of Frosted Flakes ads that featured this song.
  • This tends to happen with any The Loud House special, with "Friended! With The Casagrandes" and "Cooked!" being the most notable examples of this treatment, with both specials' ads airing as early as a month in advance.
  • When the Rugrats reboot released it's special on Nick, a commercial for it aired every other break, sometimes in the same break.
  • If a new episode airs on the Nick Jr. block, there's a good chance the Nick Jr. channel would air an ad and ask viewers to switch over to Nickelodeon now to watch it right before another program starts.