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Sky Mobile Advert is excessive

joshyboi96 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:20:25 GMT

Hi guys,

This is a very random post but it I've never had an ad bug me so much in my life.

If i watch any of the Sky channels the stupid ad plays 3 times on every break. Every. Single. Break.

The song is the same song over and over and over again.

I don't mind ads, why would I pay for Sky TV if i didn't, but to have the same one 3 times on every break? Come on, give us a break seriously. It honestly is discouraged me from watching any Sky channels at the moment as I can't stand the same crap song 15/18 times over within 1 hour. Does that not sound ridiculious?

I have no idea where to feed this back to, so I would appriciate it if someone could feed this back into the marketing team to hopefullly give everyones heads peace eventually.

Thanks!

Re: Sky Mobile Advert is excessive

Greenfingers001 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:10:40 GMT

Hi @joshyboi96 and welcome to the Sky forums, i understand your frustration and share your pain, i also spend a lot of time with the tv on and some companies certainly do spend a lot of money on tv marketing and Sky are one of them. I have found the best way to avoid any adverts is to pause during live playback whenever i leave the room to go outside or anywhere else, then if i notice any annoying adverts come on i fast forward until the ad break ends. I will certainly feed back your opinions to the marketing team although i'm not sure what influence it will have on Sky's marketing strategy!

Thanks for your feedback, and lets hope we can all get out a little more once things get back to normality lol!

Stay safe

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stevehb — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:50:14 GMT

I am with you Josh these sky mobile adverts drive me crazy, just shows how much money is involved if sky can push this so hard, for me the mute button works just fine, as soon as the ads come on so does the mute button, so sky really are doing a dis-service to the other advertisers as i dont listen to any of them, my attention is usually elsewhere when the ads are on as well so i dont see them either.

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ThirteenCats — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:07:11 GMT

Totally agree, sick of the Beach Boys and the same bit of the same song multiple times every ad break if we forget to mute it.

It's like a form of torture, I fail to see how it would persuade anyone to take out a Sky Mobile contract (unless they promised it would make it stop!)

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GerThom — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:36:49 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice.....if they put a sock in it.

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peterm50 — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:02:53 GMT

I watch a lot of live CRICKET on Sky and THIS WRETCHED ADVERT is driving me insane ---- I have to keep the remote very close to me just to mute and look away. It has been on at least TEN TIMES already today.

Sky need to fire the advertising agency involved here.

Try to sell the product to me --- not a knackered out nasaly drone from a has been American band.

They have competition now from CURRY/PC WORLD with some young woman with thick glasses and weird accent.

Comes on in every break on Sky cricket and is another prompt mute job.

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caesarome — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:37:56 GMT

@peterm50 wrote:

They have competition now from CURRY/PC WORLD with some young woman with thick glasses and weird accent.

It is called a Scottish accent. These adverts don't bother me because if it isn't these then it would be something else and if they bother you that much then either mute or channel surf when they are on.

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nannyuber — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:10:37 GMT

I used to love this song when I was 14 as the full lyrics are about wishing you were old enough to be married, spend the night together etc. Totally inappropriate for a Sky advert. The advert has played three times while I have been typing this and is putting me off watching anything on Sky.

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Melons20 — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:03:27 GMT

Omg seriously my ears bleed every time I hear it

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Mattie1979 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:10:22 GMT

The Sky Mobile Phone advert that is shown a hell of a lot more than the one with the Beach Boys song is the one with the song "I Just Called To Say Hello" I hit the mute button as soon as that advert comes on.

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ThirteenCats — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:22:07 GMT

Tell me about it - they have somehow managed to replace the most annoying advert song ever with an even MORE annoying song.

Hello? Bye bye!

Seriously this is torture! Can't wait til my contract is up, I'm switching back to Virgin (I know I'll still get that adverts but at least I won't be paying for them! )

I've already had to stop watching the channels that had the Beach Boys one as the sponsorship thing 3 times every ad break.

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Mattie1979 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:33:51 GMT

I don't think I can change to Virgin because I live in a block of flats and there's a communal Sky Dish

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Furraz — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:58:45 GMT

I couldn't agree more . Its highly irritating and ro be honest the more its in my face the less interested I am . The Christmas package advert is easily the worst

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Boz1972 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:14:35 GMT

And do sky realise that This Morning on daytime TV playing this 'wouldn't it be nice if we were older and we wouldn't have to wait so long' is about teens gagging for sex and frustrated they aren't old enough? Quite inappropriate if you ask me. Repetitive to the point that I now hate the beach boys. 🤣

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Adam+Sax — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:38:00 GMT

Hi all,

Yes, I totally agree. Comforting to know that Im not the only one who finds this extremely irritating.

It really is far too much. Surpised Sky Mobile themselves haven't realised that it's actually turning people off and not making us go out and buy their product.

3 times it's been on just typing this. Arghh!!

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Steve44030 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 14:11:22 GMT

Couldn't agree more. I am sick to the back teeth of this Sky Mobile advert with Lily James and the Beach Boys tune. It is on every single ad break and it needs to stop now. It infuriates me that I have to put up with this hounding me if I want to watch live sport. There needs to be a limit of how many times adverts can be shown and frankly I will never ever consider buying sky mobile purely on the grounds of this advert. Stop ramming it down out throats for the love of god!!!! Wouldn't it be nice.....if you just STOPPED!!

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Boz1972 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 14:41:46 GMT

I've stopped watching This Morning so I don't have a melt down and smash my TV to bits. Lol 😆 👍

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Karenada — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:33:28 GMT

Like all the other commenters I am so sick of the sky mobile ads, the music and especially Lily James. Get someone else! Given the unsavoury press she has had over recent months she isn't someone who will entice me to get a sky mobile contract . Quite the opposite!

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Durins+Bane — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:06:17 GMT

I agree 100%. Also when I watch anything on Sky Comedy, I get a Sky Bet avert with Jeff Stelling bleating on about Sky Bet doing comedy. This is infuriating and thoroughly ruins my viewing customer experience. At least the streaming sites have no continuous annoying Jeff Stelling puns nor Beach Boys songs. I used to love Jeff on soccer Saturday but now my customer experience has been ruined.

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Boz1972 — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:30:29 GMT

I have been so narked at sky this last year, so much so that I've migrated all but mobile to virgin media. 😆