Okay, I'm taking some very important moments of your life (and mine) to riff a bit on Jamster. If you're not familiar with them, Jamster is the company advertising the ability to get ringtones of the mono and polyphonic variety sent directly to your mobile phone. They sell other mobile stuff as well, but ringtones seem to be their main gig.In a 45 minute timeframe watching MTV2 this afternoon, I saw no less than four commercials for Jamster, and they're actually really annoying. It's not that the songs they're pumping (which is the appropriate term) are annoying, but the ads are - it's like force feeding something on unsuspecting viewers who aren't going to realize what they are going to pay for a product.
While doing some international travel in the last few years, primarily to Germany, you come across ads like this that are typically for sex-related SMS conversations - who knew, right - they're quick and dirty, thrown together in a way that makes you just want to reply, just to see what it is that you were caught by.
1. Can't agree more. When I was at home a few months back, during a workday, I tuned in to Comedy Central. I guess they sold all their daytime slots to Jamster, because their spots were on incessantly! It got so bad that I changed the channel after about 45 minutes, specifically to avoid those crass spots, and didn't tune into Comedy Central for the next couple of days.
I can't remember the last time any ad annoyed me so much that I boycotted the whole network for that long a period of time. Whatever Jamster's doing, I hope it's generating sales for them, because it's causing plenty of collateral damage for the channels that carry them.
Posted at 11:55AM on Jun 15th 2005 by CT