Tv adverts

[Frank]

Just had an offer of putting an advert on the big screens in the local garden centre on the gardens channel. Anyone had any experience of this? Pros/cons?

 

Adverts are shown every 20 minutes and last either 10-15-20 or 30 seconds long. All the design is done by the company and the tv advert is web site compatible so would kill 2 birds with the same stone.

 

What do you guys reckon? Have you done this? Do you think it would get any leads?

[robert t]

I tried this about 7 years ago. It wasn't tree work, it was for furniture making. The tv was mounted on the wall next to the tills, same thing cost was on the amount of time ad runs. I didn't realize when I signed up that there was no sound with the ad. I ran the ad for a year and didn't get one lead from it, so it didn't work for me.

 

A while after my ad I was doing an exhibition in another garden center with one of these tv ads and watched with interest how little,if any, people paid attention to the tv.

As said was while back and maybe the set up is better now, but definitely the the lack of sound didn't make people take notice.

[armchairarborist]

why would anyone watch an advert channel? i wouldn't, local rugby club tried to sign me for something similar and made it sound ace, maybe with a felling vid or something but i think it would just upset all the bunnyhuggers.

[18 stoner]

Depends on cost.

 

If it were say £10 a month i might try it, but somehow i dont think it would be that cheap.

 

Also would like to see the set up first, and possibly do like Robert says, stand and watch the punters, see if they look at it!

[Mesterh]

Sounds like you really need a captive audience to make it work.

 

How about the TV's they have in doctor's surgery waiting rooms?

 

 

Now that could be worth looking into.