# Product categories no longer advertised on TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [September 22, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136 "2021-09-22T20:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/41 "2021-09-22T22:57:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > (Beetles _are_ still being made, though, aren’t they? They’ve just been redesigned.) Alas, no; [the most recent Beetle model (the A5)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_(A5)) was discontinued by VW after the 2019 model year. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/42 "2021-09-22T22:59:55Z")
Okay, I did not know that. Pity. I’ve always wanted one. ☹ The other cars were just meant to be facetious. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/43 "2021-09-22T23:03:10Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Also, they aren’t yet available for sale (they only started production three weeks ago), so other than doing some teasers, there isn’t much need to advertise them yet. The Maverick is going to be introduced for the 2022 model year, and is expected to go on sale by the end of this year. True, but the end of this year isn’t _that_ far away. You’d think they’d want to try to generate interest in them before they actually go on sale. But maybe they’ve done enough of that through other channels. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/44 "2021-09-22T23:05:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The other cars were just meant to be facetious. I apologize. I forgive you. It just isn’t interesting that companies are not currently buying commercial air time for products that have not been manufactured for decades. (But it _would_ be interesting if any did. Show me a current ad campaing from Sony trying to get you to buy Betamax and I’ll be impressed.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/45 "2021-09-22T23:06:47Z")
I hear you! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/46 "2021-09-22T23:27:43Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > You’d think they’d want to try to generate interest in them before they actually go on sale. But maybe they’ve done enough of that through other channels. I suspect that’s the case. Also, demand for pretty much all new cars and trucks has been outpacing demand this year, due to production limits caused by parts shortages (particularly computer chips). As a result, the automakers are in a position where they really don’t need to stoke additional demand for most models, and from what I’ve read, there is already a lot of excitement for the Maverick. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/47 "2021-09-23T01:10:33Z")
I don’t see any commercials for Serutan or Geritol, which seemed to be really common decades ago. Doesn’t anyone get “iron poor blood” anymore? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/48 "2021-09-23T01:22:09Z")
I don’t watch much tv but do local grocery stores advertise anymore? ♪ Dominick’s ♪ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/49 "2021-09-23T01:25:04Z")
Down at the shop where the lights come from The Mazda man put his thinking cap on He made a light, a wonder light And he called it Mazda Wonderlight He took the boxes to the shops With different colours on the tops Now you can tell what watt you’ve got Now you can tell what watt you’ve got That’s right, that’s bright That’s Mazda Wonderlight. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/50 "2021-09-23T01:59:50Z")
> [@Yodalicious](#): > > What about commercials for Time/Life books … Thinking about Time/Life: Another erstwhile type of commercial were those for magazine subscriptions. I remember Time and Sports Illustrated most vividly. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LYrHLIxJZpw/hqdefault.jpg "Time magazine commercial from 1982") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYrHLIxJZpw) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/71cj55haGS0/hqdefault.jpg "Sports Illustrated Commercial w/Chuck McCann 1983") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cj55haGS0) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/51 "2021-09-23T02:03:45Z")
What about Publisher’s Clearing House—do they still do commercials? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/52 "2021-09-23T02:14:49Z")
Definitely not as frequently as they used to run them. Publishers Clearing House is still around, but it seems their focus is more online these days. Still, they were running TV spots last year with Marie Osmond. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZFd7Tzoqn7g/maxresdefault.jpg "Win $1,000 A Week For Life SuperPrize Sweepstakes with Marie Osmond") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFd7Tzoqn7g) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/53 "2021-09-23T17:44:02Z")
I don’t see a lot of TV commercials but I haven’t seen any recent ones for board games. This includes games like Twister and Yahtzee. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/54 "2021-09-23T18:39:49Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > I don’t see a lot of TV commercials but I haven’t seen any recent ones for board games. I’ll occasionally see ads for both “family” games (mostly from Hasbro), and kid-oriented games, mostly on cable channels that focus on kid-oriented programming, but it’s definitely not common, and not the sort of ads you’d see on the major networks anymore. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/55 "2021-09-23T20:10:15Z")
Tuna - I still buy tuna and remember talking cartoon fish from my youth. Probably not advertised since the 70s. Sorry, Charlie. Peanut butter - I can still name several brands but cannot think of any recent ads for any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/56 "2021-09-23T20:39:24Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > **Long distance carriers**. [“Reach out and touch someone”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO17B-ACRn0) was the tagline of one of the most successful ad campaigns in advertising history. What do you get if you cross a rooster and a Bell telephone pole? A 30-foot cock that wants to reach out and touch someone. No one would get that, nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/57 "2021-09-23T21:31:16Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Tuna - I still buy tuna and remember talking cartoon fish from my youth. Probably not advertised since the 70s. Sorry, Charlie. For whatever reason, this was the first thing that sprang to my mind. Have the Tuna Wars between Starkist and Chicken of the Sea cooled down? And, margarine. I remember Parkay and Imperial and Chiffon (“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”) being heavily advertised. Do they still advertise kids’ cereals on TV, and I just never see the ads because I don’t watch kids’ shows? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/58 "2021-09-23T21:37:37Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Tuna - I still buy tuna and remember talking cartoon fish from my youth. Probably not advertised since the 70s. Sorry, Charlie. Starkist still does some ads for their newer foil pouches of tuna (as well as salmon and chicken), and they still even use Charlie. I’ve seen this ad on cable TV in the last couple of weeks. But, for canned tuna? They may well have not advertised it in many years. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIinzhMM5o) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/59 "2021-09-23T21:41:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Do they still advertise kids’ cereals on TV, and I just never see the ads because I don’t watch kids’ shows? I’ve seen ads on cable for Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, and Lucky Charms within the past few weeks. I do suspect that it’s a matter of you not watching the channels/shows where they place the ads. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136/60 "2021-09-24T02:29:06Z")
I’m seeing commercials galore for laxatives right now. Anemia isn’t as common as it used to be, due to improved diet, and it often has causes that iron supplements alone won’t treat. BTW, Geritol is still on the market, as an iron-fortified vitamin supplement. > **[Multivitamins - Multivitamin Supplement - Supplement your Vitamins With...](https://www.geritol.com/)** > > Geritol® multivitamins deliver just the right balance of key vitamins and minerals. When it comes to nutrition support, people have trusted the Geritol® name for generations [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-categories-no-longer-advertised-on-tv/951136.md?page=4)