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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Jumping to Conclusions

    By and large (at least in the US) radio advertisements often employ a sense of humor that only a genuine idiot might appreciate.

This is certainly true of larger, syndicated radio stations. It's appealing to the lowest common denominator and taking the easiest route to a quick dollar. Plus, if you're the radio station or underwriter it's easier to sell. Most of the ads run on those kind of radio stations aren't exactly high-brow businesses anyway.

I actually have a decent amount of experience with creating, marketing, and running radio advertisements and have been fortunate enough to do so through a college-station in a mid-sized market. We avoid advertisements like you have described at all costs.