Who likes Flo ?

Those commercials are dumb

Who likes Flo?

The over the hill gang?

One of the most successful marketing campaigns and brand icons in American advertising history by every single measure. So, to answer your question, a lot of people. Far more than don't.

You'll also notice that you see her less often. The Dr. Rick commercials have been a huge hit as well, and there has also been more emphasis placed on the other characters, Flo's "friends." This is to extend the Flo lifecycle as long as possible, because the Flo ad campaign has been such an enormous success.

When "Aunt Flo" is in town...

Odd and quirky seems to be popular.

How would they measure how popular Flo is/was? How does that factor into the actual business?

There are a variety of ways, most of them driven by consumer data, but also by a company's financial performance. For example, several years ago, Progressive ran commercials starring "The Box." That character was a secondary campaign, similar what Dr. Rick is now. The data showed that new policy applications increased in the weeks following the airing of a new commercial starring The Box character. It was a very successful campaign for several years, and helped to extend the life cycle of Flo by not saturating the market with Flo commercials.

Advertising is expensive. No well run company is going to keep pumping money into an unsuccessful campaign. That doesn't mean there aren't bad ad campaigns, but the bad ones don't usually last very long.

Maybe marketing just keeps going with the Flo?

Ain't gonna lie...back in the day, Flo was charting pretty high on "the list".

Flo from Alice? Kiss my Grits?

Can't stand any of the insurance commercials...Progressive,State Farm,Liberty Mutual or Nationwide...They all suck!

Clearly.

Stephanie Courtney/Flo was a actress and stand up comedian before the Flo gig. I`m sure she has made a ton of money from being Flo. She has had more acting jobs but most I think have been since being the Flo character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRZiMUJ8bqE

She's kind of hot.

I like Flo a lot more than I like Jake from State Farm!
Not enough to jump ship to Progressive though.

I always wonder what the back story on the car is. Was it a nice example they started with, or a bondo buggy made to look good for TV?

Know your Flo.....

7 figure base, add more for any events or appearances she does. The latter is a 6 figure fee. Dude who plays Jamie makes big $ too.

I'm a confirmed commercial-hater, but I've enjoyed the Dr Pepper "Fansville" series.

I completely agree with you. I find Flo to be more than a little creepy, in a stalking ex-girlfriend sort of way (no, I've never had to deal with that).

But, as far as marketing goes, I miss Joe Isuzu...

"Guten Tag"

Joe the pathological liar, perfect for a car salesman.

Neither a commercial hater or lover. Normally I channel surf during commercials but I will chuckle when I see a good one.

Loved Joe Isuzu. Loved VW un-pimp my ride with Peter Stomare. Geico's celebrity commercials are fantastic. Bud Light's Real American Heroes/Real Men of Genius radio commercials were brilliant too.

Which Jake? The original or the diverse one?

I would never buy insurance from a company with that name nor the puppet master that owns it.

Oh come on! You don't start singing along when "Opportunities" starts playing in the Allstate commercial?

What is hard for me to comprehend is people actually get paid big $$ to come up with this irritating cr-p. When someone does have a good commercial it never sticks around

I met the woman who plays Flo on the commercials in 2012 at the Grand National Roadster show in Pomona, CA. She is a comedac actress and was chosen for the part. She was going through the building after the show and I was tearing down, she had spike heals on. I yelled at her to take those damn shoes off, she looked down, took them off, and said "what was I thinking?". We had a good laugh then she came over for a cold one...

Best/funniest commercials on right now are the "Mayhem" ones for Allstate...

This thread makes me think it must be winter on Moparts...

I thought the very same thing, especially after reading some of the replies......including mine

The gal spokes person for Newday mortgage. She’s a looker. There’s a blond on there now.

Insurance commercials? I thought this was going to be about Flo Racing streaming racing.

What next?


Boy, I like that little Gecko. I wonder how they trained him to do that?

Why would a company stop using a successful ad campaign early on in it's existence? Bad ad campaigns are never successful. Defining "good" and "bad" based on your own preferences doesn't make it so. For example, I don't like the band Rush. At all. Change the station immediately if they come on. But they clearly do not "suck." People get paid big $$ to come up with successful ad campaigns. No success = no more big $$.

Joe Isuzu commercials were great. Wendy's had some doozies, as did ESPN with the Sports Center/nascar ride-alongs.
I don't have any TV services, so I don't see much, but I have chuckled at the geico ones.

Years back there was some that had the Frazier guy voicing a ream of paper, but I can't remember what the product was. They were OK

Typical Wendys:

I can't stand seeing constant lawyer/law firm commercials. Remember when they were not allowed to advertise on TV?

I would let her bounce up and down on my lap and talk about insurance ! Lol

You mean the real Jake from State Farm, or the fake Jake! I saw the original Jake outside Walmart with a will sell insurance for food sign!

Atleast they have the Duster in those ads! I love seeing Mopars on television!

The two frogs, Bud and Light. My favorite, young couple driving at nite on a lonely road hitchicker on side of road with case of beer under arm but carrying a big ax, he stops she said but he has a big ax, he said, but the case of beer. So he’s in the back and they’re going down the road again , there stands another hitchicker but he has this huge chainsaw the couple look and say ok BUT the ax guy in the back says “but he has a chainsaw” I never stopped laughing

Bud Light has hit some real advertising home runs over the years, no doubt.

Flo is a no go for me, the AT&T girl is a different story..................

i do not like flo..............

I would make Flo my ho!

I'd rather jam with Jan

In general of course commercials are super irritating, but I find Flo to be much less irritating than others.

I'm with 6PAX, so sick and tired of the injury attorney's ads!!!! Over and over and over!!!! After those sick of the "Medicare Hotline" or whatever they are called featuring washed up stars like Joe Namath, Jimmy JJ Walker, etc. I like the old black and white Gunsmokes and these medicare ones are run like crazy. Even if I were of age I'm sure I'd still be sick of them!!!!!

So yes, Flo is okay as far as commercials go, that is.

Who is Jan?

From the Toyota commercials.

She is weird looking.

yup

What are the 3 most enjoyable TV commercials of all time?

What are the 3 most irritating TV commercials of all time?

Maybe ten years ago there was a McDonald's commericial that had two guys riding in a car having lunch, and one of them drops a french fry down between the seat and console. The scene switches to under the seat where a tribe of little jungle natives live, and when the fry falls down from heaven they were like . Then a giant hand reaches down, feels around for the fry and takes it back.

Hilarious, but they must have gotten immediate complaints because I never saw it again ever. I remember it was during one of the New Year's college football games.

can't stand those, and I won't watch the Law & Order SVUs with him on them. And Liberty is like fingernails on a chalkboard. About the only insurance commercials that I'll watch are Farmers and Gecko.

You guys still watch advertising on TV?

The vast majority of what I watch from "regular" TV gets recorded on the PVR, so I can watch at a time that suits my schedule and skip the commercials. It's awesome not having to sit through that crap.

I think that would be lilly, do a google search of her some time, she is pretty dang hot, they squish her melons down for the commercials.

Formerly a man.

If only Progressive put that kind of "successful effort" into paying their claims/customer service, they wouldn't be at the bottom of the heap in major Insurance overall satisfaction ratings....I cringe every time I see these stupid Progressive, Liberty Life type retard commercials....made to capture the attention of mindless minions IMHO

That's why I'm out of touch (happily). No broadcast TV for 20+ years. When I do see it by accident at someone's house, the commercials remind me of why I dumped it long ago.

Now it's racing on...

99.9% of them suck but there where a few that where interesting. Bombarding the public to use your insurance is not a good ad campaign. What they are doing is making people hate them! They should be banned like cigarette commercials! But there are more that i would add to the list like Domino's, The drug/lawyer commercials, and more recently those Public commercials are really pissing me off. What ever happened to interesting/enjoyable ads?

Those life insurance ones now with the worst actors ever, ugh! Like the one in which the family is standing around a hospital bed talking to their mom and telling her she really gave them a scare, for example. Classic example of skimping on marketing campaign.

Some may be old enough to remember this one. I was a little kid and still remember this one, because Wendys knocked it out of the park with this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0

Hmm, I seem to remember her being pregnant.

Correct.

Not a man.

"Hey mom, why are you making grandma's casserole?"
"It's for your uncle's funeral."
"Oh, right. Hey, he didn't have life insurance, did he?"

Or something to that effect.

Lol I know I was just

YES! That's one of them!!!!!!

The extent of their acting experience was a 3rd grade play, and the writing is even worse. Total downer.

The more stupid it is the more it sticks in your mind! Made you comment on it right?

That's true, but what's the point if it's all negative? I wouldn't buy from any company that has stupid commercials.

Roadcuda is right. If it causes me to have a negative connotation when I hear the company name, not good! It's so bad I immediately mute, change channel, fast forward (DVR), or go to kitchen. It's like a fork in the garbage disposal.

Not as bad with 3X fast forward or "SKIP" on Tivo.

Flo is attractive - not really my type.

Toyota Jan - really cute - nice figure

At&T Lily - Super curvy, cute, but then I looked her up and she's a bit of a wingnut. YMMV.

The one I really like right now is the commercial where some garage band is trying out a new lead guitarist, who just happens to be SLASH, after he plays for 3 seconds the girl says "you're hired" Makes me chuckle every time I see it

The Drew Carey show had a similar scene back in the day. Slash was one of the guitarists they turned down.

You think people are switching to progressive, just because they like the commercials?

You can bet they spend millions doing marketing studies that prove successful advertising campaigns make them money.

Specifically because they like the commercials? Maybe a handful, just as there are maybe a handful of people who will actually not use this business or that one just because they hate the commercials. Lots of people say stuff like that, most of them are liars. You're missing the entire point, though. The commercial's not intended to get people to switch solely because they like the commercial. Commercials are designed to generate interest in the product/service. By generating interest, it gives the company an opportunity to gain a new customer. Advertising is expensive. Nothing a company does from an advertising standpoint is done without a goal, without intent, and without being able to measure the impact.

30 years ago you never had insurance commercials back to back on TV. Now they say they are a quality insurance that's been around for 30 years. My question is WHERE? 30 years ago there was about 3 main insurance companies and one of them i had since then so i am not switching. I remember they told me they may not be offering insurance in my state because of some law back then. The flood gates opened and now every fly by night insurance company has a commercial(and a stupid mascot). Only pay for what you need one says, How about only pay when i need it! Back when super storm Sandy hit the insurance companies had some loophole to get out of paying. What they should advertise is what they pay out to people who actually need it compared to how much of your premium goes to advertising. Insurance is nothing but a worthless money pit. Put Flo in a string bikini and maybe it will make me pay more attention rather then change the channel!

"WHERE'S THE BEEF ?"................

I like the Flo commercials. The one I really hate is Limu the Emu. I remember the Wendy's commercials...."Where's the beef?" Hilarious.

All I know is if they saved me $687/year they would be paying me money to have their insurance.

Wendy's and the company that did the commercials were sued by a small hamburger chain owner who had the same commercial before them. It was stolen.
They I think agreed to pay but not admit that they did.

That was back in the day, now ... not so much ...

The company backs people that want to limit things they have no business limiting, so for that the sooner the company goes belly up the better.

I've always thought "Flo" was quite unattractive, and annoying as he!!

i keep thinking the same thing !
maybe i'll ask my insurance company if they can save me that amount as well.................i can almost hear their reply.

I thought this commercial was clever and funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9J8re-9ZE

Their marketing people are top notch.

I actually tried it, no I didn't get any money, BUT the barrage of advertising I was getting from them suddenly stopped.

(their 'lowest' was actually $14 more per month than what I was paying and theirs had less coverage )

Different companies underwrite differently and end up providing different rates to the same person.

I understand that, I'm just saying after all the insistence from GEICO that they could save me money, they actually couldn't.

So somebody actually believed the ad would save them money?

I would love to see their formula.

I had 2 teenage boys on my policy born a month apart. after a year and a half or so, Son #1 terrible driving record and several expensive accidents. Son #2 much better driving record, less accidents and lower damage when he had them. They wanted to drop son #2 with no mention of son #1. Both on the same policy. We paid an extra $15 a month to keep Son #2 ( with the better driving record) on the policy.
Fast forward a few years and they are getting their own insurance and leaving our policy. Son #2 had caught up and passed Son #1 as the bad driver with several expensive accidents and tickets. Son #1 had learned his lesson and drove much better. They both called our company and #1 son was quoted an insanely high rate. #2, now with a much worse driving record, got a very cheap rate.

It was like they wanted to punish the better driver whomever it was at the time.