History Main / RepeatingAd

** In 2009 to somewhere around 2013 PBS would always play promos of ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'' like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq7RB5LE70 this]] after episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' on most PBS stations but they were usually played a lot after Arthur and occasionally after the PBS Kids Go! shows or after Curious George episodes on most PBS stations.

** Curiously averted in the 2016 edition, where no ad seemed to play more than twice. However, there was an ''alarming'' abundance of ads for prescription pills such as Abilify. [[MisaimedMarketing Keep in mind that the parade is largely aimed at children]].

* Back when [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4KidsTV]] premiered ''WesternAnimation/{{Bratz}}'' and ''[[Anime/OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]]'', [[https://youtu.be/DyM8i9-ZUNU the commercial for Bratz Babyz Mermaidz]] would play multiple times during the girls programming on the block. It got to the point where it actually aired during an episode of Bratz itself, but unlike the ''Bananas in Pyjamas'' example, [[UsefulNotes/SegregatedCommercial the FCC didn't catch this violation of their rules for children's programming]].

* Generally, approaching and during UsefulNotes/SafeHarbor on Creator/ComedyCentral and other cable channels, you will find that ads for male enhancement pills, phone sex services, condoms, and, most hilariously, mattresses and sleeping pills, will triple in frequency, sometimes playing the same ad twice a break.

* [=YouTube=] ads are pretty repetitive as well. You would see the same ad on like, three different videos. An ad pretty common to see in January of 2018 is ads for iPad Pro (Where is it you wanna go?) as well as the ad for ''Step Up: High Water''.

* On many websites streaming anime and {{Animesque}} shows such as ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'', [[https://youtu.be/fmhfC3r0F7E this ad for Mister Sparky]], an electrician service with a jingle at the end, would be played as the only ad before the videos. Some episodes would play the ad TWICE IN A ROW. Those who live near a Mister Sparky service can also see it before some Website/YouTube videos!

** The nonstop DFS ads died down as scrutiny began to increase over the games' legality, especially when the New York Attorney General accused them of insider trading. But the same companies (as well as many others) kicked back into gear in the late-2010s when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that effectively prohibited states (besides Nevada) from legalizing sports betting. Some users also reported seeing the ads on social media or some Website/YouTube videos.

** The ad also plays as a pre-roll ad on Website/YouTube and on TV channel-based websites that offer news such as CNN, Fox News and local affiliates of ABC and The CW.

* Website/YouTube ads are pretty repetitive as well. You would see the same ad on like, three different videos. An ad pretty common to see in January of 2018 is ads for iPad Pro (Where is it you wanna go?) as well as the ad for ''Step Up: High Water''.

* Whenever Website/{{Twitch}} plays ads, there's a good chance it will just play ''one'' ad, over and over again, for as long as they feel is necessary before taking you to the stream/VOD you're trying to watch, which is incredibly annoying. One more incentive to fork over the cash for Twitch Turbo, perhaps? Alternatively, you can exploit a glitch by repeatedly using the Report Playback Issue feature and selecting the ad played too many times, for which ads may go away.
* Website/{{Crunchyroll}} tends to have this problem as well. It's not uncommon for all the ad breaks in a video to consist of a single ad repeated across the ad break (a total of ten times for the average anime episode).

** On Website/YouTube, the most common ad is an ad for Amazon AR, while the second most common is a ''[=YouTube=] Music'' that uses Cardi B's "I Like It".

** Ironically, people who lived near the Northern Panhandle of WV experienced the opposite, they barely saw it at all.

* Creator/DisneyChannel is an interesting case as they don't run traditional advertising breaks. Instead, all the commercials are specifically related to any upcoming episodes of the channel's series, or for other Disney related properties like [[Creator/WaltDisneyPictures movies]], [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme parks]] and [[Creator/HollywoodRecords music]] (along with their [[Creator/RadioDisney radio stations]] in the past), with actual adverts (i.e. those for non-Disney products) being substituted with "proud sponsor" spots featuring positive messages from firms like toy companies and food & drink manufacturers. So naturally if you wind up watching a Disney Channel show for a long period of time, you're bound to see the ''exact same commercials'' multiple times per hour.

* For some bizarre reason, in November 2019 the [=YouTube=] ads played before most videos with ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' content was [[UsefulNotes/UserOperationProhibitFlag an unskippable one]] for Oui Yogurt, making some jokingly wonder if Hasbro has a deal with Yoplait to use [=YouTube=] ads as a way to sneakily convince [=TransFans=] to buy yogurt.

*** Instagram ''loves'' displaying ads for ''VideoGame/RoyalMatch'', and can sometimes show up multiple times on a single timeline. Outside the platform, same thing goes for many mobile games that require users to watch ads in order to do certain things.

* From early 2022 until late 2023, it was difficult to watch American television without seeing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-uE0FItxY this ad]] for Claritin where you could make your day "the most wonderful time of the year." It is kind of odd to see a Christmas song be played at any other time of the year, particularly in the spring. In fact, the variant where one of the girls claims "it's spring" is the one that's played the most during the springtime. Sometimes, the ad would play twice during a single show.

** Instagram frequently showed ads that were probably by the same company that referenced [[Music/{{Drake}} "God's Plan"]] in the fall of 2018. [[https://preview.redd.it/gtyvbuhbbto11.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d8a1ef11d0efd7b428233dcfebe0f12a05305ab7 Here's one example of these ads]].

** An example from Twitter was [[https://twitter.com/nickelodeon/status/1139296241555320834 this video]] promoting the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} summer line-up that showed up a lot in the summer of 2019, along with ads for the reboot of ''Series/AllThat''. These ads most often show up on the day when the latter show is going to premiere a new episode, though it will also show up when they're about to premiere a new episode of a show (like the day ''Pups Save The Mighty Twins'' premiered) or a movie (like when they premiered ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'') that day.

** Not even children's research hospitals such as Shriners Hospitals for Children and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital are safe from this. During the 2022 holiday season, they ended up getting the same treatment and even extended into the first week of 2023.

* Spotify is notorious for this if you don't have premium. An ad for Ikea where a man with a Swedish accent talks about how his voice isn't "exciting enough" was a popular one in summer 2020, as was one for a playlist featuring "That's What I Like" by Music/BrunoMars and "Give Me One Reason" by Music/TracyChapman.

* If you watched Creator/TheCW[[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] in 2010, you could not watch one ad break without seeing many ads for Sketchers shoes, or one ad repeated twice. A common example of this was when [=TheCW4Kids=] aired the network premiere of TMNT: Turtles Forever. An ad for "Twinkle Toes" shoes played, followed by a "Sketch-Air" ad, and then 2 more "Twinkle Toes" ads!

* Since the 2022 holiday season, Hess has put out an ad advertising their collectible toy trucks that looks like an ad that would typically air on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. However, they went awol with it and aired it mostly on broadcast networks such as [=CBS=], even during afternoon and nighttime programming (!). While it mostly died down after 2023 began, they started showing up again in November of that year and may show no sign of stopping any time soon.