YZFRydn

These adverts are asking for money so they can help stop animal cruelty but some of the images.

One of them seems to be a Donkey with a broken leg trying to walk and yet rather than help these people have just filmed it in obvious pain.

How do people get behind these organisations that will happily let an animal suffer just that bit more so they can make an advert?

retired_kylakras

On the RSPCA one they have a cheering crowd in the background - Gives a great impression =/

It also has Simon Cowell's boring voice which makes me turn over until the advert has finished.

retired_linton_justin

Well an advert asking for money to help prevent / cure animal cruelty featuring perfectly healthy animals without a scratch on them isnt really going to do the job is it?

retired_yesmoncar

Charities spending hundreds of thousands of pounds advertising on TV annoy me. People are donating to help people, not to allow you more adverts.

retired_kylakras

Exactly - I wonder how much Simon Cowell, or his soundalike got paid for doing the advert...

Asking people to donate money when I bet they got quite a big fee for doing the advert themselves.

[If somebody comes up with facts that he did it for free then sorry]

retired_linton_justin

But more adverts = more people becoming aware = more people donating. And I doubt the people who do donate their money to charities will mind that some of that money will be spent on generating more money for said charity.

retired_kylakras

But then people who would consider donating, like me, are put off simply because the adverts are poor and the celebrities endorsing them are probably taking the charity for a ride.

I am pretty sure adverts can be made at a low-budget, maybe using real victims (sounds so weird calling an animal a victim) - Without splashing around wads of cash to plums like Simon Cowell.

retired_princesspouty

Adverts aren't a perk you know? The charities don't get the cash then go "Oooh we've got enough money to make a really good advert now!".

The adverts wouldn't cost much to make - they are put on digital channels during the day, which would cost very little.

It's called speculating to accumulate.

retired_kylakras

How much would it have cost to get Simon Cowell or whoever it is to make a cameo voice apperance in the advert?

retired_princesspouty

How do you know Cowell got paid at all? Has it occurred to you that he may actively support the charity and perhaps done it for nothing?

Not saying that's the case but you don't know it isn't the case, anymore than you know he got paid "wads".