If I was only going by commercials, I would probably go with Allstate because of the delightful "Mayhem" character. The actor, Dean Winters is also in an HBO miniseries called "Divorce" which had three seasons and was pretty funny.
I am convinced that the stupid "LIMU EMU" ads are placed on Amazon Prime Video for the sole purpose of pissing me off so badly that I am willing to pay to get rid of ads. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was PAYING Liberty to run those ads as psychological torture to get me to give in. I'm on the verge of succumbing or finding an emu to blast Progressive ads at all day.
Almost all ads are depressing or worse so I don't mind the car insurance ones as much (and I do like the Mayhem guy, he was Tina Fey's lay about boyfriend in 30 Rock). I particularly hate the "all the ailments you can die from" and even more demented pharma ads. My biggest peeve of late is a life insurance ad that runs on Triumph on SiriusXM all day its. The wife is telling the husband she has a dream he dies in a car crash without life insurance and he says "Gee that's awful Hon" and the rest is how he is rushing to get life insurance. Not "what did you eat last night to have such a dream?" If I was that husband, I would check my brake lines before every car ride...
Eh, as an employee of a company that compares insurance quotes with *EVERY. SINGLE. COMPANY in the Western Hemisphere*, thanks! For us it's usually a grouping of 4 -6 national carriers. We try to avoid providing leads to agents (and we do have our own agency) because typically the agents that buy the leads will bother you every few hours for more than a week.
But even the carriers will bother you over time.
Calls are worse - it's difficult at best to try to keep phone leads out of the hands of agents and other lead generators. When I test our phone call ring tree targets and routing plans for changes, I use a google voice line... and will typically get follow up calls for two weeks to the google voice line - about 18 to 21 calls per day. Which I block.
And it is frightening how much consumer data can be collected and forwarded to a call buyer, just from the consumer's phone number/caller ID - Name, address, own or rent a home, mortgage lender, mortgage title holder, the sale date of the home, the sales amount of the home, prior sales data of the home, any secondary phone number and provider, size of the home, garaging type, how many cars, the makes and models of cars - all in about three seconds.
So far, I've never had to file a claim. So far... God help me to never need to. Regards commercials, the Emu is too weird for consideration, Progressive (my car ins) is no thrill, but I'm there. The rest of them, I have no idea.
"I do not want to argue theistic determinism and free will with a British lizard."
This, right here. This is why we come here.
Mike Rafi has a series of short videos on insurance. This is maybe the best:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BbfNeUlEwyQ
One wonders just what nationality of lizard he will argue theistic determinism with?
If I was only going by commercials, I would probably go with Allstate because of the delightful "Mayhem" character. The actor, Dean Winters is also in an HBO miniseries called "Divorce" which had three seasons and was pretty funny.
I am convinced that the stupid "LIMU EMU" ads are placed on Amazon Prime Video for the sole purpose of pissing me off so badly that I am willing to pay to get rid of ads. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was PAYING Liberty to run those ads as psychological torture to get me to give in. I'm on the verge of succumbing or finding an emu to blast Progressive ads at all day.
Almost all ads are depressing or worse so I don't mind the car insurance ones as much (and I do like the Mayhem guy, he was Tina Fey's lay about boyfriend in 30 Rock). I particularly hate the "all the ailments you can die from" and even more demented pharma ads. My biggest peeve of late is a life insurance ad that runs on Triumph on SiriusXM all day its. The wife is telling the husband she has a dream he dies in a car crash without life insurance and he says "Gee that's awful Hon" and the rest is how he is rushing to get life insurance. Not "what did you eat last night to have such a dream?" If I was that husband, I would check my brake lines before every car ride...
OGH morphed into Agent Smith so gradually, I barely noticed
I like to go with the Progressive Box, since I threaten to confuse him with the Cologuard Box.
Bleatnik @GardenStater has almost 50 million views on his Advance Auto Parts commercial. I buy everything there now. https://youtu.be/68cKExVQi_A?si=vgsXCBX9eCE-0MCm
Eh, as an employee of a company that compares insurance quotes with *EVERY. SINGLE. COMPANY in the Western Hemisphere*, thanks! For us it's usually a grouping of 4 -6 national carriers. We try to avoid providing leads to agents (and we do have our own agency) because typically the agents that buy the leads will bother you every few hours for more than a week.
But even the carriers will bother you over time.
Calls are worse - it's difficult at best to try to keep phone leads out of the hands of agents and other lead generators. When I test our phone call ring tree targets and routing plans for changes, I use a google voice line... and will typically get follow up calls for two weeks to the google voice line - about 18 to 21 calls per day. Which I block.
And it is frightening how much consumer data can be collected and forwarded to a call buyer, just from the consumer's phone number/caller ID - Name, address, own or rent a home, mortgage lender, mortgage title holder, the sale date of the home, the sales amount of the home, prior sales data of the home, any secondary phone number and provider, size of the home, garaging type, how many cars, the makes and models of cars - all in about three seconds.
Yeah, sure, but the Government doesn’t have it! 🤣
So far, I've never had to file a claim. So far... God help me to never need to. Regards commercials, the Emu is too weird for consideration, Progressive (my car ins) is no thrill, but I'm there. The rest of them, I have no idea.
Hilarious and spot on, as always.