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There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

Lee D Silver badge

"I stopped watching commercial TV before 1990. An advertising impact study once asked me about a TV advert. I could remember the rather wooden public figure delivering the product endorsement - but couldn't remember which company it was for."

They stopped running the "easily-turn-off-and-on-able" ads because everyone thought they were for British Gas, I think.

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