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The answer is always video games.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkPFDEiC6Q http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Fakes-Dante-s-Inferno-Protest-17996.html Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 05:30 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Patrick Bateman there would have two handfuls of plastic either way
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Dec 7, 2014 02:35
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Patrick Bateman there would have two handfuls of plastic either way The fact that he's fighting a giant penis tells me he may not have been very interested in her to begin with.
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I felt like this was the douchiest commercial ever and pretty much guarantees I'd never buy a Cadi ( I may be exaggerating). Why yes, we work more than other countries and have lower quality of life! BUY THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc
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Snatch Duster posted:Since Apple fired their ad agency a little while back and brought advertising in house, their sales have been flat lining across all products. 
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This popular Mazda ad features a Capoeira song which translates to "Zoom zoom zoom, Capoeira just killed somebody." It's supposed to be played when somebody is about to get completely destroyed in the circle. They cut the lyrics from the Mazda ads, but it's still pretty funny to hear that a song meaning "oh my god dude you're about to have every bone in your body broken" playing over a car ad.
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Dec 7, 2014 08:56
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:This popular Mazda ad features a Capoeira song which translates to "Zoom zoom zoom, Capoeira just killed somebody." I don't doubt yout, but that is a seriously happy and peppy song about people gettin' rekt.
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everyone watch Only The Strong btw
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Jastiger posted:I felt like this was the douchiest commercial ever and pretty much guarantees I'd never buy a Cadi ( I may be exaggerating). Heh, yeah, work 90% of your life to buy a car which you'll never use because you'll never leave the office! Incredible.
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Sometimes a charity fucks it up royally by reducing it's beneficiaries to a glut of stereotypes.dynamicafrica.tumblr.com posted:South African Charity Given Award for Worst Stereotype Commercial. The ad in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcbotOur2E And an amazing response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbqA6o8_WC0
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Radio Paranoia posted:Sometimes a charity fucks it up royally by reducing it's beneficiaries to a glut of stereotypes. Holy poo poo 
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Holiday Inn once used a transsexual as a metaphor for renovations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FhjgxjAJxU This aired during the Super Bowl.
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RandomFerret posted:Yes, and this is a perfect example of why that's a bad policy, just like banning sex ed in schools. That's only half correct, there are exemptions made for displaying them in a historical, educational, or artistic context. School books, museums, historical tv programs etc. about that time period all do show images containing the swastika, SS runes, and suchlike. In this instance they just slapped the official circular logo on the customary red background of the bank and nobody stopped to consider how that combination would look on a vertical banner.
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Radio Paranoia posted:Sometimes a charity fucks it up royally by reducing it's beneficiaries to a glut of stereotypes. Do not read the comments, whatever you do, DO NOT read the loving comments 
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Noyemi K posted:Do not read the comments, whatever you do, DO NOT read the loving comments and install a comment blocker:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-comment-snob/
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Save yourself future Isn't there a variation on this that replaces offensive and misspelled comments with quotes from physicists and other luminaries? My friend said he had something like that and it sounds pretty great.
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Rough Lobster posted:Isn't there a variation on this that replaces offensive and misspelled comments with quotes from physicists and other luminaries? My friend said he had something like that and it sounds pretty great. A buddy of mine has one that examines each comment, and if it sees any misspellings or racial slurs, automatically changes the text to variations on "fart. FAAART. ~fart~ fart. Faaaart." I'm sure there's one out there that could do what you described. I just block 'em all when I'm browsing, but the fart machine is pretty goddamn funny at times. edit: quote:This video is offensive! Are all Americans pedophiles? It's a little girl in a fleshtone suit posing seductively! quote:fart GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 16:58 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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I don't know how dumb of an advertising move this was, but it sure pissed me off. In case you've never heard of it, the Elf on a Shelf is an ugly little elf doll that you move around your house nightly before Christmas every year to convince your kids he's a real spy for Santa so they're threatened into behaving. We have one, and I hate finding a new spot to put him every night where the kids can't reach him, and to convince them that he's really real and not just a stuffed doll, but my oldest (5-year old) gets excited as hell looking for him every morning and talks to him as if he's real, so it's cute enough to continue, I guess. So, I'm watching TV one day before Christmas last year and on comes a commercial that shows kids SO excited because they're getting an Elf on the Shelf for Christmas! You see them tearing open the package and there's the drat doll in the box. It completely negates the entire point of the doll (the kids aren't allowed to touch it or it'll lose its "magic powers") by showing them it's just a toy in a box they can take out and play with. Plus, what the hell do you do with it after they open the box? Try to convince them that it's really one of Santa's elves that showed up to keep an eye on them? And if they open it on Christmas, as the ad shows, then what do they do with it the rest of the year? It just becomes another doll, unless you take it away from them and then try to bring it out the following Christmas and tell them it's really an elf. And of course, the commercial aired on Nick Jr. or Disney Jr. or one of the other kids' channels where the little ones could see it. Perfect! Every time my kids were in the room with me after that while the TV was on I had to sit there with the remote at the ready in case this goddamn commercial came on again so I could hurry up and change the channel before they saw it and had a million questions about whether the stupid doll was really an elf or just a toy we bought them. Thankfully, I only saw the ad once; hopefully someone realized how bad of an idea this was and pulled it. Haven't seen it yet this year.
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My kids saw it and I just told them that the elf on the shelf doll is a doll they made because the real one is so popular.
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Vertical Lime posted:Holiday Inn once used a transsexual as a metaphor for renovations: This one is actually pretty interesting because the woman in the ad was a transwoman. She also was an adult movie star! So even if the ad was a little mean spirited they did actually hire a transwoman who was famous for doing pornography to star in it.
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Dockers had one of the most insulting/cringe-worthy ad campaigns of all time.  In case you can't read the eye-bleeding bad font: quote:One upon a time, men wore the pants, and wore them well. Women rarely had to open doors and little old ladies never crossed the street alone. Men took charge because that's what they did. But somewhere along the way, the world decided it no longer needed men. Disco by disco, latte by foamy non-fat latte, men were stripped of their khakis and left stranded on the road between boyhood and androgyny.
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I don't think I saw Qualcoms Born Mobile keynote in here yet. It's always worth a repost. its been posted on these forums a lot. I still don't know what they're advertising but it's an interesting and hilarious sequence of events. Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7qTHbOEiDY Whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ttm56QGYw CAN YOU DIG IT? Nostalgia4Dogges has a new favorite as of 08:44 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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So is that ad pro-Disco or anti-Disco? It's weirdly worded. oh no, not feminists and their salad bars!
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Kay it's gone
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umalt posted:Who was this keynote for? 2 posts above you dude
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I love that keynote so much. All it proved to me is that Qualcomm doesn't know how to run a loving company at all. I don't know how you get people in PR that bad and don't clean them out immediately.
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umalt posted:Who was this keynote for? Literally just two posts up from this one. e:f;b and two posts above me no less 
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I liked the orangina furry porn commercial. They really tapped into an underutilized market there.
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Noyemi K posted:Literally just two posts up from this one. Don't worry, the original poster did say it's always worth a repost.
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PC Mag had an interesting article after that Qualcomm thing. Basically, their argument was that it looked stupid as gently caress to Western audiences because it wasn't aimed at them.quote:It's easy to forget that Qualcomm isn't selling subtlety or insiderish cynicism or an archly self-aware meta-narrative. Qualcomm is selling Snapdragon processors. And it's selling them to a handful of North American and European companies, but these days, mainly to the suits running Asia's plethora of computer manufacturers and device makers and gadget peddlers. Not sure I buy it, but it would explain the "throw in everything from pop culture" approach.
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hyperhazard posted:PC Mag had an interesting article after that Qualcomm thing. Basically, their argument was that it looked stupid as gently caress to Western audiences because it wasn't aimed at them. That is a total bullshit attempt to spin the ad as anything but a complete failure.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/gap-dress-normal-campaign-fails-to-lift-sales-9907025.html Gap's Dress Normal campaign bombed then. I'm not surprised. The ads come off as really bossy.
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Taeke posted:Don't worry, the original poster did say it's always worth a repost. It can't be posted enough honestly. Everyone needs to see it. I just can't get over that  as poo poo Bell's palsy "orrrrr the CEO" face
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Jastiger posted:I felt like this was the douchiest commercial ever and pretty much guarantees I'd never buy a Cadi ( I may be exaggerating). Holy poo poo it's Robert Quarles
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Rondette posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/gap-dress-normal-campaign-fails-to-lift-sales-9907025.html Not only do they sound super bossy they were built on the assumption that normcore was a thing that gaps consumers knew or cared about. 37 dollars for a shapeless oatmeal colored sweater is not something the majority of consumers rush out to buy. The AdAge article discussing it sounded like their advertising/product planning team was totally stuck in their bubble and couldn't see that they were designing for a nonexistent trend.
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This played over and over in Canada years ago and it sucked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93RIR0vvNk
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It isn't dumb in the sense that it has so thoroughly invaded the popular consciousness and could thus be considered successful but "Blue Monday" is a total myth that was invented by a marketing agency and I hate hearing people uncritically babble about it every January.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It isn't dumb in the sense that it has so thoroughly invaded the popular consciousness and could thus be considered successful but "Blue Monday" is a total myth that was invented by a marketing agency and I hate hearing people uncritically babble about it every January. This is literally the first time I've heard about it, so I guess it isn't completely pervasive.
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I liked this one from China earlier this year:quote:A Chinese dating site called Baihe recently aired a TV ad showing an elderly grandmother continually nagging her granddaughter to get married, by the end of which, the young woman gives in and concludes that she doesn't 'have time to be picky anymore'. Video embedded here: http://shanghaiist.com/2014/02/09/baihe-dating-site-promotes-pressured-marriage.php fish and chips and dip has a new favorite as of 03:28 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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Rondette posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/gap-dress-normal-campaign-fails-to-lift-sales-9907025.html I think "Dress Normal" failed at the #1 goal of fashion commercials, which is to convince people that their current wardrobe is inadequate and that if they don't go out and buy more stylish clothes right now, they're going to become a social laughingstock.
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