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It's not a cult, I just live on the refreshment compound eagerly awaiting the return of the Syrup Lord Coxxor
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I knew a guy who ran a game store and he used to cash in all the bottle cap codes he got from selling sodas and use them to get free decks of cards, because apparently the return on selling poker decks if you're a small shop and just want one box of them is really lovely and not worth it.
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Depressing moves in marketing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg_Cseyv3JY My DVR is my best friend. On the weekend, forget about it, I'm watching everything. I watch my show, and I'm happy again. Wanamingo has a new favorite as of 08:14 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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The other day I saw some sort of upscalish clothing line and the tags had something about the "second most interesting man in the world" and then had a bunch of dumb lines in the same vein as the Dos Equis commercials. Even if it's supposed to be tongue in cheek, that's the best you can come up with? A blatant rip off of a popular ad campaign from like five years ago? I can't for the life of me find the clothing line on google though... anyone else seen it?
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Jan 17, 2016 08:12
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Wanamingo posted:My DVR is my best friend. On the weekend, forget about it, I'm watching everything. And the thing is they both say it in exactly the tone of voice that takes these phrases into definitely-not-joke territory.
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Jan 17, 2016 09:08
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That was also one of the things that Candy Crush became infamous for. Invite your friends or pay for extra lives! Guess which one people picked? I never played so much that I cared about extra lives, but their end of chapter mechanics are pretty cunning. You can pay in gold bars (=$) to cross to the next chapter, or your friends can send you unlocks. But what if you don't do anything because you can't be bothered or you're content with playing old chapters? Then after a day or two the "fairy" will help you. The game just keeps you moving. For some reason that impressed me from the game design perspective.
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OctoberBlues posted:The other day I saw some sort of upscalish clothing line and the tags had something about the "second most interesting man in the world" and then had a bunch of dumb lines in the same vein as the Dos Equis commercials. Even if it's supposed to be tongue in cheek, that's the best you can come up with? A blatant rip off of a popular ad campaign from like five years ago? I can't for the life of me find the clothing line on google though... anyone else seen it? Remember "Got ________?"
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:Remember "Got ________?" Hungry for apples?
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I got a flyer in the mail today for Just Eat, which is a service to provide delivery for resturants that don't have decicated delivery. Sounds good, though its ads are always basically "hey only suckers cook at home, order food! Also that means your picky kids will be able to choose what they want!". First off, why are your bratty kids entitled to have whatever they want for dinner? gently caress that poo poo. Not to mention that being able to cook at home is just better in every way. Yea, going out to eat is nice once and a while, but it would be depressing to go out nightly. Are you that lazy/unskilled you can't fry a steak and heat up a potato? Boston Pizza did the same thing, shaming people into ordering food. Actually, kids being picky and getting everything they want pops up in the oddest ads. I can see it in an ad for a stove that has two separate ovens where you can cook two things at different temperatures (but gently caress you if you are going to feed your kids pizza every night because they demand it), but then in a finacial planning ad where it shows a bunch of soccer moms watching a game and having voice overs of their internal thoughts and one says "Was she serious about university in Hawaii?". Unless Hawaii has the only Volcanology course in the US then maybe, but nope, your kid wants something and you are a bad parent if you can't provide for it.
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Jan 22, 2016 07:51
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, going out to eat is nice once and a while, but it would be depressing to go out nightly. Would it? Why? If I had enough money to just not care about spending restaurant prices on food all the time I'd probably only cook when I particularly wanted something I couldn't get at a restaurant.
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Jan 22, 2016 08:34
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Tiggum posted:Would it? Why? If I had enough money to just not care about spending restaurant prices on food all the time I'd probably only cook when I particularly wanted something I couldn't get at a restaurant. I guess in that situation it wouldn't be so bad. But if you were just an average person, I feel like it would.
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Tiggum, are you going to tell us that now you know why we cry, and then lower yourself into a vault of molten steel?
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Jan 22, 2016 08:56
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twistedmentat posted:your kid wants something and you are a bad parent if you can't provide for it. This is exactly what makes it an effective ad, they're making you afraid of being a bad patent by not giving your kid the best, then offering you a solution to get rid of that fear. May not be the most ethical, but it's marketing 101 I'd hardly call it dumb on the part of the agency
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Sentient Data posted:This is exactly what makes it an effective ad, they're making you afraid of being a bad patent by not giving your kid the best, then offering you a solution to get rid of that fear. May not be the most ethical, but it's marketing 101 I'd hardly call it dumb on the part of the agency I think twisted means it's dumb because of how obvious it comes across. A lot of these dumb things work, but when you are aware they're happening in a really blatant way it's kind of hilairously stupid. (Not stupid that the company does it, more stupid in a "Jesus Christ, my species will still fall for this" type way.)
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:Remember "Got ________?" In my city there's literally a billboard right now that says "Got Faith?" It also shows a water tap pouring into a wine glass where it of course becomes wine. I live in Southern Michigan, and right now suggesting anything but clean water coming out of your tap miiiiight be a misstep however.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Tiggum, are you going to tell us that now you know why we cry, and then lower yourself into a vault of molten steel?  Still laughing at this
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sweeperbravo posted:I think twisted means it's dumb because of how obvious it comes across. A lot of these dumb things work, but when you are aware they're happening in a really blatant way it's kind of hilairously stupid. (Not stupid that the company does it, more stupid in a "Jesus Christ, my species will still fall for this" type way.) Yea, because its not based around giving your kids the best thing, its giving the kids whatever they want, no matter what.
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Choco1980 posted:In my city there's literally a billboard right now that says "Got Faith?" It also shows a water tap pouring into a wine glass where it of course becomes wine. I live in Southern Michigan, and right now suggesting anything but clean water coming out of your tap miiiiight be a misstep however. Ouch.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, because its not based around giving your kids the best thing, its giving the kids whatever they want, no matter what. It's not even really about what the kids want. Anyone who has ever tried to convince a child to eat something they don't want has felt the temptation to just give them what they're asking for. The kid is happy, the parent is happy because the kid is quiet, and everyone is happy again later, because the kid isn't cranky because he refused to eat anything at dinner time. Boston Pizza offers the easy way out, every time. You don't even have to cook or clean up after.
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Choco1980 posted:In my city there's literally a billboard right now that says "Got Faith?" It also shows a water tap pouring into a wine glass where it of course becomes wine. I live in Southern Michigan, and right now suggesting anything but clean water coming out of your tap miiiiight be a misstep however. poo poo, those are still around? I just watched Constantine this evening and that billboard is in the movie, which was released in 2005.
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The F Rum of Fargo Head just seals the deal over the A#1 copy editor they have there.
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Choco1980 posted:The F Rum of Fargo Head just seals the deal over the A#1 copy editor they have there. The best part is that top headline for the front page is about jazzercising
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That is completely intentional and exactly why you took notice of the ad.
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It's probably a stock photo but it looks like the guy in the second one is in on it.
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Ramos posted:That is completely intentional and exactly why you took notice of the ad. Yeah, vitamin D deficiency is a serious issue in the sub‐arctic. This is a great move in marketing.
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Ramos posted:That is completely intentional and exactly why you took notice of the ad. Apparently it was legitimate and has since been pulled. v  vhttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/we-all-need-d-says-ad-campaign-obviously-doesnt-know-what-d-means-169187
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So the girl "needs the D" but the guy "needs to do the D"? The inconsistency is bothering me more than the innuendo is amusing me 
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Guys check this out, they make an ice cream bar called Magnum. Boy are they gonna have egg on their face when they realize it's the same name as a brand of condoms.
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Sleeveless posted:Guys check this out, they make an ice cream bar called Magnum. Boy are they gonna have egg on their face when they realize it's the same name as a brand of condoms. I'm almost positive that this has come up in this thread, or a similar one, but Trojan is a pretty bad name when you think about the historical context.
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sout posted:I'm almost positive that this has come up in this thread, or a similar one, but Trojan is a pretty bad name when you think about the historical context. And the mascot is a Roman legionnaire, not a Greek Hoplite!
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Radio Paranoia posted:Whoops! 3000IU daily 
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Holy poo poo. I'm posting this to IOSM right now if it isn't there already.
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I hope this goes viral and the guy goes out of business holy poo poo
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Hoooooooooly poo poo
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sweeperbravo posted:I hope this goes viral and the guy goes out of business holy poo poo I hope he gets a ton of business. I appreciate that level of harsh honesty that is lacking so much from business and politics nowdays/
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