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Non Compos Mentis posted:Yeah thats someones fetish Dumb Marketing Moves: Yeah thats someones fetish Edit: are you goddamn kidding me with this snipe  Here's two of my cats squeezed into one kitty bed. 
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the new ads in Amazon shows...just why. my mom usually just flips on her phone until the ad is over. bonus points if the ad is for a show you are currently watching.
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Feb 5, 2024 14:40
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Agents are GO! posted:Here's two of my cats squeezed into one kitty bed. That is an excellent marketing move, I want those cats
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Feb 5, 2024 14:42
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Cowslips Warren posted:the new ads in Amazon shows...just why. my mom usually just flips on her phone until the ad is over. bonus points if the ad is for a show you are currently watching. “HavE yOu HeaRd tHe One ABouT The iMMortaL Lord oF DReams?”
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Feb 5, 2024 15:11
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Baron von Eevl posted:It was Larry Mullen and his son, which is actually much weirder. Larry Mullen seniors son?
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Feb 5, 2024 18:20
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Cowslips Warren posted:bonus points if the ad is for a show you are currently watching.
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Feb 5, 2024 18:22
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Agents are GO! posted:Here's two of my cats squeezed into one kitty bed. Non Compos Mentis posted:Yeah thats someones fetish
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Feb 5, 2024 20:27
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:“HavE yOu HeaRd tHe One ABouT The iMMortaL Lord oF DReams?” Stop that.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:40
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Love this marketing email I got at work. No notes. I mean, [INSERT NOTES HERE IF ANY]
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Feb 6, 2024 18:57
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Dumb Marketing Moves: We're working with organizations in the [INSERT INDUSTRY]
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Feb 6, 2024 19:15
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  Sure do love me some amorphous green pickle/lettuce blobs! They compliment to tom-onion slivers so well.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:02
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Clearly the toppings are Red Delicious apple slices, badly mangled cucumber, and fried botfly larvae.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:05
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Was there not a burger you could take a picture of?
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Feb 7, 2024 18:11
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Was there not a burger you could take a picture of? It takes a lot of work and prep to make a crappy fast food burger look decent for a photoshoot. You can find tons of articles about all the weird poo poo they do to balance their marketing goals with not technically running afoul of the law. It's the same as cereal commercials using real cereal but fake milk. There's no way loving with prompts for half an hour is more work.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:29
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It takes a lot of work and prep to make a crappy fast food burger look decent for a photoshoot. You can find tons of articles about all the weird poo poo they do to balance their marketing goals with not technically running afoul of the law. It's the same as cereal commercials using real cereal but fake milk. There's no way loving with prompts for half an hour is more work. Yeah, food photoshoots are tricky. But SURELY they must have hundreds and hundreds of EXISTING photographs of burgers from previous ads, right? Like...just go to the loving Whopper Photo Archive or something.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:32
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It takes a lot of work and prep to make a crappy fast food burger look decent for a photoshoot. You can find tons of articles about all the weird poo poo they do to balance their marketing goals with not technically running afoul of the law. It's the same as cereal commercials using real cereal but fake milk. There's no way loving with prompts for half an hour is more work. Honestly, with how much they would have needed to do for the burger to look nice, I'm surprised they didn't have it on a turn table and slowly rotate it to get 360 different shots they could use.
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Volmarias posted:Honestly, with how much they would have needed to do for the burger to look nice, I'm surprised they didn't have it on a turn table and slowly rotate it to get 360 different shots they could use. They're so composed for the front view that I'll bet they just look like a weird messy wedge if you rotate them a few degrees to the side. But yeah, I'm sure you could get a handful of variations from each one to go into the photo vault, it's weird to not just grab some existing one in favor of a halfassed AI job.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:38
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That's because photoshoot burgers only look good from a very narrow, highly curated 3 degrees wide angle. Check out a video for a burger photoshoot. Being edible and being presentable are basically mutually exclusive
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Feb 7, 2024 18:40
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Better get used to terrible AI images in ads if even looking through an archive of burger photos is too hard for Burger King marketing dept
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Feb 7, 2024 18:42
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HenryEx posted:Being edible and being presentable are basically mutually exclusive nervously muttering this to myself at a job interview where most of the staff are lions
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Feb 7, 2024 18:43
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I would be surprised if that wasn't a directive from higher-up: "AI pictures are really popular now, use it in our ads so the teens will eat Whoppers!"
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Feb 7, 2024 18:59
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Last Chance posted:Better get used to terrible AI images in ads if even looking through an archive of burger photos is too hard for Burger King marketing dept Which is odd because I thought (US at least) ads for foods have to be the ACTUAL food. Like, the reason they go through those huge rigmaroles to get a decent photo of normally trash-looking burgers is because they have to. They can't use plastic/fake food in the ads. Obviously, they have a huge amount of wiggle room in how they show that food, so long as it's technically, sort of, the same food you'd get at BK. They can choose the perfect bun, best looking lettuce and tomato, and, as said, stack it so it look good from one angle, melt the cheese with a blowtorch so it's not over or under melted, and even strategically squirt ketchup from a syringe on just the perfect spot. But it is all food. This...isn't.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:10
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DrBouvenstein posted:Which is odd because I thought (US at least) ads for foods have to be the ACTUAL food. I'm not so sure that's true, a lot of food photography is literally inedible or fake - like using motor oil for syrup, or shaving cream for whipped cream.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:13
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i click button i get burger, wage also
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Feb 7, 2024 19:15
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it's an app where you pick ingredients and it AI generates your whopper not sure if this makes it better or worse
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Feb 7, 2024 19:17
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Fishstick posted:I'm not so sure that's true, a lot of food photography is literally inedible or fake - like using motor oil for syrup, or shaving cream for whipped cream. That's only true if it's not the food you're selling. You can use glue for the milk if you're selling cereal, and oil for syrup if you're selling pancakes (I think.) But if you're selling a Whopper, all those things have to be the ingredients of the Whopper.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:20
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I have a good friend who was an art director/prop guy out in Hollywood and between movies he would do a lot of commercial work. He told a story about how the food had to be edible, so whatever he added to it had to be edible. They were trying to make a mountain of Rice Krispies, and couldn't get the pile to keep the right shape. The directors daughter allegedly suggested "just make a giant rice Krispies treat". So they sent some poor PA to get a bunch of marshmallow fluff and mixed it in to be able to form the shape. The cleanup was apparently a nightmare of sticky goo and bugs.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:36
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DrBouvenstein posted:That's only true if it's not the food you're selling. You can use glue for the milk if you're selling cereal, and oil for syrup if you're selling pancakes (I think.) Hence the “serving suggestion” labeling on cereal boxes, or “artistic rendition”.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:52
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If you use a real image of the Whopper, you don't get all the engagement from people talking about why you used an AI image.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:31
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This reminds me of that thread from years ago, I think it was also BK where you could create your own burger and order it. One submission here was simply a mustard stain. But I think the crown went to "Noah's Ark" which had two of each animal. One guy made a video of him eating it, and after the first bite exclaimed "OH MY GOD!", the best part of that was doubling it up with The Star Spangled Banner or O Canada.
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I need to find the website again, but there’s a manufacturer that specializes in realistic plastic food replicas and it’s absolutely amazing. For example they about 20 different fish, not counting filets, cuts of salmon, etc. every vegetable imaginable. They have a side business of making custom replicas for films, gifts, pranks etc. The customer reviews are adorable.
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when i think about burger king i taste motor oil edit: this may not be their doing. I might have been dropped at some point
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Fruits of the sea posted:I need to find the website again, but there’s a manufacturer that specializes in realistic plastic food replicas and it’s absolutely amazing. For example they about 20 different fish, not counting filets, cuts of salmon, etc. every vegetable imaginable.
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Maybe this is a real savvy marketing move, actually Facebook ad. Takes you to a silly website, that eventually takes you to the real site, where they sell guns (because you can't advertise that on Facebook)
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Their preferred audience is way too dumb to get what that really means, but points for creativity!
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:This reminds me of that thread from years ago, I think it was also BK where you could create your own burger and order it. One submission here was simply a mustard stain. But I think the crown went to "Noah's Ark" which had two of each animal. One guy made a video of him eating it, and after the first bite exclaimed "OH MY GOD!", the best part of that was doubling it up with The Star Spangled Banner or O Canada. That was the thread that finally got me to sign up. You can still find it by searching for "noahs ark burger" I think. edit: https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/burgerking-noahs-ark/1/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQqdf2hlek https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3262368 thread's here but a lot of the images are gone. Nettle Soup has a new favorite as of 21:47 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:That's only true if it's not the food you're selling. You can use glue for the milk if you're selling cereal, and oil for syrup if you're selling pancakes (I think.) This is what I was referring to earlier. Companies of course try to push it as far as they can, so you get insane poo poo like real burger buns, but with stuff wedged in the back to change the apparent shape. CJacobs posted:Their preferred audience is way too dumb to get what that really means, but points for creativity! You might be surprised. Gun people are extremely used to the people who run social media, YouTube, etc having strict rules on firearms but nobody on staff who actually knows firearms. It quickly develops into semi-standardized idiolects for individual sub-communities where everyone knows that, eg, a video about a historical weapon used by the military of a made-up country is really saying "this was made by a current-day gunsmith, but presenting it like that inexplicably triggers YouTube to demonetized the video for teaching people to make/modify guns." You can find shitloads of discussions on how to play I'm-not-touching-you games with site policy or the law. Anyone immersed in the online gun scene will instantly clock what "freedom dispenser" means. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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How do I order my burger which is just an impossible patty and like 8 eggs?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:You can find shitloads of discussions on how to play I'm-not-touching-you games with site policy or the law. I believe it, thanks for informing me! Hopefully whoever buys one will enjoy their new pez dispenser thoroughly and as intended
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