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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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swamp waste posted:Stuff like this is always weird. I mean it so clearly comes from the soft, moisturized big boys at the ad agency talking to each other about how fighting mongooses and uh, dust, like on the road behind a truck maybe?, would really mobilize the 18-32 demo behind our lotion or whatever. It can't help but seem condescending. What about rebranding those weird exfoliating thingies as TOOLS for MEN to use?  I'm sure there is one here in the UK that looks like a tyre. EDIT Bahahah here it is. 
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Funnily enough I was just looking at a Cracked 'top 21 annoying marketing gimmicks' and these two were in there.  I'm in the UK and have never heard of this brand until this thread so, good one GEICO I guess. Here's the list- http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1258_21-marketing-tactics-that-only-make-us-hate-product/
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Gap get kicked off Tindr....... http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/gap-looking-lovers-new-ad-tinder-162779 quote:We did a little something special on Tinder," said Tricia Nichols, The Gap's leader of consumer engagement and brand strategies, before Tinder nixed the campaign. "It's a guerrilla [marketing] idea where you'll see a profile with clever messaging in the spirit of love and the perfect match. It's the perfect fit for Tinder." quote:In a Twitter message, Tinder's head of communications said, "We did not approve this campaign and it is not an ad" Gap seem to have really dropped the ball recently, what with that stupid 'dress normal' campaign too.
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Stick Insect posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5vnmLMSnM Well thanks to this thread talking about this Dutch TV ad I have registered for the UK equivalent, so that is something? Uk goons can do it via this link, it really is simple. https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/how_to_become_a_donor/registration/consent.asp
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A Man and his dog posted:Please God tell me this isn't what marketing to Millennials is about?!???? Wait....do smokers right (left? IDK) swipe other smokers?
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http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/26/are-you-lovin-it-the-first-official-mcdonalds-clothing-and-homeware-collection-has-landed-5121192/ quote:You might be tempted to think this is a wind-up, all the products are available to buy online at the Big Mac shop. imlovingit24 didn't really go down well. http://gothamist.com/2015/03/24/ol_gil_mcdonald_gets_a_lick.php quote:The United States was only #blessed with one event: a free concert in Los Angeles tonight with recording artist Ne-Yo, who'll be debuting a new song "crowdsourced" by people on social media. If it's one thing America needed to attain joy, it's the rhetoric of internet trolls set to music. It could be worse: in Sweden, the national ski team was compelled to put on a three-hour fashion show wearing gear emblazoned with Big Macs. "I'm lovin" how disgusted those models look.
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Nostradingus posted:You have a sad life. I must have a sad life too, because I have never heard of white sauce for pizza 
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Choco1980 posted:When I worked for Hollywood Video a little over a decade ago, their corporate support line, ie, who the managers call when there's a problem with the computers or whatever, had a great funky upbeat hold music. One day, the assistant manager and I just called them, put them on speaker phone, and every ten minutes or so when they would pick up would hang up and just redial. Ha, we did a similar thing when I worked in car rental. We had to ring a company called Lex Defence who outsourced the cars for the MoD and stuff. We got put on hold a LOT and always joked that the music sounded like something from a bad old porno. I wish I could find it again. On a bad corporate music theme, I've noticed that a lot of shops I go in to these days seem to be playing popular songs, but they are covers sung by people trying their best to sound like Chris Martin or Carly Rae Jepsen but not quite succeeding. For some reason I am hyper-aware of background music and it bugs the poo poo out of me when I hear it, my partner never even noticed until I pointed it out to him one day in the middle of Hobbycraft. I don't get why they do this, is it cheaper to pay people to completely redo the track than play the radio/original?
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hyperhazard posted:. And the "annoy them until they give us money" just doesn't work anymore. In some cases it's fatal  quote:Charities have expressed concern and sorrow at the death of the 92-year-old poppy-seller Olive Cooke, whose body was found in a rocky gorge after she had said she felt hounded by requests from fundraisers for donations. edit- Dunno if it a UK only thing - she sold these paper poppies for Remembrance Day - 
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Jun 3, 2015 05:45
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CommissarMega posted:Wait, what? Why would charities hound a florist for donations? I read the article, and it still doesn't seem to be gelling. No, they are paper poppies that you wear, she isn't a florist. She was probably standing on the street selling these as a volunteer. Anticheese posted:We sell those in NZ for ANZAC Day. I've never been hounded over them, and people usually leave a tray of them next to a donation bucket. My guess is she sold the Poppies, donated the proceeds in her name and they had all her contact details and kept ringing up to get her to donate more. They probably passed her details on to other places too so she was getting a lot of calls from loads of different charities.
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I like her 'shop' where you can buy all their Hipster cast-offs. Of special note is the Dutch Oven at the bottom of the page, which I feel sums up her website pretty well. http://bleubirdblog.com/shop/ Also the page where she gives style tips for having a night in. With her partner who is called Aubrey.
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Jun 16, 2015 08:55
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Gabriel Pope posted:Featuring homemade pizza kits that are more expensive than ordering pizza! Having a lifestyle mommy blogger hawk your overpriced poo poo is probably a good marketing move though. I like making homemade pizza much more than having store bought ones but I don't really feel the need to crow about it on a blog. Also *woosh* quote:our boys also share a name, rhodes, which neither of us knew at the time. i think it’s pretty special given that rhodes is such a unique name Only ironically though VVVVV Rondette has a new favorite as of 16:12 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Gabriel Pope posted:$10 for pizza dough and sauce for one pizza, though? You can buy Whole Foods fancy specialty dough and sauce for less than half that, let alone making it from scratch which takes ~20 minutes of work and costs maybe two bucks. I get a bread mix which costs 90p and I bung it in my Kenwood mixer for the dough, and chuck whatever is in the fridge on top that I think would be good on a pizza...the remaining dough gets made into little dough balls or whatever....costs probably not much more than a few pounds. Yeah, making your own cheap yummy pizza is not hard and definitely doesn't need to cost that much!
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Jun 16, 2015 19:43
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Zaphod42 posted:Its always EA, isn't it? There's some irony that a gay guy won, posing with a male model (or perhaps they chose him on purpose to prove something) Though, I gotta love how even in the illustrations the 'booth babes' seem repulsed by the winner. 
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Jun 23, 2015 05:33
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Karma Monkey posted:Wow, I thought only the US did classy stuff like that. Apologies if this was covered before, but here's an article on lots of 9/11 advertising: Surely it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of scenario with some of these? Maybe not the  MONEY OFF ones, but I would put money on people being upset that they DIDN'T mention it in some way. A bit like when some newsreader didn't wear a poppy around October/November timequote:ITV News London presenter Charlene White has spoken out about the torrent of abuse she has received after refusing to wear a Remembrance Day poppy on the air.
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Zaphod42 posted:There's been a kerfuffle over Destiny, Bungie's latest game lately, because they announced the next DLC/expansion is $40 (twice the cost of the first two) but doesn't quite seem worth it, as well as a $80 collector's edition with several exclusive items you can't get anywhere else. Collector's editions with exclusives are nothing new in gaming, but for a game that's been out a whole year that's kinda messed up. People who are loyal fans who bought the game at launch and got both DLC already would have to buy the game a second time, including both DLC, just to get the exclusives. quote:“If I fired up a video right now and showed you the emotes you would throw money at the screen,” I really like reading this thread, it's one of my favourites, but *gently caress* all this stuff about emotes/emoticons has made me realise, yep, I am now out of that 18-34 age range (35 this year  ) I just don't understand why anyone would get THAT excited about emoticons.
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mcbexx posted:A bold rebranding... The Apprentice has just started again in the UK and this looks like something that they produced in an afternoon or less.
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Check out this UK McDonalds ad I saw the other day, it's got it all, groovy music, punky worker (c.1998) and loving PULLED PORK. I'm surprised there wasn't mention of salted caramel too. (For non-uk Goons, I don't know about your country, but the people who make food have decided that pulled pork and salted caramel are two things that should be rammed down our collective throats at the moment.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7szKcGAbXgo
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Somfin posted:Wow, it really is true that they test this poo poo out in New Zealand first. We've had the salted caramel/pulled pork thing moving through the food scene here for at least a year now. It's been here a while now, but we seem to be at peak PP/SC saturation right now....
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Somfin posted:Get ready for the next wave, then.  Oh god, it's got everything that annoys me about trendy restaurants! Novelty serving ideas like a stupid bloody wire basket that you get less in, and a wooden chopping board. There was somewhere that served bread in a hat. In a hat. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11462989/Twitter-mocks-hipster-fashion-for-serving-food-on-arbitrary-objects-including-a-hat.html
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5er posted:Since we're on about McDonalds advertising being awful for the bulk of our living memory... the worst ads are the ones where they're trying to suggest that people are making their poo poo food a part of their identities. Radio ads with monotone soccer moms describing the chores of their banal existence and McCafe being a critical part of it. Their ridiculously racist 'urban demographic' ads with minorities in low riders babbling in trendy slang about McD cheeseburgers are how dey roll. Oh you know it. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/mcdonald-s-launches-clothing-line-with-big-mac-prints-10136634.html  Love how embarrassed the middle and left look.
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This advert is playing a lot on UK tv at the moment, it drives me a bit crazy for many reasons, but mainly because the dubbing is piss-poor, and that kid needs to smack. I can't seem to find it on Youtube but here is a link http://www.tvadvertsuk.com/automobi...nt-tvadvertsuk/
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AlphaKretin posted:The radio ad for a local nightclub has what I'm pretty sure is Goat Simulator music in the background. The best part is from interning at that station I probably know the guy who did it and he's more than enough of a disgruntled old cynic to know exactly what he's doing. I love it when stuff like this happens and you know someone, somewhere, had a chuckle doing it.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Show them TCC posts. Or about 80% of E/N.
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Nuebot posted:DROUGHT CHAT I'm sitting here in a dank and wet November day in the UK, I'm so used to bloody rain I never think that there are places where this sort of stuff goes on. I can flush my toilet with gay abandon. But we only get like 6 hours of daylight and everyone looks miserable. 
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Fosters are doing a campaign in the UK at the moment where some millennial types are getting to go on a trip around the world and film it. They're using some clips at the start of certain TV programs that they are sponsoring, and this was one of them recently. It was the start of a lot of the programmes on 4od (UK's channel 4 online service) and you can't skip it and Adblocking software doesn't seem to hide it either. Also on the telly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPi1CXddFiI I hate it, I hate the way he slurps on the foot, and the way you then hear some delicious retching and vomiting noises. Admittedly it was funny the first time but after seeing it 20 times it has put me off Fosters (which is a nasty drink really anyway) and using the 4od service until it is not played anymore.
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 From a few pages back about that Singapore company's Black Friday website.
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Fauxtool posted:I know its standard among model figures, but those are some scary sharp elbows You know I was thinking that too, but didn't want to point it out because of the 'sharp knees' thing, but yeah, I don't think that is particularly healthy. edit: drat I was looking through their site and there are some scary thin girls on it. They always look so sad, it makes me sad.  (fwiw I have been both scary skinny and overweight and I am not trying to bodyshame these girls. Or get into a debate about the horrors of the model industry) Rondette has a new favorite as of 13:08 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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N. Senada posted:You'd be sad too if your butt had just exploded poo poo against a wall while wearing a pretty, white dress. Serperoth posted:I'd be sad too if they'd taken a pic of me right after I lost bowel control. ONE AMAZING TRICK MODELS USE FOR WEIGHT LOSS! DOCTORS HATE THEM!
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Zaphod42 posted:Even if originally it was just intended to show off the fashion, the fact that those body types are elevated on billboards and whatnot to show off the fashion means they end up influencing what people think of as attractive. Yeah it definitely normalises it. I've got a ridiculous hip to waist ratio and I spent most of my teens and twenties dieting and being really unhappy that I didn't look like what I considered to be 'normal'. It's a massive irony that the thing I hated most about myself, is actually super sexy to a lot of men and in particular, my boyfriend. There are aspects of the 'Fat is Beautiful' culture that are bad, like anything, but at least girls have a lot more options as to where to look for fashion inspirations and models that are closer to what they look like than there were back in the pre-internet days.
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Sleeveless posted:Ironically the whole "real women look like this" movement has just made treating skinny women like poo poo even more socially acceptable. I have a friend who is naturally rail-thin and it's shocking to me how people will think nothing of asking if they have an eating disorder or shame their appearance. When I lost a load of weight (through cutting out the poo poo I was eating and mainly eating soups and stir fries for 3 months or so) people thought nothing of commenting on it and not always in a positive way either. I also noticed some friends starting to treat me ever so slightly differently. It's hard to explain, but it was almost like I'd done wrong by them by losing weight. It was a subtle change but I felt some people distanced themselves from me, like being thin meant I couldn't be one of their mates. Weird.
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Nuebot posted:Because people are dumb and would eat poo poo if someone they liked told them poo poo was amazing to eat. You don't even have to tell them it's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5JtapBDVY
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Dogfish posted:Actually, the distillation process generally leaves the gluten behind. If you're drinking alcohol made of a gluten-containing grain, though, there's always the possibility that the distillation process was performed incorrectly, or, you know, some of the thousands of tons of rye wafting around came into contact with the finished product. But most distilled alcohol will have less than 20 ppm of gluten, which meets the standards for gluten-free labelling. Is this you http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/gluten-free-alcohol quote:All I wanted was a bottle of Chopin vodka.
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Simply Simon posted:I basically think Audi drivers are huge cockholes anyway (and I live in Germany, so we have a bunch more!), so that ad only confirmed to me that they're working their tried and true core demographic. I call it the Audi algorithm (also works for BMWs) 'The newer the Audi, the more of a wanker the driver will be' It drops off after about 8 years when the cars get older and they are not driven by psychopathic Patrick Bateman wannabes. I also had two people very dear to me killed by Audis in accidents in the last 10 years so I am a little biased. Rondette has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Didn't the guy who submitted it in the first place apologise and admit it was a terrible name?
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Tears In A Vial posted:The other day I got a three minute advert telling me not to join ISIS. I wanted to watch a trailer for some film a while back and the ad was the trailer for the film so....win, I guess?
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This popped up on my FB feed and was shot down by pretty much all of the people commenting on it, it seemed very misguided, and I have to agree given that 90% of the clothes I have for my unborn son were given to me from friends who had boys and no longer needed them.  Seems real snobby to me
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Maxwell Lord posted:Is it like Oxfam or Goodwill where they have a bunch of charity shops and are trying to get people to unload their old stuff on them? Yep, I love mooching around charity shops and have got some bargains from them, but they are also taking over the high streets of small towns in the UK. They get cheaper rates than 'proper' businesses do - so any local small businesses can't compete and you end up with a high street that is mainly charity shops. Having said that the BHF shop on our high street closed down recently so yeah, even they are suffering now it seems. Now there's just empty shops because all the chain stores have moved to out of town centres and the council are not clever enough to adjust their rates to make them more appealing to small businesses.  Considering how there are a LOT of people relying on food banks and barely getting by on the wages they get, telling people that passing on your clothes to friends and family is somehow wrong and shameful was a bad move. I haven't seen the ad since so maybe they realised it was dumb. Pastry of the Year posted:OK, the Hobby Lobby link just ruined octopuses for me in a way that not even a brass vagina with tentacles can remedy. God help me, I have one of these octopus necklaces somewhere. Perhaps I ought to donate it to a charity shop.
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Southern Rail is a notoriously bad rail service in the UK. The workers want to strike. Southern Rail ask their harassed users to slag off the union that they don't want to talk to. The users do not do that thing for them. Hilarity ensues. https://twitter.com/SouthernRailUK/status/782827298642857984
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