Greetings! Happy first day of October!
You know what that means
Alright time to get to business:
What commercial convinced you NOT to buy the product they are pushing?
It was the old beer commercials for me; for example, Cors Light and Stella Artois. Cors used to have these fairly archaic commercials of stupid unattractive man-children being surrounded by scantily clad out of their league beautiful women who are paid to pretend they enjoy their company. Other versions with same man-child ignoring girlfriends or jobs. Stella used to have this series of commercials where they would show a lovely woman alongside an elegant class of their brew with the caption "She is a thing of beauty" I dunno, it always rubbed me the wrong way and made me very uncomfortable - as if a woman was an object and the same equivalent of a glass of beer. And being beautiful was her main value. They weren't the only brands or alcoholic beverages (Budweiser, Captain Morgan etc) that did this of course, some waaaay worse especially historically, but the ones mentioned prior popped into my head first. I honestly still haven't purchased their brands even if they have improved some of their commercials since.
Which is fine since I have other personal favourites so don't feel like I am missing out hardly noticed.
Thankfully it has gotten better a tad overall, as they finally market to consumer women who also happen to equally enjoy a drink. Not perfect at times but still better here and there; a bigger topic for a another time and place at any rate.
You know what that means
Alright time to get to business:
What commercial convinced you NOT to buy the product they are pushing?
It was the old beer commercials for me; for example, Cors Light and Stella Artois. Cors used to have these fairly archaic commercials of stupid unattractive man-children being surrounded by scantily clad out of their league beautiful women who are paid to pretend they enjoy their company. Other versions with same man-child ignoring girlfriends or jobs. Stella used to have this series of commercials where they would show a lovely woman alongside an elegant class of their brew with the caption "She is a thing of beauty" I dunno, it always rubbed me the wrong way and made me very uncomfortable - as if a woman was an object and the same equivalent of a glass of beer. And being beautiful was her main value. They weren't the only brands or alcoholic beverages (Budweiser, Captain Morgan etc) that did this of course, some waaaay worse especially historically, but the ones mentioned prior popped into my head first. I honestly still haven't purchased their brands even if they have improved some of their commercials since.
Which is fine since I have other personal favourites so don't feel like I am missing out hardly noticed.
Thankfully it has gotten better a tad overall, as they finally market to consumer women who also happen to equally enjoy a drink. Not perfect at times but still better here and there; a bigger topic for a another time and place at any rate.