Watching advertisements on television has been irritating & the concepts are ridiculous. Promote your product but not at the cost of putting down someone else, faking the message, wrongly representing a culture & stupid ideas.... I can go on & on with the frustration these advertisements have driven me to... what a pity that the brands go to such cheap & low standards of advertisement.
a) does your tooth paste prevent you from acid attack? what the heck do you mean acid attack. My Dad is 65 and hasn't lost a tooth & never experienced a tooth ache. Does He brush with your toothpaste? hell no. Stop scaring the kids with terrifying Ads, let them eat what they want and live life.
b) 3 stupid cricketers counting the stares from girls? am sure as bold images in sports, you can do much better Ads & deliver a worth while message to the society. You don't have to show that you carry a hand counter to click at every glance you get from a girl.
c) an individual saying in spite of being a software engineer he couldn't find a bride? folks, if you want to promote your muscle gain drink, show a before & after photo, why do you want to highlight the education?
d) all fruits in a soap? when poor people cannot afford a single fruit per week, you show tons of fruits being used in making your soap. I would rather recommend a fruit a day to have a healthy skin or better still scrub with a stone.
e) being fairer means everything? racism to the core, saying only the fair gets the job, people look at only the fair ones and being dark means a sin
I know this won't change, but my efforts to teach the kids the right way to gauge an advertisement will never stop. Hope people would start criticizing these stupid ads on every forum available and bring real sense to the word 'advertisement'.
a) does your tooth paste prevent you from acid attack? what the heck do you mean acid attack. My Dad is 65 and hasn't lost a tooth & never experienced a tooth ache. Does He brush with your toothpaste? hell no. Stop scaring the kids with terrifying Ads, let them eat what they want and live life.
b) 3 stupid cricketers counting the stares from girls? am sure as bold images in sports, you can do much better Ads & deliver a worth while message to the society. You don't have to show that you carry a hand counter to click at every glance you get from a girl.
c) an individual saying in spite of being a software engineer he couldn't find a bride? folks, if you want to promote your muscle gain drink, show a before & after photo, why do you want to highlight the education?
d) all fruits in a soap? when poor people cannot afford a single fruit per week, you show tons of fruits being used in making your soap. I would rather recommend a fruit a day to have a healthy skin or better still scrub with a stone.
e) being fairer means everything? racism to the core, saying only the fair gets the job, people look at only the fair ones and being dark means a sin
I know this won't change, but my efforts to teach the kids the right way to gauge an advertisement will never stop. Hope people would start criticizing these stupid ads on every forum available and bring real sense to the word 'advertisement'.
As it is true that some ads are really stupid, some are quite smart. I have no idea how the ad really changes a buyers behavior.
ReplyDeleteShashi, look at it from a uneducated person's perspective, you keep scaring him everyday that this is what you should do to get civilized & over a couple of times watching this, he believes this should be the truth. Isn't the media doing the same thing, telling lies everyday & within a week, the whole Nation believes it top be true ?
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