Feb 17 2009
Advertising Tip of the Day
Suggestion: if you’re going to advertise a bodycare product, please tell your model to do a pose other than “grimacing in pain.” It looks like she’s taking an acid bath.
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Haha! That face is making me crave Dove. Maybe it’ll ease her pain?
Haha. I think this is almost as bad as the episode of Apprentice where the teams had to make a 30 second TV advertisement for a dish soap, Ivory I think. This should have been a no-brainer: “This soap is soft on your hands and effective against dirt!” Instead, both teams tried using sex appeal.
One team had a lady fondle and caress a bottle of dish soap in the ad, and the other made some horrifying allusions to lubrication. These ads were so bad that the judges decided that both teams had lost.