Thursday, April 23, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Puppy Love and Senior Adults
Controversy related to Superbowl commercials has already begun. The folks form Godaddy were going to run a spot dealing with a brave little puppy finding its way back home. They have since reconsidered and will not run the commercial due to complaints. One of the clips that I saw related to the commercial featured the folks from the Today show. After they had shown the commercial about the puppy you would have thought they just got through watching some unedited footage form a war-torn country or something.
The folks at Kayak have been running a commercial about a man that has taken over his mothers chair lift. This commercial shows someone taking advantage of a senior citizen. It even shows the lady struggling to catch her breath as she attempts to climb the stairs. I may have missed it, but I have not seen or heard any outcry from the airing of that commercial.
What am I missing? I, personally, did not see anything wrong with the puppy commercial. Nancy (smoking hot wife) seemed to think that it advocated a type of puppy mill situation. This is where people "breed" dogs for purely monetary reasons and usually not in the best of conditions or care for the animals. Which, by the way, I am totally against.
I don't think that I would have had any thought that the puppy commercial was "bad" had I not seen evidence of the controversy. So, in that light. The light of "hey, there is something wrong here"; what about the elderly abuse in the Kayak commercial? Should this one be banned as well. Should we avoid doing business with Kayak because of their portrayal of senior adults? Or,is it just a great form of advertising that gets us talking about the commercial and in turn causing awareness of the company.
If so, job well done.
013115 -- And then there's this -- https://www.change.org/p/nbc-remove-an-upcoming-super-bowl-ad-for-nascar
The folks at Kayak have been running a commercial about a man that has taken over his mothers chair lift. This commercial shows someone taking advantage of a senior citizen. It even shows the lady struggling to catch her breath as she attempts to climb the stairs. I may have missed it, but I have not seen or heard any outcry from the airing of that commercial.
What am I missing? I, personally, did not see anything wrong with the puppy commercial. Nancy (smoking hot wife) seemed to think that it advocated a type of puppy mill situation. This is where people "breed" dogs for purely monetary reasons and usually not in the best of conditions or care for the animals. Which, by the way, I am totally against.
I don't think that I would have had any thought that the puppy commercial was "bad" had I not seen evidence of the controversy. So, in that light. The light of "hey, there is something wrong here"; what about the elderly abuse in the Kayak commercial? Should this one be banned as well. Should we avoid doing business with Kayak because of their portrayal of senior adults? Or,is it just a great form of advertising that gets us talking about the commercial and in turn causing awareness of the company.
If so, job well done.
013115 -- And then there's this -- https://www.change.org/p/nbc-remove-an-upcoming-super-bowl-ad-for-nascar
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