Sorry to have kept my audience waiting a little bit longer today but, I was a little busy with a lot going on this week. Hopefully my content is worth the wait.
While hunting for another blog to reply to, I came across Patrick Go’s Blog about Sexual Content in Advertisements. Patrick argues about how sexual content could backfire from a Marketing point of view. Although I do agree that using sexual content in an advertisement would severely stunt a firm’s popularity amongst the mainstream population IF it were the only kind of commercial they chose to promote. However, while marketing to a specific target, especially men(could be women too), these commercials work wonders. While browsing youtube(yes, isn’t it fun to do during midterm week?) I came across some very unusual commercials using sex/women to sell products to men.
Now although I agree this commercial is from the Netherlands and not a single word makes sense but try guessing what it’s about…
Yeah, I know…who ever came up with the idea of selling an info line using a sexy car wash!
I do agree that the above does not really coincide with my topic. Here is something that does. First up a japanese backpack commercial. Again, the content makes no sense but, I am certain it is targeted towards adolescent boys still in school. Definitely catchy, I mean who would really want to see a backpack commercial?
Flipping things around a little, I feel that this concept is applicable to our fellow Venusian’s as well. I do not know how many females would really pay attention to a dessert commercial, especially with the whole dieting-and-stay-in-shape trend but Bonjour Dessert’s idea of using muscle heads as chefs, GENIUS!
