{"id":68,"date":"2010-11-27T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T05:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-11-27T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T05:18:53","slug":"the-weak-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/2010\/11\/27\/the-weak-store\/","title":{"rendered":"The WEAK store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unmotivated to do anything? If you admit that you are please continue reading\u2026 if you aren\u2019t still read it please.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are on the Advertising section, I think it is best for me to share some of my favourite advertisements.\u00a0 Basically, I watched the weak store commercials while loading my YouTube videos.\u00a0 Anyhow before I continue, here are two of my favourite commercials (very funny).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VL03qingR5w\"><\/a>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VL03qingR5w[\/youtube] Chair pants<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ug5U9uBi8uA&amp;feature=related\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ug5U9uBi8uA&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/a> Food lift<\/p>\n<p>The first reaction that I got after watching the video was: is the product real?\u00a0 The commercial definitely advertise the message in a creative way.\u00a0 That is why I decided to find more information on this topic (http:\/\/www.funnycommercialsworld.com\/bc-dairy-foundation-the-weak-shop-and-chair-pants-commercial-2622.html).\u00a0 In my research, I found that the Weak Store belongs to a non-profit group, BC Dairy Foundation.\u00a0 Primarily the advertisements were made target to teenagers to tell them the consequences of not drinking milk.\u00a0 \u201cNot drinking milk would make you weak and not able to do anything\u201d.\u00a0 To relate this back to marketing, there is a type of advertising called public service advertising (PSA).\u00a0 This advertisement is a type of PSA because it focuses on public issues sponsored by non-profit organization.\u00a0 I personally think this is innovative and an effective way to get the message across to teenager.\u00a0 The reason is because teenagers (like myself) that spent hours searching the video on YouTube would encounter that advertisement.\u00a0 That advertisement connects with me personally because I feel that sometime I am unmotivated to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that have creative ideas that for lazy people, you can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweakshop.com\/\">www.theweakshop.com<\/a> and share your idea.\u00a0 The winner will get a Mac Book Pro.\u00a0 Before I conclude I just want to let everyone know that it is POSSIBLE to buy the chair pant and food lifter.\u00a0 They are actual products that can be order online.\u00a0 All the products earned from selling the product would be donated to KidSportBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unmotivated to do anything? If you admit that you are please continue reading\u2026 if you aren\u2019t still read it please. Since we are on the Advertising section, I think it is best for me to share some of my favourite advertisements.\u00a0 Basically, I watched the weak store commercials while loading my YouTube videos.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}