Month: September 2010

Salutations to all.

As we all know, PCs’ are innately superior to the lowly Macs.  Macs may look “pretty,” but anyone and everyone who owns a PC (all the richest, coolest, and most productive people in the world) knows macs are hideous, counter-productive, and have terrible B.O.   My friend Shaymus O’malley (Shailen Vallabh) blogged about how apple (Macs) has to constantly release new Generations of products in order to try and maintain hype around the Apple brand name.

djshamus <— Shaymus’ Blog

This is Shaymus:

Shaymus is Quite the stylish dresser and even though he doesn’t appear it, a very intelligent young man.  And handsome! (for the ladies).    Anyways, his argument that companies are driven by their competition, which forces them to constantly release new products that are barley any different than the old ones in order to keep the buzz on their company, is interesting to say the least.  Take a car company for instance.  If it produces an awesome new car in 1992 and then in 2010 they still haven’t released a new model, is the car still hot (popular)?   NO!  because other car companies -the competition- are producing new cars while their old hunk-of-junk is just a laughing stock.  Technology is constantly changing, and this is partially the reason for new models so often. It is to show off what new technology the companies have discovered.  But what drives a company to release a product more?  Changes in technology or trying to stay ahead of the competition?  I’d say it would be both really. Although if I had to choose one,  I would go with the competition option and mention that technology plays a role WITHIN the competition argument.  It is saying that competition is what drives a company to want to put out a new product, but technology is what actually allows that product to be produced.

Goodnight.

Salutations to all.

Taylor Johnston here, and I’m wondering what is interesting today.  Well the hilarity of Old Spice’s viral advertisements has really caught my attention.  Aiming at a target market of 15-25 year old males, this company has compared and even suggested to the mass public that using their body wash will make anyone more of a man.  They have creatively managed this through comedic commercials seen online (some seen on TV aswell) portraying different male acting talents directly telling youth to use their product to become more manly, and in turn, to get more girls (the goal of life? maybe..).  A link to their official website can be found here. I believe they have done a wonderful at both attracting the attention of their audience, and successfully conveying the message they want to broadcast:  that their body wash blocks body odor for 16 hours and makes you smell, act and feel like a man’s man.

One of my personal favorite series is one featuring Terry Crews, a huge muscular manly man that can really draw all attention to what he is saying.  A quick montage of the videos he has starred in for Old Spice can be see here on Youtube. Personally, I find his slapstick, absurd humor extremely entertaining and funny.  So much so that I considered leaving my room right now, hopping on the chopper, and shreddin’ down to the Pharmasave on the corner of Wesbrook Mall and University Blvd to pick some up and try it out.  Would girls flock to me?  Or do the commercials slightly exaggerate the effects of the body wash?   Well I guess unless I try it, I won’t ever know if “Old Spice Body Wash is so powerful that it can put out the sun.”  Hmm.. perhaps logic can deduce and solve that conundrum.  Anyways that’s whats got my attention today, check it out!   It might even be more entertaining than carrots dressed up as candy.  You be the judge.

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