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Boycott Bad Advertising - May 2007

Red Bull gives me the shiiiits

May 19th 2007 03:14
Boycott Red Bull

Red Bull are currently running a truly woeful series of radio and cartoon TV ads. I have been subject to most of the ads in this series since the campaign began a couple of years ago, and I am yet to see an ad that is funny, inventive or would make Red Bull even remotely attractive to me in any way.

The "caffeine rich, sugar heavy" drinks market is very competitive and in this market, Red Bull seems to be a bit of a leader. I personally quite like the product (particularly with vodka) and was previously a regular purchaser until the "Red Bull Gives You Wings" campaign began. This company should know better and should be able to do better. As such they deserve scorn and to lose their market share a little for their terrible efforts at advertising.


So please, for the sake of not having to listen and/or watch those bloody horrible Red Bull ads, stop buying their product until they change their advertising habits. Thanks.
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May 19th 2007 02:52
The World as we know it is turning more and more into one gigantic advertising space. Not many of us like it, but it seems that we are just going to have to live with it. But we can fight back against it in our own litte way and this is mine.

Advertising is hard to ignore. Its in our faces all day, on TV, on Billboards, in newpapers and magazine, its all over the internet and even our clothing is adorned with it. Whether we like it or not, Advertising is EVERYWHERE! And so much advertising that we see is truly horrendous. We don't like to put with crap in other facets of our lives, so why should we put up with it in the things that are forced upon us, trying to get us to buy their product? We Shouldnt!


So I say we should all start boycotting the products advertised with truly horrible advertising - bad slogans, awful ads, cliched junk, bad acting, whatever it is you don't like about advertising.

Am I suggesting we stop consuming? Hell No. What I would like to see is a turnaround - if you were planning to buy a product that is being badly advertised, buy a similar product from their nearest competitor! That'll teach the bastards for polluting our brain-spaces with their Mind-Spam! Yeah!

Hate an Ad? Let me know – it can go on the list of ads that right now are worth boycotting! Then all you have to do is make sure you either don't buy it at all, or that you buy a competitor's product instead.
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