Monday again? Already?

[lagilman]

Superbowl. Good game. Good food. Good booze. Really bad and annoying commercials, as a rule. Dear Advertisers: When you realize that women watch the Superbowl, you will make a lot of money. Until then? Not so much.


Meanwhile, it's official -- I'm going to Dragon*Con. woot!


And, um, really really busy here. As always, for random comments and fly-by blogging, best to find me on Twitter (@LAGilman).


*zoomz off*

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I did find the "Casual Fridays" commercial funny, mainly because I've lived that. At a previous job there was a guy who wore loud red sweats to the office on Fridays, and I used to say that it was his attire that got our Casual Friday canceled.

[eldestmuse.livejournal.com]

I thought that the commercial about women's heart health was really sweet, and it had more power because it was run during the superbowl (and acknowledged women as fans). The Doritoes and Bud Light commercials were the only ones that really stood out to me as being decent--the rest tended to be terrible whether directed at men or not.

[lagilman]

the Bud Light commercials made me not want to drink Bud Light. But since the taste of Bud Light had already ensured that I never would...

Not Their Demographic.

The problem with the Superbowl advertisers, I personally think, is that they haven't seriously updated their picture of who watches football AND has discretionary income. Of course, most of the ads I'd react well to were probably companies that decided not to advertise or pulled their ads (like Pepsi) when CBS ran the "Focus on Family" ad.


(and WTF, anyway? Show you love and respect your mother by not giving her the choice of what to do with her own body, and then tackling her? That was the message they were sending? Seriously icky. Seriously icky)

[eldestmuse.livejournal.com]

I only saw the tail end of that commercial, didn't realize it was about. Which is probably good, since I signed the petition to try to get CBS to not air it.

Commercials that have nothing to do what they're advertising frustrate me. (Conversely, I liked the google ad)

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I identified it early. The voice track needed listening to to figure out what it was saying if not aware of who/what.

Focus on the Family is utterly despicable.... and CBS is hypocritical running its sectarian malevolent moralizing (especially given such things as the godaddy.com softcore porn aimed at male heterosexuals and perhaps a few lesbians), but then Sumner Redstone's first wife I seem to recall served divorce papers on him on Yom Kippur (they're Jewish); Sumner Redstone controls CBS, and despite CBS' editorial policies, is a Democrat.