Commercials with non-existent target demographics - Page 3

mason55 · #21 07-08-2007, 01:07 AM

ya

Cry Me A River · #22 07-08-2007, 01:11 AM

They're obviously not just targeting 30-something basketball players. They're targeting active 30-something males. The particulars are not really the point. I'm sure if the product and campaign is successful, you'll see ads featuring softball-guy, hiking-guy, rock climbing-guy and fishing-guy.

wadea · #23 07-08-2007, 01:11 AM

OP: The fact that you remember the product and brand name demonstrates that the commercial has achieved its main purpose: making you aware of their product.

Also, the weekly basketball game that I play in regularly includes at least two asians, an indian guy, a pacific islander and a handful of whiteys. Sometimes these two black dudes come, too, but strangely they're not that good.

mason55 · #24 07-08-2007, 01:12 AM

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Also, the weekly basketball game that I play in regularly includes at least two asians, an indian guy, a pacific islander and a handful of whiteys. Sometimes these two black dudes come, too, but strangely they're not that good.

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are you sure it's a basketball game and not a benetton ad?

mbillie1 · #25 07-08-2007, 01:12 AM

TreyWilly · #26 07-08-2007, 01:13 AM

OP, all this post shows is that you are trapped between your arrogance and your naivety.

You have a false confidence in your worldliness now that you're in your mid 20s. When something doesn't make sense to you, you declare it ridiculous.

Sometime in the next 10 years, unless you're a complete douche bag, you will realize the more you learn about something, the more there is to learn.

Then you'll stop making senseless, self-absorbed posts like this.

mbillie1 · #27 07-08-2007, 01:15 AM

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They're obviously not just targeting 30-something basketball players. They're targeting active 30-something males. The particulars are not really the point. I'm sure if the product and campaign is successful, you'll see ads featuring softball-guy, hiking-guy, rock climbing-guy and fishing-guy.

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This is exactly why I have a problem with it... why not use the jogger, something way more people do? Why basketball specifically?

Also, I'm fairly active, I mean I ski, rock climb, ski, and smoke a lot of pot. And I am like actively turned off by these commercials. They make me insecure about my un-leet basketball skills.

mbillie1 · #28 07-08-2007, 01:17 AM

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OP, all this post shows is that you are trapped between your arrogance and your naivety.

You have a false confidence in your worldliness now that you're in your mid 20s. When something doesn't make sense to you, you declare it ridiculous.

Sometime in the next 10 years, unless you're a complete douche bag, you will realize the more you learn about something, the more there is to learn.

Then you'll stop making senseless, self-absorbed posts like this.

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edit: also, maybe I have a terrible sense of humor, but I thought it was fairly apparent I was at least attempting to be funny by exaggerating, using strong language, etc. "...trapped between my arrogance and naivety", what crawled up your ass and died?

NozeCandy · #29 07-08-2007, 02:03 AM

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Also, I'm fairly active, I mean I ski, rock climb, ski, and smoke a lot of pot

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I like how you included smoking pot as evidence of being active. <3 mbillie

mbillie1 · #30 07-08-2007, 02:26 AM

Noze,

hey smoking involves engineering, construction (designing and building new bongs obv) and for me generally some activity, as I hike, rock climb and ski stoned a lot, which is actually pretty awesome.

I also ran out of activities pretty quickly there haha [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I was like uhhh... skiing... rock climbing... ummm... what am I doing now?