I watched a tv show for the first time in a long time. It was at the 8:30pm slot, for one hour. During that one hour I saw two commercials which I actually enjoyed or took note of. One enjoyed was for Plascon, I can't find a video of it online, but basically there is a female bulldog walking down the street and a male jack russell jumping up against the wall of his backyard trying to see her. At the end of the wall the jack russell is posing like a model against the gate just in time for the bulldog to walk by. The ad is about how it is easy to wash the mud off the wall because it is Plascon. It was just amusing in the same way the Toyota talking dog can be.
The second advert was more of a series of adverts rather than just one. They are the 13 second Vodacom adverts announcing the change in colour for the brand. Vodacom is no longer blue and has changed to red. The series of about 8 adverts which we saw really annoyed my dad because, as a Vodacom client he couldn't believe they were wasting all of his money on prime time advertising for something which to him was irrelevant. It made me think how big of a deal a colour change for a big brand really is. All of the sponsorship colours change and possible associations with the brand. The fact that Vodacom were so intensely advertising this change must mean that it is very very important to them.
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