tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post1794540969829384528..comments2024-03-26T17:44:07.430-04:00Comments on Viking Pundit: You want to be a winner, don't you?Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-81851113006417674792017-02-05T10:49:30.042-05:002017-02-05T10:49:30.042-05:00"But you should really reconsider the age-old..."But you should really reconsider the age-old principle of Occam's Fusion ProGlide Multi-Blade Power Razor."<br /><br />OK, that was funny.<br /><br />Go Patriots!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-90062156737095991692017-02-04T16:55:48.523-05:002017-02-04T16:55:48.523-05:00First, it was a silly feminist strategy. Then it ...First, it was a silly feminist strategy. Then it was about disputing the spurious unequal pay claim, plus the rare example of negative YouTube comments. And now it's the awful corporate hypocrisy. <br /><br />As demonstrated by an Washington Post article that says the average female employee at Anheuser-Busch is paid 99.6% as much as her average male coworker. And which cites as fact the Pitch like a girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-3941830009413330732017-02-04T09:27:51.915-05:002017-02-04T09:27:51.915-05:00Did all those other ad campaigns trigger Washingto...Did all those other ad campaigns trigger Washington Post stories about their awfulness and hypocrisy?<br />What does it mean for advertising in general and Audi specifically that they have to go to this long-disproved mythology about unequal pay to stir up feminine angst?<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-33333394647936959542017-02-04T02:04:22.505-05:002017-02-04T02:04:22.505-05:00Ads are supposed to make product sales go up. The...Ads are supposed to make product sales go up. These ads didn't. Many ads don't. Attributing this one failure to a "backlash against feminism" is a wholly theoretical conjecture, usually made by people whose own backlashes to feminism occurred long ago. And none of whom (I'm guessing) could name any other example of an ineffective beer campaign from last year. We have to Pitch like a girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-74149581460288675712017-02-03T17:59:58.105-05:002017-02-03T17:59:58.105-05:00Yeah, I thought multi-million dollar ad campaigns ...Yeah, I thought multi-million dollar ad campaigns with big Hollywood stars are designed to make sales go UP, but what do I know? I'm not in the ad biz.<br /><br />The backlash forced Bud Light to shut down comments on the YouTube version of their "Equal Pay" commercial, the one that perpetuated the spurious claim that women are paid less then men. The Audi commercial resurrects Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-77649221337862217362017-02-03T16:29:02.394-05:002017-02-03T16:29:02.394-05:00If you'll recall, Bud Light tried this silly f...<i>If you'll recall, Bud Light tried this silly feminist strategy in their ad campaign with Amy Schumer and it backfired spectacularly.</i><br /><br /><br />"Spectacularly" being a 0.15% quarterly sales drop compared to Bud Light sales before the ads began.<br /><br />It must also be why Progressive Insurance quickly pulled the plug on their failed "Flo" campaign. And whyPitch like a girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-37909130533925113742017-02-03T16:03:04.364-05:002017-02-03T16:03:04.364-05:00"It’s a boy — older, thuggish, wearing a conv...<i>"It’s a boy — older, thuggish, wearing a converted catcher’s mask. And he’s fat. Remember that in the modern idiom, the cherished assumption set of the Eloi, fat means poor.<br />Let’s get another shot of the kid so you can see just how chunky he is. Chunky means poor."</i><br /><br /><br />The overhysterical semiotics of the article aside, has the writer ever <i>seen</i> our Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com