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Commercials...would you???

Piel

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OK Sasha and Michelle have been critiqued for their commercials. IMO the only thing wrong with SC's was that the product was about a minus 1000 on the glamour scale. So.... what product would you refuse to do a commercial for no matter how much you were paid?:biggrin:
 

Grgranny

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guns, alcohol, tobacco
I do realize they don't do commercials on those things but that's the first ones I can think of. Feminine products, drugs, lingerie. Guess that's a start.
 
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I think there was also criticism of Sasha's ad because it claimed falsely that this salt water spray would cure or prevent colds.

Personally, I am turned off by ads for investment services and get-rich-quick schemes. (If these guys really knew how to get rich quick they would be doing it, not trying to trick me into sending them my money -- hey, wait a minute, maybe that is their get-rich-quick scheme.)

I agree with GrGranny about cigarette ads. What's really absurd about cigarette ads is that because of federal regulations they have to say at the end, "Don't buy this product that we have just been pitching, it will kill you."
 

antmanb

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Just from an embarassment point of view - haemorrhoid cream, incontinence products...i know its shallow but if i was embarassed about the product i don't think i'd be good at selling it to the public!

Ant
 

antmanb

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Mathman said:
I think there was also criticism of Sasha's ad because it claimed falsely that this salt water spray would cure or prevent colds.

Personally, I am turned off by ads for investment services and get-rich-quick schemes. (If these guys really knew how to get rich quick they would be doing it, not trying to trick me into sending them my money -- hey, wait a minute, maybe that is their get-rich-quick scheme.)

I agree with GrGranny about cigarette ads. What's really absurd about cigarette ads is that because of federal regulations they have to say at the end, "Don't buy this product that we have just been pitching, it will kill you."

In the UK adverts for Cigarettes are banned and i think recently billboard adverts for cigarettes have also been banned.

Also there are very strict regulations around advertising of alcohol, one of the rules that i know for sure is that you can't shpow adverts that glamourise drinking, which has actually led to some really clever abstract art inspired alcohol adverts over here!

Ant
 

Tonichelle

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Grgranny said:
guns, alcohol, tobacco
I do realize they don't do commercials on those things but that's the first ones I can think of. Feminine products, drugs, lingerie. Guess that's a start.

um they do a lot of advertising for alcohol... Budwiezer, Miller Draft, Baccardi, Smirnoff... just to name a few...

as for what I wouldn't advertise - anything that I didn't agree with the companies views on, and yeah the embarassing subjects lol
 

Piel

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You know with Sasha I just don't want to think about her dry nose. I want to think of her beauty on the ice.

Adult diapers, all the fem stuff, is def. out.

I wish someone would ban the Nutisystem commercials.......

"This is a 2!!!"
"My husband can't keep his hands off of me!!!"
"Yes, I've been called hot!!!"
Barf................................


Would any of you guys do a Viagra commercial for a million bucks?
 

Ptichka

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Those ads for life insurance that try to scare senior citizens ("Do you want your family to bare the cost of your funeral? Do you want them to remember you as a burden?"). :disagree: Would never do those...
 

SeaniBu

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I would for any product that honestly helped the environment, any food I acutely ate, any car I would drive (as long as it wasn't carelessly driving around), any service I would use....I think the theme is evident here.:laugh:

Now, from a person in Media and having a degree as such let me again address the following. I just can't stand back and watch another illegitimate accusation be made about the media making illegitimate accusations. To my main field of study and career, this is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is my biggest pet peeve.

Some may not like this, but the following information IS factual and can help - but I am probably on 5 ignore lists already so some...oh well, I would like to help. I really want to be helpful, and I do not mean to offend, but please read with an open mind.

Mathman said:
I think there was also criticism of Sasha's ad because it claimed falsely that this salt water spray would cure or prevent colds.

That was part of what people were complaining about, yes MM, but totally unjustly. Media is highly regulated not make false statements as such, particularly in "health." Listen carefully to the commercial and you will note that it does not claim to "cure" but help prevent. As far as prevent, anything that you use to clean / flush your body is a preventative to "germ " infestation. No false claim there.

There were NO false claims made in the ad, just people falsely inturpriting.

It is good the adds aren't blindly trusted, but they are not making the statements some believe. that indicates there is also still a large populous out there that are getting duped. Eyes wide shut.

Again nothing false in that commercial at all.

In making a commercial, it is taken into consideration the public isn't really paying very close attention most of the time. In this regard, if you do so you have made yourself "prey." This is entirely the fault of the consumer for their own interpretation. This is called "Lack of consumer awareness." That is the fault of the consumer and not the responsibility of an advertisement to educate you in the first place - it is also the last place you should be trying to gain an education as well.

Reason I provided this information:
media constantly gets a bad name even when it does follow the guidelines and provides honest information. And if consumers don't think that saline helps a body prevent infections by cleansing it naturally as possible, then again - consumer has either misinformed them selves or allowed themselves to be misinformed.

I may not be as verse as all of you in FS, but this is my "turf" of expertise.:cool:
 
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Kwanford Wife

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Piel said:
Would any of you guys do a Viagra commercial for a million bucks?

:laugh: :laugh: I was just thinking of how I'd never be "the wife" in one of those commercials!!!

I also wouldn't do a STD commercial or one of those citibank commercials where its the "regular person" who gets their credit card stolen on-line.
 

julietvalcouer

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Well, for a certain amount of money, I would probably advertise most products. A few might be embarassing and not for things I'd use (like certain feminine hygenie products that aren't even actually good for you--messes up chemistry and makes you MORE likely to get certain messy infection--women know what I mean, men don't want to) but if they paid me, whatever. It's an acting job (as I'm not likely to be asked to endorse a product as a celebrity!)
 

IDLERACER

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I've lived my whole life in Los Angeles. Believe me when I tell you that there are well over a million people walking around this city calling themselves actors, and less than two hundred of them are actually earning enough of a living at it that they don't require a second job.

In short, in that business, beggars cannot be choosers. Only a fool would turn down gainful employment of any kind. A few years back, when Cathy Rigby McCoy was doing a commercial for some sort of tampon and Bob Dole was hawking some sort of erectile disfunction remedy, at first I laughed like everyone else. Then when I thought about how much they were probably getting paid for their services, my amusement quickly turned to envy.

:sheesh:
 

attyfan

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I think it is one thing to criticize a celebrity (or anyone else who doesn't desperately need the money) when the product itself is bad or dangerous (tobacco or alcohol, for example). It is different when the criticism should be directed at the writers After all, I have grave doubts that MK "invented" the salad suggested on her Kraft commercial.
 

Ptichka

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IdleRacer and Juliet, I agree with both of you regarding embarassing products - if paid enough WHO CARES! However, if it's something you really believe in... I mean, at the very extreme, if you were offered a part in a pro-Nazi group commercial, would you do it (and I am NOT comparing any of the above mentioned industries to this in any way shape of form)? probably not. So a line probably exists for most people, just a question of where.

When I was in college, I made some money by modeling. Nothing glamorous or commercial, but it paid. There quickly came a point when I had to draw a line between what I would and would not do. At 19, with the right clothes, hair, and make up I pretty much looked like an adolescent. So my "line" was anything that was going to be made into child erotica. Walked away from it, even though it would have paid for half a year's rent right there.
 

DJStuCrew

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Grgranny said:
guns, alcohol, tobacco
I do realize they don't do commercials on those things but that's the first ones I can think of. Feminine products, drugs, lingerie. Guess that's a start.

Actually, I think it would be refreshing to see a commercial for guns on regular TV. While I agree with you on alcohol and tobacco, guns are a different thing altogether. They've been demonized because people misuse them. They misuse baseball bats and cars, too, but nobody blames the object. Yet somehow guns are different.

I enjoy shooting recreationally. (It's the only sport I'm any good at!) I would be happy to lend my name to Glock, Sig-Sauer, Beretta, Armalite, Smith & Wesson or Colt. Would be nice to see ads on something other than OLN! :)
 

antmanb

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Piel said:
You know with Sasha I just don't want to think about her dry nose. I want to think of her beauty on the ice.

Adult diapers, all the fem stuff, is def. out.

I wish someone would ban the Nutisystem commercials.......

"This is a 2!!!"
"My husband can't keep his hands off of me!!!"
"Yes, I've been called hot!!!"
Barf................................


Would any of you guys do a Viagra commercial for a million bucks?

Actually with sexual stuff i'm not really that embarassed so i'd definitely do it...probably for less than a million too :laugh:

Ant
 
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