Monday, February 14, 2011

Thrown out of the "Ad"rena

Advertisers take a gamble every year on Super Sunday to see if they have generated a buzz for the product or company which they worked for. These commercials should have kept their money because they were not worth 3 million dollars for 30 seconds of air time. Some of these commercials needed to be rethought and some just needed never to air. These are the five commercials that should have never aired.


5. Chatter.com (Salesforce): The reason that this commercial gets placed is because this was a new company trying to introduce itself to the world but the message displayed looked to be another form of Twitter. Unless the viewer went online to see what they were about nobody had a clue.




4. Groupon: This commercial used an opening scene that was controversial in discussing what is happening in Tibet to only then promote how Timothy Hutton got a great deal for a restaurant in Chicago. I think that company should have pulled the plug on this commercial.



3. Stella Artois: Why cry over spilled milk when you cry over a beer? Also I did not like the use of Adrien Brody as the spokesman and why not Robin Thicke who has a much better voice?



2. Doritos: Doritos offered viewers a few commercials but they were not as years past. The attack of the pug commercial was a cliché commercial as the idea has been played out over the years. Where is Ali Landry?



1. GoDaddy.com: This is by the far the worst commercial placed. Since the beginning of the millennium the company has been known for using the sexiest woman of the calendar year to help sell the domain name website. The commercial for 2011 was the most shocking as they used Joan Rivers on another woman’s body to promote sex appeal and be funny. I think GoDaddy.com should have taken a page out of the Snickers commercial used Betty White.

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