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oooohhhâŚto the advertising team for this company
are yâall okay?
These Ads Are Genuinely Stupid
It Canât Be Just MeâŚÂ
I mean it. I really mean it.
It canât be just me who watches the ads weâre force-fed nowadays and thinks: Who greenlit this garbage? Who seriously sits on a plush boardroom chair, watches one of these âquirkyâ or ârelatableâ monstrosities, and says, âYes. This will convert to sales.Â
This will move people.â Because letâs be honest here it doesnât.
No soul alive watches these new ads and goes, âWow! I must absolutely buy this toothpaste because a guy in a llama costume screamed about it for 15 seconds on YouTube.â
Advertising used to mean something.
It used to have edge, wit, a message. It wasnât just an attempt at virality or some watered-down focus-grouped nonsense trying to tick every demographic box. It was storytelling. It was a craft. It was vision backed by principles.
Bring me back to the golden era bring me back to Chiat/Day.
The Gold Standard: Chiat/Day and Apple
When people talk about advertising that sticks, that moves, that actually sells itâs impossible not to mention Chiat/Day and their revolutionary campaigns for Apple.
Yes, Iâm an Apple fanboy. Proudly so. I donât hide it. Why should I? The "1984" ad didnât just sell a computer it declared a rebellion. The âThink Differentâ campaign didnât shout; it whispered. It respected your intelligence. It reminded you that you werenât just a consumer, you were part of something bigger.
Fast forward to July 2024, and Apple even now can still get it right.
Take their ad âPrivacy on iPhone | Flockâ 19,934,460 views and counting. And it deserves every click.
It didnât rely on a meme. It didnât jump on a YouTube trend. It took a real issue  data privacy, surveillance, digital exploitation and explained it with clarity and style.Â
It showed how weâre being tracked, watched, sliced and diced into ad data like cattle. Then, it delivered a solution, not just a scare: your iPhone keeps that private.
Simple. Clear. Effective. Respectful. Linked below
Todayâs Ads: A Race to the Bottom
Now contrast that with the sludge we get today.
Every second ad is either trying too hard to be funny, or so âinclusiveâ it forgets what itâs actually selling. Itâs like marketers have completely forgotten their job is to sell a product, not to look trendy on Twitter for six hours.
Weâve dumbed everything down. Every product is a punchline, every ad a sketch show. Thereâs no narrative arc. No philosophy. No taste. Just visual vomit, loud colours, fake laughter, and a QR code slapped at the end.
What Happened to Respecting the Viewer?
You know what the best ads used to do?
They treated you like you were smart. Like you had discernment. Like you were capable of understanding nuance and meaning. They didnât scream at you they invited you in.
What weâve got now? Itâs insulting. Itâs like advertising has become just another branch of the short attention span economy.Â
Make it louder, faster, and more chaotic maybe someone will click. But will they buy? Will they care? Will they remember?
No. Because no one remembers what feels like a cheap joke.
The Bottom Line
Itâs not just about selling anymore itâs about soul. Itâs about storytelling. And in an era where every company wants your time, your data, and your money, the least they could do is earn it with dignity and intelligence.
So to all the marketing execs out there:
If you want me to care, if you want me to buy, then give me ads that are more than noise.
Bring back the craft.
Bring back the substance.
And for heavenâs sake, bring back ads that actually respect the viewer.
Appleâs still doing it. Why canât the rest of you?
Two things ... (1) This advert came up yesterday on my Facebook with a âday onlyâ sale so itâs not a day only sale. (2) As someone who is listed on Facebook as single why am I being targeted for a rug to give to my wife that I donât have? #FacebookFail #AdvertisingFail Not really well targeted is it? https://www.instagram.com/p/CHN1MMqrO5u/?igshid=1ah9w1nh6qrs6
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Advertisements: Pros and Cons
Advertising has the power to share messages, appeal to consumers, and most importantly for companies, sell their products. There are both good and bad types of advertising. Good advertising includes ethos, pathos, and logos to connect their product with values that align with societal values.
The Leviâs ad âWe are all Workersâ in Sarah Banet-Weiserâs article focuses on the rebuilding of the town Braddock, Pennsylvania with music and images that reflect a historical narrative of American pioneers building America. This ad focuses on primarily men building the town, a common American narrative that it is a manâs job to fix the economy and the nation that we live in (Banet-Weiser 91). It is as if only a man would be able to fix the economic crisis that has ruined businesses and infrastructure. In relation to logos, these ads utilize the message they are able to tell with their product. This advertisement is about much more than a pair of jeans. Banet-Weiser argues that although there are contradictions with how the ad focuses on masculinity and selective history to sell their product it is also âthis kind of disconnect or contradiction that makes the ad campaigns so successful in an emotional or affective registerâ (101). The logos in this ad was successful because it related the brand to the current economic crisis that people were experiencing. In a sense, the Leviâs ad was used to empower men and make it their responsibility to fix the world we live, when women are just as capable. Another example of logos from a female perspective was the Always campaign âLike A Girl.â It involved interviews with women and men of all ages to enact what doing something like a girl meant. This campaign shows that women are just as capable and have the ability to perform to the highest of their abilities. This includes being able to build something, fix the economy, and change the American pioneer narrative that only men are cut out for the job.
An attempt at good advertising was Nikeâs Pro Hijab product. They were creating a product that made Muslim women athletes a possibility (Bahrainwala 2). Nike created this product to enable participation from Muslim women in sports but other companies that had created Hijabs prior to Nike were part of those Muslim communities and knew the various types and coverage needed by these women. Nike was just creating their version of the Hijab to create inclusivity. This was an opportunity for Nike to show that they were a global company that could provide for athletes around the world and make a profit from it. Nike didnât create anything new because these sport Hijabs had already existed in the Western world (12). This advertising campaign for the Pro Hijab product looks and sounds a lot like making profit off of a product that is centered around whiteness and has no connection to actual Muslim women designers or Muslim women or athletes working in Nike (13). They were a little blind to think that creating this product would automatically make it the ethically correct thing to do for a part of the athletic population. Although they didnât use whiteness as an advertising factor visually. Some other advertisers have been blind enough to do so like Nivea, the skincare brand. Nivea created a campaign for one of their products with the specific wording âwhite is purityâ on the cover. Although their context may have been meant to be taken differently, the literal wording implies that to be white or light skinned is the highest form one can be. This excludes a majority of the worldâs population, especially when this ad was promoted to people in the Middle East.
Although, some ads think that their messages are clear and will be interpreted in a certain context it is important to know that a specific group of people is not left out from the ad using logos. Efforts in creating an ad must be with the right intentions and support from certain communities and not be used to commodify a product or demographic.
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