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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:18 pm



So how's this for a relic from the past? It's an anti-cable television ad from the late 1970s.

According to this, Cable TV is a scary monster. Literally :-I

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:20 pm

i was not aware that cable tv was a controvercial issue :-I
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:50 pm

"creepy"

what part of that video is creepy, youtube uploader
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:16 pm

I wonder who paid for that. The obvious guess would be the Big Three, but I've never known a world where they weren't as chummy with the cable providers as anybody. Either way, it's clear that some people legitimately worried that the mere existence of pay TV could spell the death of over-the-air channels.

Four decades later, during which we've seen the near-universal adoption of cable, the advent of 1000-channel satellite service, internet video, the digital switchover, the rise and Balkanization of streaming services, and a growing push to repurpose more of the spectrum for wireless internet providers, and there's still no sign that over-the-air TV is going anywhere. Go figure.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:52 pm

IIRC, early cable was super lax on content restrictions, so pornography was relatively common as part of the package. I'm sure moral guardians had a field day with it.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:03 am

That's where I thought they were going with it, until they didn't. I suppose it's possible they were hiding their true intentions behind a veneer of "we just think entertainment should be free", especially given it was right in the middle of the Sexual Revolution—the one time when just outright admitting you're trying to stamp out porn might not go over well.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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"creepy"

what part of that video is creepy, youtube uploader
In fairness, something about the the cutout animation is tripping me out :-I

And the crunch sound as it slowly eats change

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Pocket wrote:
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there's still no sign that over-the-air TV is going anywhere. Go figure.
The advertisements you see on those channels, especially the smaller ones that cable networks don't pick up for their local packages, are pretty emblematic of just who watches them. That is to say, they advertise to an odd mixture of old people, the poor, and young cable-cutters who keep a pair of rabbit ears around to augment their streaming setups.
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cable cutters?
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:41 pm

People who ditch traditional broadcast TV in favor of purely internet-based media consumption. It's pretty common now that streaming is comparable to or even better than cable in most respects.

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:42 pm

my isp is also my cable provider so like i got both for the price of one anyway
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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my isp is also my cable provider so like i got both for the price of one anyway
ours is both isp and cable too so that means we pay double for the price of one, because that's how it works here :-I just internet is like 70 dollars a month and with both it's 140. :-I
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It's less ditching broadcast than ditching expensive cable packages. More troublesome now that all the online streaming places are jacking up their rates.
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my isp is also my cable provider so like i got both for the price of one anyway
It my new place, it's $50/mo* extra for the basic cable package, and they tie it to unlimited data caps for Internet because a lot of people would rather just get Internet these days.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:56 pm

that suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks a lot
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Mountain Dew did a bunch of ads with Spy vs. Spy. I thought they were great

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Remember when the Swedish Chef had his own cereal?


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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Even more Wilkins commercials found.

Jeezuz how many of these did Jim Henson made!?!?!?

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2020 1:10 am

Ha haa the one at the 3 minute mark pokes fun of the Quiz Show scandal that was happening at the time

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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This may very well be the dumbest marketing campaign ever. LifeLock is an identity theft protection service company and then-CEO Todd Davis was so confident about his company's service that he launched an ad campaign where they blasted his actual Social Security number (457-55-5462) in promotional materials such as ads, billboards, and trucks.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:01 am

Didn't Jeremy Clarkson do a similar thing where he posted his bank account number and was like "no one can actually do anything with it", then someone donated $500 of his own money to some charity.
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It's kinda weird that an anthropomorphic fish wants to be caught, sliced into pieces, and be eaten :-I

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:33 am

Also this SNL classic



Adam Sandler's voicing the chicken :v:

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:44 am

Oh, fun fact, those early Charlie the Tuna commercials were made at Warner Bros. Animation. The YouTube link says 1968 but the ad actually originated circa 1962.

In the early 1960s they slowed down production on "Looney Tunes" and started focusing more on advertisements. I think they paid more at that point.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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A set of commercials for a defunct fast food chain Burger Chef. The first commercial feature characters from the "Family Circus" comic strip.

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I read that burger sign as "Triple Threat." Image
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A set of commercials for a defunct fast food chain Burger Chef. The first commercial feature characters from the "Family Circus" comic strip.
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"Does God eat at Burger Chef?"
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Here's one from Japan. A commercial for Pentax cameras.

If you want consumers to remember the name of your product, just repeat the name over and over in your ads. :-I

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Another Japanese ad, for Torys Whiskey.

Ever notice that ads from Japan are avant-garde?

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A PSA for ACTION featuring the cast of "B.C." comic strip. Directed by Abe Levitow, formerly a head animator for Chuck Jones at Warners and MGM.

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Neat Image
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From 1959 to 1965 the Peanuts characters were used to market Ford cars in commercials. Here's one from 1962.

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A set of commercials designed by MAD magazine artist Jack Davis.

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A 1960s commercial for Apple Jacks cereal. There's something ironic about the ad touting that the cereal is "Apple Tasty", given that in the 1990s they made it a big deal that it doesn't actually taste like apples, but kids just love it anyway.

In the 1960s, though, Apple Jack was marketed as "not for bullies".

The commercial was produced by DePatie-Freleng. Voices by Mel Blanc and Paul Frees.

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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:22 pm

I never knew Jack Davis did animation. That's really cool. Image

"A bowl a day keeps the bullies away" :bluh:
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PonyHag714 wrote:
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"A bowl a day keeps the bullies away" :bluh:
Bullies are NOT in Snack Packs!

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