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Old 29-October-2007, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
Many commercials don't tell you anything; they just show a music video with a logo at the end, or a short film with maybe some product placement less obvious than that of the average Hollywood blockbuster. In a lot of them, you could replace their product with the name of almost anything, the ads have so little to do with the product.
Yep. Which brings me to another thing I've wondered for a long time: why are there commercials for products that have been around for a long time? When I see a commercial for Coca-Cola I don't say to myself, "Wow, I could really go for a bottle of that bubbly, brown liquid on TV. I wonder what it takes like?" No, I pick one up every few days when I'm not in the mood for tea, lemonaid etc. from the vending machine.
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