The radio in the car is tuned to Nova 96.9. My partners choice (she’s younger than I), but I find their irreverent format suits my tastes, mostly.
Recently, I have started to become annoyed enough to want to change stations.
In prime time, before little boys and girls are asleep in
bed, Nova are pushing a cure for Premature Ejaculation. How the hell did that
get past the censors or for that fact the Advertising Standards Bureau –
I mean it’s OK to tell kids about premature ejaculation, but its not ok to breast feed in public? Don’t panic – I’m not about start preaching on the benefits of homeopathic child rearing. Just thought I’d compare an obvious non sequitur that we as a country live with.
Advertisers – stay outta my bedroom or I will pushback. If I have an erection or premature anything problem, I will call my GP – otherwise go away.
And Nova, your teenage juvenile audience may giggle over this advert, but I consider it to be enough reason to “Turn that dial” (ok push the button – but “turn that dial” just sounds more radio-ish).
Maybe we should get President Obama’s new Internet Censor chappie onto this as the start of a rumour that Aussie men are lousy and inconsiderate lovers. Obviously a radical outright lie perpetrated by reactionary elements, no doubt a foreign pharmaceutical corporation attempting to destabilize the Australian male voters mojo.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that Dr. Cass Sunstein was hired for – isn’t it?
Bad taste advertising is just the latest gimmick from advertisers desperate to grab a pair or of eyeballs or eardrums for thirty seconds.
Last week, Microsoft got their “Woman Vomiting” advert onto
the Internet airwaves in the
Surprisingly, (yeah right) a copy was recorded by an enterprising individual before it went off the air and is now one of the most viewed clips on Youtube. (Nope – I’m not going to help Microsoft promote it – find it yourself.)
What do you do when the viewers are looking at more P2P content than Free to Air media?
Well, you certainly probably wouldn’t ignore the fact that
right now in
So how can aussie advertisers take advantage of this meme?
You make a risqué funny commercial and then put it on the ed2k network as a Banned Commercial alongside the 517 banned commercials and let the magic of P2P do the rest for you.
We’re tracking these and some of them are as popular as the top fifty music tracks. Wow advertising that’s preferred by the younger set over popular music. Now that has to be a turn up for the books – Music guys……
Here’s a couple of my favourites….. (although not the top movers)
The links require an ed2k client like Emule to work.
Flying
Aliens – “Wassup” – SETI from the famous US Superbowl annual series of commercials. MPEG Version
One of the most viral adverts has to be John West, although not in the category of banned commercial,
The famous John West Fighting Bear is available on the Ed2K networks in 27 different file formats. In case you haven’t seen it -
John West – Kung-Fu Bear 2003 version (small mpeg).
John West – Kung Fu Bear 3GP Version (for phones)
Radio isn’t missing out with a funny recent
