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Originally Posted by vienna
Marketers and ad agencies seem to believe there cannot be any moment of our time in which we should not be exposed to their adverts. I am usually of the mind that if I feel imposed upon by unwanted adverts, I make a mental note not to buy the advertised product or service. In the case of this "advance", I may be tempted, if I am alone, to alter my aim and see if I can't short the damned thing out...
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Well I don't know about you, but nothing makes me want to buy a product more than the continual unconscious association of it with all the sights, sounds, and... er... let's just call it "ambience" of the typical public restroom.
Seriously though I'm not of the opinion either that "any publicity is good publicity" when it comes to getting a brand name "out there" with advertising. I've heard the saying that even an awful ad is good if it's awful enough in some way to get enough people talking about it, but frankly there are a couple places whose doorways I've never darkened because they once ran ad campaigns that I absolutely hated and which were apparently ubiquitous and therefore unavoidable. Long after the ads changed, I still associate the brand with how much I hated those ads.