Friday, June 20, 2008

Soft Drink Advertising

Since it is the middle of June and hunting season is close and it is hotter than blue blazes in Texas so no fish are biting I will try my hand at talking about other things. So I'll start with something that grinds my gears.....soft drink advertising.

Who are these morons that come up with the marketing ideas, and who are the idiot executives that approve the ideas. First off there is Sprite, it is tasty and prior to their most recent advertising launch I preferred it over 7up. They decided that to make their product more appealing they would have "SubLimenal" advertising and have a freak show commercial with mouths as eyelids drinking sprite. Now Coke has started labeling in all languages with crazy colors, I guess this one is not that big of a deal but I am a classic kind of guy and thought "you can't beat the real thing" was working just fine. And then there is Dr. Pepper and the "23 Flavors". What? This is a load of crap, some jackass in there marketing department tossed an arbitrary number out there and I am supposed to think there are now 23 flavors. Dr Pepper has one flavor, DELICIOUS, and they should leave it at that!

Doodle