22nd August 2019, 4:09 AM
(18th August 2019, 11:09 PM)A Black Falcon Wrote: But if you don't yell and be annoying, how are you ever going to get peoples' attention?
Seriously though I don't like this kind of (yell-heavy) advertising much either. I get what they're going for, but it's usually unpleasant and offputting.
The cursing in the first two seconds is what gets me.
I see four commercials all the time on Youtube right now. The first two are for sunglasses where the very first two words are "Holy sh*bleep*". (The claim is "they don't fall off", and hey you know how often people have trouble with their glasses randomly falling off.) The third is for some sort of scooter, the first two words are "Holy sh*bleeeep*". The forth has a very aggresive man telling my my soap is "sh*beep*". They bleep out half the word, just enough to let you know what they're saying.
Here's what really gets me. Several months back, advertisers had some sort of a coup on Youtube, threatening to pull away from Youtube unless they had direct control over who their ads appeared for. We now live in the era of "demonetization". If a video takes a political side (like "nazis are bad"), bam, demonetized. One of those qualifications? If a video uses swear words.
So, deep in the bowels of these advertising firms, they've decided they don't want to be associated with videos that use swears BUT they apparently think being edgy enough to toss out "bleeped" swears in their ads in the first few seconds is fine.
And yes, of COURSE their curse ads are appearing in front of content aimed at 5 year olds. Why wouldn't it?
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