I just got a commercial on my phone (you know, to help pay for the “free” apps I use) from Groupon.
I starts out “Are you So $$$$in Ready?!” …where they bleep out the $$$$in but put that entire phrase in text (w/ grawlix in place of $$$$…GoA messes up the formatting if I type out the exact characters) on the screen.
IMO, that’s not appropriate…even for the free-wheeling internet. (YOMV.)
[red]I’m not going to buy from Groupon from now on.[/red]
Any of those commercials that start in black and white showing the poor slob fumbling around with some old fashioned doo hickey, but then they switch to colour showing people having altogether better lives with the new thingamabob!!!
It’s just my inner obsessive-compulsiveness, but there is a regional insurer that has been advertising heavily for personal lines products in the Hartford TV market.
Early in the pandemic, they (like many other companies) shifted to a kinder, gentler “we’re all in this together” kind of tone. But I noticed that the borrowed some images from Canada, including the rainbow and “ça va bien aller” imagery that was quite popular in Québec at the time…blurring the text to be illegible unless you knew the source.
I checked, and that insurer doesn’t seem to have any ties to Canada, so I assume it was stock footage that their ad agency grabbed…but for some reason it just resonated poorly with me.