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Old 09-05-2013, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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How incredibly stupid and insensitive. Hard to believe somebody didn't stop this from going to press.
Sneaker company in doghouse after dead dog ad - NBC News.com
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Old 09-05-2013, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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Hard to believe that ad proposal made it through company meetings and it was still thought to be a great idea.
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Old 09-06-2013, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Tejas
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Hard to believe that ad proposal made it through company meetings and it was still thought to be a great idea.
Thats what I was thinking. I still hind it hard to muster up an ounce of outrage though, its just a dog lieing down. Definitely in bad taste though.
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Old 09-06-2013, 01:19 PM
 
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Ohhhhh brotherrrrrr.....

I ran an inhouse advertising department for an industrial manufacturer for many years. Like I do with SO many ads and commercials I see these days*, I am picturing the meetings around the conference table, the agency presenting its storyboards, and people nodding their heads in approval....that could NOT have possibly happened with this ad!!!!


* The Charmin bears commercials...the Cialis commercials...the Time Warner Cable commercial where the dad questions whether his wife should be having that baby because it means one more person using his internet connection.....ARGH!
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Old 09-06-2013, 01:33 PM
 
Location: The Help Desk
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Obviously the company caters to The Mountaineers, who are notoriously anti-dog.
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Old 09-06-2013, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Ohhhhh brotherrrrrr.....

I ran an inhouse advertising department for an industrial manufacturer for many years. Like I do with SO many ads and commercials I see these days*, I am picturing the meetings around the conference table, the agency presenting its storyboards, and people nodding their heads in approval....that could NOT have possibly happened with this ad!!!!


* The Charmin bears commercials...the Cialis commercials...the Time Warner Cable commercial where the dad questions whether his wife should be having that baby because it means one more person using his internet connection.....ARGH!
"We all have to go so enjoy the go". Have you ever heard anything more ridiculous. Like a certain kind of toilet paper is going to make peeing and pooping more pleasant. They certainly were hard up for a slogan.

What the apparent dead dog ad tells me is that either is was not shown to enough people, or the people who did see it were too intimidated to voice concern and acknowledge that it would not go ocver well with the general and dog loving public.
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Old 09-07-2013, 09:45 AM
 
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This is some poor advertising, not sure why someone would think "death" would be an appealing way to advertise shoes.
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:17 AM
 
Location: North Idaho
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I don't like the ad, so I will boycott the company. That will make absolutely no difference to the company because I was already refusing to buy their product.

I made the mistake of buying a rather expensive pair of their shoes and they lasted about 3 weeks with very light use before one side of the sole had worn down uneven enough to twist my knees.

No thanks to any more of their product.

Is that an oriental company? The name sounds oriental. Some of those countries feel differently about dogs that the people of the USA do.
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Old 09-07-2013, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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I don't like the ad, so I will boycott the company. That will make absolutely no difference to the company because I was already refusing to buy their product.

I made the mistake of buying a rather expensive pair of their shoes and they lasted about 3 weeks with very light use before one side of the sole had worn down uneven enough to twist my knees.

No thanks to any more of their product.

Is that an oriental company? The name sounds oriental. Some of those countries feel differently about dogs that the people of the USA do.
The parent company is Japanese.
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Old 09-07-2013, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Default The ad team obviously never met Lily

Lily Shreds trailside. Video - Pinkbike
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