Gothamist: Gateway's Terrible New Advertising

ShinGo

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:54:12 -0500

If Gateway really wanted the sales of their systems to go through the roof, they'd build a machine made strictly for surfing porn on the internet. And as an extension for this "Humanology" campaign, they could add two more visual: a schlong and a hand making the universal jerk-off gesture. At least then the whole campaign would at least make some sense. Oh yeah...those 5 years of marketing classes at the community college are finally starting to pay off.

hoofin

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:47:59 -0500

The subliminal message is that the glory days of Leo Burnett (Tony the Tiger, etc.) are long long gone. Instead of nice middle-America conservatism from a big white-bread Chicago agency, somebody there decided to serve up shit for a marketing campaign. The idea doesn't even work as a draft of an idea. It says nothing to me but "transporter accident". Why "creativity" comes to mean picking through scraps for ideas, is beyond me. Yeah, there is a reason that some unusual stuff "stands out". But here that reason is, among a lot of advertising that people are taking semi-seriously, is one that NO one would take seriously.

Liz

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:12:01 -0500

egad. it looks like something cooked up by the in-house marketers at a fortune 500 widget company for their annual national sales meeting in boca raton. printed up by document services in the basement. it is possible to kill someone with blandness? maybe there are subliminal messages? please?

Coolfer

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:08:50 -0500

Human error is usually what's behind computer problems, right? So I say, Less Human, More Computers.

information leafblower

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:02:04 -0500

Ears make we want to buy new computers.

Jen

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 13:11:39 -0500

Dude, this goes beyond focus groups... focus groups would have demanded wanting to know about good service. This is so high minded, it's just high. Hee, I'm thinking of Towelie from South Park... "wanna get hiiiigh?"

Sam

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:48:13 -0500

Oh geez... seriously, what a focus group driven dumb piece of ass. Speaking of which, will they be using a nice ass shot for any of their products?