Furry Marketing

[lupestripe]

Does a company's use of a fursuit or a furry concept make you more or less likely to buy the product being advertised? Elephant.co.uk use an elephant fursuit whilst Foxy Bingo use (an admittedly poor) fox one. Do/Would you let the advertising sway you in this way?

As for me, I can't stand that bastard Coco Monkey in the Coco Pops advert so I never buy those nobbly balls of monkey shit. However I do like Quickie the Nesquik Bunny and so buy a lot of his chocolate flavoured powder to add to my milk. In many ways I would like to be Quickie - he seems to happy and bouncy selling chocolate milk all day. It must be a good life.

And then, added to this, does anyone buy products because they want to yiff the character?

Comments

I find.....

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

that most advertising mascots are not of the best quality. I think they suffer from the trying to please everybody syndrome. Toons are usually the best in these cases but still even then. It's not to say they're bad, just not up to shall we say "the furry standard." The couple of "Toytime" internet reindeer commercials (company died after one Xmas season I think.) were great fursuits, excellent!

Re: I find.....

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Ooh I haven't seen the Toytime commercials, perhaps I should check them out. They intrigue me greatly hehe.

I agree about the poor quality of mascots and this is one of the major drawbacks. Being a discerning Furry I guess I am too picky too but even if they are poorer quality, the ads are still a hell of a lot better than most. And at least they tried. As you say though, cartoon animals tend to be better :)

Re: I find.....

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

I've sent you an e mail with one of the Toytime commercials as an attachment. I had saved it from You Tube some long time ago.
--Me/Henry

Re: I find.....

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That is rather mrr *wags*