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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I tend to do the same. The problem with advertising is it's subliminal and if it gets your attention and makes you remember the product then it has done its job. This means some of the most banal or stupid ads are the ones that get remembered and the companies prosper. Having said that, I will never buy insurance through Churchill simply because those ads piss me off so much.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true... the only thing you can really do is not subject yourself to advertising to begin with if you can help it.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that I can't as due to my job, I have to have certain rolling news channels on in the background. I am so sick of certain adverts, it's unreal...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That's me too, I should've logged in :(

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles and snugs*