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 generally tend not to too but we've all done it, haven't we? And I do tend to favour companies with good advertising over ones with poor advertising. What I particularly hate is negative advertising. Those companies that slag off their rivals instead of promoting their own product.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think that my decision to buy a Rover 200 in 2000 was largely on the strength of the model's original 1989 advertising campaign :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That was a fine campaign...

Or perhaps did you think that it was a new Rover and were dismayed to find that they hadn't botched up the advertising and accidentally drop a 0?