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

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*