Sanitary product advertisers

Jeff_Bridges_hair

NiallB wrote: »

Very unfortunate choice of words there dude...:D

Intended :cool:

allanm_2

I'm sure that in the canesten ad the voice over used to say "I'm feeling myself now."

Or was I mistaken?

bosseyed

:rotfl:

Thing is though, how would you advertise them if you had to come up with something? You can't really go anywhere near the reality can you, a foul tempered lady under a blanket hitting her husband with a hot water bottle - doubt that would shift many units, so we're stuck with breezy images of insanely happy ladies linking arms with their friends and laughing as they board rollercoasters in their white trousers.

rustyboy21

It's like the old Charmin Loo roll ads that used to be on.

They showed a bear family and the father bear was carrying a loo roll with him, extolling it's virtues.

I wonder whether the strap line for it was really '' Do Bears s**t in the woods''?;)

bargainbetty

Allanm, I think the tag line was 'You'll soon be feeling yourself again' which I found immensely funny too.

Marketers do seem to think we are encouraged by pictures of skinny women doing amazing things while laughing happily surrounded by lots of wonderful friends. On PMS, that's just irritating, imtimidating or makes you cry.

How about an ad with a woman sitting on a couch, wearing comfy clothes, drinking a mug of hot chocolate, or eating from a family-sized bag of crisps, with unwashed hair and no make up? Someone comes in and makes a comment about 'making an effort to look good' and the camera fades as the woman picks up a hammer and runs at the now screaming husband. Cue photo of cream carpet, with a carefully placed tarpaulin spread out....

Tampax. No mess, no fuss.

Azari

bargainbetty wrote: »

Allanm, I think the tag line was 'You'll soon be feeling yourself again' which I found immensely funny too.

Marketers do seem to think we are encouraged by pictures of skinny women doing amazing things while laughing happily surrounded by lots of wonderful friends. On PMS, that's just irritating, imtimidating or makes you cry.

How about an ad with a woman sitting on a couch, wearing comfy clothes, drinking a mug of hot chocolate, or eating from a family-sized bag of crisps, with unwashed hair and no make up? Someone comes in and makes a comment about 'making an effort to look good' and the camera fades as the woman picks up a hammer and runs at the now screaming husband. Cue photo of cream carpet, with a carefully placed tarpaulin spread out....

Or, Cue photo of cream carpet with husband lying unconscious and a trickle of blue liquid coming from his head.

moonrakerz

Reminds me of the joke about the ......man, the ......man and the ........man (I won't say what nationality - probably be against some Law or other :D) who were going on a 15 month flight to Mars.

Each man he was told he could take small item to pass away the time on the flight.
The .......man said he would take a pack of cards.
The ......man said he would take a painting by numbers kit
The ........man said he would take a packet of Tampax - when pressed by the other two as to why he would take such an apparently useless item - he replied - "with Tampax I can play tennis, go swimming, go horse riding ...................."

ailuro2

Azari wrote: »

Would be interesting to know if the dumb-clucks actually removed the stupid message.

no, it's on the end of the new ad...:p

ailuro2

It's on a par with the "pee yourself anywhere and no-one will ever know" ads for incontinence pants and pads...

so you can take the grandkids to the fun fair, eat candyfloss, bite some apples.. oops, no that's the dentufix ad, isn't it?:rotfl:

same concept, let's think of everything you'd never want to do because you have your period / have incontinence / wear false teeth and make an ad showing you can do all this and more!!

luxor4t

ailuro2 wrote: »

It's on a par with the "pee yourself anywhere and no-one will ever know" ads for incontinence pants and pads...

You beat me to it!

I think the only sanitary towel ads I ever thought were sensible were the ones with Claire Rayner - but that really dates me!