Quaker Oats comp!

NBLondon

Wonder if Quaker are surreptitiously trying to attract food bloggers as a form of cheaper advertising.

EnglishWelshie

Why shouldn!!!8217;t a food blogger enter though. So long as the t&sc are kept to then I don!!!8217;t see the problem who enters after all it is a big value prize so is going to attract many entries.
I do feel that there is quite a lot of sour grapes regarding this competition from some compers we don!!!8217;t have exclusivity to competitions so if entering maybe do some research on food blogs photos to up your game.

Makeandsave

https://www.facebook.com/QuakerOatsUK/photos/a.284846468263736.66659.233221876759529/1606647082750328/?type=3&theater

Seems it a professional again from some of the comments on https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfi62CglJhq/?taken-by=quakeroatsuk

flipflop29

Didn't even take the photo herself apparently.

You can't stop people with specific skills entering competitions, fair enough. But this one has got a bit daft.

Makeandsave

flipflop29 wrote: »

Didn't even take the photo herself apparently.

You can't stop people with specific skills entering competitions, fair enough. But this one has got a bit daft.

I wonder if the company will address this?

mjm3346

flipflop29 wrote: »

Didn't even take the photo herself apparently.

You can't stop people with specific skills entering competitions, fair enough. But this one has got a bit daft.

There is an independent judge and the T&Cs mean the deciding factor is likely to be the "visually appealing" section (for instance how hard would it be to get top marks in the "practical to make" section) and a professional quality image should come out ahead of a less than perfect one when everything else is equal.

Only Quaker will know if it was by design or happy accident for them that the T&Cs worked out that way.

flipflop29

Makeandsave wrote: »

I wonder if the company will address this?

They haven't so far. Not publicly, anyway.

Bit disappointing. It's not that the person who won was professional, it's that they've used someone else's photo AND it's been published before. Clear contravention of the rules,

hdh74

Don't bedgrudge the winners as any fair entry is a deserving winner imo. Do think Quaker have run it poorly though. The TV ads make it look like anyone with a bowl of porridge and a phone or camera could win. Which certainly doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of people could end up disillusioned with the brand rather than being more positively brand aware.
Also, if Quaker use all the Pro quality images they will just look like yet another professional ad, which personally I find my brain pretty much filters out. I saw an entry on facebook where someone had put a freddy the frog in a bowl of porridge, and hey their kid loved it. Hardly food blogger quality, but guess what it's the one stuck in the brain of most people who saw it. And it's the stuff I see that I think, yeah I could do that, quite easily that inspires me. I'm not going to go out and buy fresh figs and a honeycomb for my brekky in all honesty...

mjm3346

hdh74 wrote: »

Don't bedgrudge the winners as any fair entry is a deserving winner imo. Do think Quaker have run it poorly though. The TV ads make it look like anyone with a bowl of porridge and a phone or camera could win. Which certainly doesn't seem to be the case.

Non-photographers do have as much chance as anyone for the £1,000 prize in the final draw which is random

Entries received between 00.01 GMT on 12th March 2018 and 23.59 GMT on 12th June 2018

Blueyez

hdh74 wrote: »

Don't bedgrudge the winners as any fair entry is a deserving winner imo. Do think Quaker have run it poorly though. The TV ads make it look like anyone with a bowl of porridge and a phone or camera could win. Which certainly doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of people could end up disillusioned with the brand rather than being more positively brand aware.
Also, if Quaker use all the Pro quality images they will just look like yet another professional ad, which personally I find my brain pretty much filters out. I saw an entry on facebook where someone had put a freddy the frog in a bowl of porridge, and hey their kid loved it. Hardly food blogger quality, but guess what it's the one stuck in the brain of most people who saw it. And it's the stuff I see that I think, yeah I could do that, quite easily that inspires me. I'm not going to go out and buy fresh figs and a honeycomb for my brekky in all honesty...

I remember seeing the frog one! I only looked through the comp after seeing this thread appear, didn't enter as I don't buy the product due to allergy. its a shame they won't at least pick a mix of professional and 'everyday users of the product as a compromise.