Freckled vs Flawless – do we care?
April 7 2006, 1:45 pm | | 25 Comments
That big billboard thingy on Ponsonby Rd counting the Yes or No texts – seems a bit try-hard to me. Looks like it could be desperately clawing its way towards some kind of whizzbang DM/Interactive/Outdoor/Insert Category Here award… I guess we’ll all need to be patient puppies to see what the next exciting instalment will be (yawn).
PS: I might’ve got the concept wrong because the lights were green and I didn’t get a chance to look at it properly.
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It’s an overseas ad from O&M London that they’ve imported. It’s won heaps of awards, not sure why as it feels a bit naff to me.
Drove pass, look at it, didn’t think anything further. What’s it on about?
I was only being facetious about the awards… honestly!! So it really did win them – what a scream!!!
Yeah. It did. Um, there’s a campaign of them. The CD was Malcolm Poiynton (excuse the dodgy spelling). I’ve never understood the deep consumer insight behind them but they’ve won a few bigish awards. No shit.
Right. That’s it then. If an old suit like me can spot a whole campaign and awards from one dodgy bloody execution, then I’m out of here. Goodbye…
That freckled chick makes me hard.
I came at the lights just looking.Where can I get some of that soap?
I’ve got some handmade face cream you may like to try.
You creative guys are terrible – as soon as the suit leaves, the whole tone descends as your minds sink into the gutter. Typical!
Rip-off of Euro RSCG’s campaign for Orange – ‘Let’s Talk’. 2003 Cannes finalist, utilises mulitiple-choice box format with the orange square representing ‘let’s talk’.And 2:41, ‘it’s’ isn’t a contraction of it has, it’s ‘it is’.Grammatical pedantry is the only thing that doesn’t get shot down on this site, may as well rock it out hard-core.Have a nice, ad-obsessed weekend
6:29 twat’
10.44, shouldn’t you be out on the town having a life, or at least rimming some poor media girl?
Can someone tell us who the purile, immature twats are who cream their pathetic asses over saying ‘cock’ and ‘rimming’ etc on this blog? Seriously, it is so fucking lame.
It’s me.
I don’t get the ad.The woman has freckles. That’s not to say freckles are a positive or negative thing, but they are there regardless. You can see them, so how can you vote “no”?
Dunno, can we just get back to saying ‘cock’ and ‘rimming’?
Only if you make it funny or clever.You hardcase ad students you, eh, eh…
The whole campaign seems flawed to me. It’s forcing you to choose between freckled and flawless. She is obviously freckled, which makes you choose against flawless, which is supposed to be the whole point of their ‘real people are beautiful’ branding.
So will this soap to get rid of my freckles?
I’m with 2.04, definitely a loaded question.And will foreigners to get good grasp of England?
I’ve been putting soap on my freckle for years and it’s still there.
No image, I’m in Sydney but sounds like this is for HSBC. If so, it’s the debut worldwide campaign created by Craig Davis and his lads at JWT in London. Basically the same as Orange via Euro RSCG Sydney (and before that for Orange in Asia) and The Australian via Clems Melbourne. Also it’s the same as the early 90s Guardian ‘Points of View’ campaign in the UK. Been in ‘Deja View’ in CB last year.
Sydney here again. Saw an adshell on the way into work which was for Dove, via Malcolm Poynton and the lads at O&M London, probably another in the series that you describe in NZ. Which is also the same idea as, in reverse chronological order, HSBC, The Australian, Orange (Aust), Orange (Asia) and The Guardian.
I agree with “I Don’t get it”, I dont get it. I understand the campaign but the questions is so ambiguous, are we supposed to say she has freckles or is it that even with freckles she is flawless? or are freckles etc…
Who the fuck do Dove thnk they are? It’s soap. Soap! S-O-A-P boiled pig fat SOAP!