I love posts like this, it makes my life almost to easy. It’s deplorable adverts like this that make me realize how terrible South African advertising is.
“Hummer Hummer, Hummer Hummer Hummer, Hummer Hummer Hummer”
Yes, very deep indeed. With a tagline: “It’s hard to think of anything else”. Basically you can win a Hummer if you sign up to Cell C. Now there are multiple problems here. The first problem is that it’s terribly stupid. Maybe Cell C could bother to service their network and well, I don’t know maybe get 3G coverage rather than waste money on terrible adverts. Cell C has always had a history of witty adverts; it’s what duped everyone to buying into their crap network.
Come on, there is nothing good about this advert. The girls aren’t even that hot and frankly when I hear the word “Hummer” I cringe.
Most people think that this a hummer:
I am a pervert and think that this is a Hummer:
If that isn’t enough to turn you off driving a gigantic “Chav Mobile” then this advert surely will. What a load of toss
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I’m sorry but I completely disagree with you. SA has some of the best advertising around and people world-wide acknowledge this. Many overseas adverts are produced in SA.
The entire point of this advert is that it’s *supposed* to be stupid. I think it’s quite funny actually. It’s a complete and utter rip off of the rap genre.
You do realise that the marketer’s goal has been achieved by you writing this post, right? “It’s hard to think about anything else…”
It makes your life almost “too” easy, please. And “realise”, good grief, we’re not yanks! Sorry I guess correcting peoples English in the comments of their posts is a bit choppish, but the previous story I read was all about grammar, so I feel I have to…