Marketing, does it move you?

[Sluggo]

Does it make you want to buy one?

I puckered a bit, but didn't run down to buy one. Oversteer on a car is one thing, sliding out the back of a bike is a completely unimagineable thought for me.

You can switch the vid to 1080 and fullscreen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXU2PwNqe-4&feature=player_embedded

 

[amish]

nope, desire at 0%.

however, seeing the brand new black mustang across the street makes me want to commit grand theft auto.

 

[LTC8K6]

This campaign moved me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAmE7n05vo8

But not to buy the car...

 

[Railgun]

Marketing is for the masses that can't think for themselves and need to be told what to buy.

That said, I hate all commercials unless they're genuinely funny or creative.

I'm my own ad campaign...I can figure out what I want to buy myself and will test out whatever. I have a CBR 600RR at the moment. I don't track it so...but I don't have any reason to want to get something else either.

 

[Doppel]

Probably we are all affected more than we think or else it wouldn't be so prevalent but I do think it moves me quite little.

 

[Zargon]

well done

thought all I could think was 'becasue we dont offer it because we are cheap'

 

[Insomniator]

I don't understand car commercials... I don't know who they are marketing for. Buy a new BMW for only $599 a month! Buy a new Lexus because its Christmas time only 45k!

After seeing those commercials are people like yeah! take my money! ?

 

[mwmorph]

Ironically the GSXR1000 was one of the first bikes (IIRC it was actually the first sport bike) with a switch for detuned engine power maps.

 

[Jeff7]

Marketing is what usually makes my job more difficult. :\
It frequently seems to be used to:
- Gloss over or outright conceal any limitations, and exaggerate everything else.
- Generate all kinds of useless information or documentation that doesn't really contain anything of substance, but it takes up a lot of time and space, and it looks pretty.



Example: This is the kind of advertising I like. It's simple, and it's presented in the trade magazines in an unobtrusive way. It tells you what the company is and does, it gives the necessary contact information and a web address, it is very succinct, and it doesn't resort to stupid gimmicks.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Nope. I have no desire to buy a GSXR.

Now, if it were a Ducati commercial, that would be another story. But I've never seen a commercial for a Ducati on television.

 

[JackBurton]

That youtube promotional video for the UR twin turbo Aventador moved me. Does that count?

 

[mwmorph]

That youtube promotional video for the UR twin turbo Aventador moved me. Does that count?

I think Audi's marketing has worked on me, everytime I see UR, I immediately expect Quattro to follow that combination of letters.

 

[vshah]

i liked the Merc SLS tunnel ad a lot

 

[exdeath]

I'm immune to marketing and advertising. I know what I want and I get exactly that.

 

[sandorski]

You can not resist.

 

[hanoverphist]

Marketing is for the masses that can't think for themselves and need to be told what to buy.

That said, I hate all commercials unless they're genuinely funny or creative.

i agree. i love funny or notable commercials and campaigns, but i rarely even remember what the product was in those.

i will take info from the commercials and do my own research on whether iwant to buy, but ive never had a marketing ad sway my decision based on a cute animated mascot or a set of delicious boobiez

 

[IGemini]

Nope. The best that marketing could do is make me aware of a product's existence. I base what I want on experience--my own and the aggregate of others, in that order.

 

[Greenman]

Marketing is for the masses that can't think for themselves and need to be told what to buy.

That said, I hate all commercials unless they're genuinely funny or creative.

I'm my own ad campaign...I can figure out what I want to buy myself and will test out whatever. I have a CBR 600RR at the moment. I don't track it so...but I don't have any reason to want to get something else either.

This. Commercials generally annoy me, some actually make me angry. I also flat out refuse to buy anything that has a celebrity endorsement. Multiply that by 10 if it's someone in sports.

Edit: The commercial in the OP is pretty good, though they are once again selling the sizzle, not the steak.

 

[DigDog]

if i notice i have picked up informations from a commercial, i make a point to NOT buy that product no matter what. i am against commercials.. it's a matter of ethics.

 

[Fenixgoon]

suzuki is just bitter because yamaha and kawi have better TCS systems than they do.

pro riders bitch about electronics - until their lap times get faster.

 

[nerp]

Marketing affects all of you, all the time. Maybe not for your next car purchase based on one commercial, but you're kidding yourselves (or just pain ignorant) if you seriously think marketing doesn't influence you and your overall buying decisions. Give me a break. Oh, and I bet you all don't masturbate or pick your noses, either, right? Any girls here? No farting, ever? Wow.

 

[Railgun]

Really? How many BMW commercials do you see compared to the big three or any Japanese make? Not a lot. I had one. Why? I did a ton of my own research to see what I wanted, not what some commercial said I needed.

How many Onkyo commercials do you see? Not a damn one (I'll give you print ads on that one) Yet, that's the receiver I bought based on a ton of my own research, not because of some fancy color print in a magazine I don't subscribe to.

Commercials have NOTHING to do with my buying. Facts and evidence does. JD Power can tell me a Malibu is the best car in the world, but I'll be damned if I'm willingly purchasing one. Why? Because I can think for myself and prefer something else.

A blanket statement like that is what's ignorant, not my apparent inability to be woo'd by some ad campaign.