New Ads on BF

[XztatiK]

Okay now as you can see from my signature-thing, I am not a fan of Soccer whatsoever. But that is irrelevent here.

The ads on this site (and footywire) for this SBS Soccer show are completely uncalled for.

In case you haven't seen it, It shows an animation of a man kicking a soccer ball up and down until a football comes in the picture, he kicks the football away, disrespecting our sport and continues to kick his soccer ball.

Then the text comes up saying "WE LOVE FOOTBALL". Now I am a strong believer that in Australia there is only one sport that should be called football and soccer is called soccer but let's not get into that.

The thing that annoys me is that this ad has been placed on FOOTBALL sites like this one - clearly with theintention of pissing football fans off.

Someone tell me how this could be considered effective marketing??? The fact is they would be getting a far greater benefit from this ad if it were placed on soccer websites and I see no other reason to put it on football sites other than to stir us up.

Again, this has nothing to do with me disliking soccer - I would be pissed off if an American Football show did an ad like this and I love the NFL. I just think this is a completely inappropriate advertisement for the sites they have chosen to put it on.

Agree? Disagree? Not a big deal?

Any mods want to shed some light on the situation?

 

[EBUS]

Doesnt really bother me

 

[Deledinho]

If the fact that you're not a "soccer" fan is irrelevant, then why repeatedly mention it?

 

[XztatiK]

If the fact that you're not a "soccer" fan is irrelevant, then why repeatedly mention it?

By repeatedly you mean twice?

Just emphasizing that it's not the sport I'm pissed off at but the ad and its aim.

 

[DonMania#5]

Who gives a f***?

 

[adelaide_40]

no big deal.

 

[likka]

Simply use Firefox with the Adblock add-in and you won't see any annoying BF ads.

Really cannot understand why people would use any other browser. Makes practicaly all internet advertising obsolete, and saves on bandwidth for legitimate content.

 

[r dub 19]

Put yourself in BF shoes. Would you reject hundreds of dollars for a few ads ?

 

[XztatiK]

Yes, personally I would. But I am in no way blaming BigFooty.

 

[Mr P@H]

Clearly a conspiracy to make sure loutish soccer types infiltrate and destroy Footy. You are absolutely correct.

 

[Innapropriate]

Ads? What ads?


Adblock FTW!

 

[estibador]

The thing that annoys me is that this ad has been placed on FOOTBALL sites like this one - clearly with theintention of pissing football fans off.

What makes you think that SBS (who aren't exactly rolling in dough) would pay to put ads on here just to piss you off? More likely they are aiming them at the hundreds (if not thousands) of multi-code fans on here who may watch the show.

Imagine a sports show advertising on a sports website! They'd be much better off trying to reach their target audience on BigKnittingandCrocheting.com.

And even if it was a big practical joke to annoy you how precious do you have to be to get upset about something like that anyway?

I'm sure the AFL would be very proud to see that their portrayal of other sports as the enemy is rubbing off on the impressionable.