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[minxnim]

i need to help my 16 year old cousin with her summer project. part of it is to explain the differences in advertisements american companies use in the US versus in other countries. like if they are simplified, or what.

HELP. anyone have any good examples for her?

 

[goatschool]

my main observation is the overt sexuality of non-U.S. ads, but i'm going to chunk on citing specifics...

 

[minxnim]

so like, american companies use more sexual images etc in overseas ads?

 

[goatschool]

minx i totally misread that! obviously.

 

[goatschool]

i stink! let's move on. i'm prepared to.

 

[mousewings]

Well, I know foreign companies (esp. in Japan) sometimes recruit celebrities (local and foreign) to advertise everything from dish detergent to beauty products. More so than in US, as in the US it would cheapen the celeb's image, but in Japan they don't seem to care. So US celebs are recruited to do ads in Japan that will never see the light of day in N. America...

 

[minxnim]

<3 mousewings
thanks i will tell macee that!

 

[lizard]

the overseas ads are totally more sexual. I've seen Trojan ads from England that would never see television here, and then there's that racy Swiss microsoft ad with the girl with the password protected bra....there was no nudity or anything, just the idea of a guy trying to take her bra off would be an anathema here.

With the FCC on a total warpath right now, I don't see anything changing very soon.

 

[minxnim]

thnx! more please?

 

[lizard]

I saw an english or australian ad for chocolate flavored condoms, everywhere the milkman went, his housewife customers had chocolaty teeth. In the last scene he goes past this one chick and she smiles but her teeth are sparkling white; he walks over to a goat and pets it on the head; the goat smiles and has chocolate on his teeth!

 

[chupe666]

c'mon, everybody loves goats.

 

[xfer]

jumping off what mousewings said, yeah, you can find tons of Japanese ads featuring HUGE celebrities (harrison ford, leo dicaprio, etc) made at the heights of their careers on the condition they not be played in the US.

here's my favourite, featuring AHNOLD:

http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000192.html

he would NEVER do anything so ridiculous here!