A new commercial featuring Pamela Anderson in some office fantasy type thing has been banned from Australian TV because they think it is too sexy.
The commercial shows Pamela playing a suited up businesswoman in a boardroom meeting, when one of the guys gets bored and starts imagining her and the other girl in bikinis dancing with milk.
The commercial is for website hosting company Crazy Domains, but none of the viewers took too kindly to it which resulted in the ban.
Fiona Jolly, president of Advertising Standards Bureau, said “It’s meant to be a cheeky, over-the-top depiction, but in the bureau’s view it did cross the line.”
I don’t even find Pamela Anderson hot anymore — but this is a pretty hot ad, I’m sick of people getting all upset over a bit of sex.
source: PAMELA ANDERSON AD TOO SUACY DOWN UNDER [Daily Star]
The new Bud Light commercial, introduced online Wednesday, features pudgy, naked male flesh.
It is the latest in down-market brewing’s glorious history of using nudity to sell beer. Only instead of buxom babes, we get 60 seconds of office drones stripping frantically because the company clothing drive is offering a Bud Light for every item donated.
But is Bud Light stripping scared? And will that benefit Joe Six-Pack at the cash register? Donald Lichtenstein, a marketing professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, believes the brand is perhaps acting out in fear of even cheaper beer horning in on its low-brau base. Said Lichtenstein,
“I’ll bet some part of it is a reaction to the market share Pabst is getting.”
So almost everybody wins. We get cheaper beer from other brewers such as Pabst. And we get short-attention-span entertainment between our regularly scheduled programming from Bud Light.
But will Bud Light see enough sales from its latest commercial, a sequel of sorts to its “Swear Jar” campaign with strategic blockage of private parts? It reportedly will not air during the Super Bowl.
source: Naked truth about nude Bud Light ad: We get cheap beer [wallet pop]
