Cable nets find vibrator ad quite pleasurable
Here's something refreshing for the ad business—a commercial you'd expect to provoke some outrage but that's been greeted with a collective shrug. The spot, by Sullivan Productions, is for a new Trojan vibrator called Tri-Phoria, and as The New York Times reports, it's found its way beyond the cloistered late-night commercial pods and into early-evening slots and even daytime cable TV on networks like Comedy Central, Spike and VH1. Not a single network has rejected it outright. This is because Trojan agreed not to use the word "vibrator" or show the product in the ad—major concessions, but worthwhile, as it's not difficult to figure out what they're selling. Brian Fays, evp for advertising at MTV, tells the Times: "At first there was a certain amount of trepidation that maybe the viewing public wasn't prepared to see a commercial with vibrators, and we automatically put it in the overnight slot, but we opened it up because, instead of it being taboo, they got their point across subtly."
- The Guardian to Consolidate Web Properties Under One Domain
- FTC May Not Be Done With Google Yet
- IPG Shareholders Reject 2 Proposals, Including Gender and Race Reporting
- What If Arrested Development Were Coming Back on YouTube?
- Are You Young and Male? Discovery Says This TestTube's for You
- Dwell Media Hires New Head of Digital from Yahoo
- Top Digital Publishers Praise Yahoo's Tumblr Deal
- How J.Lo Is Becoming A Wireless Brand
- Having Shipped Its Pants, Kmart Now Offers You 'Big Gas Savings'
- Rapture-Palooza Star Anna Kendrick Is Addicted to Reddit
- Atlanta's Most Infamous Stripper Pimps Charity Advertising Contest
- Group of Web Video Companies Band Together to Ensure Ads Are Viewable
- And the 2013 Grand Effie Goes to ...
- Twitter's TV Ad Targeting Uses 'Video Fingerprinting'
- Ad of the Day: VisitEngland
- Time.com Is on a Hiring Spree
AdFreak is your daily blog of the best and worst of creativity in advertising, media, marketing and design. Follow us as we celebrate (and skewer) the latest, greatest, quirkiest and freakiest commercials, promos, trailers, posters, billboards, logos and package designs around. Edited by Adweek's Tim Nudd. Updated every weekday, with a weekly recap on Saturdays.


Email
Print







