WaMu Wants Customers Yelling 'Whoo Hoo!'

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NEW YORK As fears about a domestic recession rise, Washington Mutual is looking to court consumers with positive, emotional messaging.

Its new “Whoo hoo!” campaign, from TBWA\Chiat\Day, Playa del Rey, Calif., seeks to convey the positive emotional appeal of banking with Washington Mutual.

In one spot, an African-American woman, upon hearing that her WaMu free checking account comes with free checks for life, slips into a reverie in which she wins a disco dance contest and is hoisted overhead by her much-skinnier male counterpart.

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