RE: UKNM: Lord save us from tampax banners on the web....

[Jo]

> Perturbed - not particularly - but hacked off at the price of them.

>

> It's outrageous that we have to pay for the bloody things (!) anyway let

> alone suffer higher costs to pay for all the advertising.


It's the attempts at differentiation in the 'feminine hygiene' market that 

get me.  Wings are something that should be confined to birds, or 

aeroplanes.


The potential for shockwave-enhanced product demonstrations on the web 

could be frightening...


> Ruth Phypers

> WorldWide Web Services

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Amanda Christie [mailamandayahoo [dot] com (mailto:mailamandayahoo [dot] com)]

> Sent: 26 November 1998 19:43

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: Lord save us from tampax banners on the web....

>

> This ISN'T a female thing but why on earth would anyone be perturbed

> by such advertising.  It blows my mind that someone would! (and the

> reasons why)

>

> I guess the first time a Tampax advert arrived on our TV screens (this

> is where we hope www is going) you may have also been shocked. The

> internet NEEDS to be more consumer - surely!

>

> GEEEZZZZ.

>

>

---Zelda Rhiando <zeldasunbather [dot] co [dot] uk> wrote:

> >

> > >>I assume you're asking this with reference to targeting >female

> specific

> > >>advertising?

> > >

> > >>Lord save us from tampax banners on the web....

> > >

> > >You have to be joking, these are exactly the bread and butter revenue

> ads

> > >that this media is missing in the UK:

> >

> >http://www.fastsummit.com/adgallery/adgallery7_31_98/ad_of_day/8_20_ad_

> index

> > >.htm

> > >

> > >Personally I can't wait for these, washing powder, toilet paper,

> toothpaste

> > >and toilet cleaner.


[Sam says: ...chopped for brevity...]



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