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| Am I the only Canadian that sees these Koodo commercials everywhere and thinks that it's such a lousy campaign that the company will fail just because of its bad advertising? If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look at this: It is the biggest cheese you've ever seen in your life. You have been warned.
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| amusing and EXTREMELY cheesy. You weren't kidding, vlad.
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| Wow, that has to be one of the worst ads I have ever seen. ![]()
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| "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE GSM NETWORK??.....we haven't got one actually..." This is starting to look a bit like the Virgin Mobile we have here. utter trash that is... I doubt they'll do well in the market. If they offered GSM phones and affordable prepaid/monthly plans, it might have succeeded.
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| ^We have the same Virgin Mobile here. And guess what? Nobody I know has Virgin Mobile ... that's how large a market share they have. ![]() | |
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| I'm watching it without sound (shitty work PC) and even I am revolted beyond belief. Someone needs to shoot the host guy in the face. Repeatedly. Srsly | |
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| I'm like 99% sure they're making fun of those ridiculous infomercials and not being serious. | |
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| No matter whether they're making fun of the ridiculous infomercials. This is a real campaign. It's not a Comedy Network spoof. It's the real campaign that an up-and-coming cellphone company is using. What's even worse, it's not only on TV. It's everywhere. It's all over the walls of the subway stop at my university ... in the malls you can't turn around without seeing another poster of the "Koodo people" in their fitness outfits doing some feat of strength or something. I'll go to school tomorrow and I'll try to get some pictures and post them up. Then you'll get it. | |
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| Joined: Sep 23rd, 2005 Last Online: 01:21 AM Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Bah. Age: 21 Posts: 2,368
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| It's not a serious ad.. Besides there is no such thing as bad publicity, people will surely remember them now.
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| Lexus? Oh shi- | I don't think Koodo will fail because of bad advertising. Just look at Shaw, Bell and Rogers. Horrendous ads are rampant in the Canadian telecom industry. |
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| Joined: Jan 20th, 2008 Last Online: December 21st, 2008 Location: Edmonton, AB Posts: 411
Rep Power: 11 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | The ads are designed to reach a younger audience, and I think they will succeed. I actually like the ciche 80s theme a lot more than the gay Telus or Bell ads. And they actually have good, inexpensive, customizable plans; no contracts, no system access fee, etc. I've signed up, and I hope they do really well because this is one of the first canadian cell phone companies that actually seems interested in giving the customer what they want.
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| Hormone Induced Joined: Jun 21st, 2005 Last Online: 06:30 AM Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5,913
Car: Pimpmobile Rep Power: 73 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Hardly up-and-coming, Koodo is just a subsidiary of Telus. |
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Who does Koodo appeal to? What is their target market? From what these commercials show, thet target people who are: overweight (fitness theme), stupid (degree in mathematics), people who aren't familiar with technology (they show no handset examples at all), and people who like comedy shows (parody commercial). But ... they insult the people who are overweight by telling them that only having a cellphone will get them more in shape ... they insult the intelligence of people who are bad at math and know very well that text messaging has nothing to do with math .... they don't offer any incentive or explanations for people who aren't very good with technology to get a handset from them .... and I doubt anybody would buy a product just because the company has a sense of humor. Quote:
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| Joined: Jan 15th, 2007 Last Online: 02:38 AM Location: Delta, BC Posts: 186
Rep Power: 0 ![]() | the skytrain ads are horrid lol...
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| I heard from somewhere that T-Mobile had just registered their name in Canada. Perhaps they will be coming here soon? It would be great when we can get some lowered mobile rates in Canada.
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| Lexus? Oh shi- | ^ Before Fido was bought out by Rogers, there were rumors that T-Mobile wanted to buy Fido. But there's some law about foreign companies only able to own a certain percentage of a Canadian company, so the deal somehow failed because of that. Has it be reseructed? I'm with Fido and have been happily using them since 1998. Sure, cheaper data would be great, but of all the Canadian providers, Fido seems the best. |
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