#207 Blog Post 2025 Super Bowel Ads.
Tuesday, 25 February 2025.
Posted by Denny Hatch
Super Bowl TV Ads Cost $10 Million for Thirty Seconds.
This One Brought Into My Home Some Creepy Peeps.
The list of advertisers was announced a week before the game. I downloaded 42 advertisers and links to their actual ads which I alphabetized. Booking.com was first. I clicked on the link, watched a gaggle of ugly, noisy muppet puppets (including Miss Piggy) and jotted down some notes. The second ad was from Bosch USA. It was (and is) unbelievably gross — and the subject of extremely this serious blog post.
Click on
the link below to have a look at this truly offensive $10-million-dollar money-losing lunacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ-JvvbfmYk
Ten Proven Rules of Advertising Trashed by Today's
Know-it-all, Super Sophisticated Super Bowl "Creatives."
Rule #1: “The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.”
—Claude Hopkins, Scientific Advertising
Rule #2: “Your job is to sell, not entertain.”
—Jack Maxson, freelancer, creator of the Brookstone catalog
Rule #3: “If it doesn’t sell, it’s not creative.”
—Credo of Benton & Bowles, Chicago, in the 1930s
Rule #4: “Every time we get creative we lose money.”
—Ed McCabe, president of BMG Music Club
Rule #5: “Beware of humor in advertising. People don’t buy from clowns.” —David Ogilvy
Rule #6: The 7 emotional hot buttons that make people buy: Fear – Greed – Guilt – Anger – Exclusivity – Salvation – Flattery
—Bob Hacker, Axel Anderssen
Rule #7: “The prospect doesn’t give a damn about you, your company or your product. All that matters is, ‘What’s In It For Me?’” —Bob Hacker
Rule #8: Ergo, Always listen to W-I-I FM.
—Direct Marketing Old Saw
Rule #9: “Always make it easy to order.”
—Elsworth Howell, CEO, Grolier Enterprises
Rule #10. "Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one."
—Charlotte Rampling/Francois Ozon. "Swimming Pool."
How Could This Debacle Happen?
Who Was the Doofus in Charge?
Meet 56-year-old Aussie Adman David Droga. He started as
a fledging copywriter at FCB.
“In 1996, he moved to Singapore to become Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore and Regional Creative Director of Saatchi Asia. Droga was promoted to Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi London in 1999. In 2002, Advertising Age awarded Droga the World's Top Creative Director.
“Saatchi & Saatchi London won Global Agency of the Year at the Cannes International Advertising and both Advertising Age and Adweek named Saatchi Agency of the Year. In 2000, Publicis Groupe acquired Saatchi and in 2004, Droga was promoted to Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of the Publicis Network, which took him to New York City in 2005.
“Droga founded his own agency, Droga5 in 2006. The name Droga5 comes from the number-coded laundry tag his mother sewed on his clothes to help differentiate his clothes from his brothers at boarding school." —Wikipedia
About Denny Hatch's Marketing Blog.
As co-founder, co-publisher with my extraordinary wife, Peggy, and as editor of the newsletter, WHO'S MAILING WHAT! one of our earliest subscribers was a true direct mail marketing wizard (and lovely guy) the late Malcolm Decker. He once said to me:
"There are two rules — two rules only — in Direct Marketing:
'Rule #1: Test Everything. Rule #2: See Rule #1.' "
It's clear to me that David Droga is not — and never was — a classically trained marketer.
Droga's CV in Wikipedia (above) highlights his immediate acceptance into the smarty-pants glitterati and creativity of Mad. Ave.'s Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis Groupe, Cannes International Advertising Festival, Advertising Age, Adweek. In other words, fugedabout the drudge work and arithmetic of testing — "allowable cost-per-order," "affordable CPM" and "cost-of-goods-sold." Leave the nuts-'n'-bolts and antiquated "rules" such as testing to the old-timer wonks — Max Sackheim, John Caples, Harry Scherman, Vic Schwab, John Stevenson, Fred Briesmeister, Bruce Barton, Stan Rapp, Tom Collins, Lester Wunderman, Elsworth Howell, Bob Hacker, Axel Anderssen, Bill Bernbach, Maxwell Dane and David Ogilvy to name a few.
In short, IMO David Droga is an Amateur and Celebrity Hound.
His Quirky Manifesto:
Okay. Nuff said about dark, violent and offensive TV advertising. Let's end this blog post in bright sunshine with the best, most joyous TV salesman and marketing genius, Ron Popeil, his family, his mesmerized live audience and sales pitch for the ages. This is fun. Guaranteed! Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ZZ42Irxng
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