Super Bowl commercials are always fun to watch. Sometimes local ones come on and they crack me up sandwiched between $3 million commercials. But what stuck out this year was Groupon's commercials.
I'm familiar with them... coupons given out so long as a certain number of people buy the special that day. Nothing wrong with that.
But the commercials? Completely tasteless.
I hate to even give it airtime, but I wanted to know everyone else's opinions.
To me? This is way worse than when a politician runs a smear campaign against the opposing candidate. It's more along the lines of laughing at a baby falling down the stairs. Beyond insensitive.
There are two more: Save the Whales, and then one about the Rainforest. The rainforest one wasn't as bad. If it had been the only one, I would've overlooked the insensitivity entirely, assuming it was a funny commercial gone wrong.
So what's your take?
3 comments:
Here's Groupon's take:
http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/our-super-bowl-ads-and-how-were-helping-these-causes/
Groupon's are not as bad as "Test Baby" from Home Away:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24N5DQ_XaY
Rachel, Test baby was very disturbing-- everyone naturally looked away from the TV at our party cause it's so disturbing!
Mike- thanks for the link- I was wondering if Groupon was going to come out and say something or not. Still feel the same way, but it's good to see them acknowledging it.
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