{"id":12789,"date":"2010-03-10T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:21","slug":"the-whoopi-goldberg-poise-ad-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/advertising\/the-whoopi-goldberg-poise-ad-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whoopi Goldberg Poise Ad: Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember a lot of ads from Sunday’s Academy Awards Ceremony.<\/p>\n

But I do remember this ad for Poise with Whoopi Goldberg. But I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.<\/p>\n

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\nI keep thinking about this ad, and I can’t decide if it’s brilliant or ridiculous.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, it definitely takes a unique approach to a\u00a0somewht taboo\u00a0subject (female incontinence) and attempts to bring it out into the open and a very public forum- using very public women.<\/p>\n

Whether Whoopi’s humor works (fake French accent and all) is another story. I think she’s a polarizing celebrity. You either love her or hate her. I’ve never been a huge fan.<\/p>\n

But I think what keeps me pondering this commercial, is I don’t really understand the strategy.<\/p>\n


\nSo if Joan of Arc, \u00a0Cleopatra,\u00a0Lady Godiva \u00a0etc. had been able to use Poise, they wouldn’t have had to worry about leakage, and they could have accomplished more?<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

There are so many characters in this spot and so many of them don’t make sense.<\/p>\n

Assuming Joan and Lady G could have been even more effective with Poise (which\u00a0I think is already asking a lot of some pretty incredible historical women) this metaphor completely falls apart for me when you bring in the Statue of Liberty and the Princess and the Pea.<\/p>\n

What am I missing here? I just don’t get it.<\/p>\n

But I am talking about it. Maybe that was the whole point.<\/p>\n

Is that enough?<\/p>\n

In these days of everybody has an opinion (and a blog) is all chatter, good chatter?<\/p>\n

That’s my point of view. What’s your twist?<\/p>\n

What do you think of this Poise ad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember a lot of ads from Sunday’s Academy Awards Ceremony. But I do remember this ad for Poise with Whoopi Goldberg. But I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing. I keep thinking about this ad, and I can’t decide if it’s brilliant or ridiculous. On the positive side, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-advertising"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t