{"id":2177,"date":"2010-03-17T07:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:21","slug":"bounty-gets-hip-and-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/advertising\/bounty-gets-hip-and-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounty Gets Hip (and Hop)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video from Procter and Gamble (!) for Bounty paper towels.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7LOxD_v4Q_s?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7LOxD_v4Q_s?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI applaud the effort to bring some excitement and coolness into the otherwise staid world of paper towels. For the most part I think it works&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more Keep reading \u00bb --><br \/>\nThe &#8220;scientists&#8221; are engaging, the copy is really funny (&#8220;Bounty, Bounty the baddest PT (paper towels) in\u00a0your county&#8221;), and the demo of the pool balls on the wet towel is original.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside, I think these guys look way too hip, cool and trim to be actual scientists (sorry I am sure I am offending someone,somewhere- but they look like they are spending more time in a gym than a lab).<\/p>\n<p>Might be even funnier if they used guys that looked more like real employees.<\/p>\n<p>In fact the bald one looks a lot like the actor Anthony Edwards who used to play Dr. Mark Greene on ER. I had been wondering what he&#8217;d been up to since leaving the show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also think the demo, while fresh and tied in well to the hip hop world, is a bit precarious. The pool balls look like they are going to bust through at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>But, maybe that&#8217;s part of the suspense.<\/p>\n<p>All and all I think it&#8217;s well done and I applaud P&amp;G for thinking outside of the box, and beyond the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how this will play with housewives, perhaps the core target, but maybe it will elicit a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>But even if it does flop, at least they tried.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure they will learn more from this experiment then sticking with the same old, same old formula.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, &#8220;Fail Harder&#8221;, it means you are growing and stretching your brand.<\/p>\n<p>Props to Procter for trying something new.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my point of view. What&#8217;s your twist?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this Bounty spot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video from Procter and Gamble (!) for Bounty paper towels. I applaud the effort to bring some excitement and coolness into the otherwise staid world of paper towels. For the most part I think it works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,128],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-advertising","7":"category-viral-campaigns"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16531,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}