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The Foundation for a Better Life has tons of billboards and print ads like this and I think its very cool. As someone who drives a lot, I always find myself staring at these billboards longer than I should whilst driving. I think that when it comes to virtuous advertising, the FFBL has a great mission in inspiring people to be proactive in their own lives. There are many other examples of this stuff on their website values.com. There is a link to connect with them on facebook and on twitter and they have a lot of cool information and examples of their ads.

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Feb
16

Dove Men

Posted by: Liz Tabor | Comments (3)

Dove has been greatly praised for their advertising featuring average, fuller figured women. Now they have moved on to a men’s campaign, hoping for the same success.

This particular ad is the second in the series, following up the first ever Men’s Care product line by Dove which was advertised during the Superbowl. Although I like both, I particularly like the second ad. Rarely can you find an ad for men’s shower gel that isn’t over the top raunchy (did anyone say Axe?)

However, Dove took a different approach by showing a little girl with her father at both the beginning and end of the ad which I really liked. Rather than showing a women clinging to her man after he uses the ’sexual’ body wash, Dove replaced the stick thing woman with a daughter figure which I thought was a really good move.

In addition to this Dove also is able to get across all of the product attributes that they were trying to convey. All in all, I think a really well done ad.

The first ad aired during the Superbowl

The Second Ad (my favorite)

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Categories : Self-esteem, Television
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Levi  Strauss & Co just recently launched the “Give them hope Now” Campaign. This campaign is to raise money for the Hetrick-Martin Institue, which is a non profit organization that that supports the Harvey Milk High School. As you can imagine the Harvey Milk High School is dedicated to support and help gays, lesbians, transgenders, and bisexuals during there time of need. They like to think of themselves as a school that is there for them when their family isnt. When their family kicks them out of there houses and wont support them. The school provides after school support groups and support services. At first when i viewed the ad i was unclear of what the message was for…Here is one of the commercials… What are your thoughts can you tell what it is for?? Also with Levis supporting a messsage like this do you think that people that are againt gay marriage and are homophobic may stay away from a company like this and stay away from purchasing their products? they have gone about delivering this message in a very modern way Rob Toledo, senior account director, Razorfish, Seattle says “We’ve put together a very impactful social media outreach strategy. We’ll be reaching out to bloggers and like-minded organizations and people in the LGBT community,” Do you think they did this because this topic is more of a modern issue and traditionalist might not agree and therefor they figured they could reach more of there target market? or because it cost less to get the message out??

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Mar
24

Perception is reality… for some

Posted by: Lisa Teague | Comments (6)

Eating disorders are perplexing to everyone. Even experts do not fully understand it, much less the friends and family of those with these diseases. This ad hopefully sheds some light on what sufferers experience… not just to those who stand by helplessly as they watch their loved ones wither away, but to the sufferers themselves.

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Mar
24

Onslaught by Dove

Posted by: Lisa Teague | Comments (4)

… and we wonder why eating disorders are rising among American girls

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Categories : Self-esteem
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Mar
06

Dove Evolution

Posted by: Lisa Teague | Comments (5)

Another “oldie but goodie” commercial, but one that fits perfectly in a site called AdVirtues.

The first of its kind, this ad demonstrates how the beauty industry deceives its consumers. Girls being raised with such unrealistic perceptions of beauty can develop very negative self-images. It was high time someone SHOWED the truth!

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