Comments on: Weekly Ad Uncoiling: Diesel

By: badluckshadow13

badluckshadow13 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:57:53 +0000

Wow… that was disturbing.
But the big question on my mind? Was that butcher-lady played by the same actress who played Pearl on MST3K?

By: von

von — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:57:50 +0000

I think its done pretty well. I work in marketing and if this ad was simply about getting the brand out to as many people as possible they’ve done a good job. The simple fact that you’ve embedded the video on the site and people are debating it means they have won.

Doesn’t mean anyone’ll buy a pair of jeans though.

By: Magess

Magess — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:43:42 +0000

I would guess that time bandit advertising is any ad that makes you go “where there’s 2 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.”

By: copyranter

copyranter — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:51:26 +0000

rickie: yes, that was good. I didn’t include it in the post because it was just a one shot vid announcing their 30th anniversary. It wasn’t part of their ad campaign.

By: rickie

rickie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:22:13 +0000

my favorite is this one:
http://www.vkmag.com/videos/videos_diesel_doet_sfw_porn/

teh awesome

By: Anja Flower

Anja Flower — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:24:43 +0000

It’s not quite weird enough or quite absurd enough to work, and it leans on the crutch of an overused and stupid trope – that of meat puppets. The real clincher, though, is that the Pete puppet has no personality whatsoever.

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:29:42 +0000

It’s an interesting oddity, but what the hell does it have to do with the company? Or isn’t that the nature of viral adverts?

By: Skerror

Skerror — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:42:49 +0000

That is pretty terrible. I would dislike this even if there were no brand behind it trying to hock shit at me.

If they had used an actual dude made-up like Frank from Hellraiser hooked up to puppet strings…this might’ve worked. They could’ve kept the same song and it would definitely get banned.

http://www.fleshtwister.com/HR1/images/KirstyFrank005_jpg.jpg

This way it’s just a dummy with hamburger glued to it’s face.