Flogging a dead horse.
Campaign magazine run a feature this week, maybe influenced by the 7 deadly sins of digital - they home in on the 7 deadly sins of advertising, as illustrated by the most commonly used stereotypes and cliches.
Ranging from buffoon dads to single women with cats and 'crowds united for a cause'.
What's more remarkable is - how they narrowed the list down to seven.
The article is not online as I write but heres a couple of snippets to give you a flavour.
'Using stereotypes allows advertisers to communicate layers of meaning built up across centuries to a mass audience very quickly'
hmm, perhaps the only mass audience is the one that is fast forwarding past these ads with their Sky+.
'Great advertising shouldn't resemble the act of looking through a window at the world...in a world where we're given so much in the way of horror stories, greyness and hardship, the last thing we need is to see more of that in our ad break'
Er no, we use stuff like Art, Music, Movies to escape, not ads.
'Society still looks to advertising to entertain, promise and show world truths without it's gritty traumas' - the editorial.
Well, you wouldn't expect the industry rag to turn on it's own community but...
Maybe this stuff was true 20/30 years ago but the world has changed, consumers have changed and the rules of engagement are different. We are just not paying attention any more.
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