Comments on: New colorectal cancer awareness transit ads hit roadblocks http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/new-colorectal-cancer-awareness-transit-ads-hit-roadblocks-25099?rss=yes Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:13 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Observer http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/new-colorectal-cancer-awareness-transit-ads-hit-roadblocks-25099#comment-3009 Observer Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:43:26 +0000 http://www.marketingmag.ca/?p=25099#comment-3009 Ha! Sure, it's provocative...but whatever it takes to get attention and motivate people to get screened! Having known someone who died of colo-rectal cancer, and having had to repeatedly cajole my own family into getting tested, I think this is great. Ha! Sure, it’s provocative…but whatever it takes to get attention and motivate people to get screened! Having known someone who died of colo-rectal cancer, and having had to repeatedly cajole my own family into getting tested, I think this is great.

]]> By: Perry Boeker http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/new-colorectal-cancer-awareness-transit-ads-hit-roadblocks-25099#comment-2978 Perry Boeker Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:27:29 +0000 http://www.marketingmag.ca/?p=25099#comment-2978 Right on! A scantily clothed woman selling Victoria Secrets product doesn't seem to be a problem. What prude made the decision on this matter? Certainly someone with no family history of colon cancer. Wakey, wakey - this is the 21st century. Right on!
A scantily clothed woman selling Victoria Secrets product doesn’t seem to be a problem.
What prude made the decision on this matter? Certainly someone with no family history of colon cancer.
Wakey, wakey – this is the 21st century.

]]> By: Someone http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/new-colorectal-cancer-awareness-transit-ads-hit-roadblocks-25099#comment-2970 Someone Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:10:19 +0000 http://www.marketingmag.ca/?p=25099#comment-2970 The campaign is “a bit sexy and that’s the point,” said Stein. “We want to be provocative in all of our campaigns and get as much attention as we can to get people talking about colon cancer screening.” This campaign is definitely not sexy or provocative for that matter when you consider what is being advertised. What is wrong with North America? We have no issue showing death, destruction, and sex on TV for entertainment. But, when it comes to catching attention for the betterment of health and society we need to keep it clean? How many years has the Sun been running scantily clad women in its paper? Yet this is wrong? Is this any more obnoxious than the political attack ads that are forced down our throats? The campaign is “a bit sexy and that’s the point,” said Stein. “We want to be provocative in all of our campaigns and get as much attention as we can to get people talking about colon cancer screening.”

This campaign is definitely not sexy or provocative for that matter when you consider what is being advertised. What is wrong with North America? We have no issue showing death, destruction, and sex on TV for entertainment. But, when it comes to catching attention for the betterment of health and society we need to keep it clean? How many years has the Sun been running scantily clad women in its paper? Yet this is wrong? Is this any more obnoxious than the political attack ads that are forced down our throats?

]]> By: Someone http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/new-colorectal-cancer-awareness-transit-ads-hit-roadblocks-25099#comment-2969 Someone Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:05:42 +0000 http://www.marketingmag.ca/?p=25099#comment-2969 wait, this is too controversial but they have no issue running religious ads? What's more important to our society? potentially the biggest troll job in history or our health? wait, this is too controversial but they have no issue running religious ads? What’s more important to our society? potentially the biggest troll job in history or our health?

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