new orange ad campaign...

stupid...apparently i need to change to a dolphin....have been a cat but moblog has changed that....told them i wanted to be an aardvark !

beware the merecats

i think the whole thing is rather stupid, i feel they are advertising to a much younger generation which can only be bad really,

This is a campaign pitched at 18 and above actually, as it does not apply to PAYG accounts. I find it a mediocre and simplistic idea, and it's execution confoundingly obtuse - our minds are sloppy - creating some kind of link between the arguable traits that a 'raccoon' exhibits and tying that to data/call/text usage is just daft imo. In fact, what the hell are we doing with a Racoon in there in the first place? It's not even a native UK animal! (is it?)

its not no, unless its in a confined fake environment (zoo),

its true about the obtuseness of it, but i think most mobile indistries try to make their ad's so simple and 'fun' that they try to attract the type of people that would see it and go: ooo its a dolphon, i like dolphins, i want to be a dolphin' this service is just for me

which is complete bullshit

and how exactly is a dolphin sociable, surely a grist of bees are more sociable, and bees have a point, rather than dolphins!

damn network operators, and ive got to work for one, luckily nothing to do with this shite selling or customer service thouhg

'a grist of bees'

Thank you for that, I had no idea they were called a Grist, that is so cool :)

You're lucky that you're not working in the strategy/marketing of a network I suppose, although of course if it *was* you working there, perhaps we wouldnt be seeing this on underground stations around London :)

no problem, i like the term grist!

haha, and the adverts would be VERY different if it *was* me working there, none of that orange shite, i would have the *black and white* network, simple one way or another tariffs!
i may write to orange and ask for a full explanation as to WHY exactly they feel if necessary for this

Wait.

Wait.

They have raccoons?

Come on, you know I have to laugh at this for at least a half hour now.

It looks pretty... but yes pointless

Belf, I KNOW, thats why I used the Racoons as an example, I knew it would at least make you chuckle :)

Well I just woke up and I am uncaffeinated. *still giggling*

Orange is stealing my shit, yo.

(you're still a little raccoon. You don't need Orange to tell you so. *I* did. :D )

"If you text a lot, Dolphin could be the plan for you."

For fuck sake they have flippers!

They are good graphics though

"For fuck sake they have flippers!"
aaaaaaaahahahahhahahahahahaha!!!

made my night that has.

Steve: QOTD.

You would think that someone would have mentioned it

"For fuck sake they have flippers!"

made me laught out load too. its a silly advert!! wehn my mum was telling me she used to be a dolphin and now needs to be a racoon or whatever i thought shed lost it, i now understand!


daft. !

Ok so I see a dolphin, a raccoon, I guess that's a monkey? And what the fuck is that other thing? a fucking mollusk?

the absence of opposable thumbs obviously never hit home with Orange marketers.

i dont get the whole animal comparison.
i took a photo of all the possible ones you can be, as on tuesday night while walking past the orange shop drunk, i nearly wet myself laughing.

i still dont see what dolphins have to do with texting.

oh i see dolphin cat racoon and well what looks like a bird or owl to me.

I wonder if anyone has asked if they can be the bicycle pump.

or paddlling pool

I really don't understand it at all.

"why is the raccoon tied to a bucket?"
hehehehehehehe!

For some reason that made me laugh way more than I should have.

And what's that behind the raccoon? It doesn't look like a tail, unless someone hacked it into bits.

What is that? A trail of shiny objects?

I frickin cracked up when I saw the Racoon one.

I totally think that someone is ripping off my material. If they put that raccoon in a striped shirt, we're going to have Words.

i love this campaign! just the shapes of the animals, very strong even as silhouettes.

i think its so cool!