Poll: Sex sells?

[Monkfish Acc.]

Seriously. It's like the easiest way to tell they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

"Uh, uh, the beer tastes...
Wait, not really, but it'll get you drunk super...
Hold on, that's a lie too. Uh... Boobies?
Boobies!"

... Yeah.

They're so far past the bottom of the barrel that they're scooping up magma.

That's one excuse for why your hands are covered in sores HIYO!
...
I don't even know what I just insinuated.
Little help?

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

If there's TnA in the advert, I'll buy it.

First honest answer in the thread.

If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it. Simples.

Ah Capitalism, truly you are the greatest form of economy.

 

[lostclause]

Sex sells. It just doesn't sell to me. "Her breasts are large" is not a good argument for why I should buy a product.

This and some more. Once when I wanted to buy a game (can't remember which) the immodest picture on the front made me too embarassed to actually buy it.
Anyone see the Tui beer adverts here (maybe just NZ only)? They're also irritating and very base.

 

[Torque669]

Doesn't sell to me.

Except that one guitar advert I saw.

It showed a pair of legs with panties resting at the bottom.

'Tunings aren't the only things it'll drop'

That is the greatest line in an advert ever.

But on topic. Sex sells or they wouldnt use it. Not for me though of course like alot of people on the escapist.

[small] Although I do enjoy the free boobs [/small]

 

[Steelfists]

Just look at Evony. This guy made a blog post showing how its advertising campaign abandoned all pretence of anything to do with the game itself: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html

 

[axia777]

Sex stopped selling the minute Billy Mays started to yell at me.

That was fucking hilarious!

 

[sumanoskae]

While I enjoy some good eye candy I won't watch a show just for the boobs

 

[Torque669]

Just look at Evony. This guy made a blog post showing how its advertising campaign abandoned all pretence of anything to do with the game itself: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html

You have got to admit that it is really desperate advertising but so hilariously funny you cant hate them for it. I saw as there adverts denegenerated everytime I came on the internet but I didnt see the part where they just put a pair of tits and wrote "Best game ever play now" on it.

 

[crudus]

As a rational human "sex appeal" does not affect my want for whatever item the female is selling. Sex does sell sadly but I guess everyone needs a job. The only time I will/have ever seen a movie or tv show because of a certain female is if Zoey Deschanel (Trillion for Hitchhiker's) is in it.

 

[akmarksman]

Sex sells. It just doesn't sell to me. "Her breasts are large" is not a good argument for why I should buy a product.

This and some more. Once when I wanted to buy a game (can't remember which) the immodest picture on the front made me too embarassed to actually buy it.
Anyone see the Tui beer adverts here (maybe just NZ only)? They're also irritating and very base.

all your base..

Sex doesn't sell me on a product.
I don't care if it's a nacked playboy bunny trying to sell me a Apevia power supply saying that more watts turn her on..I still won't buy it because 1.It's apevia..2..I don't care how many watts it has..it's how energy efficient the power supply is..which is why I use Corsair's 400watt in my old 2Ghz AMD,and a OCZ 600watt in my 2.6Ghz dual core AMD.

I used to like the old Carl's Jr. commericials..but the new one with whatshername..can't stand it.

Also getting Billy Mays (who I heard was listening to Song 2 by Blur "i got my head checked..by a jumbo jet..") to sell a product doesn't sell me on that product either.

Whatever item I am shopping for,I usually know more than the pitchman trying to get me to get the more expensive model..

 

[matsugawa]

Has sex appeal sold me on anything?
(on the record)
No, of course not! What a preposterous notion!
(turn off the cameras, stop the tape recorders)
... (sighs) yeah...(buries face in hands) dammit.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Just look at Evony. This guy made a blog post showing how its advertising campaign abandoned all pretence of anything to do with the game itself: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html

Fucking A, that's hilarious!

Pick the fight if you want, but it's well known to have a positive effect on the product by having eye candy for both sexes.

It doesn't even have to be blatent, just a nice looking girl does the trick.

Marketing people know how to target things, you know.

But whatever i say you are going to reply to, because... that's what you do Max.

It's not that much about immediate "I wanna fuck her" attraction anyway, it's all a lot more subtle, and appeals to our primordial instincts.

Like the way they enlarge the pupils of models in advertisements.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I just kind of wonder what the point is of putting it in TV ads or shows anymore. It's not like there's a shortage of porn.

Porn > TV show with breasts in it.

Besides, it's very distracting when somebody is having sex in a show and I'm trying to focus on the dialogue and acting. The prime examples are Rome and The Sopranos, where important plot elements are often brought forth while actors are "doing it." Can't you all just stop for a minute and let me know who's going to get whacked next?!?

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Sex doesn't sell on it's own for me but it could help.

 

[Altorin]

sex doesn't sell to a person

it does sell to people though

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Depends...if it's something I was seriously thinking of buying anyway and it comes with boobies as a bonus, then that will tip me over the edge.
That said, if anything is advertised with T&A I generally assume it's shit. Case in point being games. If it has a picture of a scantily clad woman on the front I will avoid it like the plague.

 

[pliusmannn]

big boobs are ugly