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Starbucks - Advertising

  • 28-01-2009 11:04am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭


    Do Starbucks advertise?

    I've never seen or heard one.....

    The Likes of Coca Cola, McDonalds etc. are among the biggest and most well known brands in the world, and they advertise constantly.

    Why not Starbucks?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,524 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Do Starbucks advertise?

    I've never seen or heard one.....

    The Likes of Coca Cola, McDonalds etc. are among the biggest and most well known brands in the world, and they advertise constantly.

    Why not Starbucks?
    They don't need to. They have a near monoploy on the niche market they are part of


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    Everytime you see a celebrity, they have a cup in their hand. They don't really need to, I suppose. unless they pay Britney et al to be pictured in public with the cup.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Maybe they are happy with the level of brand awareness they create by
    over saturating a market through opening numerous shops with overlapping
    catchment areas and driving out real coffee shops.


    When it comes to coffee and Starbucks, ignorance is bliss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    http://www.celebritystarbucks.com/

    I hate their coffee, it's muck. Like the icey mochas though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭Carroller16


    Used to work there. They don't believ in advertising it is against there working ethics for want of a better word.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Haha. Starbucks. Ethics.
    LOL


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Why not Starbucks?

    Probably due to owning the Irish market?

    They advertise all over the shop in the USA and France.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    If you doubt advertising works, view this thread :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭LeahBaby


    I hate Starbucks. I cannot for the life of me order I just stand there, panick and walk away.

    I do however have a hilarious starbucks joke.

    *AHEM*

    A guy walks into a Starbucks and orders a cup of coffee. The person at the counter asks him "Would you like room for cream?" He replies "What do you think I am, a pessimist?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,524 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    LeahBaby wrote: »
    I hate Starbucks. I cannot for the life of me order I just stand there, panick and walk away.
    I'm the same in Subway. So many things on display and they just assume you know what they all are. WTF happened to a nice bit of coleslaw and some cheese and tomato. Jalapenos my fucking ass!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭LeahBaby


    I'm the same in Subway. So many things on display and they just assume you know what they all are. WTF happened to a nice bit of coleslaw and some cheese and tomato. Jalapenos my fucking ass!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSLZJ6Pwag&feature=related

    Too Hot Too Spicey?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    Why would you need to? People are addicted to it, just like tobacco. No need to advertise, you are guaranteed business.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Why would you need to? People are addicted to it, just like tobacco. No need to advertise, you are guaranteed business.

    ....until the recession kicks in and the little luxaries have to be cut back on.

    Have never spent a cent in there. I don't drink coffee and Irefuse to pay 3€ for a teabag.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Insomnia Coffee FTW.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I find it funny how some people form an opinion of a company after watching an episode of Southpark.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    They probably spend some money on advertising it in films. Most films you see someone in a coffee shop or holding a coffee it nearly always has the starbucks brand on it. Suppose it is a kind of discreet advertising.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    s_carnage wrote: »
    They probably spend some money on advertising it in films. Most films you see someone in a coffee shop or holding a coffee it nearly always has the starbucks brand on it. Suppose it is a kind of discreet advertising.

    Product Placement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    I don't drink take-away coffees much anymore (since realising, over a year ago, that I was taking in 800 calories a day in creamy coffee hybrids :eek: ) but I do like Starbucks' products- both drinks and food.

    I'd much prefer go to Starbucks where the staff are friendly than queue in a smelly, grotty O'Brien's where Jacinta behind the counter won't give me my chai latte unless I give in and ask for it in her accent ("and a tae latty thar please").


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    ....until the recession kicks in and the little luxaries have to be cut back on.

    Have never spent a cent in there. I don't drink coffee and Irefuse to pay 3€ for a teabag.

    It seems your observations are bang on:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0129/breaking13.htm


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    starbucks - Crack cocane for posers...


    either wannabe milfs or guys on notebooks , sitting their smug...

    thats right...


    all you smug muppets in starbucks beside the merc garage in ballbridge ( ball-bridge.. roflmao. )

    ill kill ye all, and steal your happyness...

    poor posers...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I'm the same in Subway. So many things on display and they just assume you know what they all are. WTF happened to a nice bit of coleslaw and some cheese and tomato. Jalapenos my fucking ass!!

    That's a bit racial...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    The best Anti-Starbucks ad I've seen was on a sign outside another coffee place around the corner from me. It was put up shortly after Starbuck's opened up close by. It simply read;
    "DON'T GET STAR*UCKED. GET YOUR COFFEE HERE!"

    It didn't stay up for very long unfortunately.


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