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Nightclub marketing gone too far?

  • 20-02-2012 03:02PM
    #1
    Mr.Biscuits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭


    Have to say I and I think most guys also, going by online forums at the time at least, were wholly against the banning of the Hunky Dory adverts in response to complaints from the NWCI and other feminist groups.

    To me, those ads were pretty harmless and were very much done tongue in cheek but should women, of any standing, have an issue with the current Alchemy marketing campaign, I think I would support them, as I feel it is a step too far.

    My daughters are a bit off club going age, but if advertising like this is what's to come for them, then we're packing up and moving to Lambay Island.

    Is ths nightclub marketing a step too far? 163 votes

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  • #2
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    I AM SO GOING TO THAT FCUKING NIGHTCLUB ON MONDAY


    Thanks OP :)


  • #3
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Alchemy have always advertised like that.
    Saw one there that showed a pair of woman's legs with her knickers around her ankles. Not very appropriate, I'll see if I can find it, was on facebook.


  • #4
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Mr.Biscuits wrote: »
    Have to say I and I think most guys also, going by online forums at the time at least, were wholly against the banning of the Hunky Dory adverts in response to complaints from the NWCI and other feminist groups.

    To me, those ads were pretty harmless and were very much done tongue in cheek but should women, of any standing, have an issue with the current Alchemy marketing campaign, I think I would support them, as I feel it is a step too far.

    My daughters are a bit off club going age, but if advertising like this is what's to come for them, then we're packing up and moving to Lambay Island.

    about 18 years ago i bet you wouldnt have thought the same, your getting old man :P


  • #5
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Suits and sluts... kinda like pimps and hoes. Who cares, if people want to be perceived to e be a slut then let them at it.

    And lets face it, it's not the worst to come out of Alchemy now is it... Unless you missed all the finger banging pics.

    If you did, I have them saved here somewhere


  • #6
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Something tells me that there will be more suits than sluts at a night like that


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  • #7
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Nothing new.


  • #8
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Yeah ... focus more on the parenting and teaching kids that just cause you want to dress sexy doesn't mean they actually have to be sluts. F*ckin ell, everyone is offended by everything these days in the 'won't someone think of the children' frame of mind. Be a proper parent to your kid and teach them how to make good decisions and no marketing campaign like this will ever lead them astray.


  • #9
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Alchemy have always advertised like that.
    Saw one there that showed a pair of woman's legs with her knickers around her ankles. Not very appropriate, I'll see if I can find it, was on facebook.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77157424&postcount=8102


  • #10
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    It's not a patch on the new "48" mobile phone adverts from o2.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SMc98PgL4


  • #11
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Alchemy have always advertised like that.
    Saw one there that showed a pair of woman's legs with her knickers around her ankles. Not very appropriate, I'll see if I can find it, was on facebook.

    Not very appropriate for a school maybe, but for a night club it sounds pretty appropriate.


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  • #12
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Alchemy

    Where Ireland's elite go to socialise and discuss the burning Irish topics of the day like economics and business strategies............as in how much beer will I have to buy for yer wan before she lets me shtick a few fingers up her box. :pac:

    You really should know what kind of club you're expecting to walk into when you see advertisements like this for it.


  • #13
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Just wondering has Jodie Marsh received any funds for using her image for the club? Wouldn't there need to be some legal BS or her approving stuff like this?

    I initially thought this was about that 48 ad. It made my monocle pop out so it did. I gasped so fuggin hard.

    (EDIT: That's the one TheZohan..............SHOCKIN' JOE!!!!!!).


  • #14
    Tesco Massacre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Tesco Massacre


    Is that Jodie Marsh? If so, I'm going to Alchemy!

    I could really go for an std right about now.


  • #15
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Owen wrote: »
    Yeah ... focus more on the parenting and teaching kids that just cause you want to dress sexy doesn't mean they actually have to be sluts. F*ckin ell, everyone is offended by everything these days in the 'won't someone think of the children' frame of mind. Be a proper parent to your kid and teach them how to make good decisions and no marketing campaign like this will ever lead them astray.

    Can we get a mod in here and ban this guy, way too sensible advice for AH ;)


  • #16
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    smash wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77157424&postcount=8102

    Thank you, yea that's the one I was thinking of.

    Just saw one there saying 'Party like a rockstar, play like a pornstar' or something of that caliber ...

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122445564498103&set=a.122445561164770.24737.100001979791932&type=3&theater


  • #17
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    I never saw the tongue in cheek ones :D


  • #18
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Owen wrote: »
    Yeah ... focus more on the parenting and teaching kids that just cause you want to dress sexy doesn't mean they actually have to be sluts. F*ckin ell, everyone is offended by everything these days in the 'won't someone think of the children' frame of mind. Be a proper parent to your kid and teach them how to make good decisions and no marketing campaign like this will ever lead them astray.

    Hah, too much sense going on it this post.


  • #19
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    I never saw the tongue in cheek ones :D

    What, literally?


  • #20
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Alchemy is a shithole, and only idiots would be taken in by its brand of advertising.

    But hey, people are talking about it so it's win/win as far as they're concerned.


  • #21
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Sex sells.


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  • #22
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's not a patch on the new "48" mobile phone adverts from o2.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SMc98PgL4

    I sow those ****y adds on telly and I still can't put my finger on this.. Wtf are they advertising? Rent-a-slut?! Some dating number?! Night club? I am 25, and honestly I can't understand wtf they advertising in there. Can anyone explain me?!


  • #23
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I sow those ****y adds on telly and I still can't put my finger on this.. Wtf are they advertising? Rent-a-slut?! Some dating number?! Night club? I am 25, and honestly I can't understand wtf they advertising in there. Can anyone explain me?!

    It's what happens when a corporate entity tries to tap into the "youth" mentality and just make the person in the ad sound like a bit of a spastic.


  • #24
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Wait, that's a new mobile network?! Are you kidding me?!


  • #25
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Wait, that's a new mobile network?! Are you kidding me?!

    I really wish so..


  • #26
    Iago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,639 ✭✭✭Iago


    Appealing to the right demographic obviously



    1:10 in

    "What's your best chat up line?"

    "We just act like sluts and hope for the best"


  • #27
    Sync
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Sync


    423003_10150686394679973_646234972_11013419_1882728922_n.jpg
    taken from YLYL


  • #28
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Yakult wrote: »
    I really wish so..

    So it's aimed for sluts, swingers, one night stand fans?


  • #29
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Wait, that's a new mobile network?! Are you kidding me?!

    Yup.

    The advert states "I will wake up on your couch and have no idea who you are, and if you don't like it you can fuck yourself".

    Charming behaviour to promote, I wonder what the Rape Crisis Centre would agree with their philosophy.


  • #30
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Has anyone actually ever been to alchemy?


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  • #31
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I think I was in Alchemy once. Biggest sausage-fest ever


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