Not every male is impressed by sex in advertising.
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday 7 February), your television was taken over by an advertising event of enormous proportions!
Unfortunately, those commercials and other forms of entertainment were regularly interrupted by some sport or other, but that’s not important.
The problem was that there were a few ads by a hosting company, GoDaddy, that were anything but appropriate family viewing. GoDaddy is in fact known for their sexist commercials, both online and on television, and this is the reason for my stand.
GoDaddy insults thinking males everywhere. Not every guy is lured to buy from a vendor because they use women as advertising bait. Think about it. Does it really make sense to think that because you use GoDaddy that you are part of a group of playboys that become more attractive to women? I understand that beer commercials are not implying that by drinking Brand-X that you will be surrounded by single females, but the implication is that the brand belongs to the more attractive type of man.
Yea. Right.
Netfirms do not have any such ridiculous advertising, so they get my domain business. Not GoDaddy. For the same reason, I refuse to play Dean Markley strings.I doubt the company will suffer because of my loyalty to any company except them, and neither will you see D’Addario stock prices shoot through the roof, but it’s my money, and I vote with my wallet.
So when it comes to domain and hosting companies and others who decide to tempt their customers with a thin veil of sexism, vote like a man.
And in good news, the Google Ad was just about perfect. Search for it on YouTube!
