{"id":1060,"date":"2008-11-07T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/new-wave-blasphemy\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:12:42","slug":"new-wave-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/07\/new-wave-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wave Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

from AdWeek’s AdFreak.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Viewers rise up against ‘Saved by Zero’ ads<\/h3>\n

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The murderous hatred being directed toward Toyota’s “Saved by Zero” ads has been building for a few weeks now, and it’s become semi-official with\u00a0this Associated Press story<\/a>. A number of Web sites\u2014Esquire<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Best Week Ever<\/a>,\u00a0Consumerist<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jalopnik<\/a>\u00a0among them\u2014have been hosting rants about the ads, which feature the admittedly awful 1983 song “Saved by Zero” by British new-wave group The Fixx. By and large, viewers feel an urge to end their own lives and\/or other people’s when the ads come on: “It makes me want to kill someone\/never ever buy a Toyota.” “Marketing 101, don’t piss consumers off, don’t get on their bad sides, don’t cultivate contempt.” “I CAN’T EVEN EXPRESS MY OUTRAGE WITHOUT USING CAPS LOCK.” Clearly it’s the feel-bad campaign of the year, and from a company (and industry) that doesn’t need any extra help in\u00a0hurtling down the crapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u2014Posted by Tim Nudd<\/span><\/p>\n

[ click to read at AdFreak.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from AdWeek’s AdFreak.com Viewers rise up against ‘Saved by Zero’ ads The murderous hatred being directed toward Toyota’s “Saved by Zero” ads has been building for a few weeks now, and it’s become semi-official with\u00a0this Associated Press story. A number of Web sites\u2014Esquire,\u00a0Best Week Ever,\u00a0Consumerist\u00a0and\u00a0Jalopnik\u00a0among them\u2014have been hosting rants about the ads, which feature the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}