1. Spoof Advertisement
... than discrediting certain advertising techniques, it is reinforcing them. Often, advertisers parody things that in all actuality have nothing to do with their product. Johnnie Walker, a liquor company, used this technique on a billboard in California that was apparently spoofing phone sex advertisements. There is no real correlation between liquor and ... It suggests to the consumers that they know phone sex is something done only by the dregs of society, and that the consumer is obviously above such things. The idea is, of course, that since Johnnie Walker realizes all this and points ...
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