Used to see the “Irish Spring” soap ads all the time. Now, not at all. Still buy it, though.
Nature’s Secret: when you need that fungal infection in your vagina kept under control.
Holy shit you fuckers are OLD!
King Vitamin. The Fucking Honeycomb Hideout, where they smoked pot and stashed old Playboys and a pack of Tareingtons, 'cuz the fuckers would rather FIGHT THAN SWITCH!
Marathon Bars last a Looong Time.
Oh, and bye the way, you’re soaking in it. WHO THE FUCK SOAKS THEIR FUCKING HANDS IN DISHWAHING DETERGENT?
Like I said, I’m 18 and shit.
“Promise her anything, but give her Arpege”
“I can’t seem to forget you…Your 'Wind Song stays on my mind” (by Prince Macciabelli)
//Hai-Karate, anyone?
Products like these are often known as “cash cows.”
Though companies love them because they underwrite the expenditures for new products, they often aren’t rewarded by investors, who only want to hear about future growth.
I’m probably older than you, and I was eating Oscar Mayer bologna sandwiches in my lunch at school in the early 60s, if I remember correctly, so it wasn’t new in the 70s. Neither was liquid dish washing soap.
I agree with other posters; those ads were aimed at women, anda greater percentage of women were home during the day in the 70s than in the 90s.
Ginsu Knives.
Sadly, from a rare side effect of Geritol…
Like Maytag and their washers. I have one. I turned it into a cash cow.
Anybody who thinks they don’t advertise laxatives and Geritol and assorted other equipment for being old clearly hasn’t watched Wheel of Fortune lately.
When I was a kid, living in a smaller city and back when theatre chains had less of a monopoly on movie theatres, I used to see TV commercials (and/or hear radio ads) that would say things like “Now playing at Duffy’s Twin Cinemas – Meatballs and The Muppet Movie!”
And they keep getting less and less vague as time goes on. It’s only a matter of time until “See how fast it soaks up this blue liquid?” turns into “See how fast it soaks up this red liquid?”
eeeeewww!
And then following it will be the ad for Buttfuckers.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen an Afro-Sheen commercial.
Okay, I’ll consider my ignorance fought here. It would appear that, rather than “no longer advertising” these products, it’s simply a matter of “no longer beating everybody over the head” with these products.
Though looking back at my earlier posts, I think I should have been more clear that I originally noticed this “trend” in the 1990s; I’m not talking so much about current TV ads. In the '90s I still saw plenty of ads on the “big three/four” networks that were clearly targeted at the same demographic as the 1970s bologna/hot dog/tuna ads. It just that they were advertising different products, i.e. “new” things. As kenobi 65 mentioned, the ads might be for the same company, but for a different specific product (the new product). In the case of tuna, as a more recent example, instead of advertising how great the actual tuna is (like the '70s ads did), the ads were really about the new packaging options (bags instead of cans).
Exactly so. It’s the product of what’s happened in the past 25-30 years in packaged-goods marketing.
It’s become horribly expensive to launch a completely new brand, and the fight for shelf space in the grocery store is brutal. What you now see (and saw in the 1990s, for that matter) is existing brands release a continual stream of “line extensions” (new flavors, or new sub-lines of an existing brand). Completely new brands of a significant size in established categories have become quite rare.
30 or 40 years ago, if Nabisco wanted to come out with a new line of cracker-like snack chips, they probably would have brought out a new brand. They do so today, and it becomes a sub-line of the Ritz brand. They count on recognition of the “mother brand” to both drive consumer acceptance of the new item, as well as retailer willingness to take on the new item.
Heh. Doritos and Mountain Dew. A while back I was standing in front of the Doritos at my supermarket, and commented to the 20-something employee nearby on how “going to the store for Doritos” used to be such a simple thing. She had no idea what I was talking about.
I’m betting one of the big things is that 40 years ago, there were a lot more “regional” brands, and that made it easier to introduce a genuinely new product. It looks like, maybe, the 1970s were when a lot of those regional brands started going national?
Oh, dear ghods. I am a martial artist and I used to get a quart of that stuff every birthday/Christmas. Deepwoods OFF smelled better. I don’t know how many bottles of it I threw away. And I would ask to not get it, and I would always get it until they quit making it.
Man, that stuff was nasty.
I can’t recall the last time I saw a VD public announcement.
I find it strange that of the zillions of different beers available, only a handful are advertised on television. Busch and Michelob used to be advertised like crazy. Now nada.
When was the last time you saw an ad for Crisco or Wesson, or any other shortening/cooking oil?
Oil companies used to be major advertisers. Mobile, Amoco/Standard, Shell, Phillips 66, Texaco. Now you might see an ad for Speed Way or Kwik Trip, but they’re touting the store part of their business, not so much the power/quality of their gasoline.
Or, in some cases, they were bought by big national / global companies. Mountain Dew, which you mentioned, was originally a little regional brand in the Southeast; Pepsi bought it in 1968.