Comments on: Watchdog bans Red Bull TV ad for ‘sexualising children’

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By: Not Amused - The Original 'Amused'

Not Amused - The Original 'Amused' — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:55:55 +0000

@NY – ‘why do you need bureaucrats to tell you what you can and can’t watch’?

Because if you don’t, you end up with crap like what Red Bull have dished up!

By: Love! + Hate!

Love! + Hate! — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:16:25 +0000

NY Nemisis. – “You People”
NY- What is that – New York?
Are you in the US? Sorry for my wild stab, but if you are then you are delusional… take a look at your own back yard.
If not, my apologies – let us know where you are from…

By: NY Nemisis

NY Nemisis — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:03:41 +0000

More Australian public servants interfering with freedom of speech, wake up Australia, you’re being conned, but I must say, it is easy to con you people….. why do you need bureaucrats to tell you what you can and can’t watch…..

By: Love! + Hate!

Love! + Hate! — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:42:23 +0000

Apparently red bull doesn’t give you wings!!!

http://www.dailytelegraph.com......5854148345

By: Alberto Rosso

Alberto Rosso — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:50:54 +0000

Soooo…. if the kid’s old man had been doing the washing up and they had gone to the strip club together the advert would have been OK?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:35:10 +0000

@love+hate – I’m with you. Red Bull have so many outstanding properties from the sport and extreme world that would encapsulate the company’s ethos in a 30 second spot, yet they continue with this obscure animated creative.

Imagine the cut through – from an Australian perspective – if they used the sporting properties that I can think of instantly from the top of my head:
-Mark Webber (RBR F1)
-Robbie Maddison (Extreme Motocross/stunt man)
-Rick Kelly (V8 Supercars)
-Matt Hall (Red Bull Air Race)

That’s not to mention what they could do internationally (plus the other Aussies that I have missed out here).

@Zac Martin – nice cross promo

By: Social Media Green P Plater

Social Media Green P Plater — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:58:30 +0000

I find it odd that all these hard nuts that drink Red Bull, also wear fairy wings, like little girls.

Red Bull gives you wings. But you look like a little fairy mate!

By: Frenchie

Frenchie — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:16:54 +0000

@Gezza, I’m sure it’s “n’est-ce pas”, isn’t it?

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:44:24 +0000

not funny, not well thought out, not unique in the slightest, this would go right under the radar if it didnt have something offensive. So bored.

By: Tobe

Tobe — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:32:06 +0000

I reckon they thought it was his mum in the end shot…

By: Love + Hate

Love + Hate — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:30:02 +0000

I love Red Bull BUT hate the ads.
What a strange relationship…
I agree the ads are tired and have never really been witty. In fact I have never heard over the zillion years these illustrated ads have run someone say they appreciate them. The efforts to breath life into something dead by taking this risk is just ridiculous – clearly it wasn’t made for this market. Not surprising for a brand that has laced their product with Cocaine in the past and shipped it to countries where the penalty for dealing in narcotics is death…

By: Bored by Redbull ads

Bored by Redbull ads — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:35:36 +0000

is too… oops

By: Bored by Redbull ads

Bored by Redbull ads — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:34:31 +0000

Isnt it time that Red Bull consider refreshing their TV ads?

For a product that promotes energising the mind, the ads over the years have become tiresome with the same approach/concept and now they are obviously resorting to shock value (be it cheeky/tongue and cheek). Their TV ads may be effective in what they are trying to do, but still, a new approach would be refreshing.
In other words, I’m bored with these ads and I wonder if the agency that creates them are too…