Old spice body spray mom song

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The old spice mom song gives the notion that if the lion pride body spray is used that it will turn a boy into a man, girls to become girlfriends, and moms to become sad.

January 8 2014 Old spice launched their Mom song campaign introducing the new Lion pride Refresh Body Spray though the advertisement is mainly video the mothers do sign will there crying thru the whole add. With this add I’m sure that emotions were the key player in its making though there is some reasoning used. The age group old spice was trying to target was boys to young men.

This add says it will get you noticed which regardless of brand when you walk by someone and you smell good people will comment on it people don’t want to smell bad. Add the fact that it makes you manly there will be a lot of teenage boys willing to try it. Then there’s the promise of girls become girlfriends if the smell will get you noticed it could set of some kind of chemical reaction in women who will have to have you. Then there’s the make mom sad part statistics show that most mothers do not want to lose their sons to young pretty women. Old spice has been in business for 71 years and has only made 108 commercials, With this new kind of marketing strategy old spice has seen a 107% increase in overall sales, it would seem that old spice marketing on boys, young men, men, and old men maybe even some women who want to smell good.
Mothers tend to place a much firmer hand on their sons hoping that if they hold on tight enough that they will never leave. And when they start to date mothers become shadows in a young man’s life. Many mother have an almost psychic symbiosis having to keep their sons in a safety net forever. One mothers quote saying “she wants to throw her arms around he...

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..., both are kind of weird but still funny. It definitely gets the message across to its target audience. On almost every web site about the video such as www.Marketmenot.com mothers post how hilarious they think it is. The only none hilarious part would be the horrible singing that is done just by the mothers. Sense 1938 the old spice marketing has come a long way.
Sense the beginning of time young men have had the need to be noticed by women, and Feel manly it’s just are nature and mothers well they will always try to protect their children no matter the cost. While boys and men aren’t much for reading direction most use the nose knows method. The new advertising methods of old spice with its age old credibility and playing off on teenage boys and their mothers emotions, old spice should be around for another 70 or years.

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