Subway Commercial

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Most people don’t know this about Jared but when he was over 245 pounds and still living at his parents house, his father Norman Fogle, who is a doctor, wanted to come into his room every night to check his blood pressure to make sure he wasn’t dead. When Jared went to Indiana University, he lived across the street from a Subway. He would go over there twice a day to get a sandwich and that is how it all started. The story about him eating Subway sandwiches that made him lose weight was the major part of Subway’s marketing campaign for 16 years. Since the headlines that have been swirling around since June 2015 of Jared’s investigation of having child pornography, Subway has been quiet. Jared’s house in Zionsville, Indiana was raided by the FBI. “FBI sources said that the raid on Mr. Fogle’s home was in connection with a child porn …show more content…

The commercial has all of the Subway celebrity endorsers congratulating Jared for keeping the weight off for this long. This was Subway’s first ad for the Super Bowl since 2005. The most recent ad that featured Jared, was called “Jared’s Journey”. It last aired on June 29, but made its first appearance on April 4 during the NCCA Men’s Basketball Final Four. The ad aired six different times that night which estimated to $1.14 million. Over the next three-months of airing this ad over 2,455 times, Subway spent $11.3 million for the 30-second advertisement to have it be aired. Another advertisement that Subway produced was called “No More Boring Flavors”, this ad launched July 2, days before the FBI raided Jared’s house. The ad doesn’t have anything Jared related in it; it talks about how their sandwich makers can help customers make choices to make a better sandwich. Which is a good advertisement to air but since it came at a bad time people only focused on the Jared Fogle crisis and not the

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