Virgin porn

[jere7my]

Many hotel rooms offer pay-on-demand movies, and most of them offer porn. While the prices are outrageous—I would never pay $15 to watch a porn movie when I could buy one for less—our TV offered a free ten-minute sample amongst the full-length offerings.

Only it wasn't porn. It was a ten-minute ad for Virgin Atlantic, cleverly disguised as porn. There was no actual sex or nudity, just a lot of parody innuendo: "Ooh, I see you have several more inches than the average man," in a sexy voice in close-up, and then they pull back to show us they're talking about the legroom in their airplanes.

It was sort of funny—at one point, a half-dressed plumber showed up on the airplane, and was told he was in the wrong movie, go one channel over—and I have to give them some credit for such a ballsy ad strategy. On the other hand, it was a rather frustrating bait-and-switch. But they got me, fair and square, and I have to wryly tip my hat to them.

Comments

[wednes.livejournal.com]

That is hilarious...although I'm not a big fan of porn so I wouldn't find that as irritating as some folks might.

[god-of-belac.livejournal.com]

That's amusing. I'd like to see that video.

[zorblak.livejournal.com]

One has to wonder whether it's effective, since only a limited number of people would be checking out the free porn offering, and those people are, like you, likely to be annoyed when it turns out they're not getting free porn. So you have a small audience who takes an instant dislike to you for lying to them; doesn't sound like a great marketing strategy to me.