Nood Tea advertising gone to far?

toexpress

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

dilapidating

Tea is sexy.

Owen

Oh noes, won't someone think of the childers.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

tea is a traditional english thing that the irish copied

i suppose really its more likely a traditional asian thing that the english copied

galwayjohn89

Which website were you on?

Just went to nood-world.com and can't see anything remotely sexual.

CardBordWindow

Ever try stick it in the spout of a teapot?




(me neither!)

the purple tin

Sex sells. Ad men have known it for years.
Look at a good deal of ads on telly and you can see it.

Sar_Bear

I just looked at the website & couldn't see anything like you're saying?

Kylo Ren

Was there a fella stiring the tea with his Mickey?

forfuxsake

where is far?

smash

toexpress wrote: »

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

You know what... The Irish need to seriously cop the fúck on to their attitude towards sex and nudity.

Dr.Strange

There is absolutely nothing sexual about that website.

Admit it, you are just trying to promote it, aren't you?

RichieC

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

tea is a traditional english thing that the irish copied

i suppose really its more likely a traditional asian thing that the english copied

We are the second biggest tea consumers in the world after the UAE.

AnonoBoy

Speaking of ads going too far - Ashton Kutcher is a racist now father, did you hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLdobzj_9_I

FatherLen

this is retarded. sexualise tea ffs

Morag

http://www.nood-world.com/the-naked-tea-bag-tm/

lol

Sar_Bear

Sharrow wrote: »

http://www.nood-world.com/the-naked-tea-bag-tm/

lol

How dare you put that filth on here?!

Won't somebody please think of the children?!!!

Born to Die

Vuzuggu wrote: »

Which website were you on?

Just went to nood-world.com and can't see anything remotely sexual.

You need to use your ivagination.

Phoenix Park

Slightly off topic, but humour me.

There is a TV ad on these days for Newbridge Silverware. Mainly on Setanta, but i think i have seen it on Sky too. Gammy ad featuring one of Ireland's most endearing celebrities, one Ronan O'Gara. This commercial has been run before but it seems to be making a comeback.

I am almost certain one can see a partial nipple in this ad. Towards the very end, there is a topless woman with some (very reasonably priced and high quality) Newbridge Silverware covering her left nipple. You cannot see a full areola. I do not have a high definition television yet, but if this ad keeps running i'm off to Peats to buy a VCR. If i'm right about this one, and i'm condident i am, i shall be back with a half nipple for you shortly. I have looked the ad up on You Tube for your inspection, and had hoped to post a link, but sadly it has not been uploaded.

Morag

Sar_Bear wrote: »

How dare you put that filth on here?!

Won't somebody please think of the children?!!!

I am can't wait to show them the site when they come home from school,
they will roll thier eyes and say how lame and that will make me laugh.

Sar_Bear

Sharrow wrote: »

I am can't wait to show them the site when they come home from school,
they will roll thier eyes and say how lame and that will make me laugh.

I've seen ads for Barrys tea that was more sexual than that website.

AnonoBoy

toexpress wrote: »

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

You really don't have much to be worrying about, do you?

opinion guy

This thread does not live up to its promise

ejmaztec

I won't look at the Nood website, there might be tea-bagging.

toexpress

I just don't understand why they need to use the whole "dressing up" and "getting naked" thing it's tea we aren't talking about Gin or Whisky here that's what I am getting at and it's not just this tea website/marketing it's a wider thing really

sbsquarepants

toexpress wrote: »

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

You work in the food business? Presumably you've heard of Nigella Lawson? Sexualising any product is an age old tried and tested way of selling it. What have flakes got to do with blow jobs for example?

Also tea is as traditionaly Irish as ming vases and sweet and sour alsation!

toexpress wrote: »

I just don't understand why they need to use the whole "dressing up" and "getting naked" thing it's tea we aren't talking about Gin or Whisky here that's what I am getting at and it's not just this tea website/marketing it's a wider thing really

I think you're quite obviously sexually repressed to an alarming degree.
Not even the most hormonally tortured 14 year old boy, could find anything REMOTELY sexual about that site.
It's a picture of a fúcking tea bag for god sake. The way you sold it, I expected a picture of a porn star in full fetish gear actually being tea-bagged.
You sir are nothing short of deranged!

earpiece

Well, it looks like the advert is working..... to the point that people are talking about it on a forum and then probably with their friends.
Think I'll have to get some flesh on my business website and 'offend' a few folk!!!!

Jesus.... just noticed they have pink boxes for their bags too!

az2wp0sye65487

OP is shamelessly trying to subtly promote his/her new product!

:pac:

It's a good idea.... give an opinion against it - it gets people checking what you're talking about and disagreeing with you... but gets lots of people talking about your product and visiting your website!

sbsquarepants

That's was the first thing i thought too. Well second thing, first was what the fúck is he going on about, then i though, he's trying to sell this shít!

prinz

A lot of advertising has gone to shíte anyway.

4zn76tysfajdxp

toexpress wrote: »

on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up.

At the same time?

Statistician

Phoenix Park wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but humour me.

There is a TV ad on these days for Newbridge Silverware. Mainly on Setanta, but i think i have seen it on Sky too. Gammy ad featuring one of Ireland's most endearing celebrities, one Ronan O'Gara. This commercial has been run before but it seems to be making a comeback.

I am almost certain one can see a partial nipple in this ad. Towards the very end, there is a topless woman with some (very reasonably priced and high quality) Newbridge Silverware covering her left nipple. You cannot see a full areola. I do not have a high definition television yet, but if this ad keeps running i'm off to Peats to buy a VCR. If i'm right about this one, and i'm condident i am, i shall be back with a half nipple for you shortly. I have looked the ad up on You Tube for your inspection, and had hoped to post a link, but sadly it has not been uploaded.

I look forward to that with eager anticipation.

shopaholic01

I remember when sexist ads/comedians etc were considered funny.

Now it appears the more liberated we think society has become, the more repressed people are.

The PC brigade really have a lot to answer for.

Is anyone actually offended by a naked body (never mind a teabag)? Do people still believe that sex is dirty and we should try to suppress our sexuality?


BTW OP it is 2012.

Luckycharms_74

Owen wrote: »

Oh noes, won't someone think of the childers.

some random drunk

toexpress wrote: »

I just don't understand why they need to use the whole "dressing up" and "getting naked" thing it's tea we aren't talking about Gin or Whisky here that's what I am getting at and it's not just this tea website/marketing it's a wider thing really

Noel Edmonds in drag is more sexual than that website.

Dermighty

From the website: "So, everything we do at NOOD is stripped back – no frills, no false sales pitch. We let our very leafy tea leaves speak for themselves.

Some might argue that dressing-up is more fun, but in our experience getting naked is far more honest and interesting."



Firstly: I think you're exaggerating, a lot. Being naked isn't necessarily sexual, that's how you perceive it.

Secondly, this isn't worth making a thread about unless you work for Nood and want people to start talking about their tea.

That's my opinion.

prinz

Ha, Nood/Nude. I just got that. :pac: Makes more sense now.

toexpress

Dermighty wrote: »

From the website: "So, everything we do at NOOD is stripped back – no frills, no false sales pitch. We let our very leafy tea leaves speak for themselves.

Some might argue that dressing-up is more fun, but in our experience getting naked is far more honest and interesting."



Firstly: I think you're exaggerating, a lot. Being naked isn't necessarily sexual, that's how you perceive it.

Secondly, this isn't worth making a thread about unless you work for Nood and want people to start talking about their tea.

That's my opinion.

Well I shall try this for a last time, I have picked this because I was thinking about it from the point of view of my customers. And I can safely say if I put that marketing about the place Bridie and Maggie would have a conniption and I would have the local ICA coming down the main street with a bunch of flaming torches.

Now at first I found the notion of that particular reaction funny until I began to think about it and then I sort of began to see their point. That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell. We use it to sell Gold Blend coffee ... remember those adverts? Now it was more overt, a look, a glance etc so while I picked this particular brand it's a wider thing. I don't care if people talk tea, coffee, cauliflower or disinfectant.

Interestingly ... I buy Gold Blend coffee

prinz

toexpress wrote: »

That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell.

Everything from cars to mobile phone network packages to crisps. Sad really.

sbsquarepants

toexpress wrote: »

That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell.

prinz wrote: »

Everything from cars to mobile phone network packages to crisps. Sad really.

It would be a much better world, if we could use it to buy as well.
Well, i'd have better stuff at least!

Thrill

The thought of grannies getting naked and going around serving cups of tea gives me the shudders.

We don't want our old folks prancing around in the Nood.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Sharrow wrote: »

I am can't wait to show them the site when they come home from school,
they will roll thier eyes and say how lame and that will make me laugh.

It should. "Lame" is such a... lame word to say.

Feeona

'Ride me sideways was another one'

AskMyChocolate

"So, you tell me is this teabag being too sexy for my sister to wear?"

Fair play OP for getting the thread past the mods

BettyM

This is brilliant. I love tea ( as opposed to that disgusting sweepings off the floor in bleached white paper bags) and if this means I can drink real tea without having to use a teapot, I'll be off to buy some of this to try it!!!

I heard Desert Island Discs last week and Anna Ford chose, as her luxury, a supply of whole leaf tea. Good tea is sexy and very fashionable here in the UK. It's also delicious (unlike PG tips or Tetley's which tastes about as bad as powdered Maxwell House instant coffee. Ugghhh).

Does anyone know where I can buy this when in Ireland???? Where did the OP buy it???

xsiborg

sbsquarepants

This is brilliant. I love tea ( as opposed to that disgusting sweepings off the floor in bleached white paper bags) and if this means I can drink real tea without having to use a teapot, I'll be off to buy some of this to try it!!!

I find your love of tea and hatred of tea pots to be hillariously dichotomous.


(above post to be read only in an english lord of the manor voice)

BettyM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I find your love of tea and hatred of tea pots to be hillariously dichotomous.


(above post to be read only in an english lord of the manor voice)

I find your assumptin that I hate tea pots to suggest that you jumpt to incorrect conclusions. It seems that real tea in a tea bag is just such a brilliant, and an obvious, idea. Why has no one thought of it before?

sbsquarepants

Ha, it has been said before betty. I'm a conclusion jumper, no doubt about it!:D

I like my tea, can't really be arsed with loose leaves though - twinnings do quite a nice range in tea bags, for potaphobes such as yourself!

BettyM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Ha, it has been said before betty. I'm a conclusion jumper, no doubt about it!:D

I like my tea, can't really be arsed with loose leaves though - twinnings do quite a nice range in tea bags, for potaphobes such as yourself!

I can't be arsed with loose leaves either which is why I think this is such a brilliant idea.

Its great you like Twinings. Once I started to drink whole leaf tea and realised what a beautiful drink that makes, I can no longer drink any brand of paper tea bag (even Twinings) which is filled with the sweepings off the floor, as the resulting drink to me is pretty murky and horrible.

It's the same for me about coffee, I love coffee and have a couple of cups most days, but can't stand what is called "instant coffee" which I think is completely disgusting.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

toexpress wrote: »

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

This is YOUR OWN company, isn;t it?