A visit4site

It's not what you think, it's what you say...

To write a review on any ad click here, existing reviewers Log in

Browse our full library of views »
Sign up for weekly email with new views »


Ad info

Persil Range
Persil tough but gentle for 100 years - What is a mum?
TV/Cinema
isadn 71332

Make a comment
Read comments
Embed this view
Share this view

"The little boy.."

"what strikes me.."

Mrs E Rigby
the voice of common sense

Here's good old Persil, and it's a hundred years old, though I don't think they show any ads from earlier than the 1950s. I remember some of them, and I thought they were quite good. That was the thing about Persil, a lot of the soap powders used to do a very hard sell thing, but Persil always made nice ads where they didn't shout at you and tell you all about their dirt eating enzymes or whatever. They made you like them, that's what they did, you just couldn't help feeling good about Persil, or I couldn't anyway.
I have always bought Persil, despite what Val from my focus group says. She's always going on about the fact that Persil isn't as good as Ariel, and we're all being conned by the lovely adverts. Well, maybe we are, but I don't care, I like my Persil, and I like the Persil ads. So what if it doesn't get things quite as clean as Ariel, or doesn't work so well on gravy, I just don't feel like an Ariel mum, I feel like a Persil mum. I think that's what they set out to do, it's quite a "sophisticated marketing approach', that's what they say these days anyway.
More like good old fashioned common sense to me. Nobody's that interested in how a washing powder works are they? They just want to get on with life and not have to think too much about it all - that's what Persil understood and all I can say is well done, and I don't mind if it's not quite as good as the other one. Who cares, get a life - that's what I say.
 52% of the vote. Number of votes 76
Cuddly and effective?
48% of the vote. Number of votes 73
Or a lost opportunity?

visit4views is a visit4 service. Please note that views expressed on visit4views are those held by our contributors and visit4 ltd does not adhere to these views or take any responsibility for them. Your use of visit4info or visit4ads is subject to our tems & conditions of business which can be found at http://www.visit4info.com/user_terms.html
Copyright © visit4 Ltd. 2006 - Terms and Conditions of visit4views
Our top contributors
rate them
Paperback writer.
Hoping to be one.
rate him
Dear Prudence
she's out to play
rate her
Prince Of Mean
Bad adverts be warned
rate him
The Fool on the Hill
sees the world going round
rate him
Nowhere Man
but used to be big in business
rate him
Other visit4 sites
visit4info
All your favourite ads!
FREE to view all Cool and Recent ads
visit4ads
For professionals and educational organisations