Persuade. Change. Influence. - "Psyop Anthem"

A video created by the company that owns http://www.psyop.tv . This video is watchable on the website mentioned above.

It is very interesting, if you listen to the words, it discusses consumerism, and how companies utilize advertisements and other tools in hopes of getting more sales. Generally it is things people don't need, and often things they wont even use.

The most interesting part about this little animation is that it was created by a major advertising firm that has done major advertisements for some of the largest companies in the world, from Nike to Adidas, from Coca Cola to Guinness, from EA Sports to Fox Nascar, and the list goes on. Shell, UbiSoft, Starbucks, Starburst, Lugz, McDonalds, AT&T, Napster, Ford, etc.


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• Economy
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[RainyDayCrane]

Yes, it was created by a major advertising firm to be their anthem. It was for a Nickelodeon animation contest. :P It's one of my personal favorites!

[villianousjester]

Thank you for the comment. To be the Advertising Firms Anthem? The strange thing, but also very cool thing to me is that it has a very negative message of advertising. This one is debatably not so negative but if you look on the website I link to, you can see the other videos, some of which are much more obviously negative.

[Plankzilla86]

Epic video friend.

[maddcovv]

I always loved this video thanks for posting it.

[egometry]

@villianousjester It's not so much "very negative" in so much as it's advertising targeting ad agencies... who are "in on the joke". It's pretty clever. And really awesome, to boot.

[pkleader1123]

@villianousjester This is for a very simple reason... The same reason Philip Morris advertises and sells smoking cessation products. For every thing in the world that someone could like, someone also dislikes it. So why not cater to both? Double your audience, double your message, double your money. It's being a double agent. Why stay loyal to one side when you can reap twice the benefits of being loyal to both? Even though the occasional person will notice such as you, majority does not...

[pedopm]

this is horrible.

[VolParagom]

Well if consumerism is 'evil' or whatever, what are we supposed to do? Is each person supposed to grow his own food and make his own clothes?

[HatchetBurk]

"Persuade, Change, Influence" is the slogan for the U.S. Army psyops

[soulsurferjeweet]

Go psyop! Astounding that you dared to do this. Great job!

[MercMaster101]

what do those little characters represent?

[92451721921892113]

youll never notice that you are dying as long as you keep buying