Pure Michigan Ads

By-Tor wrote:C'mon now. Port Huron,Blue Water bridge? Enough already. This shit has jumped the shark. The TV ads are still solid but the radio ones are good comedy. Whats next- The Saginaw Valley and the mighty Zilwaukee? Who vacations to Port Huron unless their crazy aunt Barb is living up there in some shack on a river next to a meth trailer.

SpartanGuard wrote:I dunno, I've always liked the Lansing one.

Giant Moose wrote:I still can't believe Michigan screwed up its license plates so badly and actually allowed Pure Michigan on them, too. These things are awful.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Yeah, there's also one about some air museum in Kalamazoo. I thought the same thing when I heard it last year. WTF?

Michigan is a pretty decent state, imo. We've got some nice stuff worth seeing if you don't live here. I can sum it up for you here.

Lakes and stuff
Up North
bridge
island
2 sweet/good colleges
sports

/end ad

Robert J Sakimano wrote:meh.. the one on the right is nice.. nuanced and subtle.. Not a big fan of the color scheme on the other one.

Nommad2 wrote:
Don't knock the air museum. I took the kids there last year, and had to practically drag them out. Where else can you see a life size SR-71 Blackbird?

Nommad2 wrote:Don't knock the air museum. I took the kids there last year, and had to practically drag them out. Where else can you see a life size SR-71 Blackbird?

Wally Fairway wrote:
Wright/Patterson
Smithsonian

those would be my guesses - but I looked it up, they are not that hard to find



if you are an aviation buff it is worth the drive to Dayton - the most impressive thing there, to me, is Bockscar

Nommad2 wrote:
Don't knock the air museum. I took the kids there last year, and had to practically drag them out. Where else can you see a life size SR-71 Blackbird?

Molon Labe wrote:I have a feeling the ads we hear in Michigan are not the same ads that are being shown around the country.

Probably more like these in Chicago

Rocinante wrote:

Get outta here F.I.Ps!!

goodbar wrote:

they drop a lot of coin on over here on the West Coast over the summer but goddamn...fucking chill on the roads motherfuckers.  you're supposedly here for vacation so act like it.  swear to jesus, baby jesus, and little zygote jesus, every summer friday they're out here treatin' 196 North like its the motherscrathin Indy 500 or somethin.  I'm doing 85 and they still want to ride bumpers, weave over to the slow lane, race past everyone, slam on their brakes before hitting the back of a semi (that we're all trying to pass in the first place), weave back in that 1/2 car length spot between cars over in the fast lane, slam on brakes again, make everyone they cut in front of slam on their brakes.....Just chiiiiiiillll shitheads.

Rocinante wrote:

Get outta here F.I.Ps!!

Dr. Leo Spaceman wrote:The pure michigan ads work like this...

A community needs to pony up like $30k; the state then matches that $30k... a creative team comes and visits your city, come up with some themes and a "hook" and write some copy, they get Tim Allen to read some shit on the radio over the theme from cider house rules... then they use the rest of your money to buy advertising in the "selected" markets for your community. If you wanna pay big money ($1 Million) you get a national TV ad for your community (Traverse City, The Henry Ford, and Saginaw have these).

To me the whole thing has grown stale, I used to tear up when I saw the commercials... now its like "ah ****, another one... change the channel" and who in Fort Wayne indiana can really tell the difference between visiting big rapids, houghton lake, and cheboygan when they hear all three ads in a week?

Dr. Leo Spaceman wrote:The pure michigan ads work like this...

A community needs to pony up like $30k; the state then matches that $30k... a creative team comes and visits your city, come up with some themes and a "hook" and write some copy, they get Tim Allen to read some shit on the radio over the theme from cider house rules... then they use the rest of your money to buy advertising in the "selected" markets for your community. If you wanna pay big money ($1 Million) you get a national TV ad for your community (Traverse City, The Henry Ford, and Saginaw have these).

To me the whole thing has grown stale, I used to tear up when I saw the commercials... now its like "ah ****, another one... change the channel" and who in Fort Wayne indiana can really tell the difference between visiting big rapids, houghton lake, and cheboygan when they hear all three ads in a week?

tGreenWay wrote:


Excellent. Let's pool our money for a Pure Michigan/Climax spot.  

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Yeah, there's also one about some air museum in Kalamazoo. I thought the same thing when I heard it last year. WTF?

Michigan is a pretty decent state, imo. We've got some nice stuff worth seeing if you don't live here. I can sum it up for you here.

Lakes and stuff
Up North
bridge
island
2 sweet/good colleges
sports

/end ad

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
meh.. the one on the right is nice.. nuanced and subtle..  Not a big fan of the color scheme on the other one.

Rocinante wrote:

Where you is?  My fam lives in Ludington.

Cosmo_Kramer wrote:

I was going to say the opposite. I like the sunset one, the old blue-and-white is played out and boring. Get rid of "Pure Michigan" though.

goodbar wrote:

Just outside of Holland, closer to Saugatuck actually. But I drive up and down 196 pretty much everyday.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
I'm not a big fan of crazy colors..

oh another note, whose godforsaken Ohio commercials are the worst. I mean, I realize that Ohio gives the ad agency very, VERY little to work with.. but they look and sound like something produced by a Youngstown charter school audio-visual club that had their funding removed last month to cover the secretary's dental bridge.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I'm not a big fan of crazy colors..

oh another note, whose godforsaken Ohio commercials are the worst. I mean, I realize that Ohio gives the ad agency very, VERY little to work with.. but they look and sound like something produced by a Youngstown charter school audio-visual club that had their funding removed last month to cover the secretary's dental bridge.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:oh another note, whose godforsaken Ohio commercials are the worst. I mean, I realize that Ohio gives the ad agency very, VERY little to work with.. but they look and sound like something produced by a Youngstown charter school audio-visual club that had their funding removed last month to cover the secretary's dental bridge.