As a parent and when my kids were in high school Athletics, I looked to good sport role models for my kids to emulate - not egotistical self promoters.
Might I suggest to Nike to stop with the shock and start with positive, good looking, educated sport role model - for kids sake and their parents.
Grant Fisher comes to mind. He also crosses cultural boundaries, as well as geographical, due to his heritage and is a pleasure to watch and listen to.
Positive role models please Nike wrote:
As a parent and when my kids were in high school Athletics, I looked to good sport role models for my kids to emulate - not egotistical self promoters.
Might I suggest to Nike to stop with the shock and start with positive, good looking, educated sport role model - for kids sake and their parents.
Grant Fisher comes to mind. He also crosses cultural boundaries, as well as geographical, due to his heritage and is a pleasure to watch and listen to.
What does being good looking have to do with anything? Ugly people can't be role models?
Almost no one will recognize Grant Fisher world wide.
slippy wrote:
Almost no one will recognize Grant Fisher world wide.
Maybe more would if promoted as a positive role model.
not sure myself wrote:
Ad is not bad but not as great as most Nike ads. What do you think?
Any other track stars in here? My buddy said Kipchoge but I don't see him
No. This is a bad ad. Ingebritsen's portion was staged; not live action. Weird message. Interesting that Jordan was left out.
Excluding Pistorius at the end, this one is better:
Too much AI wrote:
The excessive AI stresses me out
this. the constant changes between real and computer-generated expressions was lazy and annoying, it's very obvious with the texture of skin on most of them
“Does it make me a bad person?” Yes
Does it make me a great athlete? Also yes.
A throwback to 2012 where Nike had one of the best ads ever made. At the time, they were not selected as a sponsor to the Olympics, so they were not allowed to use the Olympics in their marketing. Instead, they ran an ad campaign promoting 'everyday greatness'.
the question, is not relevant at all
Positive role models please Nike wrote:
As a parent and when my kids were in high school Athletics, I looked to good sport role models for my kids to emulate - not egotistical self promoters.
Might I suggest to Nike to stop with the shock and start with positive, good looking, educated sport role model - for kids sake and their parents.
Grant Fisher comes to mind. He also crosses cultural boundaries, as well as geographical, due to his heritage and is a pleasure to watch and listen to.
flop fish has zero global medals and social media presence
lance Armstrong is the greatest wrote:
Nike ads have gone down hill, they used to be really good like this one:
That was pretty funny.
"What am I on?" - Everything.
Anything that has Beethoven's 9th, especially the 3rd movement "Ode to Joy", can't be bad! The music became quiet stirring by the end. (Probably THE most incredible music ever written.) I think I will listen to it again..
not sure myself wrote:
Ad is not bad but not as great as most Nike ads. What do you think?
Any other track stars in here? My buddy said Kipchoge but I don't see him
This ad tells me one thing… that Nike is a products company for black people.
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Kipchoge's at 1:21
Why did they have to go woke though with a ton of clips of wheelchair WNBA?
Better question is why showcase a dead rapist with kobe
Not a good ad at all. Not even worth sharing. I'll also chime in on the blatant use of AI and the annoying voiceover. Even forgetting the message is trash, it just isn't inspiring at all.
The measure of a good Nike ad used to be whether you teared up and got goosebumps... or not. The "Greatness" series had many of those, as did the Armstrong ads (just looking at them objectively). One of my all-time favorites is the "I Can" ad from the 90s. I love the part where the thought bubble of each marathon runner is "I can." Chills and tears... That is what it was all about.
Bo Knows were the best.
I work at a major sports retailer here in Australia. Usually all the Nike advertising is based on the premise that 'everyone is an athlete' - so no actual elites. Pre Olympics and there are Jakob and Mu posters up. I have not come across a single person, employee or customer, who has a clue who they are.
I take banned substances and dodge drug tests. Does that make me a bad person? Tell me?
They forgot the footage of male transwomen beating cis women.