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A tasteful Spring Festival commercialPosted by Joel Martinsen, January 28, 2009 8:58 PM
In this Hengyuanxiang ad, twelve people declare their Chinese zodiac sign. Tasteful? Compared to the company's ad at last year's Spring Festival Gala, it is. |
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Comments on A tasteful Spring Festival commercial
I see them quite often when I was in China, but I still have no idea what sorta business they are in.
Tasteful? No, only bearable, but a large improvement over past years' death-by-a-thousand-cuts.
some of the scenes I think are lack of creativity, but the whole ad builds connection to the last one which is noxious but makes people remember the brand name.
Love the commercial/ad - loved the foreigner - you should have a foreigner in more often - and she spoke Chinese!!!