Sickening Searches

T-Mobile Likens Competitors to Cow Bums

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile wants you to know that, "You won’t find more minutes for £30. Guaranteed." Even if you look up a cow’s bum...

To illustrate that they’ve “already searched the other four networks” for a better deal than this, Saatchi & Saatchi London came up with four print ads that show people looking in dangerous and disgusting places.

In addition to the aforementioned cow’s behind, the ads search inside the mouth of a lion, in a dangerously moving crane, and inside a bee hive.

I wonder which of the other four mobile networks is represented by the cow’s behind…

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Extreme Marketing
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Telecommunications
Mobile phone carriers can use provocative advertising to differentiate themselves from competitors and increase brand awareness.
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Advertising
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GENDER
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POPULARITY
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Activity 19%
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