Lazy Copywriters
Not everything that I write in here will be about Advertising and Marketing, I promise. But sometimes I see half-assed work that just makes me angry.
Let's look at Astro Yogurt ("yogurt". Gah! Try "yoghurt" you illiterate twats.) Astro has a new TV spot out, which I completely forget (way to cut through the clutter) except for the closing. The fine folks at Astro's agency have wrapped up their piece with 3 fine Astro Yogurt qualities. It's pretty formulaic, it's tried and true, everyone does it because it works. Great, whatever.
Moving right along, the qualities are:
1. Smooth
Fair enough, no-one likes to chew yoghurt.
2. Creamy.
Also good; in the land of dairy products creamy = high-quality
3. Yogurty
Are you fucking shitting me? "Yogurty"? That's the best you have? "Our yoghurt is yoghurt-like"? You can't do better than that? You suck. Dear Astro: fire that writer and hire me. Here are some free words that a 3-year-old could have come up with:
Delicious. Nutritious. Satisfying.
This is like the geniuses who came up with Coors Light: Crisp, Clean and Cold. "Cold"?! I have a fridge, dumbasses. And all of the beer in it is the same temperature. Back to the drawing board with you!
Note: When quoting Astro I have deigned to use "yogurt". For my own insane opinions, I have spelt (that's right! "spelt"!) it "yoghurt". At no point have I gone completely off the rails into the land of "yoghourt".

