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Re: Recent advertisement for Visa - what a joke
by
avikz
on 01/09/2021, 19:36:43 UTC
I don't watch much TV on the TV itself nowadays, so I don't know if anyone has been talking about this ad or not:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvl60_CZl8

"What a load of bullshit", I found myself saying aloud after witnessing that for the first time.  How can it be working for everyone when so many people in the world are unbanked?  And how much of the wording in that was deliberately chosen to mirror the kinds of things we say about Bitcoin?  It feels very much like a pre-emptive first strike on their part, possibly demonstrating some insecurities about the threat their business model now faces.

Anyone else get the sense they had crypto in mind when they wrote the script for it?

Lol! I too sense the insecurities they are facing from the emergence of cryptocurrency. I wouldn't blame the script writer because the brief of the content was provided by the marketing team. So the sense of insecurity has reached to the higher level executives.

But don't take everything too literally. If I keep the crypto part aside, I must say the advertising is great from branding perspective. We just need to replace Visa with Bitcoin. Can anyone with knowledge of video editing do that for us?