Quote from: DooMAD on September 01, 2021, 05:28:57 PM

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?

Yeah it certainly feels so fake and unnecessary 10 seconds in. People know what VISA is probably by the time they are 5 years old, it's one of the backbone payment processors that covers the whole world and it just feels completely pointless to advertise it any more. I suppose the ever shrinking marketing department is trying to justify their budget and existence, if this is the best idea they come up with then they really need to be fired. It's not even a standalone product, they simply sell their payment cards to other brands so they can use the processing network. I guess this is where the extra cash is going from VISA jacking up the prices in places like the UK just because they're greedy.