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  • Guess What Type Of Company Caused A Scene With Billboards Urging Motorists To Text And Drive?

    23 May 2016 by Kiernan in Advertising, Business, Lifestyle, Vibe
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    It is said that there are two things in this world that are certain – death and taxes.

    This means there should be money to be made in both, and one funeral home has caused some serious buzz with their latest ad campaign.

    Wathan Funeral Home is the name on the controversial billboards, which were erected in Toronto. Let’s have a look:

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    Eish, not messing about. Except it turns out that Wathan Funeral Home isn’t real, with Adweek explaining how it all fits together:

    It’s actually a PSA from the Montreal office of agency John St., in partnership with out-of-home company Cieslok Media. No, Wathan Funeral Home isn’t real. But it does have a website, where angry motorists who’ve Googled the place are confronted with this message:

    If you’re here, you’ve probably seen our “Text and Drive” billboard. And if you have, you probably came to this website to tell us what horrible people we are for running an ad like that. And you’d be right.

    It is a horrible thing for a funeral home to do. But we’re not a funeral home.

    We’re just trying to get Canadians to stop texting and driving, which is projected to kill more people in Ontario this year than drinking and driving. That’s right. More. And while most people wouldn’t even think about drinking and driving, over half of Ontario drivers admit to reading texts while behind the wheel. That’s more than half of the drivers on the road today risking their lives, their passengers’ lives and the lives of their fellow motorists and pedestrians.

    Which should make you even madder than our billboard did.

    Cieslok Media says the ad is designed to get people thinking about the real consequences of texting and driving. “With an out-of-home inventory situated in high traffic, high-impact locations, it made sense to leverage our digital sign on the Gardiner to amplify this message for the general public good,” says Cieslok president and CEO Jörg Cieslok.

    Well I think they’ve more than succeeded on that front, with this the video advert that accompanied the campaign roll out:

    [source:adweek]

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