GoDaddy Pulls 2015 Super Bowl Ad After Slew Of Negative Feedback From Animal Advocates

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

The recently released GoDaddy 2015 Super Bowl ad generated a whole lot of outrage from animal advocates and was quickly retracted Tuesday.

The ad, called "Journey Home," features a golden retriever puppy named Buddy who bounces out of the back of a truck before traveling through a series of harrowing environments to get to a bright red barn.

"Buddy! I'm so glad you made it home!" a curly-haired blonde exclaims. "Because I just sold you on this website I made with GoDaddy."

The last scene shows Buddy loaded in a box in the back of a van -- driven by GoDaddy spokeswoman-racecar driver Danica Patrick -- being dispatched to his new owner. As the door slams shut, the woman commands, "Ship him out."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/28/godaddy-2015-super-bowl-ad_n_6557548.html

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Who are the shitheels who still do business with GoShootElephantsDaddy?

[redwitch]

1. Yeah, that will make people flock to GoDaddy.

What is wrong with people???

[chervilant]

2. What kind of person thought this would be a good ad?

I guess GoDaddy is as bad as my friends have told me...

[Ilsa]

3. That's just heartless. Who would

want to be associated with heartless business people?

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Danica Patrick, Only Female Driver for NASCAR....

I Don't blame her thought, just her sponsor. Gotta find money from a male sport, somehow, guessing?
OK, Damn, My Bad, She's the one Driving the van. SAD.

[jmowreader]

18. You mean Danica Patrick, one of the worst NDMFs in NASCAR

They need to find her a more suitable sponsor: one who doesn't make sexist commercials, and also one whose corporate color is anything but green. (Green is said to be the unluckiest color you can paint a race car.)

[KatyMan]

28. What is ndmf? NVM!

I googled, but couldn't really find anything...!

non driving mo fo?

[jmowreader]

33. Exactly - non-driving mofo

In the three high-level series she's competed in - Indycar, Nationwide and Sprint Cup - she has run 258 races and scored one win, one top-five and 11 top-10 finishes.

I like her as a person, but I prefer race car drivers who can win races.

[Kablooie]

5. The puppy even give a little cry just before the van door slams shut.

You can still see copies of the commercial on YouTube at the moment.
It's just evil.

[Archae]

6. At least they pulled it before it aired, unlike that shoe ad.

The ad where they dart-tranquilized a barefoot runner and put their shoes on the guy while he was out cold.

[lobodons]

7. Stick with the booby ads

booby ads are your niche. Stick to em!!

[samsingh]

8. not me since the elephant murder

[geek tragedy]

9. Mitt Romney would approve. nt

[KingCharlemagne]

12. DUzy! Sincerest hat tip! - nt

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Good point!

I saw the ad and found it pretty disturbing, couldn't imagine how it would leave a positive impression on anyone, but you're right, clearly Rmoney and I are not the same audience...

[nc4bo]

31. Godaddy (KKR) and Mr. "Seally" Mittens go waaaaay back so I'd bet the farm he'd approve.

Besides, all good GOP locksteppers have GODADDY host their political websites, well at least a few very prominent ones at the very least.

Sleaze bags UNITE!

KKR, Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group, Blackstone.........amazing they are all united in politics. So much so you'd almost swear there's a conspiracy against us.

[BrotherIvan]

10. Lemme guess

Their ad agency is filled with 20 year-old Ivy "geniuses" who thought it was he-larious. I've been in meetings with these arrogant pricks so many times and it just made me vomit. I hope the (fictitious) pup made it to a better home at least.

[smirkymonkey]

40. Exactly what I was thinking.

I work with these types as well. It's amazing how some people can be so "smart" and at the same time so incredibly clueless.

[BrotherIvan]

41. I think because they are so sheltered growing up

and will remain so because of their money and connections. They work in a field where having "taste" is their only qualification for the job and the real creative grunts under them get treated like slaves. It is so much stupidity. The entertainment industry is even worse. I can't think of an industry that attracts more asshats except for finance.

[greatlaurel]

11. Commercials reflect the culture of management and the attitudes toward the customer.

This commercial shows you everything you need to know about this company and their treatment of their customers. Shows them for what they are. There are some very disturbing ad campaigns right now that show a distinct contempt of people. The Buick ad with the creepy couple spying on their neighbor does not reflect well on GM, either.

[hopemountain]

13. very true.

the mean spiritedness is particularly disturbing. these are the kids who grew up watching insult television - sitcoms where characters insulted and bullied one another to rise up in the ranks of their peers. ugh.

[corkhead]

16. I had been using them for the last 12 years for dns and email hosting but I finally fired them

this past week when they raised the cost of my email by a factor of 10. I was told it was because they made it more reliable, basically admitting they had been providing a shitty product to me all these years. They showed no interest in keeping my business so they lost it. They were the best thing going back when I first signed up with them but they have gotten too expensive and have slimy sales tactics. Must be to pay for these stupid ads.

[question everything]

21. But I like the Buick ad where a woman runs for what she thinks is her friend's car

and ended up entering a different car with a kid gawking at her wondering how lucky he got..

And her friend at the "nicer" car is waving at her..

[hedgehog]

15. Everyone is talking about GoDaddy. Do they have to pay for the commercial time reserved?

Mission Accomplished

[jmowreader]

19. Somehow I don't think...

...company executives want people using the term "those worthless pieces of shit" when they talk about a company.

[magical thyme]

38. they're running a different commercial

some pundit suggested that they ran this deliberately to get people's attention and already had another ad in the can because they couldn't have replaced it with just 3 days to go.

Possible, but more likely other ads had already been done and they picked the one they liked the best, and now will go with their 2nd choice.

[Rhinodawg]

17. Disguting.

[Snow Leopard]

20. it was a spoof of the budweiser commercial

and it is just make believe people

sheesh, relax

[Stonepounder]

23. You just don't get it, do you?

Professional wrestling is 'make believe'. Sponge Bob is 'make believe'. The Walking Dead is 'make believe', yet we had a long talk with our 14 year old grandson who was absolutely convinced that zombies were real because 'he read a thing on the internet'.

When we are supposed to giggle at how 'cute' it is for a puppy to be bounced out of the back of a pickup (don't bother to keep your dogs in the car, or keep them restrained), a puppy who then endures dangers and hardships to get back to his 'family' (a family who is delighted to see him because they have just sold him and are shipping him off via a common carrier). It crosses the bounds from being 'cute' or 'funny' and becomes disturbing. And note, and 'breeder' who will ship off a puppy without vetting the buyer (as was the implication) is probably running a puppy mill and doesn't give a damn about the puppy (which was certainly the implication in the commercial).

Make believe? Perhaps. But listen to how involved fans get with professional wrestling and it, too, is 'make believe'.

[Snow Leopard]

27. apparently not

so, we need to vet all make believe shows, commercials because some 14 year old can't tell reality from make believe? I'm not sure what your are advocating here? Does the boy think cartoons are real too? Batman? Do we need to ban those? Put a stop to wrestling?

[Stonepounder]

32. Well, how about we make a 'make believe' commercial

showing a cartoon woman being raped by a cartoon man while trying to send an 'cute' anti-rape message. And suppose that it came out all wrong. And it offended a lot of people. Even though it was cartoon characters, wouldn't you think that the public reaction ought to get the sponsor to pull the ad, since the message was lost in the make-believe? That's what happened with the GoDaddy ad.

[treestar]

35. Everybody knows that

But it's not pleasant make believe, and brings out a negative feeling. Which advertisers are dumb to create.

[cyberswede]

37. +1

Nailed it.

[iamthebandfanman]

22. GoDaddy can rott in hell

and not just because of this.

the management of this company are complete bigoted morons who will do anything to make their dollar.

ive seen websites they've hosted that make fun of the disabled.. and not just in general... some would literally single out one person on youtube and relentlessly add to their paranoia...
godaddy would do NOTHING to stop this abuse.. in fact on several occasions they took the action of HIDDING the domain registration information after my complaints.


call me old school, but ill always stick with www.networksolutions.com

[eissa]

24. Make commercials with naked women

and no one bats an eye. Ship off little Rover and people shit their pants.

GoDaddy and Carl's Jr. can take their sexist crap and shove it down their throats.

[Tom Ripley]

25. Isn't the GoDaddy CEO an overcompensating big game hunter?

Maybe he just hates animals?

[navarth]

26. Fill me in, guys. I use GoDaddy but I'll drop them like a hot potato if they're evil.

They've given me really good service but I won't contribute to a company that's run by bastards. What's this about an elephant? They've been very much on my mind since the last Bill Maher.

[onehandle]

29. When the elephant story broke, a competitor offered domain transfers for a dollar.

I moved all of my domains to them.

Read here about the asshole elephant killing CEO.

http://gawker.com/5787676/meet-godaddys-ridiculous-elephant-killing-ceo

[navarth]

30. OMFG this guy is a gaping asshole

Who was the guy offering dollar domain transfers?

[brooklynite]

34. "Any publicity is good as long as you spell your name right"

You did just what they wanted: talked up an ad they probably didn't plan to show anyway.

[Telcontar]

36. Well I thought it was funny

Dark humor has its place. Having said that, yeah totally not a great Super Bowl ad.

[jtuck004]

39. GD is now dead to me. I am making arrangements to move the two customers

somewhere else. Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass if this hateful crap is some kind of marketing scheme that might get reversed. That they could put something out like this is something along the lines of jokes about slavery or Dachau, and what one of their victims would think. Dogs treated exactly like that lives lives of great tragedy, brought about by the careless and thoughtless actions of the less-than-human they depend on. Nothing even close to humor in that, given that the result is 4 to 6 million dead pets every year, because we don't choose to do otherwise.

It won't make much of an impact to them, just to me. There are certain people, business, and philosophies that offer so little value and such great liabilities that there is just no reason to muck about with them. Or anyone that uses them.

[ileus]

42. Is this the best folks have to whine about these days...