Saturday, June 21, 2008

Shine.com

The latest commercial that is been seen quite often these days is that of www.shine.com, a job hunting website that is a new venture by Firefly e-ventures Ltd a subsidary of HT media. The commercial is a way too weired. Chairs are seen chasing people on a busy street just to find out the correct person who deserves that chair. The best been a chair with the name plate of 'manager' seen searching for it's right candidate. The funniest part is that all these chairs come together and meet near a tree. They could have met in an office, why out of nowhere they meet under this huge tree??? It was something similar to a panchayat kind of a thing that usually happens in villages. It is a useful site no doubt but their could be a better way to put forward the main thought. The main idea does not comes out very well and one keeps figuring out what's happening in the ad> only to find out in the end that it is a job recruiting website and it is offering job opportunities... Even the jingle that plays in the background does not seems to be impressive too, which goes like...."I found my match, I found my match." There is nothing informative in it which will make students or professionals to visit the site. I would say the GNIIT ad was a much better one. The funda of making chairs search for its suitable match does not happen to introduce the services that the website seeks to provide.

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I totally agree with what you say!The ad loses out on one crucial point-i.e. giving the exact message to its target audience.It fails to talk about the site. Thank god for the fact that those chairs had tags with 'MANAGER' written on it otherwise it wouldn't have looked any different from a matrimonial ad!!!This site stands no chance in beating its competitors like monster.com, especially with monster.com coming up with ads that are way better than this one!
So let's just hope that while making the ads they remember to hire the right man for the right job!