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\"Were you biking down spider-man street?\"
....good question!
\"Were you biking down spider-man street?\"
....good question!
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I bet a lawsuit is coming soon for causing distress and \"forced\" advertising or something. hehe
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Crunch is part of the Bally's chain. They will do anything for a buck, unless it actually benefits members.
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@Ben Popken: Yeah was going to say, Bally's will make a buck, but they would never stoop this low.
Which begs to question, is their doing this related to the loss in funds they probably took when Bally's was no longer supporting them. Bally's makes a LOT of money through selling their own supplement brands and personal training that they rarely wrap themselves into these deals (the few I have seen have also been related to healthy eating and lifestyle, not a movie or TV show ads)
Could be a good reason they are doing this.
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Is this Sony/Marvel's alternative for putting Spiderman 2 logos on Major League Baseball bases?
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Like Ben said, going to the gym is hard enough. No way I would have allowed myself to be part of a captive audience for an ad campaign and PAY (gym membership fees) for the \"privilege.\"
I would have been that woman that walked out.
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Umm, it's SpiderMan Week, duh.
Didn't you get your poster/schedule of events from the otherwise unemployable white kids with dreads & face piercings in UnSq?
Hell is spinning to Dunst signing and crying!
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I'm glad they're putting a lot of marketing into this nice little movie. How else would anyone ever hear about it?
singing
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At least the second guy you talked to (the one whos Gym didn't have it), was a nice guy.
The singing was great too btw, thats exactly what I do when I hear waiting music...too funny.
The Spiderman marketing campaign has even permeated smaller gym companies - the Lincoln Park Athletic Club-Evanston Athletic club series of gyms in Chicagoland have had their climbing walls co-opted by Spiderman promotions - silly music and unexperienced climbers and dorky marketing folks taking away valuable funtime!
The Spider-Man 3 people must have paid out the ying yang for this, and rightly so. I've seen the movie, and it is utterly horrible. Even (especially?) lobotomized comic book nerds will hate it. It needs all the help it can get.
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This'll be a great new trend. Can't wait for Crunch's Kickboxing-with-The-Condemned-Experience class.
Like I need another excuse not to go to the gym.
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Thanks for reminding me about how shitty the chain gyms are. I'll stick to the Y and local gyms.
Thank you for the awesome recording. This is one of the reasons why I continue to view this blog every single day! I don't normally post here but this had to be said.
What, they didn't advertise \"Rocky Balboa\" this way? What about \"Dodgeball?\"
The possibilities are endless!
It also might explain why my dentist keeps showing Willy Wonka. Or maybe not..
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Does anyone know what the marketing budget for Spiderman 3 looks like? I couldn't find anything using a quick Google search. I know it is one of the most expensive movies ever, but how much of that can be attributed to marketing? I was talking to a few co-workers and it seems like this Spiderman has been more hyped than the previous two combined. That would explain the extreme product placement.
it may take a some effort, but anyone wanting to get out of their crunch contract should be able to do so.
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I hope the call to coporate office will be posted (if there is one). It would be interesting to see what these people have to say about attempting to brainwash their customers without their consent. Its really scary where advertising is headed these days...Garish and destracting ads printed on cars, tattoos, spyware..and now this. I'm reminded of that old Mac commercial \"1984\"...
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Is Green Goblin dry-humping on poor Spidey's backside?
Spidey better be careful or he's going to suffer premature web ejaculation.
(ahem) ok, more serious now.
The fault is COMPLETELY those of the customers. Once there was an expectation that if you pay hard cold cash, you were free of commercials.
I strongly feel that if the first several theaters that they tried out ads in, they empied out or stormed the front office, it would have killed that little \"innovation\" in its crib.
Same thing here. Customers should have raised Holy Hell on the manager, turned off the TVs and rioted. In spandex. Shapely boobies shaking in rage.
No whining about, \"it was the only class\". Raise HELL. Walk out. Unplug. Or every spinning class (and everything else) will be an advertising opportunity.
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Eugh. I get so sick of advertising...I think I'm going to stop buying annoyingly advertised products on principal.
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Gold's Gym in Hollywood is getting HORRIBLE about their piped-in music/advertising. They've increased the volume to the point it's intolerable and I have to wear NOISE-canceling headphones. Whenever I do look up and see an ad, I make a point of never buying the product or service.
My call to Gold's Gym were met with a faux-incredulous reaction as if I were some crazy person with insanely-sensitive ears.
I'm a member of 24 Hour Fitness, and even though I hate my location with a passion, at least I know they'll never stoop to lows like this in their classes. My sympathies to poor Angie...
@Rey -- The piped-in music is pretty dreadful in the Hayward 24 Hour, but the \"ads\" tend to be the usual nags about racking/stacking weights, etc. I have to resort to noise-canceling headphones myself, but I'm usually happy when they crank the music since it drowns out the cellphone jabbering idiots who occupy every elliptical and treadmill in the place.
I agree, the class members should have raised absolute hell about this. They were totally betrayed by Crunch (which costs major $).
It's called consent, people.
I will go out of my way now to not see the movie, the name of which I will not even mention. It would be fitting if this hurt Crunch's reputation, and bottom line, as well.
Some marketers seem to retreat into a kind of fantasy world where they believe the untruth that people actually want to have product X marketed to them. It's hard for me to come up with any other explanation for this particular insanity at Crunch.
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gotta love the b.s. line \"all our classes are free with membership.\"
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Wait! Is Ben actually a member? Because he told that one dude he was... and if that isn't true, that's \"pretexting\" and you're going to jail!
heh
I'd rather spin to clips of Ben on hold...
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Oh my Angie there must be something wrong with you. You are clearly intolerant of marketing people. They can't help it they were born that way. Report immediately to the nearest Crunch Gym for sensitivity training.