Advertising campaign "Show your Joe"

K-Mart Advertising Campaign “Show Your Joe”?

Advertising campaign K-Mart

Advertising campaign K-Mart

I return from speaking at #EngageMexico and become speechless when I see the mild-mannered retailer, K-Mart’s advertising campaign “Show Your Joe”. I absolutely applaud it. After watching one too many advertising campaigns featuring women in undies, this campaign is fresh, adorable and cute.

The K-Mart advertising campaign “Show Your Joe” definitely caught my eye. Tremendous viral power by pushing the boundaries of our cultural mores in humor. Something I actually spoke about at this conference. What makes something humorous for some and not for others? Zabalbeascoa states that “The principle of incongruence in humor is universal. One always laughs at the unexpected. It is always about breaking with the taboo, be it sex, religion or politics. This is common to all cultures and the mechanism is always the same. What is not shared by all cultures is the limit of what can (or is allowed) to be transgressed.”

Advertising campaign "Show your Joe"

Advertising campaign “Show your Joe”

This advertising campaign has reached more than 7 million hits on YouTube. But the advocacy group One Million Moms has launched a social media campaign to pull the ad from TV, denouncing it as “disgusting,” “inappropriate” and “filth” that should not be seen by families gathering to watch TV. Furthermore, the group accuses Kmart of making “a deliberate decision to produce controversial advertisements instead of wholesome ones. This is a terrible plan on Kmart’s part, especially at this time of year!”

Watch the commercial and judge for yourself. Do you really think it’s controversial?

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6 replies
  1. Mariela Dabbah
    Mariela Dabbah says:

    I absolutely adore this commercial! Taking the Jingle Balls to a whole new level! The organization trying to bring the commercial down should be more concerned with the amount of senseless violence, gender and ethnic stereotypes, and explicitly sexual content their little ones are exposed to on a daily basis. This is just smart humor. Congrats to K-Mart. Thanks for sharing it!!

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  2. Havi Goffan
    Havi Goffan says:

    Thank you Mariela!! If this ad had six babies moving their “tushies” nobody would have said anything. There is no filth in it except the one in the minds of those who accuse while feeling at ease watching commercials portraying women lowered to a level of sexual objects. Bravo, K-Mart and their agency! We look forward to more cute and original ideas!

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  3. Jose Guevara
    Jose Guevara says:

    Thanks for sharing this Havi. This is genius! I was not expecting the jingle balls but I haven’t stopped laughing since.

    K-Mart is taking the route of the fastest way to fail is to try to please everyone. More people will laugh at this than not, hence, the 7 million hits.

    Now I have to share it with my friends. Great job K-Mart.

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