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Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

S1E16 - Sex In Advertising

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

Business, Marketing, Under The Influence, Cbc, Society & Culture, Terry O'reilly, Pop Culture, Advertising

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The advertising industry has a long history of using sex to sell products. Woodbury's used sex to sell soap as far back the 1920's - and the campaign was written by a woman. But the use of sex has always been a polarizing technique.

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0:42.3

From the Under the Influence Digital box set this episode is from season one 2012

0:43.2

you're so king in it

0:49.8

I go to love it in an instant.

0:55.0

Your teeth look wider than no, no, no! You're not you when you're hungry.

1:13.8

You're in good hands with all.

1:22.2

You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. Like you request her a flight test? I'd like to request our flight of tennis be seated.

1:32.2

This time we're landing in about one minute.

1:33.9

Thank you.

1:34.7

I fly a lot between Toronto and Los Angeles for work.

1:39.1

And I've had a lot of memorable seatmates.

1:42.3

I'm writing this on a flight to L.A. right now. And sitting across

1:46.3

from me is the Fonz himself, Henry Winkler. He's got one of those blue neck pillows on.

1:53.1

The Toronto FC team just filed by, all wearing their red track suits on their way to play

1:58.6

some soccer with Mr. Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy.

2:02.9

I once watched actress Mackenzie Phillips fall asleep into her dinner.

2:08.0

I took a business class seat on an upgrade when it was just me and Cindy Crawford vying for

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