{"id":6167,"date":"2013-07-29T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/fans-bananas-viagra-ads-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:17:20","slug":"fans-bananas-viagra-ads-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/fans-bananas-viagra-ads-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans &#038; Bananas: Viagra Ads in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-accCkAVe-R4\/UfZHB7si57I\/AAAAAAAAGE4\/klcxCASlo-w\/s1600\/Viagra-Fans.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"227\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Viagra-Fans.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHat tip to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/blogaceutics\">@blogaceutics<\/a> (Miguel Tovar) who tweeted about a &#8220;novel twist&#8221; on Viagra advertising in Japan: paper fans that promote Viagra (see above).<\/p>\n<p>As reported by RocketNews24 (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/2013\/07\/27\/viagras-paper-fans-take-a-novel-twist-on-advertising-rattle-japanese-netizens\/\">here<\/a>), hand-held fans like these &#8212; emblazoned with commercial messages and logos &#8212; are popular in Japan when it gets hot. Personally, I&#8217;d rather die of heat exhaustion than use these fans in public! (although I&#8217;d love to get my hands on one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>According to &nbsp;RocketNews24,&nbsp;&#8220;while many applauded the creativeness of these fans, many net users wrote it off as &#8216;gay&#8217; or &#8216;just for fujoshi.'&#8221; According to wikipedia, fujoshi is a self-mockingly pejorative Japanese term for female fans of novels that feature romantic relationships between men.<\/p>\n<p>The Viagra fans are from a few years back, and some commenters say they received them at various events.&nbsp;&#8220;It\u2019s a testament to its effectiveness how even after so long someone can still rack up over 12,000 retweets from posting it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fans may be an effective marketing ploy, but are not very effective in keeping you cool. Perhaps, like Viagra, only 25% of men find them effective?<\/p>\n<p>But I have an even BETTER Viagra marketing idea.<\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed the peeled bananas depicted on these fans? What if Pfizer were able to make a deal with Chiquita Bananas to put its logo on bananas sold in Japan? That might even be more effective as a viral marketing ploy and appeal to dirty old men who like to see girls eating bananas (there must be a&nbsp;pejorative Japanese term for such men).<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qPOrMwITE18\/UfZQWMckzFI\/AAAAAAAAGFI\/Aspp7cr_37w\/s1600\/JapaneseGirlsEatBananas.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JapaneseGirlsEatBananas.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nOK, I&#8217;m getting carried away with all this, but I found one more interesting image in my research on wikipedia: some banana plants have female flowers that have petals and other flower parts at the tip of the ovary that resemble male genitalia, testes and all:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nC80HGl8VYI\/UfZRl7nR_JI\/AAAAAAAAGFU\/UxGbMem8hCM\/s1600\/Banana_female_flower_detail.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Banana_female_flower_detail.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nOr is it just me that sees this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to my friend @blogaceutics (Miguel Tovar) who tweeted about a &#8220;novel twist&#8221; on Viagra advertising in Japan: paper fans that promote Viagra (see above). As reported by RocketNews24 (here), hand-held fans like these &#8212; emblazoned with commercial messages and logos &#8212; are popular in Japan when it gets hot. Personally, I&#8217;d rather die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[354,108,144],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fans &amp; Bananas: Viagra Ads in Japan - Pharma Marketing Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/fans-bananas-viagra-ads-in-japan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fans &amp; Bananas: Viagra Ads in Japan - Pharma Marketing Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hat tip to my friend @blogaceutics (Miguel Tovar) who tweeted about a &#8220;novel twist&#8221; on Viagra advertising in Japan: paper fans that promote Viagra (see above). 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