Tiger Woods Accenture Ads Still in Airports
by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 16, 2009 12:01 PM EST
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PrintWe found out last week that Accenture would be dropping Tiger Woods as its pitchman in light of his admitted infidelity and its lack of alignment with their brand. Well, the advertising featuring Woods may be gone from the Accenture website, but it is not gone from airports across the country.
As I was walking to my gate for a flight home to Baltimore from Dallas-Ft. Worth and the Nike Golf facility, I saw this ad in the terminal.
Of course, it'll take some time for these ads to be removed, but goes to show that there are still remnants of this relationship out there.
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As much as this whole story bugs me – I can’t help but laugh at these Accenture ads and ad-spoofs.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
They were just awful ads at the time and have such great double entendres now.
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by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 16, 2009 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
Apparently !!
The airports always forget about the Ads in the mens room in front of the stand up urinals. jes sayin
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
em66 ya silly man
They are in front of but above , I should have said,,,LOL
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
Can't resist
“Accenture was wrong to ditch Tiger Woods. Surely Tiger’s decision to outsource sexual services to a range of competing providers is in line with management consultancy’s best practice?”
Ian Baker-Finch — former PGA golfer-turned-announcer — told the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, “Mate, if I say one word about Tiger, I will get fired.”
Tiger Woods’ popularity plummeted 52 percentage points in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the biggest decline between consecutive readings in the poll’s history.
The golfer’s favorability rating dropped to 33 percent in last week’s poll, following reports of his extramarital affairs. That compares with 85 percent in June 2005, when the most recent previous poll was taken, the paper reports.
When Gallup first measured Woods in 2000, the world’s No. 1 golfer registered the highest popularity of anyone in the poll’s history: 88 percent.
The 55-point drop from high to low matches only former President George W. Bush, who sustained the same decrease between 2001 and 2008. Woods’ swing was the biggest between consecutive measurements since Gallup began it poll in 1992.
Woods’ unfavorable rating soared to 57 percent last week from just 8 percent in 2005.
“For many years, Woods was the most positively rated person we rated," Jeffrey Jones, managing editor of the Gallup Poll told USA Today. "Now he ranks worse than a lot of the politicians we measure. The drop is definitely unprecedented.”
Women are more upset with Woods than men. His unfavorable rating among women was 61 percent, compared with 53 percent among men.
In terms of education, those with the most are the most disappointed. And in terms of age, those 65 and older are the most disappointed.
Woods’ corporate sponsors aren’t so happy with him either. Consulting firm Accenture has dropped Woods as a spokesman, watch company Tag Heuer says it is weighing its options with him, and Gatorade dropped its Tiger drink
Gallup does a lot of polling – but there is still no way to get a completely accurate reading on people based on a few hundred responses from people who may or may not play or follow golf – and are very likely basing their responses on incomplete and leading questions.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
does it count !!!
So I guess when we hear all groveling about the TV ratings when TW is in the field it’s safe to say those numbers are skewed also ????
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
I heard this morning
an NBC poll showed only 5% of those polled had a favorable opinion of Tiger…….ouch.
Yet another "tragic" bit of fallout from this Tiger Woods mess...
…do you realize that NOBODY has brought up the winner of Big Break Disney yet ??
and as an example of journalistic self control – I am NOT going to mention the name of the winner or the scores or any details of the two part final…except maybe to wonder why xxx Golf Channel made it a two part final…then ran the episodes back to back instead of just a two hour show. :-)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
I watched it
Was good TV and a some what deserving winner, except for the club slamming and throwing.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
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