Teleflora Returning To Super Bowl Ad Front

Teleflora Returning To Super Bowl Ad Front

Teleflora, the flower delivery service that produced a controversial Super Bowl commercial within our industry last year, is returning to the Super Bowl scene this year with another 30-second spot. Teleflora, once again, is taking its wilted-talking-flowers-in-a-box approach.

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If you missed last year’s controversial Super Bowl commercial from Teleflora, scroll to the bottom of the page to watch it.

This year’s new spot will air during the second quarter of the Sunday, February 7 game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints. The spot is again staged in an office and features a Valentine’s Day flower arrangement that’s designed and delivered by a local florist in the recipient’s neighborhood. The voice of the flowers is Don Rickles.

“With Valentine’s Day, one of the busiest flower-buying days right around the corner, we knew being part of the game’s advertising lineup offers us the chance to reach 150 million potential customers,” says Shawn Weidmann, President, Teleflora. “When it comes time for consumers to make their Valentine’s Day purchases, we want to be sure Teleflora is top of mind–and there is no better time to remind them than during one of America’s biggest sports events.”

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The commercial will air through Friday, February 12, 2010 on sports-focused cable channels and primetime cable shows geared toward male viewers. Teleflora also will conduct home-page takeovers on sports-enthused sites the week of February 12, with banner ads across several top providers directly linking users to a landing page that offers click-to-call for easy ordering.

Teleflora is extending the contradiction of flowers in a box versus its own hand-arranged bouquets online in a “naughty”-versus-“nice” viral execution of the commercial campaign. In the “nice” execution, consumers can send someone a sincere message along with a beautiful, virtual Teleflora bouquet. In the “naughty” execution, the spirit of the talking flowers comes alive with consumer-generated or pre-selected sarcastic messages that are delivered with unarranged, uncut, sloppily packed flowers in a box.

With each “naughty” or “nice” e-card, Teleflora is offering the sender and recipient a discount code from Teleflora.com.

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Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

This is disappointing… that ad is insulting and sexist. And the fact that they’re adding the ability to actually send someone a “naughty” (read: incredibly mean-spirited) personalized virtual version? Deplorable. I won’t be buying anything from Teleflora until they stop this campaign (and I’ll make sure anyone who would send me flowers knows to do the same).

Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

Love the ad -all selling is accomplished at an emotional level – this will bring out the emotion – without actually naming the competing email florist. Remember – every ad has to have an emotional appeal to sell.

Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

what this message says is that flowers are unpredictable. If proflowers retaliates with a “florists flowers are old and expensive” we could have a mutually assured floral armageddon. Great move Teleflora, you just sent floral customers to chocolates.

Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

This is disappointing… that ad is insulting and sexist. And the fact that they’re adding the ability to actually send someone a “naughty” (read: incredibly mean-spirited) personalized virtual version? Deplorable. I won’t be buying anything from Teleflora until they stop this campaign (and I’ll make sure anyone who would send me flowers knows to do the same).

Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

Love the ad -all selling is accomplished at an emotional level – this will bring out the emotion – without actually naming the competing email florist. Remember – every ad has to have an emotional appeal to sell.

Avatar for Anonymous Anonymous says:

what this message says is that flowers are unpredictable. If proflowers retaliates with a “florists flowers are old and expensive” we could have a mutually assured floral armageddon. Great move Teleflora, you just sent floral customers to chocolates.