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Originally Posted by Fbone
I would imagine Israel is a difficult market to enter especially for US companies. They probably find it easier and less offensive to let local media companies handle it. With the Arab and Orthodox communities that equal perhaps 40% of Israel's population much US advertising would be wasteful and distasteful. Ads of beer, Hillshire Farms sausage, Smithfield ham, and car insurance companies that dont operate locally.
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Just a warning. Completely off topic comment here:
The ads are in Hebrew so I imagine they're done locally, but I can't help but have laughed reading this. Yes, I imagine the media would give you the impression of Israel being a very religious and conservative country. And in some places, that's true, but the reality is that most Israeli made TV and most Israeli TV advertising is considerably more racy than their American counterparts. I don't bother with them anymore since (yes, I admit it -- I'm violating the DMCA) I use a VPN for access to Hulu and the like, but they had one show called the Fun Night Show which as near as I could tell was a talk show where they took any excuse they could to have a bunch of pretty girls who were wearing next to nothing do a sexy dance. And while the show was on around 9 or 10 PM, the ads for it ran throughout the day. And that's just one example of many. Actually, Tel Aviv was recently voted as one of the 10 hottest party cities in the world by Time Out.
Anyway, completely off topic but as I said, I had to laugh when I saw it because the impressions the media give are often very distorted. . .and no, I'm not trying to sound offensive. I realize what I wrote could sound that way so I figured I'd preempt it. I was just amused. . .
Eric