That PSU commercial is awful
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If you did not pay attention you would assume that the background is Rutgers.
Doesn’t look like a place where I want to live
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But it’s a place where some Penn Staters live.
Penn State is trying to show that it is there for the entire state. It wouldn’t play well in that vein if they showed the Main Line, Squirrel Hill, etc.
It’s about diversity. You don’t understand that? Not every shot can be of Radnor.
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Same dumb reason thirteen % of the population is featured in 70 % of the network commercials.
So "diversity" means ghetto??? Got it.
That freakin commercial's embarrassing, and absolutely nothing like the Penn State I went to and brag about. If I was still a kid, or better yet, a parent of a kid, you couldn't pay me a million dollars to go to Penn State based on that trashy "promo". That piece of garbage makes Pitt look like a Caribbean paradise by comparison.
It is horrible. Depressing shots of mostly Philly and other run down dumps. Yes it definitely represents large parts of PA but NOT State College and NOT Penn State. How on earth does anyone think that is a positive promotion of our university.
Yes, after they completed the Football game day traffic and parking project last year they started on this project. Both projects have been well received. Increases in resultant donations have funded 6 more Assistant Athletic Director positions.
Yes actually it can. Someone chooses what goes into the promo, so it can be whatever represents the university in a positive light. And yes we all know its all about "Diversity" We WOKE
In all honesty, Pennsylvania has become an impoverished, corrupt embarrassment. Other than the corruption, I think the commercial perfectly captures the current status of Penna.
Squirrel Hill? Because of mass murder? The last time that neighborhood was featured on national media it was because of the Tree of Life massacre.
Perhaps you can come up with another town? That was a poor choice.
100% agree on all points but WHY promote it in an ad????? It is beyond stupid. The corruption ad is probably being saved for basketball season.
The scenes look like something out of “ I am Legend “.
Except for the zombies.
Except for the zombies.
Penn State is a ghetto commercial. This is the absolutely worst commercial I have ever seen promoting a university. All that is missing is a junkie getting shot by a robber in a back alley where the dumpster is on fire.
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If that's supposed to sell Penn State. They Failed. Miserably.
We come to Penn State to escape those towns! I don't see the point of showing a general landscape of the entire state, with a focus on some of its worst parts.
I actually like that commercial. Penn State serving the Commonwealth. Or, maybe I just hear the alma mater and get teary. Apparently from this thread, it is a good thing that I don't work in marketing lol. 🤪
Very insensitive off PSU to film Plain Sect Amish, who do everything to prevent such acts.
It shows that Penn State can serve all of the people of the commonwealth, not just the ones YOU want to live next door to. This includes people of all religions, economic strata, sexual orientation, and color, not just white middle class heterosexual suburbanites.
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It’s where the BOT has driven the university over the past 10 years.
We Are.....the University of SlumVille, PA.
The commercial made very little connection, if any, between PA poverty and the admittance to ... and eventual/successful graduation from.... PSU. I could have done better with a 1980's Sony Betamax camera and anonymous actors.
www.ispot.tv
My only questions, which won't ever get answered......are
1) Which media company produced this commercial?
2) What pre-production instructions/guidance, if any, were they given to the media company and by which PSU Administrator?
3) Who, or which Committee, reviewed and approved the commercial such that the media producer ultimately was paid for same?
The commercial made very little connection, if any, between PA poverty and the admittance to ... and eventual/successful graduation from.... PSU. I could have done better with a 1980's Sony Betamax camera and anonymous actors.
Pennsylvania State University TV Commercial, 'We Are Here'
Pennsylvania State University assures Pennsylvanian's they are not alone -- the school is with them always.
www.ispot.tv
My only questions, which won't ever get answered......are
1) Which media company produced this commercial?
2) What pre-production instructions/guidance, if any, were they given to the media company and by which PSU Administrator?
3) Who, or which Committee, reviewed and approved the commercial such that the media producer ultimately was paid for same?
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I like it, it shows that the University serves and is for everyone in the state, not just NIMBYs in the suburbs who want to keep "those people" away.
Was the media company responsible for this garbage owned by one of the BOT members?
It’s talking about how PSU serves all parts of PA and all of its people. Many, many PSU graduates are sons and daughters of steel mill workers and coal miners. Many are first in their family college graduates. The purpose of a state university is to provide quality and accessible higher education to the state. I see no issue, and the “dumps” in the commercial look just like my hometown...actually much better.
People that think this commercial shows the “run down” areas of PA are sorely mistaken, and sound like a bunch of snobs from NJ. Steel and coal towns made this country and state.
Not at the prices they charge today
Relax, relax... The next one will feature football and deer hunting.
Well guess what. Probably a lot of us responding negatively to this commercial are or were sons/daughters of of steel mill workers And coal miners. I had both in my family. I grew up in the Warren/Youngstown area and have seen the utter ruin and devastation of what black Monday did to the area. The last thing I would put in a commercial would be the rusting hulks of crumbling industrial buildings. For PA I would be highlighting the beautiful mountains, farming valleys with dairy farms, the nice parts of the big cities and yes, currently productive industrial works. Not the rusted out hulks of what used to be there.
How dare you not want to be dragged down to the U's level of misery.
Unfortunately, the residents of the places shown in the commercial can no longer afford Penn State. At one time they could, but PSU has become a school for elitists.
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