日本推腿上廣告女孩可出租玉腿

中國日報網 2013-02-22 18:40

A woman models an advertisement from Absolute Territory PR.

Introducing the least subliminal advertising ever. In Japan, companies are actually launching print campaigns on young women's bare legs.

Are we really ready to turn our bodies into billboards for a few extra bucks? Japanese advertisers are banking on it, offering women money in exchange for the use of their thighs. Participants paste temporary tattoos of brand logos on their legs and spend the day exposing them to oglers. To be eligible for ad space, you must be at least 18-years-old and connected to least 20 people on social networking sites. The idea comes as part of the advertising maxim that ads should run “wherever people are looking.”

As of November 2012, about 1,300 women have registered their legs to be part of ad campaigns with Absolute Territory PR, the publicity team behind the bizarre media blitz. In fact the name of the PR company, “Absolute Territory,” is a translation of the Japanese phrase “zettai ryouiki,” used to describe the area on a woman’s leg between the end of her skirt or short and the beginning of a thigh-high or knee-high stocking, a style that has been popularized by Japanese Anime and manga.

In order to get paid at the end of the day, women must wear the advert, which comes in the form of a temporary adhesive, for at least eight hours. They must also post photos of themselves wearing the adhesive on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as proof of completing the job. Women can expect to earn between $13 and $128 for one day’s work.

Presumably, because “zettai ryouiki,” is a “total magnet for the male gaze," one can assume this marketing strategy would work particularly well for products or services geared to a male audience.

It’s not only advertisers who are taking advantage of the popularity of the trend. The band Green Day had girls stamp an ad on their thighs as a marketing campaign for their new album, !Uno!.

Though it could be classified as a blatant objectification of the female body, Absolute Territory PR’s crafty campaign is a glimpse into the future of advertising. It’s been theorized that in just a few years advertisers will be able to use augmented reality to float digital ads in prominent places that you would need special glasses or contacts to see. It’s a brave new world.

(Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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來見識一下有史以來最大膽露骨的廣告方式吧。在日本，一些公司用年輕女孩的光腿作為廣告牌，印上圖案進行宣傳。

真的有人愿意為了得到那點額外的小錢而將自己的身體變成廣告牌嗎？日本的廣告商就指望有女孩愿意出租玉腿，他們出錢以換得對女孩大腿的使用權。參加這種廣告活動的女孩在大腿上貼上暫時性商標紋身，然后花一整天時間向路人展示。想讓自己的大腿有資格成為廣告空間，你必須年滿18歲，而且在社交網站上至少有20個好友。這一主意源于廣告業的一條真理，就是“哪里有眼球，哪里就有廣告”。

截至2012年11月，已有約1300名女孩在“絕對領域”公關公司報名，愿意用她們的大腿做廣告。這一公司就是發動這場奇異的媒體閃電戰的宣傳團隊。事實上，這個公關公司的名字“絕對領域”是從日語翻譯過來的，在日語中該詞是用來形容女人腿部從短裙或短褲下擺到過膝或及膝長筒襪頂端之間的那一段。這種流行的穿衣風格是被日本動漫和連環畫帶動起來的。

為了在一天結束時拿到報酬，女孩必須讓廣告圖案在大腿上停留至少八小時，這些廣告圖是用臨時粘合劑貼在腿上的。她們還必須把自己帶貼圖的大腿照片上傳到Facebook和Twitter這樣的社交網站，以證明自己完成了工作。她們一天的報酬從13美元到128美元不等。

由于女性大腿的“絕對領域”應該是“最吸引男性眼球的磁鐵”，可以推斷這種營銷策略對于面向男性消費群體的產品和服務最有成效。

并非只有廣告商在利用這一流行趨勢，綠日樂隊也曾在女孩的大腿上印廣告來宣傳他們的新專輯!Uno!。

盡管這種行為會被視為公然將女性身體物化，“絕對領域”公關公司巧妙的宣傳手段卻讓我們窺見了未來的廣告趨勢。有人提出理論說，要不了幾年，廣告商就能夠用增強現實技術在顯眼的地方放置漂浮在空中的電子廣告，戴上特別的眼鏡或隱形眼鏡就能看見這種廣告。這將是個美麗新世界。