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Worst Super Bowl Ads: The Runners-Up
Pressed —
... By the way, SalesGenie CEO Vin Gupta writes the company's ads himself, and claims to take pride in making them as bad as possible. I guess by writing about them, I'm vindicating his "strategy." Sigh. ...
Salesgenie’s plan worked
The Blemish —
... The most surprising thing about these commercials wasn’t that Fox allowed them to be aired, it’s that they were perfectly crafted by Vin Gupta to be the worst commercials in Super Bowl history. No, really. So, I ask you this. Is Vin Gupta A) A marketing genius B) Blissfully ignorant C) Mildly retarded or D) All of the above? ...
Racist Ad Outcry Begins, Ends [Advertising]
Gawker —
... " ad was personally written by Salesgenie CEO and Clinton buddy Vinod Gupta. Now, Asian-American groups have publicly revealed they are" ...
No More Pandas with Chinese Accents
Gothamist —
... year's wardrobe malfunction is now the debate over an animated ad from SalesGenie.com that features pandas.
During the commercials, two pandas discuss how to stay in business while speaking with Chinese (English-as-a-second-language) accents. There is also one panda who speaks in non-accented English. After the growing criticism (even College Humor dubbed it "the first commercial to offend over 1 billion people"), Salesgenie CEO Vin Gupta - who wrote the panda ad and his company's other Super Bowl ad with the South Asian man - told the ...
SalesGenie Pandas Are Back, Sans Accents
Pressed —
... "Just a few people were unhappy about the Chinese accents -- they thought maybe it was an insult to the Chinese community," says Gupta, who writes the ads himself and takes perverse pride in their awfulness. "So we changed it into Mandarin." ...
