Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

Original poster

No to formula Ad?

69 replies

Flossam · 23/08/2005 21:09

So MN HQ can have more help to figure out how people feel about the ad - post here if you don't like the ad being there. Hope they don't mind!

OP posts:
triceratops · 24/08/2005 18:46

I think formula advertising is immoral

Passionflower · 24/08/2005 18:00

Definitely no to ad.

monkeytrousers · 24/08/2005 13:54

No - against advertising sleight of hand.

Tiggiwinkle · 24/08/2005 13:44

A definite NO!

harpsichordcarrier · 24/08/2005 10:48

no, for reasons succinctly explained by WWB among others.
(nice work from the Milupa marketing department though. very subtle.)

Tinker · 24/08/2005 10:43

Hand? Ad!

Tinker · 24/08/2005 10:40

A NO vote to the hand. Corporate greed at its most smelliest.

Fennel · 24/08/2005 10:38

No. same reasons as WigWamBam and the others

Demented · 24/08/2005 10:18

No from me but I do appreciate why MN took the ad.

elliott · 24/08/2005 10:09

no no no no
MN what are you thinking?

gingerbear · 24/08/2005 09:56

no

bobbybob · 24/08/2005 02:03

I do have a theory that formula companies make more money out of breastfeeding mothers who wean at 6 months because they really seem to believe in follow on formula and even toddler milk, and continue using these for far longer. All the formula from birth people I know had their kids on cows milk at 10 months.

But it's still a big fat NO from me to the link.

mrspink27 · 24/08/2005 00:17

No - for all the reasons above.
Equally not anti formula as I did the same as MarsLady with both DDs. Its about brand awareness... and it is very sneaky. Milupa trying to make themselves all cuddly fluffy and caring sharing... i think not.. its about selling their product over any other, so that next time you'r in the supermarket you might just remember their name.
NO NO NO

Caligula · 24/08/2005 00:12

Ooh , sorry, no.

What's the internet equivalant of the ASA?

Caligula · 24/08/2005 00:12

Brilliant link

MarsLady · 24/08/2005 00:09

do you know I was determined not to look at the home page and the ad, but of course curiosity got to me. I have to say NO to the ad, because if I didn't know better I would have thought that it was written by MN and clicked on the link thinking that it was something they endorsed.

Of course having said that I think that they must endorse it somehow cos they have taken the money and the ad.

btw.. for those that may want to say I am anti formula.... the DTs got a bottle of formula each night so that I could sleep. This continued until they were able to have cows milk.

mears · 24/08/2005 00:02

scroll down a few paragraphs to read about advertising

suedonim · 23/08/2005 23:56

No. Why would a formula mfg want to support bfing?

alux · 23/08/2005 23:47

no

giraffeski · 23/08/2005 23:45

Message withdrawn

Janh · 23/08/2005 23:43

I wasn't a no, because I had taken the ad at face value and not gone any further into it than that.

Having read the arguments though I have become a no.

vickitiredmum · 23/08/2005 23:42

no from me too!

marthamoo · 23/08/2005 23:39

I'm a no too. Not because I am anti-bottle feeding, but because, as so many others have said, this is simply a way for Milupa to raise brand awareness of their product range in a way that gets around the ban on advertising formula. Insidious.

spidermama · 23/08/2005 23:32

I DON'T like the ad.

mears · 23/08/2005 23:31

NO