Match.com Looks Us in the Eye and Propositions, We Reject

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The cool thing about True.com is that their campaigns are racy, generally consistent and immediately recognizable. Those three components are kind of a big deal when you’re trying to brand build.

There once was a time when Match.com was cool, but they’ve since run in a thousand confusing directions. We were surfing around this afternoon when we came across their latest shot in the dark.

This guy invites you to stare. Then he turns around and starts talking to you. Like, out of the ad, to you. Then he goes, “What are you waiting for?”

We looked around. It wasn’t 2 AM. We weren’t between scenes in a Lifetime movie. There was no local-singles 800 number to dial. And we were confused.

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