{"id":113542,"date":"2017-02-02T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=113542"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:26:41","slug":"audi-super-bowl-ad-makes-pitch-for-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/02\/audi-super-bowl-ad-makes-pitch-for-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi Super Bowl Ad Makes Pitch for Gender Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Audi's Super Bowl ad makes a statement, focusing on gender equality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Politics seems to be infusing every aspect of Amercan life, these days. And even ride-sharing companies are being judged by some consumers according to where they stand on key issues.<\/p>\n

But, Audi\u2019s entry into the annual Super Bowl ad fest takes a novel turn, especially considering that humor is typically the most dominant approach during the big game. Instead, the German luxury carmaker has decided to get serious about the issue of gender equality.<\/p>\n

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Best of the Best!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What should I tell my daughter,\u201d begins the narrator of the 60-second spot, as he watches his daughter race on a go-kart track, \u201cthat she will automatically be valued less than every man she’ll ever meet?”<\/p>\n

In a world where women earn, on average, 79 cents to every dollar, in a comparable job, compared to men, the narrator admits to himself that \u201cher drive, her skills, her intelligence\u201d still may not mean much.<\/p>\n

It may not be the typical automotive ad, with lots of pretty driving scenes, but it doesn\u2019t skip the product entirely. \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll be able to tell her something different,\u201d says the father, as his daughter takes the checkered flag, and the two head walk off toward\u2019s his Audi S5 Sportback Prestige.<\/p>\n

For its part, Audi pledges its commitment to equal pay for equal work, the commercial ending with the tagline, \u201cProgress is for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

(World Car of the Year finalists named. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to see who’s on top.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Audi is looking to tap into an underrepresented market segment with is Super Bowl ad: women.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The focus on gender equality might sound like a surprising way to sell automobiles, but J.D. Power and Associates reports that women either make or influence as much as 80% of the vehicle purchases in the U.S. each year.<\/p>\n

They have a lower presence in the luxury car segment, a fact apparently reflecting lower income levels. But that has begun to rise, and automakers as diverse as Audi and Ferrari have begun trying to target potential female buyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a brand that\u2019s always conscious of what is happening in the social space,\u201d Loren Angelo, the vice president of marketing for Audi of America, told USA Today.<\/p>\n

(Audi brings new A5, S5 to U.S. market.\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 60-second commercial, produced by the agency Venable Bell & Partners, will run during the third quarter of the game this coming Sunday. Notably, it was directed by a woman, Aoife McArdle. According to Ad Age, less than 10% of the top commercial directors are women. McArdle produced another spot focusing on gender inequality for Secret deodorant last year.<\/p>\n

She has also been part of a push in the ad world, dubbed \u201cFree the Bid,\u201d to ensure that more women have the chance to get work on commercials.<\/p>\n

Audi issued a statement noting \u201cit was important\u201d to use a woman for its Super Bowl ad. For her part, McArdle issued a statement of her own praising the maker.<\/p>\n

(Audi bringing Q8 Concept Car to NAIAS. For more,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“It goes without saying that we should be blind to gender and race,\u201d she states. \u201cPeople’s merit can’t be predetermined on the purely superficial. It’s commendable that Audi is committed to implementing equality in the workplace. Hopefully other leading brands will follow suit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audi\u2019s entry into the annual Super Bowl ad fest takes a novel turn, especially considering that humor is typically the most dominant approach during the big game. Find out how they introduce gender equity into the Big Game at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113542"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=113542"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=113542"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=113542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}