Advertising/Media

Kerala Tourism's latest post adopts a strategy from the Bible app's immensely popular advertisement.

By Admin - 24 Jan 2024 01:17 PM

Kerala Tourism's Instagram image serves as proof that original creative works eventually become modified when they become popular.Here, the Indian state's tourism bureau has adapted an advertisement from the Bible smartphone app for the Toronto Subway and given it a desi flair.Satan gives the Bible app's advertisement a zero-star rating, indicating that it supports God's message.

Kerala Tourism, on the other hand, employed the same template, but in place of the devil, they substituted jealous buddy who rates the state with single star when questioned about solo trip. The tourism board pays homage to the original inventor of "IYKYK!" in the post's caption. Social media users were sharing screenshots of the Bible app advertisement. In LinkedIn post, former Dentsu executive analyzed the two advertisements and said that the Bible ad was taken from Toronto Subway train. An OOH ad featuring famous doppelgängers was launched by Sleepy Owl last year to demonstrate that even celebrities love their coffee. It admittedly drew inspiration from the Out-of-home (OOH) marketing of UK-based cereal manufacturer Surreal, which featured endorsements from Dwayne Johnson, Serena Williams, and Michael Jordan, all of whom gushed about how much they like the cereal. It turned out that the celebrities' names were shared by common folks.