Polo in the Ads

Does anyone have examples of polo being used in advertising?

Videos, photos, anything. The bigger the company, the better.

i heard e bike sales went through the roof after this....er or the london open had some dollar bills!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTKWEEQ8oY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfpjmH2qLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHs7gvJf97c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeRH4xC_Qmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7axu6Ndocfo

these are the suncream ads they did to raise money for some tourneys i believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLr4ZXESVDE

there was an Adidas ladies thing?

Thanks Adam, those are very useful

I cant seem to find the adidas one...

Adidas girls one: https://vimeo.com/107833597

That donnie pepper ad gets me every time!

Where's B and Mrak's version of the Nike ad?

Muffin top.

Herne Hill have put an advertiser in touch with me about a shoot. Could be a good source of ££ for Herne Hill

Is that what @DBKAllan's deleted post is about earlier on? Just in case its already been covered.

I'm guessing so, I work with the photographer. Already in touch with them and the people running the campaign so will keep people posted but probably best to keep it away from the forum?

sent you a PM about it.

You gonna start a post in the LHBPA?

Good stuff, would be great to give something back to HH seeing as they are giving us alot. post it on the LHBPA forum? I gave you access today, @M_A_X needs to give you access to the LPC forum

Any progress on this?

So this Lee Cooper thingy is going private from what I heard, hush hush, no one should know type of thingy.

Unsurprisingly it involves those who are pretty new to the London scene. What makes you guys think that this will remain uncovered? You wanna explain yourself or you rather I call you out?

This was an opportunity to raise much needed funds for the HH court hence to pawn yourself for personal gain and do one over something the community is working towards is pretty much lame and low life.

Remember rule no. 1 - Don't be a dick.

This will be discussed at the AGM as I will be tabling it, wanna know what will be discussed? You lot will be much welcomed to attend to find out.

You needn't uncover me because I'll speak out. It's not hush hush at all I've just been approached directly by the woman doing the photoshoot (because she works for my agency) and the advertising agency themselves.

I also took it off the forum because someone told me to take it private...

In terms of money, the people doing this will be taking an entire day off work to promote London bike polo so what makes you think we are getting any personal gain from it?

By all means mate, I'll hand it over to you and you can deal with it from this point forward, but I'll leave you to explain it to the organiser that you haven't got the people to do it anymore because it was too short notice

I think beagle was referring to taking the money instead of using it to donate to HH as the example of personal gain?

Things like this have been very divisive amongst us in the past. Very little good has come from us participating in ads. I was busy with a new baby around the time of the Adidas thing so I dont really know what happened, but it seemed like it left a bitter legacy, and people fell out over it - and then didnt play again.

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that we'd sort of reached a consensus on this - that in future we'd ask the advertisers to contribute to the association rather than pay individuals directly. If the ad didn't happen because there weren't enough volunteers, so be it. Do people feel differently now? Just asking.

There is very little we can do if individuals decide to 'own' it and take the £1200 for themselves, instead of contributing all or even some to projects that we're involved in as a community. But if so, it is sad that people see financial gains from advertising that way. The contact from Toby Forbes came through Herne Hill, and Shane you posted up looking for participants on LFGSS - but are either of those going to benefit financially from this? I dont know.

I am sceptical that ads from Lee Cooper or similar large brands 'promote London bike polo'. They don't post the forum URL or times and dates we play. They use polo to sell their wares, create a look, a brand, etc. I'm less concerned about this than I was in the past. I think we should just take the money and run. But by 'we' I mean us as a community. And by 'run' I mean we should take the money from big companies and put it into things like Herne Hill, so the game has a future and a home, when all of 'us' are long retired from it.

So I feel it's a bit unhelpful if people are taking a large amount of money which could go a long way towards our community, and pocketing it. We don't have the same sponsors that we used to, and opportunities to fundraise from this thing are less frequent.

The Adidas ad was a big campaign that really captured women playing polo in a very positive light. But that avenue of promoting the game led to zero new players coming forward - I'm unaware of any new female player coming along and saying "oh I saw this amazing sportswear ad and I want to play polo with you" in the last two years. In fact it could be argued that the ad ended up with our community losing players rather than gaining them.

I hope that the Lee Cooper players contribute something towards Herne Hill or the association.

haha amazing