TikTok sponsors Washington DC Capitals Jerseys

[BlueSeal]

Everyone's talking like this is Tinder and not TikTok lol.

God NHL, don't get anymore ideas now...

 

[Lunatik]

Everyone's talking like this is Tinder and not TikTok lol.

God NHL, don't get anymore ideas now...

Tinder would be brilliant... then next year sell ad space to cures/remedies for STIs

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Tinder would be brilliant... then next year sell ad space to cures/remedies for STIs

If I'm tinder I get a little more provocative with the patch placement.. im thinking Tramp Stamp

 

[Herregud]

I know the general dislike is probably based on thoughts regarding a slippery slope, but the reality is that most people won't notice these unless they're looking and even if they are looking, it's going to be really hard to see mid-action anyway.

This is for the cuts to players sitting on the bench, but in those scenarios, I'm always more distracted by people blowing snot rockets and hocking loogies while I'm trying to snack anyway.

 

[John Price]

Everyone's talking like this is Tinder and not TikTok lol.

God NHL, don't get anymore ideas now...

I think one of the NBA teams used Tinder or Bumble as a patch

What company, I don't really care. That there's an ad at all, I do. I collect jerseys, and I want two things as part of that: 1) that I'm not a walking billboard for anything other than the team and the jersey manufacturer, and 2) that what I'm wearing is fundamentally the same as what the players are. If they're wearing ads and I'm not, the second isn't true; if there's an ad on my jersey, the first isn't.

I don't give a damn about the helmets, or the breezers, or the skates, or any of that crap, but if you're marketing a $180-250 piece of clothing to customers on the basis that it's what the players wear, that shouldn't be a lie, and I shouldn't have to walk around advertising a GD insurance company.

Started to collect jerseys here too and yeah I'm just glad that these jerseys can't be sold in the team store because walking around with a tiktok ad is disturbing. I mean the damn thing's going to be made illegal in 4 months lol

 

[Seedtype]

Honestly I'm waiting to see if the NHL just uses a green square instead and impose digital ads on jerseys (oh, and they animate as well!!).

 

[BagHead]

All of the people upset with this either don't know enough about the relationship between TikTok and the US government to see the irony, or just don't like irony. This is fantastic!

 

[hangman005]

Honestly I'm waiting to see if the NHL just uses a green square instead and impose digital ads on jerseys (oh, and they animate as well!!).

Don't give them ideas.

 

[Strexvale]

Don't give them ideas.

Seriously... this is probably actually something that'll happen in the future just to make things look gaudy in arena as well (having to look at a green patch that doesn't match anything that is). As it stands my eyes are already starting to hurt watching broadcasts with the sheer number of ads plastered everywhere, and yes I mean that literally. It's information overload. It's so frustrating that we finally get HD hockey as the standard and almost immediately clog it up with an enema of overlay graphics on possible surface.

 

[knuck]

Think about it. If Ovechkin somehow breaks the record this year, the TikTok logo will forever be immortalized on the photos of him celebrating.

gross

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

At the least the China connection is pretty on brand for DC. It works.

 

[Satans Hockey]

I get that thought but be serious, that add is so small you will only see it on close up shots. Not one single person not on the first 3 rows at the arenas will be able to see it. Its about as unobtrusive an add as you will get.

This was what was said about the helmet ads too and then we got digital ads on the boards. It's like dominios, you give these people an inch and they take a mile. It's only going to get worse and worse and worse.

Look how much the on ice advertising has changed in the past decade alone. There use to be 4 ads near center ice...

Now we got ads on the ice behind the goals, digital ads imposed on the ice inside the blue lines, digital ads imposed on the glass behind the goals and on the glass inside the blue lines, sponsor logos on helmets and jerseys and digital ads that literally move all around the boards during broadcasts.

It's horrible.

 

[Derailed75]

This was what was said about the helmet ads too and then we got digital ads on the boards. It's like dominios, you give these people an inch and they take a mile. It's only going to get worse and worse and worse.

Look how much the on ice advertising has changed in the past decade alone. There use to be 4 ads near center ice...

Now we got ads on the ice behind the goals, digital ads imposed on the ice inside the blue lines, digital ads imposed on the glass behind the goals and on the glass inside the blue lines, sponsor logos on helmets and jerseys and digital ads that literally move all around the boards during broadcasts.

It's horrible.

I watch the games not the adds. Now the moving board adds were a little distracting at first but now that they have been going on for a few years I barely notice them.

 

[Lunatik]

I watch the games not the adds. Now the moving board adds were a little distracting at first but now that they have been going on for a few years I barely notice them.

Yeah, I watch the AHL and they've had a little ad patch for a long time now, it doesn't change a thing except adds revenue

 

[Satans Hockey]

I watch the games not the adds. Now the moving board adds were a little distracting at first but now that they have been going on for a few years I barely notice them.

I watch the games too, I just don't enjoy the ads being plastered everywhere, which they are no matter how much anyone says "they ain't so bad"

Yeah, I watch the AHL and they've had a little ad patch for a long time now, it doesn't change a thing except adds revenue

Ad revenue that doesn't benefit the fans whatsoever. I'd have less of an issue with all these ads everywhere if it actually meant that attending games was made more affordable for everyone and concessions weren't a complete rip off.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

The number of people who are just okay with everything being slathered in ads deeply, deeply disappoints me.

This will only ever get worse with that kind of mindset.

 

[94 Oil Drops]

So Washington DC's NHL team is sponsoring a social media platform that contains content that is mostly brain rot?

I can't even explain how hilarious I find this on so many levels.

 

[Derailed75]

The number of people who are just okay with everything being slathered in ads deeply, deeply disappoints me.

This will only ever get worse with that kind of mindset.

I dont want them to look like NASCAR but honestly I don't even notice them. I watch the game. Not once in all the time I have watched sports have I missed some play because I was looking at an add.


Also Im 50. It just isn't that big of a deal, it really isn't. If you cant focus enough to watch the play and not a little patch on the jersey or something painted on the ice, I just not sure what to say for you. I guess Im sorry? Maybe they make a supplement you can take to help you focus?

 

[PB37]

I get the disdain. I'm not a fan of it either and I refuse to watch any tik tok content.

But at the end of the day, money is money and they're running a business.

 

[12ozPapa]

I just wonder why companies do this. What a waste of money, especially for something like Tik Tok

 

[PuckG]

'Milk' is for the Dairy Farmers of Ontario.

Maple Leafs add Dairy Farmers of Ontario logo to jerseys for upcoming season

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Looks funky but that’s not the worst of sponsors if it’s in support of farmers.

Oilers took “Play Alberta” on - as if any of us needed more gambling advertisements.

 

[Voight]

Honestly I'm waiting to see if the NHL just uses a green square instead and impose digital ads on jerseys (oh, and they animate as well!!).

... before NHL HQ sees it.

 

[Leonardo87]

Folks, this thread is getting too political, sorry.