Nike Comes Out With A Powerful Covid-Themed Split-Screen Ad Showing How Much People Are United During The Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has disturbed our health care system, education, economy, leisure, and many other institutions that impact our daily lives, and the sports industry is no exception. The pandemic has caused the most significant disruptions of worldwide sporting events since World War II. The majority of both local and global events have been either canceled or postponed, leaving people involved in the industry unemployed and fans without their favorite entertainment.
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In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Nike released a new ad to inspire both sports fans and athletes
While there’s nothing to be done except for maintaining strict safety measures until the threat of COVID-19 subsides, Nike has released an ad trying to inspire both sports fans and athletes.
The clip features glorious sporting moments seamlessly blended into one to highlight the important message that we aren’t alone in this.
Nike shared the clip on their Twitter account with the caption: “Nothing can stop what we can do together. You can’t stop sport. Because #YouCantStopUs.”
Narrated by the soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe, the short clip features 72 archival clips that were selected out of a staggering 4,000 pieces of footage.
It shows the moments of Megan Rapinoe, LeBron James, Naomi Osaka, Eliud Kipchoge, Caster Semenya, Cristiano Ronaldo, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Serena Williams, Colin Kaepernick, and Kylian Mbappé.
“Players may be back on the pitch, but we are not going back to an old normal. We need to continue to reimagine this world and make it better. We have all these people in the streets, using their voices, and those voices are being heard. I ask people to be energized by this moment and not let up. I believe it’s everybody’s responsibility to advocate for change,” Rapinoe says in the ad.
Here’s how people reacted
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Share on FacebookI guess I'm not enough into sports to understand the significance of the side by side pictures.
I'm not either, but I am in awe of how seamlessly they flowed into each other.
Load More Replies...I would never buy NIKE. NIKE preaches love and tolerance but their products are made by Uyghur's held as prisoners by the Chinese government. So when you buy NIKE you are supporting slave labor.
This is such c**p, everyone knows that Nike uses 3rd world countries to make the products.
More important to know about Nike is this: PolitiFact reached out to the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of labor unions that focuses on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industries. The organization told us that the numbers for the pay and hours, aren’t precise but the sentiment with regard to fair pay and treatment is correct: Factory workers for Nike –– and other major sportswear brands such as Adidas and Under Armour –– do not earn "anywhere near a living wage." They confirmed that the claim of 80% of factory workers being women lines up with industry estimates, which have been as high as 85%. Clean Clothes also pointed us to a June 2019 report that surveyed top brands about their progress in implementing a living wage for workers and said most brands –– Nike included –– provided no evidence that their workers anywhere in the world were being paid a living wage. So what's going on here? Nike has conned you all into patting it on the back.
I think they want to sell products, but the advertising agency and Nike management have made a major mis-step. Also, the comments on Youtube are mostly negative, some due to perceived issues of exploitation, and many due to perceived disrespect towards Islam. Me, I'm just munching pop-corn.
They just want to sell more products... And I also don't see a lot of rich sporters of various colour putting their money where there mouth is by saying that something should be done about the problems but not doing a lot themselves. A bit like sending thoughts and prayers, dead cheap...
Pandemic has disturbed YOUR health care system, education, economy, leisure, and many other institutions that impact YOUR daily lives. Now people who hadn't gone full crybaby because they had to wear mask and keep 1,5 m distance from strangers are loosing their jobs, because YOUR economy collapse killed their economy too, as always.
I guess I'm not enough into sports to understand the significance of the side by side pictures.
I'm not either, but I am in awe of how seamlessly they flowed into each other.
Load More Replies...I would never buy NIKE. NIKE preaches love and tolerance but their products are made by Uyghur's held as prisoners by the Chinese government. So when you buy NIKE you are supporting slave labor.
This is such c**p, everyone knows that Nike uses 3rd world countries to make the products.
More important to know about Nike is this: PolitiFact reached out to the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of labor unions that focuses on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industries. The organization told us that the numbers for the pay and hours, aren’t precise but the sentiment with regard to fair pay and treatment is correct: Factory workers for Nike –– and other major sportswear brands such as Adidas and Under Armour –– do not earn "anywhere near a living wage." They confirmed that the claim of 80% of factory workers being women lines up with industry estimates, which have been as high as 85%. Clean Clothes also pointed us to a June 2019 report that surveyed top brands about their progress in implementing a living wage for workers and said most brands –– Nike included –– provided no evidence that their workers anywhere in the world were being paid a living wage. So what's going on here? Nike has conned you all into patting it on the back.
I think they want to sell products, but the advertising agency and Nike management have made a major mis-step. Also, the comments on Youtube are mostly negative, some due to perceived issues of exploitation, and many due to perceived disrespect towards Islam. Me, I'm just munching pop-corn.
They just want to sell more products... And I also don't see a lot of rich sporters of various colour putting their money where there mouth is by saying that something should be done about the problems but not doing a lot themselves. A bit like sending thoughts and prayers, dead cheap...
Pandemic has disturbed YOUR health care system, education, economy, leisure, and many other institutions that impact YOUR daily lives. Now people who hadn't gone full crybaby because they had to wear mask and keep 1,5 m distance from strangers are loosing their jobs, because YOUR economy collapse killed their economy too, as always.
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