Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ad
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- ian0
eh?
- jasontroj0
"The campaign, developed by ad agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, will cost about $300 million, a person familiar with the situation said last month."
- modern0
cringe worthy
- nikdaum0
This ad pisses me off. It's just so flat-footed.
- flavorful0
Haha, I thought it was pretty funny.
- SigDesign0
I thought he was going to ask something like... so when are you gonna make some computers that work without blue screens?
- d_rek0
C,P+B crapping out the shit that nobody else will.
- OnesandZeros0
saw it last night during the game. totally dreadful.
- moprints0
I don't like it, but i think its good that they are trying to make the company seem more human and light hearted ? Interesting direction.
- toe_knee0
yeah whats it for? corn dogs?
- boobs0
I don't get what that ad was trying to do. At all.
- kezza_20
I like it
- MrDinky0
this seems like any other funny celeb filled corp video that MS shot with Gates.
- morilla0
It's for Vista and it runs perfectly parallel along the lines of that OS. Fail.
- flashbender0
As one report about this said: "Nothing says 'Brand of the 90s' like having Jerry Seinfeld as your pitchman"
- Lestrade0
I think this is great. Completely irreverent and bizarrely hilarious. Microsoft needs to change their perception from monolithic business-demons if they're going to remain competitive in a market that is, in many case, fast leaving them behind. This sort of self-deprecating approach is a great first step. I love the semi-slogan, "Future. Delicious." It makes almost no sense at all yet is very captivating.
CP+B turned Burger King into a newborn giant, so I'm really interested to see what they do with this account.
- you sir, have an odd sense of humourflashbender
- Hey look Jnr! a U!flashbender
- Here, here!flavorful
- If they want to be competitive, why not make a better product?SigDesign
- you thought that was irreverent and bizarrely hilarious? You need to get out more.morilla
- Because marketing isn't always about a better products, it's about a better sell. I don't agree with this approach, but it happens. This isn't a product ad, per se. It's a company ad, a personality ad. The Vista-specific stuff will come later. I imagine this will be a long-running campaign.Lestrade
- "Completely irreverent and bizarrely hilarious" thats what it tried to do... it failedmodern
- Its funny how most Vista bashers have never even used it.ETM
- For the record, I'm a Mac user but have Vista installed on one machine. I think it's quite a leap from the bad old days of a few years ago. Keep in mind that this is the first ad in a long campaign (as I said before). And hey, we're talking about it, aren't we?
Lestrade
- d_rek0
I don't think Burger King becoming a newborn giant is a good thing... and C,P+B is a fucking sweatshop. I have insider infoz.
- flavorful0
It's a commercial ... about nothing.
- +1cashface
- I think you just captured it. I almost forgot the whole Seinfeld is a 'show about nothing.'ETM
- *chucklesComplexfruit