Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ad
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- autoflavour0
meanwhile, seinfeld makes out like a bandit.. and goes back home to his nice new imac
- powertoni0
three
hundred
million.
Gets you that?
- Llyod0
anybody remember the episode of pinky and the brain where they take control of bill gates' body?
- akrokdesign0
i hope they didn't pull those 300 million out of wamu.
- what ever bank they got. they have to be pissed. lol.akrokdesign
- lobstarr0
shoulda put 300million back into the p.o.s software.
- sputnik20
the ads sucked
- mia_free0
WHY MUSTT GATES DO ROBOT?!?!?
- showpony0
if your best product is 'vista' and cloud computing is slowly taking over ms office, this is a pretty good approach. ambiguity.
- mia_free0
BILL GATES ROBOT?
- calcium0
Microsoft Announcement Tomorrow: No More Seinfeld Ads
http://valleywag.com/5051455/mic…Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates's company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company. Update: In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."
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There goes $300mil
- modern0
JESUS CHRIST
that second ad is so utterly horrible it makes the first look competent, its just not at all funny, it doesn't connect with you and it says fucking nothing
- mattiaBK0
I watched again, still wondering what's going on in their mind. ??
- nikdaum0
Why do we keep calling them spots? That last one was over 4 minutes long.
- SigDesign0
I agree with ETM... I'm sure they're going to eventually have ads that say something once they've gained our trust. Right now they're sort of just mildly amusing and really long...
- ETM0
Well, the second one was nothing like I had imagined. I don't get it. All I can think is that they want to endear them to us now, then they will start the sales pitches later. I mean they're not great spots, but they're not terrible, if you just watch them for face value, not for hidden meaning.
- Jnr_Madison0
Only bit that worked well was when bill actually got his timing right with the 'i felt that' line.
- ha, me too.
Otherwise - it's just self-indulgent shite by rich, cocks, mocking us norms.Nairn
- ha, me too.
- eegrek0
I don't get them at all. Did they just feel like burning money?
- mattiaBK0
The ad in itself is not bad, I have hard time getting the point.
- Llyod0
I actually liked that. "I have so many cars I get caught in my own traffic"
Where are they showing these ads? movie theaters?