Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ad
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- morilla0
It's for Vista and it runs perfectly parallel along the lines of that OS. Fail.
- mia_free0
WHY MUSTT GATES DO ROBOT?!?!?
- flashbender0
As one report about this said: "Nothing says 'Brand of the 90s' like having Jerry Seinfeld as your pitchman"
- dbloc0
they trying to bring back the seinfeld sitcom starring blll?
- 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
- modern0
Yeah future is delicious... its Apple and Google
- 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.
- erikjonsson0
jerry cracks me up no matter what. its timeless
- Mimio0
It's doesn't make me interested or even care about what MS might be doing.
- rafalski0
"Yeah future is delicious" deciphered:
delicious.com is yahoo, who they are about to chew.
Ehh.. time for a weekend.
- Llyod0
he's charming and bland enough for the average consumer
- OSFA0
What a piece of shit.
- 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
- Llyod0
it's charming but seinfeld is not relevant. one or more of the microsoft executives can be held responsible for that. probably gates. he probably wanted to talk about his car collection.
- designbot0
I thought this ad was pretty good. Def beats the "viral" style commercials that they were airing. Make me think Bill Gates is probably a really nice guy in real life....but people love to hate him and Microsoft.
It is funny how the only mention of Vista is at the very end and the rest of the commercial has nothing to do with it.....but this has been done in plenty of other commercials.
- ian0
A goddamn monkey playing the drums to an old 80's hit, ending with 'Vista, we're baffled too.' would've made more sense to me than that shit.
- 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
- preys0
douche chills