2 posts tagged “ads”
American football is a sport. Sport is watched by men. Men buy things. And when you buy advertisement for men, who buy things and watch sports, apparently you have to pay $2,6 million dollars for 30-seconds of time.
This year a 30 sec advertisement for Super Bowl commercial break cost $2,6 million. With that money advertisers bought time for, well, cars, beer, movie trailers and boobs.
Super Bowl 2009 commercials can be seen here.
Microsoft, with the help of Crispin, Porter & Bogusky not to mention Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is trying very hard (maybe a bit too hard?) to do what Apple did with their already classic Apple vs. PC ads. It seems that the common understanding is that the Apple vs. PC ads are the benchmark of tech advertising. But we'd like to offer a new contender to the race.
John Cleese, one of the original members of the British comedy group Monty Python, created a bunch of ads for Compaq (a computer brand later aquired by HP) in the 80's. These comedy gems still make you wanna buy the 386's and "portables" they are promoting and show how advertising tech products can be just plain silly and still get the message across.
For all of the ads do a little search on YouTube.
