Comments on: Jerry-Gates Are NOT ‘Canceled’

By: Aayush Arya

Aayush Arya — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:25:30 +0000

Exactly. And two fundamental rules of successful, good advertising campaigns are:

1. Make efficient use of available screen time (i.e. no jibber-jabber); and

2. Advertise in a way that people understand what the whole thing is about. There’s not much use making a lengthy artsy-fartsy commercial when most of your viewers don’t have the first clue what you’re talking about and all they see is a fifty-year-old man wiggling his rear end.

By: manan

manan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:43:14 +0000

Link to the leaked ad please.

They weren’t crappy. Just didn’t make ’sense’ to a lot of people. The first ad was a bouncer something people never expected. The meaning of the ads were in the last 40 seconds or so.

The rest was just gibber-jabber.

By: Aayush Arya

Aayush Arya — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:25:27 +0000

Dude, it’s so obvious that those ads were cancelled. Recently, their third ad from that series was leaked. Why make another ad if you do not intend to release it? Also, the second ad obviously hinted that another one would follow it that would continue the story.

Of course they will say that it wasn’t. Do you expect them, or any other, company to admit that anything they did flopped? Heck, they won’t even admit that both Vista and Zune were disasters, and everyone can clearly see that they were.

They were crappy ads that never should’ve aired in the first place and deserved to be canned. And the ones that followed them were even crappier. Microsoft can’t get anything right if their life depended on it.

By: merawindows

merawindows — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:43:36 +0000

Phase 2 of Microsoft’s Ad Campaign:
First of all, as ‘http://www.beingmanan.com/wp/2008/09/jerry-ga.. http://tinyurl.com/3ly2j3

By: Manan

Manan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:17:07 +0000

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