New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza"

Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by devmonk on Friday September 24, 2010 @03:40PM (#1725078)

One of the worst attempts at viral marketing I've ever seen. It is so awful, you don't even want to share it and wish you'd never seen it.

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by vinhboy on Friday September 24, 2010 @03:51PM (#1725130)

You saw it, I saw it, some random person who will complain about this comment saw it.

By tomorrow there will be spoof videos of people saying "hot dog" or something....

Brilliant.

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by jeebusroxors on Friday September 24, 2010 @03:44PM (#1725096)

But it made it to geek.com and HN.

Hell, I didn't even watch the advert but that's the the article I know what it's for. Isn't that the point of viral marketing?

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by devmonk on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:25PM (#1725282)

Well, some say that any publicity is good publicity.

But if it comes off as foolish, and you don't even get the point of it, and most who share it are only sharing it because they don't get it, then in the end you've just contributed to people wasting time. They tried to promote their product or service, but all I remember is "stupid" and "pizza". It did however make me associate "Google" with "stupid" and "repetitive".

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by philwelch on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:29PM (#1725302)

After watching it, the word "pizza" has turned into a strange, meaningless word-sound.

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by khakionion on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:48PM (#1725367)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

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