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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by blhack on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:45PM (#1725357)
You guys are missing the point. Microsoft did something like this a while ago (I think it was microsoft?). The idea is to make a an so horrifyingly bad that it gets covered in "the news" and viewed by millions and millions of people who then spend several minutes reading comments about the commercial and thinking about the product.

It's brilliant.

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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by zandorg on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:57PM (#1725398)
That'll be the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads.
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Re:New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza" by scrame on Saturday September 25, 2010 @02:10PM (#1727460)
Microsoft has a long history of terrible advertising.

Here's ballmer in a tacky suit selling windows 1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

Windows 386 (second half, bear with it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGO2hVA3P58

Songsmith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

And of course, the absolute worst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0

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