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Microsoft's Next Seinfeld Ad Airs: 'New Family'
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Exactly the point i think
Damn, this topic already has 427 comments on a MAC website. I think they are exactly accomplishing what the ad is supposed to do Anyway, I love windows.. for games
(bootcamp ftw!) and i do think it is a good ad, but not the regular kind of ad that everyone knows.
.....those commercials make my mind itch... What a load of acid inspired trash!
WHO WRITES THIS CRAP?! It's like... "Hmm, hey! I know what'll appeal to the audiences! We'll take random situations in a house without explaining any real reason why they're there to begin with, make really weird, stupid, gross, pointless and disturbing scenes with two people...ahh, just toss in Seinfeld with Gates, neither are really doing anything worth while now anyway, and then have Bill do the Robot!......woah....my hand dude..."
Someone needs to seriously ask the people who make Microsoft's commercials one thing: "Are you on LSD?"
Cuz let me tell you those Zune commercials? Right out of someone's worst acid trip.
Seriously, I think we need to establish one thing.
Appleheads on Drugs=Innovation.
Microsoftys on Drugs=nonsensical confusion...and Windows Vista. Pretty colors.....
WHO WRITES THIS CRAP?! It's like... "Hmm, hey! I know what'll appeal to the audiences! We'll take random situations in a house without explaining any real reason why they're there to begin with, make really weird, stupid, gross, pointless and disturbing scenes with two people...ahh, just toss in Seinfeld with Gates, neither are really doing anything worth while now anyway, and then have Bill do the Robot!......woah....my hand dude..."
Someone needs to seriously ask the people who make Microsoft's commercials one thing: "Are you on LSD?"
Cuz let me tell you those Zune commercials? Right out of someone's worst acid trip.
Seriously, I think we need to establish one thing.
Appleheads on Drugs=Innovation.
Microsoftys on Drugs=nonsensical confusion...and Windows Vista. Pretty colors.....
Well, I liked that one and its very "Seinfeld", but then that's probably exactly what Microsoft wanted. Its strange though, with the amount of people on here saying they hate them, you do wonder who on earth was watching Seinfeld when it was first broadcast?
Thanks for that online commercial, if you watch a video of a hot babe drinking some gatorade, do you go out and buy the gatorade?
If so you really are a marketers dream, stay away from car commercials... you'll be bankrupt within a week
Ever read a post where someone said of a video that they watched, where the viewer wanted their 2 minutes of their life back? This new MS ad being over 4 min., I would say, I want my 22 seconds back.
Oh yeah... and I watched it twice so I want almost 9 mins back...
I get this distinct impression many of the people who are disliking the new Microsoft adverts, are those who feel they either have to, or have some sort of reality distortion field preventing them from liking any product other than one produced by Steve Jobs.
I love the Mac Ads, but I have to say they have been done to death now. The Microsoft ads whilst vaguely amusing aren't that great either. But they aren't terrible.
I love the Mac Ads, but I have to say they have been done to death now. The Microsoft ads whilst vaguely amusing aren't that great either. But they aren't terrible.
sad ad™ again
it resembled a clip taken from a seinfeld "new" series, but as an ad is very sad...
I found it better than the fisrt one, and probably the third one will be better, but still not very straightforward.
Also, I'm very sad to see Bill Gates do that robot stunt, sad sad...
it resembled a clip taken from a seinfeld "new" series, but as an ad is very sad...
I found it better than the fisrt one, and probably the third one will be better, but still not very straightforward.
Also, I'm very sad to see Bill Gates do that robot stunt, sad sad...
Putting Apple and Microsoft aside for a second, this thing is creatively bankrupt.
Which is ok if we're talking about entertainment, because then it's just a waste of time.
But as a form of advertising, it underscores how out of touch with reality Microsoft is in ways not even the Apple ads could have accomplished.
Which is ok if we're talking about entertainment, because then it's just a waste of time.
But as a form of advertising, it underscores how out of touch with reality Microsoft is in ways not even the Apple ads could have accomplished.
It is different.
I have a feeling it is targeting what apple has not been doing. ms Began this because of Apple, but they are smart(!) enough to pursue different things from average people than apple. It has (great) potential to be successful after all. I realize that ms has smart people, and also money to spend some time around.
Apple has been on negative strategy, and it could gain in short term. I think ms is going on to positive side, to gain positive image. It reminds me of political campaign, regardless of partisan similarities.
I have a feeling it is targeting what apple has not been doing. ms Began this because of Apple, but they are smart(!) enough to pursue different things from average people than apple. It has (great) potential to be successful after all. I realize that ms has smart people, and also money to spend some time around.
Apple has been on negative strategy, and it could gain in short term. I think ms is going on to positive side, to gain positive image. It reminds me of political campaign, regardless of partisan similarities.
these ads are so stupid I hope that Microsoft doesnt think that they are going to sell more product by airing those commercials, they dont really accomplish anything.
I thought the first one was interesting. The second one is awful. Makes no sense. Jumps from scene to scene with no connection or too many to follow. I guess they expect people to watch it repeatedly on the web to gain insight into what they are really talking about.
Maybe the idea was to indicate choices and confusion in buying a PC and Vista.
Maybe the idea was to indicate choices and confusion in buying a PC and Vista.
Is it me or...
are the best lines in the ad reflect both Gates and Seinfeld
"As we discussed, you and I are a little out of it" - Seinfeld
"We need to connect with real people" - Seinfeld
"Are there any monsters in the story"
"Yes, but it is ok, there's a firewall (that's scary!)" - Gates
"How long till it gets warm?"
"It never gets warm"
"I'm disappointed in the both of you"
"Hello lame-os"
I thought this ad was slightly better, but again, with money to burn, who needs to make sense!
are the best lines in the ad reflect both Gates and Seinfeld
"As we discussed, you and I are a little out of it" - Seinfeld
"We need to connect with real people" - Seinfeld
"Are there any monsters in the story"
"Yes, but it is ok, there's a firewall (that's scary!)" - Gates
"How long till it gets warm?"
"It never gets warm"
"I'm disappointed in the both of you"
"Hello lame-os"
I thought this ad was slightly better, but again, with money to burn, who needs to make sense!
I think one of the points in the ads is that they are in fact nice and positive, and may eventually make Mac ads seem a bit.. nasty?
The first one was okay, only sucked in the end when they stepped out to the parking lot. Felt like the obligatory windows promotion part.
Is their intention to bore everyone in the world to death so that only Microsoft (who will have been warned beforehand not to watch) will remain?
I mean, I don't find the Apple ads particularly exciting either, but at least they're bright and colourful and have (mostly) cool music.
I mean, I don't find the Apple ads particularly exciting either, but at least they're bright and colourful and have (mostly) cool music.
But at least they're interesting to watch. The ol' Guiness horse/wave advert was hypnotic, and other more cryptic adverts have been nice to watch. This is just plotless, aimless, erratic drivel.
I agree. "Hi, I am a PC" and "Hi, I am a Mac" are getting long in the tooth. It is time for Apple to move on to another ad, without people.
The iPhone ads are the best I have seen, IMO, from a tech company. Shows you what it does, and how remarkable a feat for a phone to be doing it. Brilliant ads that get their points across in 30 seconds.
Microsoft deserves some kudos for doing something different. Thinking differently? Sounds familiar to those who love Apple so much, which I do. But I give Microsoft credit for trying a different avenue that hasn't been done yet. Whether or not people connect with it, that is another question.
But
The way I understood this ad is that the two of them where actually squatting these peoples house. Then they get kicked-out. Then, they go out looking for another house (the rose one) which they can squat until they get kicked out that one too...
That feels like some kind of green slime you can't easily get of your fingers and when you do it sticks to something else.. or like some virus.. but not like something cuddly you would keep..
It's probably just me..
The way I understood this ad is that the two of them where actually squatting these peoples house. Then they get kicked-out. Then, they go out looking for another house (the rose one) which they can squat until they get kicked out that one too...
That feels like some kind of green slime you can't easily get of your fingers and when you do it sticks to something else.. or like some virus.. but not like something cuddly you would keep..
It's probably just me..