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Is It Now Time For Blipverts?
This past television season has seen an amazing shift in the entertainment viewing landscape. Due to a ripening of a variety of media, we have finally entered the nirvana of on-demand entertainment. The question is: how to monetize it?
Posted in Musings
Tagged ads, advert, advertising, annoy, blipvert, broadcast, commercial, entertainment, hulu, max headroom, monetize, on-demand, online, revenue, scripted, show, television, viewing
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Full Prices, Please
Even if we don’t admit it, at some point just about everyone with a television will watch one of the 1/2-hour product infomercials. You can’t help it. They suck you in. The thing I hate is how they subtly suck your wallet.
Posted in Gripes
Tagged ads, advertising, as seen on tv, business, commerce, complain, congress, consumer, fool, ftc, government, infomercial, installment, law, method, money, payments, price, protection, regulation, scam, total
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Why Interrupt a Perfectly Good Super Bowl Sunday With a Football Game?
Super Bowl. Football. Commercials. The Boss. More Commercials. Trophy. Worth it? Maybe. The Winner? You know, that’s the question, isn’t it? Why do we watch this circus every year, awarding it the highest television rating? Is it just about the game with the funny-shaped ball?
Posted in Gripes
Tagged ads, afl, bruce, commercial, entertainment, football, game, halftime, nfl, pre-game, springsteen, super bowl, the boss
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Why Attack Ads Matter
I loathe political attack ads. They don’t contribute to the constructive debate and are often such a conglomeration of out-of-context snippets (I simply can’t call them facts) that they could easily be called slander. Still, they do serve a very important service in an otherwise undecided election: how a candidate deals with having an opponent in their face. Most of us like to think that our specific elected officials will stand up for OUR interests. That they won’t back down … Continue reading
Posted in Gov't and Politics, Gripes
Tagged ads, advertising, campaign, election, electorate, kerry, mccain, obama, politics, poopy head, presidential, public opinion
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