Sunday, December 02, 2007
A Bad Review, A Firing.
The last time I noticed something like this, it was a projectionist who made known his opinion of some movie before it was widely released.
This time it's an editorial director at a gaming site I
used to check out regularly.
The firing may've been motivated by the huge amount of advertising on
Gamespot by
Eidos for their apparently not so great game,
Kane And Lynch.While
this controversy shines an unflattering light on the Gamespot site, other sites could very easily learn the wrong lesson from this. Luckily, it's easier than ever to get opinions from fellow gamers, as well as playable demos to help guide the choices we make.
In any case, I won't be needing Gamespot, as there are a ton of other videogame news sites, and I certainly won't be giving any Eidos titles a benefit of the doubt. If Eidos actually makes a kick ass game, I'll probably check it out, though.
Labels: advertising, bullshit, comics, video games
Monday, November 19, 2007
R.I.P. Mr. Whipple
One of the true icons of my youth.
Labels: advertising, death, fun, miscellaneous, youtube
Friday, December 15, 2006
The World Of Mandom According To Charles Bronson
Monday, November 13, 2006
The Best PSP Commercial Ever...
Was made by a fan (supposedly). Obviously the ad agency Sony's using isn't doing it's job, so some kid or group of kids came along and decided to avoid talking dustballs, squirrels, and other imagery that has nothing to do with the device they're trying to sell, and simply show what the
PSP is and what it does. Now, is that so fucking hard?
A few years ago a guy named
Sergio Zyman wrote a book called
The End Of Advertising As We Know It. I don't think I read the whole thing, but what I got out of it was basically that a lot of those quirky, creative commercials that tend to win awards for their makers, rarely did their job of actually selling the product. The HNIC over at Sony ought to read a few chapters of this book. The maker(s) of this homebrewed ad might not have done so themselves, but they appear to understand how to sell a product.
Labels: advertising, independent film-making, PSP, youtube
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Ad Supported Downloads? Why Not?
Disney has announced that they will make some of their
ABC programming available online for
free, with embedded advertising being the catch. I'm fine with this. I'm certainly not paying two bucks for the
iTunes downloads. The whole season of
Alias (which I've missed so far) as well as current episodes of
Lost (never seen),
Desperate Housewives (never seen) and
Commander In Chief (never seen). The two month experiment starts in May, I understand.
This site says streaming video, which I'm not interested in, cuz I can't get those on my
PSP.
The ABC site says downloads, but isn't giving much more in the way of details. If I can put these on my PSP, I'm there, ads and all. Of course I can, anyway. I'm just not currently interested in hunting down these shows, from my usual sources (usenet, etc.)
Labels: advertising, downloads, tv
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