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Recycling TV Ads
Makarand writes "According to this article in the Denver Post a young entrepreneur has gotten into the business
of
recycling junked TV commercials
for clients with low budgets. TV ads cost anywhere between
$50,000 and $1 million and small businesses usually cannot afford an original production. The company,
Thought Equity, wipes off all references to the
earlier company and makes the junked commerical ready for reselling with a price tag less than
$10,000.
Also businesses that want their ads on the air as soon as possible are approaching the company
seeking recycled ads because producing original ads takes time."
wow! i wonder how they'll use that old meow mix commercial...
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Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
"Dude you're getting viagra."
Come to your (chevy) store and get a new (chevy blazer) built (chevy) tough.
1) Make an ad with bunch of hot chics in bikinis.
2) Recycle this ad to sell anything from breakfast cereals to Pentium-4 chips
3) Profit !!
"Whoa, dude!"
This is your server running on Windows XP..
*cracks egg*
(Sorry.. too obvious?)
The Simpsons Kamp Krusty episode, when 'Mr Black' was dubbed over Krusty's voice in the video.
Krusty: (on TV) Hi Kids! Welcome to Kamp Krusty! Hoo huh hoo heh ha heh! I'll see you in a few weeks! Until then, I turn things over to my bestest buddy in the whole wide world, Mr. Black . I want you to treat Mr. Black with the same respect you would give me. Now here's Mr. Black
Want.
Desire.
Obsession.
From Calvin-Klein^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBob's Discount Perfumatorium
Whatever it is I'm complaining about, I'm sure the Republicans did it. This is
I can just picture the Chihuahua go "Yo quiero MSN" or "You got Windows, right?"
...
Nah, that won't work
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
As Carrots Commercial Breakdown pointed out years ago, 'If you want to sell Womens Underwear, your show a woman walking around in her underwear. If you want to sell Margerine, you show a woman walking around in her underwear...'
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
Now even the commercials are in reruns.
Can You Say Linux? I Knew That You Could.
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode in which Krusty has a generic ad in which he says "I heartily endorse this product or service".
...but with webpages. I remove all references to the original company, but have missed a few meta tags from time to time.
Case in point: Just about any Cingular ad.
At least it failed - no self-respecting Aussie drinks Fosters, then or now:)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Half an hour after your post, there is not the slightest evidence of the site being slashdotted.
There is, however, evidence that you are a troll. Go away.
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
Have anyone seen that new ad with a frogs in a row, down in the swamp, advertising for that new dish washer?
I was thinking more along the lines of Iron Eyes Cody (The crying Indian from those Keep America Beautiful ads) walking up to the monitor to observe the shockingly garish XP desktop theme. A tear runs silently down his left cheek. Que ending credit: "People Start Polluting the server room, People Can Stop It"
Voiceover? What's that? Our Subway ads in Australia have the same old yank talking. Their advertising pitch also says how many pounds some fat prick lost..... we use metric buddy, NFI what a pound is.
Sappy slow music plays. We zoom in on two women walking along the beach.
Young woman: Mom, can I ask you a personal question?
Older woman: Sure dear, what?
Young woman: Have you ever...you know...felt LIKE USING AOL?
Older woman: Oh my goodness. Yes dear, there have been times like that, times when I wasn't feeling so fresh. That's why I always trust EARTHLINK. You see, EARTHLINK gives me back that clean feeling.
Young woman: Really mother? How does it work?
Older woman: You simply insert the EARTHLINK applicator into your CDROM DRIVE and let it cleanse and soothe your COMPUTER.
Yound woman: Wow mom, that sounds like just what I need, where can I get EARTHLINK?
Older woman: I have some right here in my purse!
(Laughter)
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
I just hope the Miller Lite fountain wrestlers get used for EVERYTHING.
(I know the deal is reusing commercials that never got used, but this is more fun)
sigs, as if you care.
Maybe we could recruit Tux to be the new spokesman for Trojan..
For the ultimate in safety... choose Linux.
Learn something new.
Yeah, when I lived in England, you could always spot the ones coming from Germany; not only was the dubbing appalling, but the fake tan gave away the game every single time. Orange skin? No thanks, Hans, I don't want your chocolate egg with a surprising plastic toy cunningly hidden in the centre...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
People are sitting, all facing a giant TV monitor. From the back of the room, a spikey haired female runs with a hammer. She stops, throws the hammer at the monitor, and shatters the giant face keeping people down.
The ad...buy MS Longhorn.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
I've noticed this too. Nearly every car commercial I see has printed down the bottom in itty-bitty letters "overseas model shown". Uhhh... what's the point of showing it to me if it's not the model I can buy?
YLFIOne god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
Dilbert: "You stole the entire idea from our competitors ad."
Ad Exec: "Ok, so I guess you do understand the creative process."
~paraphrased from the Gruntmaster 6000 episode
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God, that's awful. Gives you some idea what to expect from "recycled advertising", if that's the jewel in their crown.
Yes... because all the other ballet commercials I've seen are so... hilarious...
Voiceover? What's that? Our Subway ads in Australia have the same old yank talking. Their advertising pitch also says how many pounds some fat prick lost..... we use metric buddy, NFI what a pound is.
Deal with it. We've got to listen to the incessant 'Outback Steakhouse' Aussie voiceover telling us "No rules, just right". And then of course there is the Aussie lad telling us that "Fosters is Australian for Beeeer". You people don't even drink that stuff and it's really imported from Canada.
The pounds you'll lose at Subway refers to the British pound. Rather than shoot an Aussie version they recycled the brit versio. The commercial with Jared playing the didgeridoo didn't do well with focus groups, especially the Aboriginal subway patrons.
I was doing this guy I met, and he was, like, uh uh uh damn oh no. And then, like, half of his equipment was shriveled. And I was, like huh. It disrupted my sex. It was really good sex. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a... ... bummer.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Oviously you fix the ad to say "This fat prick just lost 10,000 grams eating hoagies, and you could to!"
Ten Thousand is a pretty big number
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.