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Seinfeld, Bill Gates Waste 60 Seconds Not Talking About Microsoft [Advertising]
Gawker —
Less than two weeks after Microsoft confirmed that it had picked the Mac-loving Jerry Seinfeld as its new endorser, this ad with Seinfeld and Bill Gates is everywhere. And it is awful. I mean, it's kind of engaging to see this half-billionaire comedian kicking it in a shoe store with the many-billionaire Microsoft nerd-in-chief; but up until the final seconds, I was convinced this was an ad for Payless Shoes. And I may be stupid, but I'm still your target audience, Microsoft. Surely Sarah Silverman and Willie Nelson will be a bit more techno-centric. Watch what $10 million can buy, after the jump: ...
Seinfeld, Bill Gates Waste 90 Seconds Not Talking About Microsoft [Advertising]
Gawker —
Less than two weeks after Microsoft confirmed that it had picked the Mac-loving Jerry Seinfeld as its new endorser, this ad with Seinfeld and Bill Gates is everywhere. And it is awful. I mean, it's kind of engaging to see this half-billionaire comedian kicking it in a shoe store with the many-billionaire Microsoft nerd-in-chief; but up until the final seconds, I was convinced this was an ad for Payless. And I may be stupid, but I'm still your target audience, Microsoft. Surely Sarah Silverman and Willie Nelson will be a bit more techno-centric. Watch what $10 million can buy, after the jump: ...
Is Jerry Seinfeld really the best pitchman for Microsoft?
The Feed —
It's almost like Apple figured out how to get Microsoft to do their work for them.
If you've seen any of Apple's legendary Mac vs PC ads, they work mostly because Apple found a funny way to characterize PCs as outdated, out of touch, ancient and hopelessly complicated. So what did Microsoft do?
They hired a comic ...
New Microsoft Ad Released
mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA —
This one features Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. As we reported earlier - there is a bunch of celebs that will be in these spots. Some names being thrown around were Sarah Silverman, Willie Nelson, motorcycle rider Travis Pastrana, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Nadar, Rob Corddry and Stephen Colbert.
And of course they plan to feature real people. People who use computers. People that ...
Microsoft Drops Seinfeld
The Zaz —
2_550×309.jpg Who said all white guys have small churros? In what has turned out to be an odd marketing ploy with a lifespan of a mere two weeks, Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates “relating to average people”. This is clearly a case where Microsoft just felt the need to grab some headlines for a few weeks. In that effort, I offer up a big congrats to the standard oil-esque software omnipus (that’s octopus with infinite legs). But was this originally inteded to be a short-run two week campaign? I doubt what they paid Seinfeld would confirm that theory. With pockets as deep as the ones Microsoft ...
