Five Second TV Spots Become More Prevelant
Early this year, Cadillac launched a campaign which consisted of five second commercials and a contest where people could submit their own five second creation with the best one winning a Cadillac CTS-V. This week, America Online and FOX are taking the five second spot out of the realm of novelty and institutionalizing it with a buy on FOX's Prison Break. The five second ad will air as the last spot in a pod, a position negotiated buy AOL media agency, Initiative. AOL's Senior VP of Brand Marketing Richard Taylor hopes to negotiate deals with other networks to air the five second unit.
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This is happening in radio, too. It's presented as a way to "have less commericals because that's what our listeners want." But it's really about fitting more commericals into less time. Radio buys happen at the start of a pod so you can catch someone BEFORE they surf. But this buy sounds like a TIVO buster. Even when you fast forward through spots a DVR usually starts about, surprise, surprise five seconds back from the head of the program. Bingo.
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