Bacon's Thinks People Will Pay $500 For Free Super Bowl Commercials
One has to wonder what idiot over at Bacon's came up with this lame idea. Recently, it sent an email out to its subscribers offering...wait for it...a DVD with all the Super bowl ads on it...for $500! Does Bacon's really think the PR industry, or anyone for that matter, hasn't heard of iFilm, Yahoo, AOL, YouTube, MySpace, Advertising Age, USA Today, the DVR or any of the thousands of other places Super Bowl commercial can be seen for...oh...$500 less than $500? Apparently not as it seems to think there are people in this world that will cough up $500 for what everyone else can get for free. Whacked. Truly whacked.
UPDATE: Competitrack is doing it too. Are we missing something here? Do people actually pay for this sort of thing?
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Definately nuts .. nuttier still, I'll bet there were some people who bought it .. or at least seriosly considereed it for a moment ..
I bought one of the CDs because I don't take charity. There are poor people in china who need it more than I do!
You have got to be kidding me? It has got to be caused by strange smoke or drink!!
You should try it. My company made quite a bundle!
OK, call me nuts...but when my client calls and wants to meet to talk about the superbowl spots, I'd rather have them available on a DVD instead of having to search for the spots on the web during a discussion or presentation,
"Mr. CMO, Please follow me back to my 3'X4' cubicle, so we can gather around my computer screen for an hour googling the SuperBowl ads." Good Times.
Your mom told me this company was cool
AcctHell: ever heard of downloading them? With a little effort (you can get the .flv files from your Temporary Internet Files or use VideoDownloader in Firefox). Of course you'll need iSquint (Mac only) to convert .flv to MPEG-4.
Even if you don't want to do all that, iFilm and YouTube have the spots collected in one place for you.
So call me nuts, but I'd rather not have a client call about a $500 charge for a DVD of free TV spots.
AcctHell: ever heard of downloading them? With a little effort (you can get the .flv files from your Temporary Internet Files or use VideoDownloader in Firefox). Of course you'll need iSquint (Mac only) to convert .flv to MPEG-4.
Even if you don't want to do all that, iFilm and YouTube have the spots collected in one place for you.
So call me nuts, but I'd rather not have a client call about a $500 charge for a DVD of free TV spots.
Seems strange doesn't it? Actually, we sell quite a few of them. Some agencies want high quality versions of the spots to add to their permanent archives. Others want a DVD on hand for their creative teams to review. Hey, its a big world.....
I was going to say it's surprising that nobody's selling a DVD of Superbowl commercials for $20. But then I realized: nobody would buy a DVD of Superbowl commercials for $20 when they can find them all online. Weird how a product with no market at $20 can have a market at $500.
Not so strange at all...we sold a bunch as well. It seems that folks in advertising like to look back at big advertising events..What better way than an organized DVD...I can't wait till the Oscars. Also I am starting an advertising Fantasy league if anyone is interested.
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The main thing is the quality. Sure, you can download spots off the Web, but they are shitty low res versions. To Acct Hell's point, if you need to present the spots to a client, this might not be a bad option...
An "Advertising Fantasy League" ?
Gil, C'mon. Just because you were always picked last for kickball as a child...or that no one on MySpace will be your "friend"...doesn't mean you have to create a sad little club for ad geeks who miss the good ole days of Dungeons & Dragons.
Why not consider a bowling league instead ?
Ok the Advertising Fantasy League was a joke, but bowling...now you're talking..
You have got to be kidding ! It has got to be caused by strange smoke or drink or maybe the funny fags.