Ask Tries Hard to Go Low-Budget

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Fallon, London just put together these new spots for Ask.com. They’ve got that VHS vibe going on and are weird, but oddly watchable. (We liked Algorithm best, probably because of the dancing.)

With the failure of Jeeves and the new face of Ask, characterized by that cryptic billboard campaign, it took us awhile to warm up to the brand’s quirky new personality. The ninja effort probably helped.

What we like about the new Ask is that they manage the random humor well but don’t go all left-field – all efforts serve the purpose of delivering the same, consistent message in different ways.

Smart. Why is that so hard to do?

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Greif and Gleason’s 1980 research on how children learn politeness routines found that young children almost never say “please” or “thank you” spontaneously, they say it because a parent prompts them with “what do you say?” dozens of times a week, meaning the reflex adults later display without thinking twice was built through years of someone else’s prompting long before it became automatic.

Greif and Gleason’s 1980 research on how children learn politeness routines found that young children almost never say “please” or “thank you” spontaneously, they say it because a parent prompts them with “what do you say?” dozens of times a week, meaning the reflex adults later display without thinking twice was built through years of someone else’s prompting long before it became automatic.

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