In the world of corporate negative advertising, it is usually cable and satellite companies that are the most hard-hitting. Comcast’s “Satellite TV is not all its dished up to be” ads were some of my personal favorites.
But a new ad out from Cablevision viciously attacking ABC might just set a new standard for corporate attack ads. Cablevision [...]
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ABC wants your money to prop up Disney Land (or so says Cablevision)
The best and worst Olympic ads [Olympics]
Now that the Olympics are officially over, (we won! Go USA!) it is time to take a look at won the advertizing contest. Cutting an ad for the Olympics is kind of hard. NBC insists on presenting the Olympics as a sort of kumbaya, brotherhood-of-man event instead of the epic content between nations that it [...]
Football games are a triumph of TV production
Now that we’ve all just spent an entire evening glued to our big screen TVs watching the Super Bowl, I thought it would be a decent time to reflect on exactly how much football we saw over the last four hours or so.
It turns out, not that much.
According to an analysis by the Wall Street [...]
Corporate negative campaigning
I love negative advertizing.
The sinister voices. The dark shadows. The ominous red text and newspaper clippings. There is just something delightfully American about attack ads. (More on negative ads soon)
But the one thing I enjoy more than political attack ads are corporate attack ads. And Motorola has just released a great one. Well, the first [...]
#11. Televised police chases
The great men’s entertainment network SPIKE TV made news yesterday when they announced that they had partnered with the U.S. Navy (yes, the one we taxpayers foot the bill for) to create a new TV show called Pirate Hunters.
While SPIKE TV’s announcement was another great example of American capitalism and marketing at work, it was [...]
MINUTEMAN UPDATE: Profiting from piracy
USA Today is reporting that Spike TV has teamed up with the US Navy for a new reality TV show called Pirate Hunters.
USA Today has the rest:
“the pilot Pirate Hunters: USN (working title), an up-close and behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. Navy operation to end this deadly threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden.”
We’re assured that [...]
