Tag: COMMERCIALS

I'm about to shock you with my most blatant 're-newsing' to date. I pray, what with the spectacular Super Bowl tonight, that you can forgive me -- well, at least the Americans amongst you. OK, the Americans from the Deep South. BUT ANYWAY... Computerworld has a gallery of the 10 best Super Bowl technology ads, from 1976 (Xerox!) to present day (Garmin). They're all classics that you've ...

Sex sells. You knew that. But you know what else sells? Cute. And that's the approach Microsoft is taking with its first ad for Windows 7. Microsoft has been putting out high profile ads for the last year or so, promoting PCs and briefly Jerry Seinfeld. But for the most part these ads have been based on image and haven't really mentioned Microosft's core products: it's operating system. The ...

Life Comes Together/Alex from John McNeil on Vimeo. Microsoft has garnered a lot of attention, much of it positive, for its recent ad campaigns. While a lot of people were left scratching their heads when the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads started hitting the airwaves, Microsoft's "I'm a PC" and "Laptop Hunters" commercials have hit a chord, showing both that everyday people use PCs, and that ...

YouTube this week began placing video advertisements inside of... videos. Here's how it works. You're watching a movie, and then about 15 seconds in, a little banner ad shows up in the window. Sort of like when you're watching network TV and a silly icon shows up at the bottom of the screen telling you to stay tuned for the next show. But this is the internet, so everything's interactive. ...

It's a fact that NBC doesn't think much of YouTube and is out to build a competing company, will they succeed? Who knows, but one thing for sure is that they are extremely late to the game. Didja.com, the giant cable company weapon will basically begin hosting commercials early next year. Simple fact of it all, NBC is expecting to make tons of cash showing advertisements for large brands that ...

Tired of being bombarded with advertisements and commercials every time you turn on the TV or open a web browser? That's the price you pay for "free content." But AdPerk wants to offer you something a bit more direct. The startup has partnered with advertisers to provide you free goods, like magazine subscriptions, in exchange for your time. Right now, AdPerk is running a deal with Dwell ...

Everyone knows its America's number one pastime, and now Google has announced their entrance into the TV ad market. There has been a lot of speculation recently surrounding the fact that Google's been nosing around the TV market to extend their offline ad experimentations, and it was just a matter of time before the news officially dropped. With this new TV Ad trial, Google hopes to improve user ...

Microsoft says within three years it will be spending most of its nearly $1 billion ad budget online. Microsoft execs say it makes sense to spend money where the customers are, and most of Microsoft's target market spends a decent amount of time online. I think it's fairly safe to say Microsoft won't be spending all (or any) of that money on Google Adwords. The company is also experimenting with ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_history_of_the_personal_computer_in_TV_commercials'; When the computer takes a big step forward, I always like to take a look back. We can argue all day over whether Microsoft Windows Vista (win your copy from Download Squad here!) is revolutionary, evolutionary or just marketing hype. With around half a billion Dollars being spent on Vista's marketing ...

Cbreak is a tiny open source app for Windows that makes it easy to remove commercials from TV shows recorded as AVI files. How it works is this: Cbreak divides the video into segments according to where black frames appear. Then it has two modes: In automatic mode (or "autonomic," if you want to get fancy) it will toss out any segments shorter than 60 seconds (or some other length of ...