When I saw this story I realized that I hadn't watched a second of the super bowl, and consequently, I hadn't seen a single Super Bowl commercial (something I usually enjoy). So I decided to watch the highlights of the game (and by the highlights I mean the commercials).
My problem was that when I clicked on the link to watch super bowl advertisements, the video popped up with an advertisement and a header that read, "Advertisement for 30 seconds, your video will begin shortly."
I immediately closed the window once I realized what was happening: I was trying to watch an advertisement online, but before my advertisement would load, I had to watch an advertisement.
I just couldn't do it. That's too much. Advertisers advertising on advertisements? Meta-advertising?
Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny, probably more funny than a lot of the commercials from the complaints I've heard.
It's hard to match advertisers for shameless exploitation...but now I know there's one level deeper: advertisement advertisers.
Anyway, hope you all have a great day.
1 comment:
This really is no new phenomenon, Danny. Several contemporary TV shows are nothing more than overblown advertisements themselves. Take "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition," which is basically a huge infomercial for Sears (or whatever). They still have commercial breaks for the bigger commercial. And of course, there is always our favorite example of Oprah and her cars... I'm sure she had commercial breaks during that episode.
And even though it doesn't really fit in here, I'm going to use this excuse to share that video:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/11/tax-consequences.html
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