There is an interesting write up in today’s boston.com about the ‘Steal a Base, Get a Taco’ promotion that is running during the world series. While everyone is shoving free meet filled corn shells into their mouths come this Tuesday from 2-5 at your participating Taco Hell, I will be sitting at home enjoying a nice home-cooked meal. The only reason I’m watching the WS live, is because my favorite baseball team happens to be one of the contenders for the title. Otherwise, I would not be watching at all. I rarely indulge in traditional TV any longer due to the insane commercial breaks. If I hear that a show is worth my time, I’ll catch it on Itunes (commercial free), or grab it off the network’s site with limited commercial interruption.
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I’m of the opinion that advertising is out of control. I don’t care that DHL sponsors the World Series. I don’t care about the Nissan Rogue in Heroes. I don’t care that GM helped fund the movie Transformers by featuring their cars.
I find it completely hideous that as I walked into my daughter’s daycare for a lunch date a while ago, another mother had brought McDonald’s for their child. As we sat there eating, one child started humming the theme song, “Da Da Da Da Da…” and every single other 3-4 year old child at that table echoed, “I’m loving it.” (with fervor) I think I almost lost my lunch at that point.
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“Nissan Versa!” Shouts Hiro in the first season of Heroes. I had to roll my eyes. Why not have him leaning over the counter at the rental place in a pokerstars.com hat, while drinking a Coke Plus? Sure, any marketing exec would be thrilled I know the name of their products that have been featured in prime time, but really, how could you not? Products have practically become actors in today’s entertainment. This is a problem for that said marketing executive, because I think I’d consider myself a product boycott machine.
If you advertise during my time, I’m not going to buy your shit. Sorry. My time is very valuable and I want to enjoy a story, a movie, or songs. This is why I view TV shows the way I do, bought XM Satellite Radio (where most of the stations are commercial free) and do a lot of reading.
It’s the same with web advertising. You will never see commercial ads on this site. Why? Because a.) it’s an eyesore and b.) It’s distracting from the original content.
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At what point does advertising become the entertainment instead of being the annoying pee break opportunity during your favorite show? Think about it. You can’t go to a movie to which you’ve paid your $9-11 dollars and not get spammed by the next generation in products. It’s only a matter of time before your favorite sports teams jersey’s are covered in logos ala NASCAR. I’m officially throwing in the towel when the Olympics start covering their amateur athletes with the same travesties.
When did watching the ads during the Superbowl become more entertaining than the actual game? When did 15 minutes of commercials (not movie trailers) become acceptable during a matinee? When did…
Oh, sorry about that. I can’t seem to get a word in edge wise with these damn comm…
Oh, fuck it.
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October 28th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I am not going back and editing ‘meet’ to ‘meat’ because it screws up the videos in edit mode. It sucks.
So yeah, it was supposed to be meat.