Sep 18, 2008

Using celebrities is like using steroids



So Seinfeld is taking a breather as the second leg of the Vista-rep-cleaning campaign kicks off. When you're desperate to win, you start using and doing cheap things to dig yourself out.

This commercial sucks. It's like Microsoft tried to see what's young/cool out there (Nike, Mars Corp.) and remixed it into this horrible offspring. Eva and Tony Parker? And not to burst your bubble, ladies, but Pharrell, though on the Zune ads, uses a Mac. Boy Genius has him talking about his iPhone HERE. We saw N*E*R*D* at the Fillmore, and Mr. Chad was on a Macbook Pro. Don't believe everything you see on TV, kids.

Also, does anyone realize how this commercial is paid for by a software company promoting computer hardware? Macs run Windows, but they're advertising PCs. HP, Dell, and IBM just got what we call in the industry a "freebie".