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How NOT To Advertise

Friday, June 6th, 2008

If Joe Jaffe had a problem with the 30-second spot, I wonder what he’d say about this pile of crap (courtesy of Big Wil Wheaton and his Amazing Technicolor Moron-Finder):

That’s right, they stopped programming in the middle of dialog to show you an ad (and a hearty screw you to Bill Engvall for going along with this). Guys, I know things like Tivo and MythTV are forcing you to rethink your business model, but as a consumer this is a move more likely to push me towards BitTorrent than your advertisers.

And as a producer, I would be absolutely livid if you threw an ad in between the setup and the punchline of a joke.