One Second Ads Hoping To Grab Your Eyes 105
otis wildflower writes "C|NET reports that GE will be airing a new advertising campaign called 'One Second Theatre'." From the article: "'GE One Second Theater,' as the campaign is being called, presents a humorous peek behind the scenes at recent General Electric commercials produced by BBDO. The campaign is intended specifically for new media like digital video recorders, which can be used to watch expanded versions of the spots, and News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking service, where visitors can read a mock profile of Elli, the elephant star of one of the commercials. The spots will also be accessible on MP3 players, through podcasts presented as if they were recorded by Elli and other characters from the spots, and on a microsite offering an online version of the campaign. The multimillion-dollar campaign, scheduled to begin Friday, is the most recent effort by GE to explore media beyond conventional commercials and print advertisements."
If you got the money, I got the time... (Score:5, Funny)
ASCII Version (Score:5, Funny)
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Just close your browser really fast to get the speed affect.
1 second ads for 10 second abs! (Score:2, Funny)
Lawyers (Score:4, Funny)
If there's any American industry that we'd like to see outsourced....
Re:Ah, here at last. (Score:3, Funny)
Ouch! (Score:3, Funny)
That sounds painful. "My eyes...the goggles do nothing!"
Attention Spans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is much too confusing. (Score:5, Funny)
No, when you're shown an image of the queen of diamonds for one second, you'll instantly know what to do. . . . either kill the president or go eat a hamburger.
Re:Lawyers (Score:3, Funny)
And now for the one second post... (Score:3, Funny)
Here's my 1-second ad for Diet Pepsi and Mentos... (Score:4, Funny)
Mint Mentos+2-liter of Diet Pepsi/Coke = Minor hillarity during a work break. Warm cola tends to work better than cold, 5-10 mentos seems to more than do the trick.
There - that might just sell some otherwise undrinkable/inedible snacks!
Ryan Fenton
I've evolved beyond even this... (Score:5, Funny)
It didn't hold my attention long enough since I've trained myself to ignore anything related to ads.
The only thing in here which has caught my attention is the post somewhere up above containing this:
too many ads already (Score:2, Funny)
epileptics around the world are turning off their televisions
Re:ASCII Version (Score:3, Funny)
Æffect, æffect
Antagonisms and commericals: Hitchcock (Score:2, Funny)
- Alfred Hitchcock
Re:Here's my 1-second ad for Diet Pepsi and Mentos (Score:3, Funny)