Posts Tagged ‘commercials’

What’s the best way to get attention on the Internet?  How about appealing to those that make it run.

A flurry of new Old Spice videos have appeared which means for the next 2 weeks sites like Facebook, Digg, Twitter, and Reddit will be burned out as individuals submit the various videos over and over. It fun now but I sense a bit of overkill as these sites will be jammed with different Old Spice videos.

Be prepared for a month of “Top 10 Old Spice Responses” and similar posts from around the blog-sphere. Old Spice has provided enough content to keep the Internet busy for a few months.

It may sound like exaggeration but right now there are 118 videos in the Old Spice YouTube stream and they keep coming. The videos range in response to comments from regular people on Twitter and YouTube to celebrities like Alyssa Milano and Apolo Ohno.

The smartest videos are picking out big names on networks like Digg or Reddit and singling them out. Kevin Rose, one of the brains behind Digg, gets a personal video to tell him to get well soon after the Old Spice man found out Rose was sick.

That video popped on DIGG with over 3600 votes in less then 12 hours. Brilliant marketing.

Other celebrity sites called out include Perez Hilton, the Huffington Post, Gizmodo and any major celebrity with a Twitter account.

The Old Spice guy even gives a shout out to the talented actor Isaiah Mustafa and urges him to keep doing what he does best. Very nice.

Not sure who that actor is? Time for a Google check.

Re: @Isaiahmustafa

Ninja vs. Pirate

Monocle Smile!

Reebok is a company that apparently makes shoes. You wouldn’t know it too much by this commercial. You’d think they make sexy, sexy butts.

It’s almost like these shoes will make you have the butts of sexy women.

Wait….oh…..we get it now. Someone in marketing is a genius.

Huge Boobs: The Documentary : Heavy.com

Valentines for People in Troubled Relationships : College Humor

If you’re a full-blown alcoholic, you probably shouldn’t be delivering beer for a living (vid) : Foundry Music

Top 10 football scenes in Movies : Moviefone

Super Bowl XLIV Commercial Commentary : YepYep

Super Bowl Ads: Just The Violent Parts : Warming Glow

Sweet! Ovechkin Breaks Goal Cam : Puck Doctors

Shameless Male Crying Displays That Are NOT OK : Askmen.com

Old School Batman Valentines : Comics Alliance

Funny!  Lonely Dave: Dinner Date : Atom Comedy

This fantastic Old Spice commercial didn’t appear during the Super Bowl but we think it should have. The guys at Old Spice are not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but they are insinuating it.

Old Spice Commercial : The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

For years, Google was enjoying the silence when it came to mainstream advertising on television. Google claimed for years that their products, not advertising, is what made them better than the competition.

Times have changed. If the New Orleans Saints (once the model of failure in the NFL) can reach and win the Super Bowl than why can’t Google run an ad on TV. Stranger things have happened….

If you’re only going to do it once, might as well be during the one time of year you have the most eyes on the Television set. The Google Super Bowl ad is called “Parisian Love” and was actually made and released online back in November as part of Google’s ‘Search Stories’ series of videos.

While most commercials are trying to tell a joke, Google is trying to tell a story.