Now THIS is how to make an ad
Posted on September 5, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
The new Vista ad from Microsoft. I think it’s an all-time great. Brilliant writing (by Seinfeld I assume). Not once is Vista mentioned, just the logo at the end.
When you get tired of “buy buy buy, buy this, NOW, do it now, limited time offer, for you, blah blah blah”, then funny oddball ads like this put a smile on your face. I swear my opinion of Vista has gone up since I’ve watched this. Now if they did one with George Costanza, I’d go out and buy Vista Ultimate on the spot.
2 Replies to "Now THIS is how to make an ad"
Conor O'Neill on September 19, 2008
I heard $10m out of the $300m they are paying the advertising agency. The second ad was even better. They have one more in the can and then they are switching to Mac-attack ads for a while.
JD on September 18, 2008
Am in the States this week (Tri-state area) and these series of ads for Microsoft are on tv constantly – how much is Seinfeld adding to his already sizeable fortune??!!