valleywag.com - 9/18/2008
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Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. ...
roughlydrafted.com - 9/19/2008
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Daniel Eran Dilger After dumping its $10 million
contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three ads (only...
two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where regular people and a few celebrities say, “I’m a PC!” One problem with the ...
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Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Created On Macs
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Microsoft Bails on Seinfeld, Launching New Campaign to Directly Target Apple
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... Chopra and the singer Pharrell Williams. (Mr. Seinfeld is gone, at least for now.) via the NY Times.
While the first two commercials may not have been entirely “focused”, we’re actually pretty excited to see what Microsoft comes up with. “Hello, I’m a PC” — “Hello, I’m a Mac” — “Did you see the BSOD at the Olympics? Yeah, that was allllll me.”
[via ValleyWag]
Farewell, Jerry, we barely knew ye
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor It's an open question whether TUAW readers really care about the inside-baseball, schadenfreude-laden story of an expensive ad campaign for another technology company that left many in the audience scratching their heads, wondering "are these ads about nothing?" Most of you probably took passing note of the commercials and moved on to your game of Spore. Nevertheless, the word tonight via Valleywag and Engadget, among other sources, that Microsoft will be dumping Jerry ...
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