funny tv commercials
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 TV Adverts
July 8, 2009
We’re not huge fans of TV adverts here at Zath, however when it comes to technology and internet-based companies trying to dip their toe into the old-fashioned TV advertising format, it’s generally worth taking a look at – if only for the comedic value alone!
This time Microsoft is once more having another go at creating TV adverts for their recent Internet Explorer 8 release – after their previous “funny TV commercials” with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, followed by the more mainstream “I’m a PC” campaign and then the recent Bing TV advertising – I thought it might be interesting to see what direction they took…
Continue reading »World of Warcraft Adverts (Ozzy Osbourne)
December 6, 2008
To coincide with the recent release of the second World of Warcraft expansion pack – The Wrath of the Lich King (which incidentally it is now officially the fastest selling PC game ever), Blizzard have done a couple of new adverts showing another two celebrities talking about WoW.
Apparently the celebrities who feature in these adverts are actually celebrities who play World of Warcraft…I’m not sure to what extent that is actually true, perhaps they only had to be sat down in front of a computer and get to level 2 to qualify for that statement, or perhaps I’m just being cynical! 
I’m a PC! (Advert) Are you a PC?
October 8, 2008
I’m a PC! Well I use a Windows PC anyway. After seeing Microsoft’s first couple of “funny TV commercials” starring the “comedic” double-act of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in which in true Seinfeld-style, they appeared to be ‘adverts about nothing’, you may have been scratching your head about all the potential hidden meanings!
However, perhaps the marketing worked, because at least they made people talk about Microsoft again and not in a Vista-bashing kind of way neither. The third TV advert now seems to have gone more mainstream with only a quick one-liner from Bill Gates and no appearance at all from Jerry Seinfeld – although Microsoft have said that he will return in future adverts.
Continue reading »Funny TV Commercials for Microsoft?
September 18, 2008
Microsoft have recently released some new adverts in the form of some funny TV commercials featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Now anyone would think they are really trying to capture the spirit of the Seinfeld show, they seem as though they are “ads about nothing”, even stranger given that Microsoft have historically done very little in terms of advertising, so actually spending money for very little is rather odd.
Microsoft are paying approximately $300 million for this funny TV commercial ad campaign (supposedly around $20million of that is going to Jerry Seinfeld himself), so they presumably hope that they will do something to hit back at the Apple ads over recent years that compare PC and Macs and the ‘trouncing’ they have received because of them.
Continue reading »World of Warcraft Adverts (Video)
December 3, 2007
World of Warcraft (or WoW) is a game that I’ve been playing for a few months now and by doing so have now joined up with over 8 million other people who subscribe and play this game, that’s a larger population than a lot of the countries in the world! – Now that’s quite literally…WoW!
I’ve just seen these latest adverts for World of Warcraft that feature some familiar faces on the WoW website today, then less than an hour later, I saw one of these adverts being shown on a British TV channel.
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