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Do you have a link to the commercial?
by colonwqbang 5y ago
Do you have a link to the commercial?
- nickysielicki 5y agoYikes, I misremembered, it’s a Hewlett-Packard commercial. https://youtu.be/0EL3ZkcMNS4 https://youtu.be/0EL3ZkcMNS4 This commercial still makes me laugh. The way she finishes his sentence with “our digital transformation” is the kicker.
- pfraze 5y agoThat line really is the kicker. I compulsively muttered “god damnit” when I heard it.
- jjnoakes 5y agoIt'd be nice if you edited your post with the correction.
- asveikau 5y agoThere's still a phenomenon in advertising where it increases your awareness of a category, but you don't correctly ascribe it to the correct advertiser in that category. So funnily enough, I could still see someone going to IBM based on this ad.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoOr when Microsoft spent millions on giving NFL reporters tablets while in air, only for the reporters to refer to the tablets as „iPads“? :D
- rbanffy 5y agoHPE is kind of even more baffling. They make generic servers while, at least, IBM can sell you a brand new POWER 10 (running AIX, Linux or IBM i) or a mainframe. A new generation of mainframes is due this year and the crazy cache architectures they have shown last year is quite unique.
- HollywoodZero 5y agoI love these commercials that at the end everyone is sitting at their desks with their suit jackets still on. Who does this?
- colonwqbang 5y agoThanks! I think the commercial is ok, at least it makes an attempt to explain what the product is. The IBM "hybrid cloud" commercials I found on youtube were just awful.