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Nonsense. The ad is interesting and faintly amusing, and the advertising strategy from which it is drawn is worthy of discussion. I think you are vastly overrea
by neilc 18y ago
Nonsense. The ad is interesting and faintly amusing, and the advertising strategy from which it is drawn is worthy of discussion. I think you are vastly overreacting to say it is "goofball lowbrow crap", or that it "makes us into Microsoft's tools": YCers are more than capable of viewing an ad without being brainwashed, I think.
- gojomo 18y agoAgain missing the point. Of course we won't be brainwashed. We're all media-savvy and generally ad-resistant. But should a 4+ minute skit from Microsoft be 'top of mind' news for hackers? Did watching it make you a better hacker? Did it give you marketing insights that work for anyone other than a fading monopolist with money to burn on sitcom celebrities? Do the best hackers spend a lot of time watching, and chit-chatting about, giant companies' clumsy viral marketing efforts? The value here is in finding what is uncommon. Content-free celebrity-filled Microsoft ad campaigns are as depressingly common as you can get.