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Was the Best Buy 'I created...' Superbowl Advert inspired by Geekli.st?

• cydonian_monk 15y ago
  I was a bit disappointed when that ad turned into a Best Buy cellphone pitch, and not something, well, original. Cool ad regardless [edit: until the last 9 seconds]. It had a bit of the "Here's to the crazy ones" flavour, but ended with a "we don't make anything, but we resell everything" feel. I was more impressed with the GE plantworker ads. Especially the Schenectady one.
  • jerf 15y ago
    I broke into a spontaneous rendition of the old Sesame Street classic from my generation, "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong..." My non-technical wife found it to be an extremely blatant attempt by the non-cool-kid to borrow the cool kid cachet by physical proximity, and about as successful.
• eggbrain 15y ago
  For those of you curious as to what the commercial is they are talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavHNSZTyAg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavHNSZTyAg
• techwraith 15y ago
  For those of you who'd like to check out geeklist: http://geekli.st/ http://geekli.st/
  • zalew 15y ago
    something bad is going on with the css http://i.imgur.com/ohl2e.png http://i.imgur.com/ohl2e.png btw 3 emails after just signing up is a bit too much, isn't it?
• deleted 15y ago
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• rekatz 15y ago
  Thanks everyone. Here's some love for the Hacker news community, free private beta invite: http://geekli.st/invite/founders http://geekli.st/invite/founders enter: bloodymary
• chrissanz 15y ago
  The real video http://vimeo.com/36316900 http://vimeo.com/36316900
• nirvana 15y ago
  No, it was inspired by Steve Jobs: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-02/bieber-no-steve-jobs-as-best-buy-remakes-super-bowl-ads-retail.html http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-02/bieber-no-steve-...