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First the Verizon guy, now "I'm a Mac." I'm generally against non-competes, but when you sign up to be a mascot, I feel like it might be a reasonable clause in
by dehrmann 2y ago
First the Verizon guy, now "I'm a Mac." I'm generally against non-competes, but when you sign up to be a mascot, I feel like it might be a reasonable clause in the contract.
- cbhl 2y agoThis isn't Justin Long's first PC ad though? Intel literally paid the same actor to do Mac and PC comparison ads in 2021. Whichever marketing agency Qualcomm hired simply decided to bring back the same guy again, and run the same news cycle about him being "I'm a Mac" from 2007.
- kotaKat 2y agoI’m willing to give Dell a pass for hiring back on the Dell Dude internally, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oakxiwGObOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oakxiwGObOw
- lupire 2y agoVerizon was strange. Their mascot guy went to a competitor, but then they hired a mew mascot guy who isn't any younger than the old mascot guy, and whose most famous (perhaps only famous) acting role is for playing Buster Bluth, one of the dumbest characters in all of fiction.
- gnicholas 2y agoI imagine there was a time-based lockup, and perhaps he was paid the entire time to be on retainer or some such thing. But at this point, it's been so long it would be surprising if there were any sort of active relationship.