Second Microsoft Seinfeld Ad Lies
Tags: Advertising | Bill Gates | Microsoft | Seinfeld | stupidNevermind that Microsoft’s second ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld stretches through five minutes of utter pointlessness. They flat-out lie towards the end. Twice.
First, Gates claims he’s “connected over a billion people.” Nonsense. Gates was famously late to the Internet.
Second, Seinfeld claims Gates will make possible an “amoeba with a blog.” Ha! The world’s most popular blogging platforms don’t even come from Microsoft.
Not only does this ad fail to make a point, it weakly tries to imply two invalid points as an afterthought. $300 million well spent, Microsoft.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:55 am
[...] is saying that the second Microsoft Ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and company founder Bill Gates are nothing but “lies” First, Gates claims he’s “connected over a billion people.” Nonsense. Gates was famously late [...]
September 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Looks like Microsoft took the hint. They’re canceling the Seinfeld ads tomorrow.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
[...] Now that Microsoft is dropping their utterly pointless Seinfeld ads, perhaps they can learn to make a point while still being funny. [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
[...] After those utterly senseless Seinfeld ads, Microsoft finally fires back at the Mac switch ads with ads that actually make sense. [...]