{"id":1659,"date":"2008-09-12T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2008-09-12T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T13:12:12","slug":"microsofts-ad-campaign-new-family-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/microsofts-ad-campaign-new-family-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Ad Campaign: New Family &#8211; [Briefly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gBWPf1BWtkw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gBWPf1BWtkw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe ad you see above is the second coming of the $300M ad campaign being ran by Microsoft, released yesterday. In it we see Jerry Seinfield and Bill Gates interact with a &#8216;new family&#8217; throughout their daily life. The ad try&#8217;s to compare &#8216;real life&#8217; scenarios with that of Microsoft Windows &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; Are there any monsters in this story? &#8211; Yes, but it&#8217;s OK, there&#8217;s a firewall &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/shoe-circus-microsofts-defense-to-im-a-mac-im-a-pc-ad-campaign\/\">first episode<\/a> in the series &#8211; <em>yes it&#8217;s a series, *sigh*<\/em> &#8211; these adverts leave you, or they leave me, thinking &#8216;Why?&#8217; Adverts are meant to capture your attention within 30 seconds, and if they don&#8217;t, then they&#8217;re obviously not very good. These &#8216;adverts&#8217; if you can call them that, are just<em> waayy<\/em> too long Bill &#8230; <em>waayy  too long<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The real question I think we should be asking ourselves is:<br \/>\n<strong>What are Microsoft trying to Achieve?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is either really clever marketing which will make sense further down the line,<br \/>\nor Microsoft just killed the Windows branding, completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ad you see above is the second coming of the $300M ad campaign being ran by Microsoft, released yesterday. In it we see Jerry Seinfield and Bill Gates interact with a &#8216;new family&#8217; throughout their daily life. The ad try&#8217;s to compare &#8216;real life&#8217; scenarios with that of Microsoft Windows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[656,723,721,722,720,23,719],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-300m","tag-ad-campaign","tag-bill","tag-gates","tag-jerry","tag-microsoft","tag-seinfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}