NBC YouTube Rival To Only Show TV Ads

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Aug 9th 2007 at 1:02PM

NBC is gearing up to launch its second YouTube competitor, Didja.com. The first is a yet-to-be-named joint venture with FOX to offer TV shows for download. So, what's Didja, then? Didja will show only advertisements. Sure there's a certain irony to a Web site that will sell advertising space on a site designed to show ads, but hey, who are we to judge?

Didja.com will be loaded with classic ads, like the above 1984 Apple Spot, along with some not-so-classic ads, like the painful Head On spot that CNN seems to play on a never-ending loop. The name for the site comes from, "Didja see that?" -- which we're guessing is the desired reaction NBC hopes to get from viewers of the site's ads. Currently there is no Didja.com; visiting the site reveals a list of sponsored links.

NBC claims that the site will have extensive social-networking features and allow users to remix their own advertisements. We think the site will have to offer up a little more than that since most of this content can already be easily found on YouTube.

From Tech Crunch

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Filed under: Audio/Video, Computers, YouTube

Tags: advertisement, commercial, didja, nbc, youtube

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Chris @ Aug 9th 2007 4:19PM

No one is going to remember that name.

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