Microsoft Says Seinfeld Ads Were Intentionally Strange, Like 'Lost'
If there's one universal opinion about the series of Microsoft ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, it's that they were confusing as all get out. If Microsoft marketing strategist David Weber is to be believed, that was the whole point.
In an interview with TechFlash, Weber explained, "We figured that that sort of obscure nature of the communications would make people lean in a ...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_s_new_ads_Seinfeld_and_Gates_out_Hodgman_lookali'; According to a report from the New York Times, the next phase of Microsoft's latest ad campaign is set to begin -- sans Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Apparently, the new ads do away with the unusual (and somewhat ill-received) banter and "real life" experiences of the two celebrities, and trade ...
As promised, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld made their television pair-up debut last night, in an advertisement for something or other. We were sad to see Seinfeld sans-bee suit, and Gates is lacking in Costanza-isms, but we might just be looking at a beautiful friendship here. Video is after the break. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] ...
No, this isn't the usual stretch-o-vision we've come to expect from TBS HD, this is the real thing. Yesterday -- in a move that has been more than three years in the making -- TBS HD started broadcasting syndicated reruns of Seinfeld in HD. What's that you say, how could a show that was produced long before HD was invented be presented in HD? It is simple, film is eternal -- well almost -- and ...
Can't get enough yadda-yadda-yadda during the afternoon television block on any random local affiliate? You now have another option thanks to TBS, who is now streaming full episodes 'Seinfeld' online for free. The show, which has already been condemned to endless re-run duty over the airwaves, will now get the same treatment over the Internets. TBS will shuffle through all the episodes, making ...








