Superbowl Tech Ads, 1976–Present 70
Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld has put together a collection of interesting, funny, and just plain weird Superbowl television advertisements from tech companies — excluding Internet retailers. Everyone has seen the Macintosh ad that played during the 1984 Superbowl, but there are a bunch of other gems, starting with a long-winded ad for the Xerox 9200 from 1976. The funniest is probably EDS's 'herding cats' ad from 2000, but there are some oddities, too, including a bizarre ad for Network Associates depicting a Russian nuclear missile launch, and a very dated ad for Sharp from the mid-1980s. Intel has one ad in the collection from 1997, and it turns out that it is returning with two ads this year that it says feature 'geek humor.'"
Re:Disable Advertising? (Score:2, Informative)
This site is just a ploy to get me to turn off AdBlocker...
One page link (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9152078/Top_10_Super_Bowl_tech_ads?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12 [computerworld.com]
Unfortunately for anyone wanting to view the ads (Score:2, Informative)
Apparently they have embed to a web site that wasn't too happy about the extra traffic and has a user/pass lock on most of the videos mentioned in TFA. Some of the Youtube ones are still available.
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Re:Half the ads on the article require a username (Score:3, Informative)
How could they leave out the "Lemmings" ad? (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISsehE7tp4 [youtube.com]
Now that's some smack talk!
Re:What happens during the ads? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:slashdot effect (Score:3, Informative)
Adcritic got hit by the actors' guild (or whatever it's called), when the actors realized they weren't getting paid for the internet playtime. Most USA contracts stipulated royalties to the actors every time the commercial aired. I'm no longer working in the ad biz, so I don't know what has changed since then to allow ubiquitous internet playback. Maybe everything is shot in Canada now, where the contracts are less generous. Or maybe Youtube has just made it impossible to keep the genie in the bottle?