NBC promo goes meta on YouTube
Cory Bergman September 22nd, 2006
It’s a promo on YouTube featuring NBC’s “Bill the promo guy” talking about all the reasons why we shouldn’t hate NBC for putting promos on YouTube. Some very funny one-liners like, “Friday Night Lights on Tuesdays, THAT’s not confusing.” Says one person who left a comment after watching it, “I just watched a commercial. On YouTube. Shit.”
8 Comments Add your own
1. Michael Gay | September 22nd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I was actually amused by this promo when I watched it while on YouTube last night. It was clearly a promo, yet still had enough humor to keep my attention.
I wouldn’t be putting it on my blog though, so no viral aspect to it.
2. Mitch | September 22nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
It’s the most viewed clip on YouTube today by far. 250,000 impressions for free…not bad NBC.
3. Huh? | September 22nd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
For free? What makes you think that? Since it appeared on every page of YouTube I can’t imagine it wasn’t paid for.
4. discreet_chaos | September 22nd, 2006 at 3:15 pm
It’s too bad “Kidnapped” was far too derivative and I really don’t expect to last more than a couple of episodes. It’s doubly too bad because I was so looking forward to watching Ms Delany again.
5. Steve | September 22nd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Is she wearing tight cotton t-shirts again or something?
6. Anonymous | September 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 am
Wow, that’s kinda funny in a santized corporate way. I think I’ll show it to our Marketing Manager so I can watch her head explode.
7. Patrick | September 23rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Calm down now. NBC needs all the help they can get.
8. Safran | September 24th, 2006 at 7:45 am
“But people won’t watch commercials! They’ll fast forward through our promos! Our whole model is ruined!”
Proof that change and competition can even make ads better. Very funny. Gets the point across well, and they didn’t even stick to promoting comedies. (”What do you mean you’re going to do a funny promo for Kidnapped?”)
And I love anonymous’s comment. I’ve said it before: Too many people confuse a sense of humor with a lack of seriousness.
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