Comments on: NBC promo goes meta on YouTube

By: Safran

Safran — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:45:50 +0000

“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.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:16:39 +0000

Calm down now. NBC needs all the help they can get.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:17:56 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:15:35 +0000

Is she wearing tight cotton t-shirts again or something?

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:15:49 +0000

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.

By: Huh?

Huh? — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:49:07 +0000

For free? What makes you think that? Since it appeared on every page of YouTube I can’t imagine it wasn’t paid for.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:01:40 +0000

It’s the most viewed clip on YouTube today by far. 250,000 impressions for free…not bad NBC.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:38:07 +0000

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.