Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] chevy tahoe ads are backfiring... [Political?][Presumably Funny or Sad]

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> So GM evidently had some kind of web contest where people could assemble 
> stock film clips of the new Tahoe, a soundtrack, and their own captions 
> into their own "commercial" for the vehicle.  The idea sounds kind of 
> lame, which means that exactly the wrong people had a field day:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search=tahoe+ad&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
>
> Some of these are pretty clever, while others are completely unclever, 
> but I wonder what marketeer came up with this campaign and did not see 
> the potential for this kind of thing happening...


That was awesome!  This is an NBC Nightline segment that discusses the ad 
campaign:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O59clqhoszc&search=tahoe%20ad


Some of those ads are really funny.  Watch the videos with the most stars 
(an obvious suggestion).  I thought this made the cleverest use of the 
scenes that were provided:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSv7Brvefuo&search=tahoe%20ad

This is great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKC4Cv3vBJA&search=tahoe%20ad

Thanks, Jon!

Mike

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