OMG! OMG! You HAVE to Check Out This Zune Ad!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
I just now figured out why it’s supposed to make people want to buy a Zune. The Zune is designed to allow you to “share” (if you can call having a DRM slapped on all your files no matter if they’re public domain or not) files wirelessly. The eyeball transfer is meant to suggest this. I think I only need to mention that M$ refers to the transfering as “squirting” for an explaination as to why they chose the particular imagery for the ad.
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I think I prefer the literal idea of vomiting my eyeballs into someone else’s penis.

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I think I prefer the literal idea of vomiting my eyeballs into someone else’s penis.
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This is today’s entry on the daily list of “sequences of words that have never once been used in human history until this moment.”

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[QUOTE=Red Barchetta]
Wow..that’s extremly penisy.
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I nominate that for the best line of the week. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
I think I only need to mention that M$ refers to the transfering as “squirting” for an explaination as to why they chose the particular imagery for the ad.
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They originally wanted to name the technique " ejaculating" but apparently that was considered too obvious. So they went for subtle instead. :dubious:

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[QUOTE=Sam Stone]

Here’s some viral commercials of the Ford Ka that do the same thing.

Ford Ka doesn’t like birds.
Or cats….
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The bird one is kind of funny. It’s comical. The cat one is kind of sick though.

Oh, and that Zune ad is dumb. Nothing says “buy” more to me then an ad that means and says nothing. :rolleyes:

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What’s sad is I saw a genuine Zune ad on TV last night, and well, it was lamer than the ejaculating eyeball one.

I’ll let one of our Canadian Dopers explain why the tagline, “Welcome to the social.” is probably not going to help sales north of the border.

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[QUOTE=Sam Stone]
That is what’s known as ‘viral marketing’. Make an ad so outrageous that everyone links to it and million of people not only see it with no cost to Microsoft, but they talk about it, talk about the product, and cement it into their brains.
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The only hole I see in this campaign, though, is that the ad hasn’t anything to do with the Zune, digital music, or anything related to those things. The Zune logo appears very briefly at the end of the clip, almost as an afterthought.

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[QUOTE=clayton_e]
Was this actually aired anywhere on television? Or is it a “Tossed to the online community to cause at least some talk about the zune?”

I’m just shocked that the commercial has nothing whatsoever to do with the product. I mean, at least the Geiko gecko mentions car insurance..
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I think the piece is in reference to the ability to share files with other Zune owner throught wifi. And I don’t think it was ever intended as a TV commercial and this wasn’t “leaked”. There are a tonne of others on the Zune Arts page.

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
I’ll let one of our Canadian Dopers explain why the tagline, “Welcome to the social.” is probably not going to help sales north of the border.
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