Off topic, but if you were in the “man that Paris Hilton campaign ad was hilarious” camp I think you need to do some soul searching this weekend.
Sure it was a “fun” idea, but the execution had “I am trying so hard to be funny and cool” written all over it. It’s like it was tagged “funny” and “awesome” and “smart” by Paris’ SMO guys before it was even released.
Watching this lame thing wend its way through the Web and the offline media was a perfect example of just how easily the media is manipulated into broadcasting whatever message the marketer wants to project.
Imagine if someone with an actual sense of humor had made this.
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21 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew Shotland
Perhaps I should mention to my readers that I am rebranding this blog as “Cranky SEO Guide”
2 bwb
I thought it was funny, besides she seems to have a pretty good grasp of what is mainstream cool…
3 Andrew Shotland
“mainstream cool”… says it all.
4 Hawaii Online Advertising
I thought it was very funny. I actually laughed out loud and emailed my friends links to it.
5 Andrew Shotland
Say it ain’t so Hawaii. Say it ain’t so.
6 Hawaii Online Advertising
It’s true… In fact… It gets funnier every time I watch it.
I’m giggling to myself right now just thinking about it. Even funnier is the fact that more people saw the video that Paris did then the original TV commercial that she was making fun of.
In my opinion… It was a huge success for her.
7 Hawaii Online Advertising
The fact that you are blogging about it… Is contributing to it’s success. ;^)
8 Andrew Shotland
Too true Hawaii. From the comments on Sphinn it looks like I am in the minority among SEM pros. And proudly so!
9 Frank
Anytime Paris Hilton is involved in the politics of selecting the president I begin purchasing water, batteries and of course duct tape.
10 Andrew Shotland
You and me both Frank. My wife is dusting off the generator as we speak.
11 Chris Sanderson
Sorry I found my cat funnier, Lame lame…. lame.
12 Andrew Shotland
Chris, this post is dedicated to you. Praise.
13 Andrew Shotland
Just saw this on MSNBC. Apparently the ad was conceived by the Funny or Die guys. I know some of the people over there and they are pretty funny guys – especially Mark, Mitch not so much
-, but I still think this was better in idea than in execution.
Note to MSNBC, do you think we can move on from using the term “hits” as a meaningful indicator of anything? I am no longer using a 14.4 modem to access your hypertext.
14 NELSON DONLEY
I TOOK YOUR ADVICE AND DID SOME SOUL SEARCHING THIS WEEKEND. UNFORTUNATELY, I CAME UP EMPTY-HANDED. NELSON DONLEY
15 Andrew Shotland
Don’t worry Nelson, you’ve still got the rest of the weekend.
16 Joyce
Yeah Andrew is right. Be patient.
17 Mark
Hi Andrew,
You forgot the link to the video – remember that no-follow links are bad karma
Here’s the video:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
If you didn’t like the Paris one, try this instead:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/61410aa4ff
Mark
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19 Andrew Shotland
Thanks Mark but the ad still sucks
And re the nofollows if you comment often enough we take them off so come on back ya hear?
20 Mark
Maybe you’ll like the second one better with Paris Hilton, Martin Sheen & Charlie Sheen:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06ae3d8563
21 Film Scotland
Gosh, I remember when I watched that video for the first time. Needless to say, I still don’t like it!
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