AdCritic To Return 117
jspectre writes "The Ad Age Group has acquired advertising archive AdCritic which was shut down last year and are bringing it back new and improved. They're also looking for comments on what people did and didn't like to help improve the site."
Re:Finally, not forced to watch sports anymore! (Score:2, Interesting)
Doesn't it say something about society? (Score:4, Interesting)
This scares me. Of course, I'm in front of the television for about two hours a week--but I don't get what the attraction is. They're trying to sell you stuff. Most likely, stuff you don't need and frequently stuff you wouldn't want if you knew the whole story behind it.
I guess this is one of those cases where I just smile and nod and go back to reading.
More bandwidth! (Score:4, Interesting)
I still laugh uncontrollably at the "Damn vikings!" Bud Light ad
Suggestion (Score:3, Interesting)
Some people cannot or do not choose to use Windows Media Player or Quicktime.
RealMedia isn't that horrible, and it has free players for Linux.
Although, Crossover plugins work nicely for viewing Sorensen-encoded Quicktime files in Linux.
But still, just make sure you guys allow EVERYONE the opportunity to check out some funny commercials
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P2P for websites? (Score:2, Interesting)
I like ads (no pop ups please) (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't know if I'd actually pay to see ads (who would have thought)... but I'd be real pleased if adcritic were open again to the bigger public.
Re:Doesn't it say something about society? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Doesn't it say something about society? (Score:3, Interesting)
People here at
Check out adbusters [adbusters.org] for some good critical views on advertisments and over-commercialization.
Re:Doesn't it say something about society? (Score:3, Interesting)
actually, i think this says a lot of good things about our society. the ability of the populace to look at advertising as entertainment says two things:
1) advertising is no longer trying to force you to buy anything, instead they are looking for brand recognition - the only form of advertising beyond personal recommendation from a friend that actually works, and probably one of the least intrusive.
2) people know they're trying to sell them something, and can take the entertainment at face value. they're not the moronic fools people like AdBusters would like you to believe.
Re:This CAN'T bode well for web advertising (Score:3, Interesting)
I suspect that companies would not be willing to pay for their placement of their commercials using the old AdCritic format because there is no content control. You got to see every commercial made by a certain company. Companies often have a certain plan where one commercial is seen following another or a theme was dropped (like the talking frogs). AdCritic kept everything.
Additionally, since AdCritic ran every companies' ads, a company's message got lost. For example, I'm sure that McDonald's would not pay for an ad that is placed right next to Burger King's.
what we want?!? (Score:2, Interesting)
none of this quicktime crap.
Re:Doesn't it say something about society? (Score:5, Interesting)
AND IT ALL SUCKS.
All of it, that is, except for the commercials. It's so strange to me. All the sitcoms are boring, banal ripoffs of one another. All the dramas this year seem to be about people that work with cadavers and, well, there you go. The news is little better than supermarket tabloids (the "news magazines" are probably worse if only because they pretend to be better than what they are), and I'm really starting to find Jay Leno's stubbornly middlebrow idea of entertainment deeply offensive. How can anyone actually enjoy this crap? I used to like Jay Leno, now I just want to strangle the fucker. Another Clinton joke? Let it go man, just fuckin' let it go.
And yet mixed in with the crappy entertainment and quote-unquote news are these little fifteen second masterpieces, with clever writing, brilliant cinematrography and effects, and better music than anything available on the radio. Nevermind the fact that it's all brilliantly crafted to make you CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME -- it also happens to be the only thing on broadcast television that is brilliant. Full stop.
Why isn't there a commercial station on the radio playing the techno & indie rock & jazz you hear in car commercials these days? Why are the only clever examples of wordplay & wittiness (and, again, more good music) in Apple commercials?
I mean, you're right that there's something seriously disturbing about this inversion: the networks always did try to make the shows just interesting enough to keep the audience watching commercials, but now they're making the commercials themselves far more interesting than the shows. I should be rebelling against that, as a card-carrying, Nader-voting, NPR-listening, anti-consumerist liberal. But I can't help it.
If it wasn't for the clever commercials, I'd want to leave the house every time my fiance turns the television on. As it is, I just sit and use the computer or read a book, and look up whenever the commericals come back on. Part of me dies every time this happens ...but part of me likes it, too.
Re:what we want?!? (Score:1, Interesting)
fix it damnit