Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
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AP - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Microsoft ad agency confirms: New Seinfeld ad produced, yet not running [Advertising]
The doublespeak coming from Microsoft and its ad agency, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, in the wake of its "icebreaker" ad campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is amazing. Yesterday, Valleywag learned that Microsoft PR was revving up a spin campaign to go along with the ad campaign. Its aim: To make sure no one interpreted its shift to a series of anti-Mac ads as an abandonment of the Seinfeld spots. But Crispin Porter tells Gizmodo that it did, indeed, have another Seinfeld and Gates spot already p
Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
SEATTLE - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
In this May 27, 2008 file photo, comedian Jerry Seinfeld attends the premiere of "Sex and the City" at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
Bloggers and online
Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
AP - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Jerry Seinfeld's Microsoft Ads Pulled
Microsoft announced today that their two commercials, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, will be pulled off the air due to intense criticism. They'll be replaced by what Microsoft is calling Plan B: a commercial featuring Gates, Eva Longoria, Pharrell Williams, and Deepak Chopra.
But rather than be offended by the anti-ad blogs and YouTube comments, rep for Microsoft Frank Shaw says, "All along we said we were having a teaser campaign. We're getting ready to start the second phase. This was the
Gates, Seinfeld Funnier Second Time Around
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the latest Microsoft ad out of Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld try to blend in.
An extended version of the new commercial, which is called 'New Family' and broke last night on CBS during 'Big Brother,' is already being passed around on the web.
In the ad, the pair is trying to reconnect with "real people," living with a, well, more quirky than typical American family. The campaign's latest installment prompts more laughs than the first and, aga
Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Very odd Jerry Seinfeld & Bill Gates ad for ... nothing
Can someone please explain to me wtf is going on in this ad?
Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads scrapped; company says ‘We meant to do that’
The pointless and ire-inducing Microsoft ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and billionaire founder Bill Gates reminding you how much of your time is wasted using the all too fallible operating system have been withdrawn from the airwaves. The ads featured the two in everyday situations that were meant to show that Microsoft is hip and approachable but just managed to come off as lame.
It is widely believed that the ads, which cost Microsoft a reported $30 million, including Seinfeld’s $10 fee, were pulle
Seinfeld, Gates yield stage to real Windows users
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
By JESSICA MINTZ
AP Technology Writer
SEATTLE —
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking hi
Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads! [Breaking]
Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates's company has millio
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld go to Shoe Circus - VIDEO
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We talked about this when they announced that Jerry Seinfeld had signed on to promote Windows for Microsoft. If you were watching the big NFL kickoff Thursday night, you might have seen what that looked like. If you missed it, it's embedded after the jump. I've watched the commercial a few times now, and I'm torn. I agreed with Brad's take in the original post, that Seinfeld may be a few years past the point of ideal pitchman.
That being said, the
Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates Yield Stage To Real Windows Users
SEATTLE (AP) - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Bloggers and online media have suggested that the Redmond, Wash.-based company yanked the Seinfeld ads after they were poorly received. The ads show Gates and Seinfeld trading banter at a mall shoe store and while living with a suburban family, trying
Microsoft Upgrades Itself (Sort Of) [Life Of A Hustler]
In a surprising move, Jerry Seinfeld has been ousted as Microsoft pitchman in favor of a much, much more recognizable face... Pharell Williams of the Neptunes! OK, maybe this is something of a lateral move for Microsoft.
Seinfeld got the axe after a series of fairly bizarre ads that I think I liked. Maybe that's part of the problem there. The one where Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld went shoe-shopping really had very little to do with Microsoft, and seemed to be a rather blatant attempt to counter
Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Commercials Are Finished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY
Microsoft is pulling ads featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates. The corporation denies that the commercial failure has anything to do with the decision to discontinue the campaign.
“All along we said we were having a teaser campaign,” Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw said in a statement Thursday. “We’re getting ready to [...]
Gates / Seinfeld Commercial #2
"Jerry Seinfeld convinces Bill Gates to try and connect with everyday people the old fashioned way."Source
Microsoft has Eva and Pharrell take Jerry’s spot.
Producer Pharrell Williams and actress Eva Longoria are set to replace Jerry Seinfeld in the new Microsoft ads, less than two weeks after Jerry’s ad debuted.
The Seinfeld actor, who appears in the computer software giant’s latest promos alongside Microsoft founder Bill Gates, was paid an estimated $10 million to endorse the brand. Jerry had two spots that were filmed: one featuring the pair chatting while out shoe shopping, and another showing the two talking at a blue collar family’s dinner tabl
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Jerry Seinfeld's Microsoft ads with Bill Gates have been pulled from the air, although the company is saying it was always the intention to use them only
Bill Gates tops U.S. wealth list 15 years in a row
Reuters - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in the United States for the 15th year in a row, but economic woes have claimed some members of Forbes magazine ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans.
Retro Reviewing: "Trapped"
This week, the Retro Reviewers were a bit understaffed as both Rina and Katie were on vacation. So, Danielle and Denae decided to hold off on Bound until next time, and reviewed Trapped from here! TV instead.
Both ladies got quite a kick out of the cheesy flick starring Alexandra Paul and Michelle Wolff. They welcomed the return of the watching scenes in order to properly make fun of it. Episode highlights include copious re-creation scenes and a conspiracy theory discussion about the main bad guy (evil
Bill Gates Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ads Pulled
Microsoft is pulling the ill-received ad campaign featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates.
The corporation denies that the commercial failure of the spots has anything to do with the decision to discontinue the campaign.
“All along we said we were having a teaser campaign,” Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw said in a statement [...]
Seinfeld, Gates Microsoft Ads Yanked
The poorly received Microsoft ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates have disappeared, and the reason why is a matter of dispute.
Forbes Releases List Of America’s Richest People
Forbes has released its list of America’s richest people. Bill Gates tops it for the 15th year in a row with a fortune estimated to be $57 billion.
Who else made the top 10?
Warren Buffet, investor, $50 billion.
Lawrence Ellison, Oracle founder, $27 billion.
Jim Walton, Wal-Mart, $23.4 billion.
S. Robson Walton, Wal-Mart, $23.3 billion.
Alice and Christy Walton, Wal-Mart, $23.2 billion each.
Michael Bloomberg, media mogul, $20 billion.
Charles and David Koch, Koch Industries, $19 billion each.
AD WIZARDS: What Kind Of Computer Do You Self-Identify With?
Guys, this whole Apple vs. PC thing is turning as ugly as the East Coast/West Coast gangster rap rivalries of the nineties, only dorkier and even less necessary. Can’t we all just use computers and get along? How many more ads like this until Bill Gates is gunned down in the streets by The Mac Guy, leading to the retribution slaying of Steve Jobs at the hands of a Zune? I don’t know, but does what kind of computer we’re using to watch and judge these increasingly ridiculous commercials
