Google Partners with "Family Guy" Creator
Web ads can be funny?
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Ads that make us laugh are usually a heck of a lot more effective, and much better received by the viewer than ones that bore us or get in the way. Superbowl ads are a perfect example as they're usually talked about for days or even weeks after the game is over.
Google, current advertising mega-giant on the web, realized this and has signed a deal with Seth MacFarlane, creator of the popular Fox animated series "Family Guy" to do a series of video shorts for the AdSense network that will play along with either a video ad or some sort of text ad, encouraging users to see the ad to get to the cartoon.
Would you mind seeing video ads on websites if you got a funny cartoon or video to go along with it? It's almost like you'd be watching television.
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:29 PM
They already are bleeding me through 2 arms and 2 legs. I only got 1 member left for them to go for...
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:47 PM
An original episode of Star Trek ran 51 or more minutes...now because of greedy programmers its cut to around 45 minutes.
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:23 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:41 AM
ily Guy and even American Dad are not that funny,Yeah, we get that crap here in Oz....it's as funny as an upchuck in your space helmet, a steaming wet turd in your wet-suit.
Damned mongrel programmers put it between Lost and Stargate, so we have an hour of total bollocks as filler and it's a damned insult to a moron's intelligence, much less anyone with half an ounce of sense.
Reply #6 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:31 AM
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:09 PM
Not to mention UNprofessional: UNlikable; Undesirable; UNethical; UNintelligent and most definitely UNFUNNY.
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:25 PM
I'll toast to that.
Reply #10 Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:50 PM
So does my mother....Family Guy came on one night while I was at my PC waiting for Stargate Atlantis to start, and she asked: "What the hell were they thinking to come up with such tripe?"
My reply was: "It's quite evident, mother dear, they simply weren't thinking at all.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:03 PM
If Google is using everything they know about me (search, mail, documents, calendar, iGoogle, customized news feeds, RSS reader, pictures, video, and blog) to target funny ads . . there's a good chance I'll watch and laugh. The trick is to make them as unobtrusive yet functional as their text ads.
That being said, it's amazing to me how I can filter out the google ad blocks better than non-google ads. I am so used to targeting them as ads and ignoring them that I only "see" the non-google ads (then ignore them).