Microsoft Gives In To Online Critics: Fires Seinfeld

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 04:38

I recognize that I was in the minority of folks who actually thought the Microsoft Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads were good and entertaining, but I'm still quite surprised to see Valleywag report that Microsoft is ending the Seinfeld ads , despite plans for a huge $300 million ad campaign around them.

Microsoft is trying to claim that this is all according to plan , but that seems difficult to believe -- especially since the "narrative" of the...

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What will they do with the rest of the commercials they filme

Submitted by zenboy (not verified) on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 13:44.

Have you heard about the other, unreleased videos that Seinfeld/Gates created? Apparently they were even worse: they abandon all pretense and directly insult viewers intelligence outright. Czechit: http://tinyurl.com/4k3p9k

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