Crispin to cancel Seinfield, Gates Ads

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hall on September 17, 2008 at 8:49pm

The story:

http://www.adrants.com/2008/09/microsoft-boots-jerry-seinfeld-from.php

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Permalink Reply by philip chudy on September 18, 2008 at 12:56am

'Outcry against the ads was overwhelming' ?

Sorry, were we also supposed to care about that as well?

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Permalink Reply by Bill Sellers on September 18, 2008 at 8:52am

d*mn late to the party again.... Sorry for the redundant info Steve. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hall on September 18, 2008 at 9:29am

Redundancy can be a good thing. Especially for those of us (me) with a very short term, leaky memory:-)

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Permalink Reply by tucker on September 18, 2008 at 11:33am

Redundancy can be a good thing.

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Permalink Reply by Diana Oyaga on September 18, 2008 at 1:02pm

I don't understand why they didn't just improve the campaign - I think that with a stronger copy and script and much more amazing situations they might have pulled it off. I think the 2 commercials just didn't really get to the people cuz they were not one bit exciting but just do something f***ing awesome to shut people up - don't go saying uhhmmm sorry er we're cutting off jerry - planned it all along. And BTW are they cutting of crispin too?

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Permalink Reply by Sunil Shibad on September 18, 2008 at 4:19pm

I agree with you Diana.

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Permalink Reply by tucker on September 18, 2008 at 3:41pm

Now they're saying the spots are NOT CANCELED.

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Permalink Reply by Diana Oyaga on September 18, 2008 at 6:17pm

not cancelled? where'd you read that? well it would be logical after paying all that money.

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Permalink Reply by El B on September 18, 2008 at 6:34pm

Update: In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."

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