Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!

[Blue_Tires]

Give thanks to the gods tonight!

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 millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company. 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." Update: CPB confirms that Seinfeld spots already in the can will not be aired.
http://valleywag.com/5051455/microsoft-to-announce-jerry-seinfeld-ads-cancelled-tomorrow

[Blue_Tires]

1. ttt

[jobycom]

2. Damn. I liked those commercials. And I never like commercials.

[MilesColtrane]

3. I have new respect for Seinfeld...

...fleecing Gates for 10 million bucks for two commercials.


"That's a shame."

[MrScorpio]

4. Hell, I can do better commercials than that

For half of what they paid Seinfeld

[CatholicEdHead]

5. They were a bad pardoy of Apple ads

They were trying for that type of sales pitch and failed miserably.