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bull3964 posted:At this point, I'm convinced mattress stores are some sort of backdoor alien invasion plot. Nah they’re just money laundering operations
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Henchman of Santa posted:Nah they’re just money laundering operations This. People buy mattresses even more infrequently than cars. But you can have a storefront and employees and no inventory, so...
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Do you live in a city? Or near a university that may have a strong exchange population? They’re everywhere in Chicago because nobody is going to drive out of the city and then drive back in with a mattress. And the shitloads of exchange students have a shitload of money so they’re buying BMW’s and expensive mattresses. That’s why there’s 100 of them.
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Mahoning posted:I feel like Heineken spends a lot of money airing this “We Could Be Heroes” commercial with some famous F1 driver in it. But, and maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like no one in the US knows who that guy is. Americans would barely recognize Richard Petty or AJ Foyt or Mario Andretti, and those guys are absolute legends of racing in the US. He's a big advocate for racing driver safety, so it also connects on the "drive safety" aspect of the commercial.
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I just watched a wealth management commercial where a guy brags about throwing away food because he is no longer destitute
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Thanks, Nike, for making a shoe commercial designed to sound exactly like a porn soundtrack, lol, you're so clever. Not at all awkward when it's blaring out of the tv at random times with no warning.
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Mar 2, 2018 04:20
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It's actually a really interesting case of irony?poetic justice? that the NFL is losing its place of dominance because it refuses to update to new ad/media realities, when that is the exact reason they supplanted baseball in the first place.
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galagazombie posted:It's actually a really interesting case of irony?poetic justice? that the NFL is losing its place of dominance because it refuses to update to new ad/media realities, when that is the exact reason they supplanted baseball in the first place. It's also a staunch insistence that literally anything else is actually the problem. It's fun to watch.
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galagazombie posted:It's actually a really interesting case of irony?poetic justice? that the NFL is losing its place of dominance because it refuses to update to new ad/media realities, when that is the exact reason they supplanted baseball in the first place. I think it's funny that Papa John's is severing ties with the NFL because black people are kneeling.
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The NFL isn't losing poo poo, they are still by far the biggest sport in the country. Their TV ratings are down because TV ratings for literally everything are down, and the NFL's decline is less than the decline in all other programming
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Mar 2, 2018 21:35
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ElwoodCuse posted:The NFL isn't losing poo poo, they are still by far the biggest sport in the country. Their TV ratings are down because TV ratings for literally everything are down, and the NFL's decline is less than the decline in all other programming It doesn’t help that there are games four loving days a week.
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Mar 2, 2018 22:21
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I cannot escape advertisements for the awful-looking Hurricane Heist. The marketing budget for that piece of crap must be absurd.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Are the profit margins so high for mattresses that we can have ten different start-up mattress companies, each with their own lovely commercials? Purple found the worst dinner theater actress to play goldilocks when The Princess and the Pea is probably a better analogy. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/ Great podcast about mattress stores. One line synopsis: theflyingexecutive posted:40-900% markup
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SolarFire2 posted:I cannot escape advertisements for the awful-looking Hurricane Heist. The marketing budget for that piece of crap must be absurd. I wonder if the special agent (he's very special) throwing. Copper penny shavings on top of a European train rewrote the excellent loving movie "Heist" will be...with Buttcoins
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Some radio ad hate: GEICO "Beatboxing in a big box store" Especially when the ad break goes like this: GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' Yeah, I still listen to radio, since I can listen to a station that is not iheart radio. That's the one that does ad breaks as described above (usually only after 8pm).
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DerekSmartymans posted:I wonder if the special agent (he's very special) throwing. Copper penny shavings on top of a European train rewrote the excellent loving movie "Heist" will be...with Buttcoins ...What?
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Gaunab posted:...What? Yeah, I know those words but that post makes no sense.
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fizzymercy posted:I would agree with this if weren't for local, college, lower league sports and ESPN channels 1-1983. Full satellite sports access. I need that sports package. NHL channel alone occupies 70% of my TV time. I love rugby,even the saddest of hakas get me hype. But if I wanna watch that live I have to have some internet skills and speed. Or I can hit up channel 477 and watch all the rugby. Most of the streaming tv services have local / sports channels now, man. I know YouTube tv and Hulu tv both do, because I used the trials for both to watch the Olympics. It's basically a waste of money to pay for cable TV anymore if you can get halfway decent internet. BaronVonVaderham posted:. There is literally no way for me to get NBC except through Hulu's new beta live tv service which is loving awful....though that was only relevant for the Super Bowl this year. YouTube TV has all the nbc networks (in my area at least) and the interface / quality is waaaay better than Hulu's. Give their trial a spin and see what you think. raditts fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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raditts posted:Most of the streaming tv services have local / sports channels now, man. I know YouTube tv and Hulu tv both do, because I used the trials for both to watch the Olympics. It's basically a waste of money to pay for cable TV anymore if you can get [b]halfway decent internet[/b/]. Rural broadband speeds, my man. I even said that. I get 5mbps with no other traffic on the network. I get all the channels in HD. It's not a hard choice. It just sucks. Also I can flip around and watch a bunch of different things at once. I really don't think I watch TV the same way people who say they only need streaming watch TV.
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Oh, well that sucks. I didn't know there were still places where it was that bad, although I guess it's not surprising.
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rockinricky posted:Some radio ad hate: Any time I try and listen to commercial radio, it's twenty minutes of this plus terrible local car ads. I stick to public radio or silence.
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raditts posted:Oh, well that sucks. I didn't know there were still places where it was that bad, although I guess it's not surprising. The US broadband report uses 25/3 as the main metric, but the results are pretty bad. 39 percent of rural Americans (23 million people) lack access to 25 Mbps/3 Mbps. 20 percent of those lack access even to service at 4 Mbps/1 Mbps 31 percent of those lack access to 10 Mbps/1 Mbps bull3964 fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Gaunab posted:...What? Soon after the Mt. Gox business halted there was a big theft of bitscoin which thief immediately tried to hide in a tumbler. Some brave autist tracked him from the totally anonymous blockchain and started adding satoshis to the thief's balances in order to make them easier to track. He described himself (I'd say breathlessly but I think every movement ran him out of breathing air in his chair) as James Bond chasing the thief over the top of a train while wounding the man with satoshi's "gun." All he really did was give the guy more coins and lost track after a while. Maybe someone else can fill in details but I think I coined the thing as JBond shaving copper bits while sitting on the kids' train at EuroDisney. Sorry I wasn't clearer but I was off my meds for a few days while Dr. Ali adjusted my dosages 😳.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:If you remember lawyer Jamie Casino and his crazy ad from the Super Bowl a few years ago, he bought another local ad. This one isn't as wild, but he seems to have gotten someone to scoop up all the $5 TVs at the area Goodwills. The 2014 one owns so hard
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Speaking of buttcoins, there's one of those shady loanshark type payday check cashing places that's advertising how you can use your newly aquired cash to "Buy into the Bitcoin slump!" It's like the perfect storm of bad with money ideas.
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ElwoodCuse posted:The NFL isn't losing poo poo, they are still by far the biggest sport in the country. Their TV ratings are down because TV ratings for literally everything are down, and the NFL's decline is less than the decline in all other programming Just like I was saying they supplanted Baseball because Baseball refused to move on from their radio based business model. I'm saying there clinging to a dying market like old-style TV instead of embracing new stuff. It's still early though and the NFL has time and enough of a headstart to easily change and maintain their position.
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It had nothing to do with baseball clinging to a business model, it had everything to do with "one game a week, usually played on an afternoon when most people aren't working". Baseball is a background, drop in, watch here and there sport and football is a watch every game sport. Baseball fans rarely watch every game their team plays. Football fans will not only watch their favorite team, but other teams they don't ordinarily care about because of fantasy or gambling.
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ElwoodCuse posted:It had nothing to do with baseball clinging to a business model, it had everything to do with "one game a week, usually played on an afternoon when most people aren't working". Baseball is a background, drop in, watch here and there sport and football is a watch every game sport. lol edit: oh woops this is a real forum, "baseball fans don't even watch all 162 games their team plays every season; but I, a cultured Footbaw fan, watch all 11 games my team plays in!!" lol
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I thought baseball lost market share because it is as boring as watching flies gently caress.
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poolside toaster posted:I thought baseball lost market share because it is as boring as watching flies gently caress. No that's golf
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Peanut President posted:all 11 games my team plays in!!" lol
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I can't watch all 82 hockey games in a season. I couldn't imagine trying to get twice as many baseball games.
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poolside toaster posted:I thought baseball lost market share because it is as boring as watching flies gently caress. baseball has more action in it than football
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Hockey is the only pro-sport fun to watch. Soccer, Football, and Baseball are all as boring as watching paint dry. And Basketball is so chaotic and high -scoring theres nothing to home in on and keep your focus.
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Sash! posted:I can't watch all 82 hockey games in a season. I couldn't imagine trying to get twice as many baseball games. Hockey owns though
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I am of the opinion that we should take baseball, hockey and basketball and cut their seasons in half. I find it so hard to give a poo poo about any individual game of baseball until like late August.
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If I were in the market for a nice used car, I would definitely not go to Carmax because of that annoying rear end in a top hat in their commercials.
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Tree Dude posted:I am of the opinion that we should take baseball, hockey and basketball and cut their seasons in half. I find it so hard to give a poo poo about any individual game of baseball until like late August. Hockey should be cut back if only because people playing hockey in California in May still breaks my brain. 
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Mister Kingdom posted:If I were in the market for a nice used car, I would definitely not go to Carmax because of that annoying rear end in a top hat in their commercials. I feel bad because the CarMax guy is comedian Andy Daly, who is a genuinely funny guy and one of my favorite people working today. But his CarMax guy is just so lame and unfunny, and this is what people will know him for publicly. I guess he's probably making decent money, but it's still a shame.
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Theres a redheaded woman whose been all the rage as a background extra in commercials and shes pulling north of sixfigures now so being that annoying host of carmax commercials pays bills in a way regular comedy doesnt.
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