Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Long YouTube Ad Has Eight Twists


This fun Tumblr thread captures the experience of someone realizing that YouTube had a seven hour ad. Now that is something you don't see everyday. And certainly not something that you want to find yourself having to sit through. Thank goodness YouTube has the "skip ad" feature nowadays. 

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Text - smothermewithaffection Sol got this ad on youtube... KUS Cellular 7GB/$49 e oh It's for U.S. Cellular, specifically advertising how great their streaming service is. You can even , the guy in the ad says, stream hours of grass mowing. And I go.. "wait a minute.that sounds weird. why hasn't this ad ended yet?"

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Text - And I go.. "wait a minute..that sounds weird. why hasn't this ad ended yet?" And I look at the bottom. New Stared Correct Plat US Celutar F Ad 6:59:08 O uscellular.com C the ad is seven hours long. smothermewithaffection UPDATE

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Natural landscape - UPDATE i'm half an hour in Kus Cellular 7GB / $49 per line per month Skíp Ad the guy's come back a couple times. his mower broke down and he went to get more gas. he came back and started it up again, drove around a few more times making comments about it being fun and "you still watchin? weird." After a bit he took out a ruler and started measuring the grass.

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Lawn - He pulled out a book and a lawn chair and started reading, but he just left and said he'll be back soon smothermewithaffection he brought out an umbrella but it fell over so he left and came back and tried to fix it but it

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Lawn - he's really getting into the book

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Product

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Gardener - smothermewithaffection He put away the umbrella and book and stuff and now he's measuring the grass again. smothermewithaffection

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Lawn - HE'S GONNA PLAY CROQUET smothermewithaffection the sprinklers turned on.'m two hours into this thing elodieunderglass more compelling than real tv tbh

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Text - Did you hang in all the way to the end? Will anyone? Who cares. It's potent publicity! "When the concept was originally pitched, we had a couple other ideas to visualize the deal, like watching paint dry, finding out if a watched pot ever boils, and watching as we wait to see if the cows ever come home," agency creative director John Kearse tells AdFreak. "Grass growing was always our first choice because it was a universal concept and offered a fun environment to showcase some entertaini

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