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Microsoft Says No to TV, Yes to Video, to Sell Office 2007

From Advertising Age:

"Traditionally you would do TV for a campaign this big," said Rob
Bagot, exec VP-executive creative director, McCann WorldGroup. "And to
say there is no TV is technically true. But to say there’s no
broadcast, that’s not true at all."

The broadcast he is referring to includes a series of
two-minute web films, online demonstrations, test drives and
downloadable interactive videos.
Each of the five films is built around
a customer "pain point," or dissatisfaction.

The longer web-film format allows for better storytelling and more engagement with consumers, the creative directors said."

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Cronkite Comments on Network News

Walter Cronkite (it’s okay, kids– he may have been before your time) has an earful to say about today’s broadcast network news, lamenting "your health and mine and your backyard and mine and all that kind of thing" at the expense of more substantive reports.

Golly.

Fact is, I don’t watch much network news anymore. I prefer my magazine items in magazines, or even 60 Minutes, not in the one half-hour a day where we used to get to see what’s going on in the world. So I don’t watch. (Of course, I may be working late, too.)

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