[opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)

  • From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:54:11 -0400

It adds marketing options.  One advertiser may only want to have a 
dated product placement with a short shelf life and you can now sell 
that cheaper, knowing you can sell something completely different on 
the reruns or the DVD.

- Tom

John Willkie wrote:

> Updated?  On what planet?
> 
> The REASON that ADVERTISERS participate in PRODUCT PLACEMENTS is simple:
> pay once, the "commercial" runs each time the show is shown, and the message
> is part of the environment.  It sure worked for "Reese's Pieces" (E.T.)
> because Mars didn't want to pay to advertise M&Ms.
> 
> So, to what advantage would you offer "placers" these short term placements?
> It's like a commercial, but more expensive?
> 
> John Willkie
> 
> 
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> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
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> 
> 
>>Oh please. People have been crowing about MPEG4 object layers
>>for what,
>>almost 6 years. I have yet to see anything widespread
>>materialize that
>>is anything but a glorified one-off show-floor demo.
> 
> 
> Perhaps true, but I think Tom had an interesting concept there.
> I've been wondering how ad placements in the program can be
> updated when the program is rerun. If the embedded ads are to
> function as revenue makers, they need to be updatable, right?
> This would be a way of making the ads useful for more than just
> the first airing of the content. Better targetting of ads is
> an added bonus.
> 
> Bert
> 
> 
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