Briefly: Apple to air iPhone ad during tonight's Oscars
Apple Inc. will use Sunday's Academy Awards show to air its first television advertisement for the iPhone, according to Macworld.
The spot is described as a "teaser advertisement" that was created specifically for the awards show. However, no further details were reported.
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, is the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world, drawing 38.59 million viewers from 26.57 million households in 2006.
The 79th Academy Awards telecast will air on ABC this Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
The spot is described as a "teaser advertisement" that was created specifically for the awards show. However, no further details were reported.
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, is the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world, drawing 38.59 million viewers from 26.57 million households in 2006.
The 79th Academy Awards telecast will air on ABC this Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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If Apple is truly starting to promote a product that won't be out for another 3 months, it shows that they plan on selling millions right off the bat.
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars
Finally a article that mentions that the award show is actually called the Academy Awards. My faith in AI is restored.
In which of the four and a half hours of the Oscar telecast should we be expecting this commercial?
before the same usual gaggle of miscreant's begin to spew their tripe of political statements and the Oscars loose close to half their audience!
before the same usual gaggle of miscreant's begin to spew their tripe of political statements and the Oscars loose close to half their audience!
are we somehow referring to the dixie chicks?
or just political madness in general
(are the chicks nominated for something?)
It seems a little pointless to me to show just a teaser when Steve spent 2 hours going over all the features at Macworld.
For us, yes; but most people didn't watch the keynote or check out its features on apple.com/iphone.
It still makes more sense to me to advertise the AppleTV at the Academy Awards.
Thanks, I had no idea what you were talking about.
It seems a little pointless to me to show just a teaser when Steve spent 2 hours going over all the features at Macworld.
Yeah because the people who watch the Oscars are the same audience who've viewed the Keynote. Apple needs to sell a whole load of iPhones to non-MacZealots.
Yeah because the people who watch the Oscars are the same audience who've viewed the Keynote. Apple needs to sell a whole load of iPhones to non-MacZealots.
I agree with bdkennedy. Most people heard about the iPhone after Jobs' keynote, whether they watched the actual keynote or not, due to press coverage. And I don't get advertising it so long before people can buy it. But I guess if you've got 10 billion in cash to burn, who cares?
are we somehow referring to the dixie chicks?
or just political madness in general
(are the chicks nominated for something?)
If you are there to receive an award and your name is called out, receive it, give thanks and move on... but to state any views other that that, is what turns some people off. Fortunately, those at home watching on their tv's are NOT a captive audience and simply can turn the channel.
But I mean, you wouldn't want Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates to introduce the Universal version of MS Office for the Mac at MacWorld and then go on to tout Window's "Vista" as the best OS to date. You'd have a riot at the Moscone Center...
You wouldn't tout the benefits of an aggrarian economic lifestyle that can only prosper with the use of slaves at a NAACP convention...
You wouldn't sell Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kemp" at a Holocaust Museum bookstore...
I mean, there just are some things, if you had any sense, you just wouldn't do. It's not, I hate to say it, PC!
I mean, you wouldn't vote a highly qualified new commander who wrote the book on insurgencies to head the forces in Iraq and then tell him his plan sucks and the troop increase this new commander requested is meeting with every road block politically possible, but the politicians wish him all the best in his new assignment and er, oh wait, the newly elected democratic party majority, did just that. Scratch that AND "Here's your sign!"
"hello"
what do you guys think?
new style
Pretty pathetic.
"and im a sony ericsson"