Comments on: “We’re All Going To Die,” Industry Laments . . . Again http://antiadvertisingagency.com/were-all-going-to-die-industry-laments-again/ The Anti-Advertising Agency Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anne Elizabeth Moore http://antiadvertisingagency.com/were-all-going-to-die-industry-laments-again/comment-page-1/#comment-42836 Anne Elizabeth Moore Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:38:22 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=790#comment-42836 <p>Bad news, Veronica: a lot if it might already be illegal, (http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/culture/product-placement) but for some reason the FCC has yet to look into it. In one statement, the FTC admits it might be illegal, sure, and urges the public to continue to call their attention to these matters via the proper channels.</p> <p>Yer kid and I need to hang out, ha ha.</p> Bad news, Veronica: a lot if it might already be illegal, (http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/culture/product-placement) but for some reason the FCC has yet to look into it. In one statement, the FTC admits it might be illegal, sure, and urges the public to continue to call their attention to these matters via the proper channels.

Yer kid and I need to hang out, ha ha.

]]> By: Veronica http://antiadvertisingagency.com/were-all-going-to-die-industry-laments-again/comment-page-1/#comment-42835 Veronica Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:48:45 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=790#comment-42835 <p>If we have to watch ads, can we get the product placements outlawed? Otherwise, commercial time is potty time or oh, I can read a few pages of this book or "What now?" time. </p> <p>BTW - The kid keeps asking why there are so many car & Best Buy commercials. Me thinks a play date is in order.</p> If we have to watch ads, can we get the product placements outlawed? Otherwise, commercial time is potty time or oh, I can read a few pages of this book or “What now?” time.

BTW – The kid keeps asking why there are so many car & Best Buy commercials. Me thinks a play date is in order.

]]> By: Anne Elizabeth Moore http://antiadvertisingagency.com/were-all-going-to-die-industry-laments-again/comment-page-1/#comment-42833 Anne Elizabeth Moore Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:32 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=790#comment-42833 <p>Yes "tourpro," (is that your real name?) you're right. But it's never been proven that people will watch ads when they have the choice not to. </p> <p>It's only been proven that, when given a choice between no access to media, or access to media that includes advertising, people will accept advertising unless they can find a way to get rid of it.</p> <p>Even more unfortunately, product placement is just the beginning, as I've written many times. Where we're headed now is full-on paid-for content entirely devoted to products. No content without a purchasable commodity or service will be created—you don't need to advertise the latest Disney movie if everyone already lives in DisneyLand—unless we start seeing media that appears in public space as beholden to the public good, which will always require noncommercial messages.</p> <p>Speaking of which, have I even announced here that my book about youth advertising has been reprinted? Oops. Get it outta the library now: Hey Kidz, Buy This Book!, from Soft Skull press. For the little Che Guevera in all of us. (OK, that was in one of the reviews.)</p> <p>http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-35-2</p> Yes “tourpro,” (is that your real name?) you’re right. But it’s never been proven that people will watch ads when they have the choice not to.

It’s only been proven that, when given a choice between no access to media, or access to media that includes advertising, people will accept advertising unless they can find a way to get rid of it.

Even more unfortunately, product placement is just the beginning, as I’ve written many times. Where we’re headed now is full-on paid-for content entirely devoted to products. No content without a purchasable commodity or service will be created—you don’t need to advertise the latest Disney movie if everyone already lives in DisneyLand—unless we start seeing media that appears in public space as beholden to the public good, which will always require noncommercial messages.

Speaking of which, have I even announced here that my book about youth advertising has been reprinted? Oops. Get it outta the library now: Hey Kidz, Buy This Book!, from Soft Skull press. For the little Che Guevera in all of us. (OK, that was in one of the reviews.)

http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-35-2

]]> By: TourPro http://antiadvertisingagency.com/were-all-going-to-die-industry-laments-again/comment-page-1/#comment-42832 TourPro Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:25:56 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=790#comment-42832 <p>Actually, I think it's been proven that people are willing to watch ads in return for content.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the predictable reaction will be increasingly annoying product placement.</p> Actually, I think it’s been proven that people are willing to watch ads in return for content.

Unfortunately, the predictable reaction will be increasingly annoying product placement.

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