Is anyone else sick to death of these stupid AT&T commercials with the names of a bunch of cities scrunched together, like "Chilondoscow" and "New Bosmento"? They're more annoying than Dane Cook and "This is Ouuuuur Country" put together. Doing that sort of thing never works- Remember Christmahanukwanzaakah?- and now Comcast is doing it too.
The most inexplicable thing of all? The adds are directed by Wes Anderson. I'm a Wes apologist to the end; I liked both "Life Aquatic" and "Darjeeling." But even I've gotta jump off the bandwagon at this point.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 26, 2007 04:59 PMI absolutely hate those commericals as well! What I work in marketing and I don't understand how this differentiates AT&T from any other wireless carrier. It's a "category" attribute - not a "product" attribute.
PS - Did you know you can get your own custom T-shirt with your own dumb city name?
http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003670667
Posted by: Cathy at December 18, 2007 05:04 PM