Posts with tag gm
Posted Feb 11th 2007 11:55AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: News, Commercials, Super Bowl
GM has agreed to
edit a commercial that premiered during the Super Bowl which shows a despondent assembly-line robot contemplating suicide. Earlier this week, GM had said it
would not remove the ad, despite complaints from a national suicide prevention group.
The
commercial features a robot that drops a screw. Because of GM's high quality controls, it's forced to leave the plant, take up several other part time jobs, and finally it jumps off a bridge, only to wake up in the plant and reveal that the whole thing was a dream sequence.
Continue reading GM will edit robot suicide commercial
Posted Feb 4th 2007 9:30PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Sports, CBS, Commercials, Super Bowl
As far as car ads go, I think this one fell well short of GM's "Robot Nightmare." Of course, that one wasn't selling a particular model, but the end game is still the same, sell cars. It's not that it's a bad commercial. It does showcase the car, and the bit with flying through the car to show how silent it is was a nice touch.
At the end of the day though, this is the Superbowl. Considering the cost for the ad, it needs to be something special. That commercial looks good during a rerun of Charmed on TNT. Here, on the big stage, it only stands out as being decidedly below par.
Posted Feb 4th 2007 8:40PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Sports, CBS, Commercials, Super Bowl
This was a very cute ad. You don't normally have a lot of feeling for an automated production robot, so give credit to the folks that made this ad. In about 20 seconds they were able to make me root for the cute little guy. The quick little cuts of the various jobs the robot had after being decommissioned from the factory were great.
The condo sales sign and speaker at the fast food restaurant were especially good. He just looked so sad when his little robotic arm drooped. Nice payoff at the end with the chorus coming in, "All by myself....," and the little guy waking up at the factory. Well done.
Posted Aug 31st 2006 10:19AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, Industry, Survivor, Commercials
General Motors swears it's just a case of bad timing. The automaker has severed its ties with CBS'
Survivor, and the announcement comes on the heels of the
controversial news that
Survivor teams will be divided by race for the first half of this season. GM says the decision to split with
Survivor was made long ago because the people who participate on the show and watch the show don't drive GM vehicles. GM sponsored
Survivor for six seasons.
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