There was a second one in the second half with a couple "scared" of commercials. Sorry - no link to that one. By then we had caught up to real time and saw it.
For years folks have complained that Tivo did not advertise enough, but it was always difficult to demonstrate the benefits of Tivo. This seems to be a great "in" into the minds of consumers.
I keep thinking they should be doing magazine ads in publications where TV shows and related content available to cable and streaming.
I don't mind commercials when they are funny. Agree on the irony, but I suppose that's the perfect time to talk about skipping commercials when you are watching one. But if tivo keeps making funny commercials then no one will want to skip them. Perhaps they should take a different approach and put out a completely boring, hard to sit through commercial with a banner that says don't you wish you could skip this.
I keep thinking they should be doing magazine ads in publications where TV shows and related content available to cable and streaming. I don't mind commercials when they are funny. Agree on the irony, but I suppose that's the perfect time to talk about skipping commercials when you are watching one. But if tivo keeps making funny commercials then no one will want to skip them. Perhaps they should take a different approach and put out a completely boring, hard to sit through commercial with a banner that says don't you wish you could skip this.
OMG, that's genius!!! You should be in marketing. That would drive the point home very well. Like some of those Geico commercials like the one with the polar explorers and then Dora the Explorer pops in at the end totally surprising you and twisting what you thought the commercial was about.
That would be an instant purchase for me, except they don't do commercial skip on sports, right? If they could just turn the screen blank and play elevator music during those (which aren't even legal in my state), and maybe DirecTV ads, I'd take that also.
I don't dispute the commercials are bad but at least that actress appears to be a talented comedienne and seems to have a bright future ahead of her. I can't say the same about TiVo.
Wow they're really going all out and pushing this Bolt. I see Thursday Night Football is sponsored by the "Unified Entertainment System, the all new TiVo Bolt".
I'm also hearing tons of radio commercials and my sports talk shows on my CBS Radio app being sponsored by TiVo Bolt.
Kind of ironic that the commercials which promote SkipMode as a primary feature, are being shown on a program where one will rarely, if ever, be able to take advantage of that feature.
They should've thrown the money down for an "entire"* commercial break, started the commercial break with... "this commercial break brought to you by the new TiVo BOLT, with SkipMode commercial skip feature..." ... started the first second or three of some generic-looking commercial ... and then BLOOP!, simulate the SkiipMode commercial skip, and jump right back to programming. (Would've only worked during half-time, of course.)
* It wouldn't need to be an entire commercial break, of course. Just a special 30-second (or less) block with no other commercials.
p.p.s. .... optionally returning back to the half-time talking heads before they're ready to resume, causing them to scramble back to their seats. (all faked, of course)
Kind of ironic that the commercials which promote SkipMode as a primary feature, are being shown on a program where one will rarely, if ever, be able to take advantage of that feature.
Wow they're really going all out and pushing this Bolt. I see Thursday Night Football is sponsored by the "Unified Entertainment System, the all new TiVo Bolt".
I'm also hearing tons of radio commercials and my sports talk shows on my CBS Radio app being sponsored by TiVo Bolt.
No one even knows why they should want a tivo given the current alternatives so a 30 or 60 second spot will have little to no impact.
The only people who might perk up are current tivo owners but tivo can economically already message them because they own the list.
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