Mark Nicholas ([info]cosmicity) wrote,
@ 2008-04-30 13:25:00
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Your commercial on TV: $50
This is pretty fascinating. Want to directly affect the outcome of the next primaries? This new website called saysme.tv just launched, and for about $50 a pop, you can run a political TV commercial in any market. So, for example, if you want Obama to win in Indiana, you could buy an ad and run it on CNN for $50 to help him out. Choose from their pre-made ads, or you can make your own commercial and upload it. You can put commercials on many cable networks, from MTV to Fox News to Comedy Central.

http://www.saysme.tv

That's pretty amazing. I've never seen a direct line from ordinary people to television like that before. I'm sure it's just a matter of a few months before they either expand this site to include ANY content (not just political) or someone copies this idea and expands it to include anything.

I like this. Not only does it give regular people a voice (instead of just the rich candidates themselves), but it is potentially an excellent opportunity for the "very little guy" trying to give his business a boost.

-m




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[info]xpatchouli
2008-05-01 10:19 am UTC (link)
I don't understand how this can be so affordable. Are the air times from midnight to 5am? The networks have exercised the right to prohibit ads from airing for past political campaigns. There just going to let anyone air an ad?

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[info]cosmicity
2008-05-01 04:39 pm UTC (link)
I'm sure that the networks have a right to bounce the ad you make if they think the content is inappropriate, but yeah, the ads that you see on their page are pre-screened, so they can be run.

Cable network ad time in a single market (one city only, one airing only) is pretty darn cheap... particularly when you're buying the slots available to Comcast (cable companies) to sell directly (they get a certain amount). It is possible these are midnight - 5 (it doesn't say anywhere), but I'm not even certain that'd be necessary. They made a deal with these companies for these stations - I bet the price could even be for normal times.

-m

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