Microsoft Kills Seinfeld – a.k.a $10M down the drain.
Posted in: Uncategorizedthe Denver egotist shares gossip from Valleywag.
In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings’ spin that the move was planned. There is the “potential to do other things” with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still “possible.” He adds: “People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected.”
What the…? OK, so the 90-second Shoe Circus advert and the near five-minute spoof on “the simple life” New Family commercial were not exactly universally loved. Manye hated it, including Leslie at Burns Auto Parts who summed it up with “Just because someone spends a ton of money on a promo, doesn’t mean it is any good.”. This attracted some CP&B employee who rushed to defend their campaign in the (now removed) comments:
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