So, while watching Storage Wars this week (highly
recommended show), I noticed a certain trend in almost all of the commercials
during the episode. Most every commercial that aired in the hour was for
another show on the A&E or History channel. This makes a lot of sense
considering all the people seeing these ads are already watching the channel
and it may convince them to continue watching new shows or more episodes. I did
not completely understand why the History channel was getting so much air time
on A&E but my only guess is that they are either owned by the same company
or they jut paid for that much advertising.
As for the
rest of the commercials, the remaining majority revolved around food. Whether
it be fast food, sit down restaurants or even groceries, there was plenty of
advertised food. The most popular had to be ads for McDonald’s new chicken
Mcbites, Chilie’s twenty dollar dinner for two and of course Dole fruit bowls.
However my favorite commercial had to be for Wonderful Pistachios (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJBk7NOYzo).
This particular commercial features the angry birds and describes how they
crack their pistachios. I love these commercials for two reasons. The first is
the most obvious, pistachios are delicious and everyone should eat them. The
second reason is because I think these commercials are a really good idea since
they each feature something different, usually popular icons, and funny ways
they crack their pistachios. I am sure most of you have seen and can remember
one of these commercials, which feature people from Snookie to piano cat, the
Winklevoss twins, and even a dominatrix for the crazier crowd of pistachio
eaters.
That pretty
much sums up my hours of TV watching minus the awesome storage wars episodes.
While I was not a huge fan of taking these commercial notes, I have to admit it
made them go by faster. However, next time ill stick to HBO. (324)
Wow i noticed that you also watched A&E Storage Wars what a coincidence. I also noticed the History channel was on there commercials and was really confused about this. You are proably right that they are owned by the same company. I also thought it was crazy on how many A&E shows they advertised more than every other commercial was for an A&E show
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Dude, Like the pistachios as well. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteStorage wars is literally one of mt favorite shows EVER!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love pistachios! I personally like the piano cat one the best... but that's just me. Never heard of storage wars but it sounds a bit like hoarders which scares me just a little but maybe I'll check it out.
ReplyDeleteIs this the show where people bid on seized storage units to see if their is anything of value inside? Interesting that A&E's main commercials are ones with food? Is it because me majority of viewers for A&E shows are adults and families? They are reaching a much younger audience nowadays with The Walking Dead, though. Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting the link to the Angry Birds pistachios commercial. I had never seen it before and quite enjoyed it.