FWD: You gotta see this
I am sitting here on Sunday morning sipping a cup of joe, surfing through the channels, and on Bravo I find a television show called Outrageous and Contageous Viral Videos that has a narrator running the audience through clips that you can find at any number of sites on the internet. Here are a few of the viral video clips featured:
- Cheney’s Got a Gun
- John Ashcroft singing
- Buzz Aldrich punching a guy
- Brittney’s baby riding in the lap gaffe
- Cartoon of Bill O’Riley talking dirty on the phone
- Howard Dean’s infamous Yeearrgh!!!
- A big fat guy got a running start and hurled himself into snack machine, vertical belly-flop style, smashing the front glass to smithereens.
- The Trunk Monkey vehicle security system, for when just getting your car back isn’t enough
- And finally, The Mercury Mistress
Bet you’ve seen some of ‘em. As a matter of fact, I bet that half of everyone with broadband has seen at least one of the clips featured. But I bet very few people with dial-up connections has seen any of them at all. Curiously, I don’t recall any high-speed internet commercials during the show.
They teased the video clip of the week over at Bravo.com. Gotta spread the traffic around. Pretty smart application of media convergence. Soon the blurring lines between the wired net and the broadcast net will not exist at all.
Outrageous and Contageous Viral Videos would have been way better than surfing for the clips if it weren’t for all the same stupid commercials that viewers are constantly bombarded with on television. But the show was still pretty good relative to everything else on the dial because I didn’t have to look at a lot of bad clips to find the few really good ones. It doesn’t take a lot of time to download just a few clips, but it does take a lot of time to download a dozen or two, most of which are not worth the effort.
The people programming the television channels don’t “get it” and therefore bombard their customer’s with repetitive, asinine commercial interruptions. Maybe the majority of people aren’t bothered by the interruptions but I will rarely endure them, preferring to watch my entertainment uninterrupted.
The networks are in desperate need of a better way to present advertisement. Until they figure that out, the network’s will continue to bleed customers and television bandwidth will be all about delivering the best of the internet to their remaining customers who do not yet have access to high-speed internet.