commercials – PPCGeeks.com https://www.ppcgeeks.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:58:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.ppcgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ppcg_banner-150x78.png commercials – PPCGeeks.com https://www.ppcgeeks.com 32 32 TiVo…powered by Google https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2009/11/24/tivo-powered-by-google/ https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2009/11/24/tivo-powered-by-google/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:58:45 +0000 http://www.ppcgeeks.com/?p=1592 And next is TiVo…
TiVo...by Google
For those who don’t know what TiVo is, it is a service which, based on your TV viewing habit, can suggest other shows like the ones you watch. This is in addition to their DVR, which, if programmed to record “Heroes”, will record it every time it airs without you needing to program the individual times. And by watching recorded shows later, you can skip the commercials. The commercials which are about to start becoming “smart”.

Today Google signed a deal with TiVo and DISH Network to allow them to analyze user’s habits and provide them with specific commercials tailored to them. How? TiVo and DISH Network will provide Google with “second-by-second viewing information on who’s changing channels and when, who’s fast-forwarding through commercials and anonymous information on viewers themselves.”

So next time you watch a commercial for the Verizon “There’s a Map for that” instead of fast-forwarding it, you will be sending data to Google…

Is this a breach of privacy? Many people had a problem with the Palm Pre sending crash information to Palm behind their backs. Looks like this will start becoming the new trend. Leave your thoughts in the comments.

]]> https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2009/11/24/tivo-powered-by-google/feed/ 4 The Verizon and AT&T battle… https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2009/11/23/the-verizon-and-att-battle/ https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2009/11/23/the-verizon-and-att-battle/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:27:47 +0000 http://www.ppcgeeks.com/?p=1564 Well, talks of the DROID aside, it has been fun to watch AT&T and Verizon battling each other. The commercials were hilarious. In case you did not catch them, there is a bunch here about how the iPhone is a misfit toy, how Verizon’s 3g coverage is 5X better then AT&T’s, and how Verizon’s 3G coverage can even block a football game. They must have hit a nerve, because AT&T filed a lawsuit. But apparently that wasn’t enough for AT&T – they decided why does Verizon get to have those cool commercials…So they made their own.

You can view them here, here, here, and one known as “The Postcards” which is in 2 parts (here and here)…

VZW vs ATT

The ball is in your court Verizon.

So, which commercial wins? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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