You know how all the mobile service providers trip all over themselves to get you to switch to AT&T, MCI, Sprint, etc., etc.? Well, this hilarious video spins that into a mini-movie of epic proportions, complete with mobile home offers, mail-order brides, and thugs. Oh, the dramz!
AT&T doth protest too much in this GoPhone ad featuring has-beens Meatloaf and Tiffany. I remember absolutely nothing about this product except that I now forever associate it with an ill-conceived duet that takes place in a garage.
It's like MySpace: AT&T wants to look popular, so they maintain a long email list of "friends," whom they never correspond with. It's so tenth grade.
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You can't get away with anything these days! Everyone has a video camera.
Stephen Colbert can make even the dry topic of Cingular changing its name to AT&T funny. Love him! (Although John Stewart's still cuter.)
This Kid's a Text Maniac
I bet Greg Hardesty was glad he had AT&T's unlimited text messaging plan when he counted how many text messages his teen daughter sent in a month. His eyes almost popped out of his head when his 440 page AT&T online statement revealed that his 13-year-old daughter Reina had sent 14,528 text messages in one month! Hardesty calculated that Reina had to have sent 484 text messages a day, or about one text message every two minutes she was awake that month.
Each morning news anchors on Fox's Las Vegas affiliate sit in front of very visible McDonald's iced coffee cups, part of a product-placement deal. The fast-food chain sponsors the two-hour morning news-and-lifestyle segment, but instead of commercial breaks, the advertisement happens during the news.
Since advertisement dollars already influence networks, I think the product-placement deal raises some old conflict of interest concerns.