You Tube Ad Contest: Ron Paul Superbowl Commercial

[faisal]

McKarnin, I'm glad you brought up this project and to think that you could have the time for this is amazing! I have two recommendations from a serious point of view. Both of the video's I'm listing are Meant for Conservatives. Since most registration deadlines are OVER, we need to target conservative minds more than ever. THis is the same strategy the campaign used in Iowa. Instead of talking about getting out of IRaq, they talked about more current-day-conservative values in their ads. Also, these ads invoke more emotions rather than facts like the "Ron Paul is" ads did - I feel like I'm involved in the issues presented by the ads more than ever. Here are the videos by:

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD3zHh-BaSA&eurl=http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCOA0LoMtY&eurl=http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/

I also have the contact info of the producer of these films:
[email protected]
Phone: 1-361-356-1259

I hope this helps McKarnin! Godspeed to you and all your good work!

 

[Mckarnin]

McKarnin, I'm glad you brought up this project and to think that you could have the time for this is amazing! I have two recommendations from a serious point of view. Both of the video's I'm listing are Meant for Conservatives. Since most registration deadlines are OVER, we need to target conservative minds more than ever. THis is the same strategy the campaign used in Iowa. Instead of talking about getting out of IRaq, they talked about more current-day-conservative values in their ads. Also, these ads invoke more emotions rather than facts like the "Ron Paul is" ads did - I feel like I'm involved in the issues presented by the ads more than ever. Here are the videos by:

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD3zHh-BaSA&eurl=http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCOA0LoMtY&eurl=http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/

I also have the contact info of the producer of these films:
[email protected]
Phone: 1-361-356-1259

I hope this helps McKarnin! Godspeed to you and all your good work!

Faisal,

Thanks. That's helpful info. and I'll make sure everyone here thinks it through.

Katharine

 

[devil21]

Call me crazy but Im starting to grow tired of blimp for profit reps soliciting money lately. Im still waiting for a real answer about how you run super bowl commercials at some time other than the super bowl. The game commercials come from Fox directly, not local stations. Anything else, while worthy(?), is not a super bowl commercial.

 

[colecrowe]

Call me crazy but Im starting to grow tired of blimp for profit reps soliciting money lately. Im still waiting for a real answer about how you run super bowl commercials at some time other than the super bowl. The game commercials come from Fox directly, not local stations. Anything else, while worthy(?), is not a super bowl commercial.

THEY ALWAYS HAVE LOCAL COMMERCIALS DURING THE SUPERBOWL!

 

[nbhadja]

Guys please put "never voted to raise taxes" and "never voted for an unbalanced budget" in it.

This is a big eye opener.

 

[colecrowe]

I think the most amazing thing about Paul is that he doesn't get any money from Lobbyists or Corporations...only 20 million dollars from 135,000 individuals giving and average of $104 (or whatever the exact number was).

And...Ron Paul is "the most honest man in Congress." -John McCain, [YEAR]

 

[heartless]

I think it's best if we stress "never voted to raise taxes" and "wants to get out of Iraq immediately", other points people will need to do a little looking into before they understand the doctor's position on them. You don't have much time on a superbowl commercial... I wonder if senior citizens watch the superbowl, if they do we should emphasize "will save social security".

 

[devil21]

THEY ALWAYS HAVE LOCAL COMMERCIALS DURING THE SUPERBOWL!

I don't think some tiny station thats 3x jacking up the price for an ad during the Super Bowl is a "Super Bowl ad". 90 million people are not watching this. Maybe it's semantics and sheer risk but Fox controls what ads air just like the Union Leader controlled what ads they printed. They forgot a couple. Fox likely would/will too.

For these prices, can you blame people for being skeptical?

 

[colecrowe]

I don't think some tiny station thats 3x jacking up the price for an ad during the Super Bowl is a "Super Bowl ad". 90 million people are not watching this. Maybe it's semantics and sheer risk but Fox controls what ads air just like the Union Leader controlled what ads they printed. They forgot a couple. Fox likely would/will too.

For these prices, can you blame people for being skeptical?

No. I don't know what you are trying to say--but every super bowl, DURING THE ACTUAL GAME, they have ads run by the local affiliate. Every year I have seen the podunk car dealership ads and such. How can it get anymore clear than this?

 

[devil21]

No. I don't know what you are trying to say--but every super bowl, DURING THE ACTUAL GAME, they have ads run by the local affiliate. Every year I have seen the podunk car dealership ads and such. How can it get anymore clear than this?

Ok ok uncle! Yes great idea to pay big bucks to Fox to guarantee an ad run that only matters once it's paid for (after that your SOL, like the Union Leader I mentioned before) and may reach as many people as the podunk dealership people IF its aired. Or maybe it's the close relationship between the for profit blimp peeps and this plan that's bugging me? You decide.

 

[RonRules]

Just wondering.... If Fox hates RP so much and there is this media blackout thing going on, who's to say they air the ads at all? They could take the money and say screw you. Is there some kind of way to verify the ads were run besides Tivo'ing all the stations?

The local stations are NOT the same as the national FOX. Look at the Los Angeles Fox excellent coverage and interviews of Ron Paul.

 

[Chad_Underdonk]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MXSea2W1qcg

Ads work in two ways...they stand out! Which is the method of Super Bowl advertising...Or they are repetitive. Although there are some really good ads listed they may not necessarily create the breakthrough that we want if they don't have some humor.

If we had more time we could do some really creative stuff, sports metaphors work really great here in the US of A. But we've got no time to film, edit, etc.

In my humble opinion the cartoon ad would be great but would need to shotened (duh) and it needs more of Dr. Paul in it. The reason that Super Bowl ads are so effective is people talk about them the next day at work, or for awhile afterwards. If it doesn't generate an effective impression so that they will talk about it later it doesn't have the same impact.

The reason the cartoon is effective is that Joe and Jane America are not ready to put up with all this political stuff yet. They want someone else to cut through the noise and tell them what their choices are. They would identify with the cartoon ad, and might talk about it later with someone else, that is the key to making this successful. It will also be effective because people will pay more attention to a cartoon not realizing initially that it is a political statement.

The cartoon could be great, it just needs to be tweaked to send a message that will shock people into the desire to actually learn more about Dr. Paul

 

[Brad Zink]

Television advertising is a required component of modern political campaigns. Combined with our precinct leaders on the ground, it will be very effective.

 

[an.old.analyst]

@Katharine

Has the Blimp team or any of its affiliates hired or recruited people, other than yourself, to post messages on the Web supporting the efforts of the Blimp or this SB advertising proposal?

Some have seen quite a few posts in forums and chat rooms that on the surface, did not appear to be organic.

I await your response and detailed explanation.

 

[Mckarnin]

Call me crazy but Im starting to grow tired of blimp for profit reps soliciting money lately. Im still waiting for a real answer about how you run super bowl commercials at some time other than the super bowl. The game commercials come from Fox directly, not local stations. Anything else, while worthy(?), is not a super bowl commercial.

Local stations are alloted a portion of the ad time during the superbowl.

 

[RlxdN10sity]

the song is copyright so.....

I think that song is old enough to be in public domain or fair use or something.

 

[Naraku]

Didn't make these but maybe one of these would be good to have:

http://youtube.com/user/PROTECTMAN1138

They're kind of reverse psychology sort of things and would probably stick with people more than others.

 

[thegr8drronpaul]

But frankdoggs ad doesn't speak. Do you think a text only ad is enough to capture attention?

I LOVE FrankDoggs ad (to the CCR music), but let's keep our minds open. Maybe hearing Ron speak would be more effective BUT I love FrankDogg's! (TORN!)

 

[Mckarnin]

I don't think some tiny station thats 3x jacking up the price for an ad during the Super Bowl is a "Super Bowl ad". 90 million people are not watching this. Maybe it's semantics and sheer risk but Fox controls what ads air just like the Union Leader controlled what ads they printed. They forgot a couple. Fox likely would/will too.

For these prices, can you blame people for being skeptical?

For what prices?

 

[an.old.analyst]

@Katharine

Has the Blimp team or any of its affiliates hired or recruited people, other than yourself, to post messages on the Web supporting the efforts of the Blimp or this SB advertising proposal?

Some have seen quite a few posts in forums and chat rooms that on the surface, did not appear to be organic.

I await your response and detailed explanation.

Mckarnin, would you please address the above. Thank you.