"Chevy wants to put some ads on MetaFilter, check out this mockup of what they had in mind"

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This was a real thing an ad company pitched me. I had to say no to them TWICE because they pitched it once, then again a few months later.

11 years ago

Classy!

11 years ago

Jesus wept.

11 years ago

Some people on twitter sent me this Onion joke article about overlay car ads:
http://www.theonion.com/articles...

The irony is that the Onion slapped an overlay ad over the article that I had to close in order to read their humorous piece on overlay ads.

essl 11 years ago

I once made Yahoo.com spotted like a dalmatian so that Disney could run banners that said “Dog On It, Click On It.”

11 years ago

That's the actual comp they pitched with?

11 years ago

Plain white background.

11 years ago

It would have been magical if you'd done this, and then turned off metatalk for the duration of the campaign.

11 years ago

I'm assuming you turned it down because green is reserved for ask, right?

11 years ago

Slurm

11 years ago

Wow, tiling on the background, even. They really hit it out of the park.

billturner 11 years ago

really, really would love to fav some comments right now! priceless

qualiall 11 years ago

needs a .wav file and animated Jesi

11 years ago

> then turned off metatalk for the duration of the campaign.

You know we did that over Thanksgiving right? So relaxing.

11 years ago

ho. lee. crap.

11 years ago

Fresh.

Down10 11 years ago

I believe it.