Posted on 04/03/2009 3:26:22 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
There I was watching Hardball this afternoon when an ad for Progressive Insurance comes on. That daffy salesgirl wants to show a customer how much he can save compared to rates from other companies. She points her clicker to a screen which rapidly scrolls through names and numbers. It lands on the image in the screencap shown here: savings for customer . . . Mark F.
Is it coincidence that of all the possible combinations, my first name and last-name initial just happen to appear? Perhaps. But let’s consider. I get my TV through Time Warner Cable. It obviously knows my name. Occasionally it will flash invitations to press a button on my remote to get additional information about something being advertised. So it certainly seems possible that the Progressive ad represents some new personalization technology at work.
View video here.
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Brave new world of advertising? Ping to Today show list.
Bump to check out..
Jeez. Some people need to lay off the sauce.
bttt
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
The owner of Progressive is #2 only to our friend George Soros in terms of liberal leanings.
Coincidence. I’m sure someday this will be the norm, but I don’t imagine Time Warner Cable has the tech to customize hundreds of thousands of versions of a commercial to viewers at one time.
Progressive Insurance is one of the BIGGEST leftist contributors. See Peter Lewis.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003
That lady is fricking annoying!
I saw that commercial too! It was personalized to “Mark F” I swear. It was spooky....
No such luck, Mark.
You can check out the commercial here, and it does say “MARK F”:
http://www.progressive.com/commercials/progressive-commercials.aspx
Then again, maybe they KNEW I was checking on it...
Hmm...
Another stupid nerve racking commerical with that dig-bat woman....I just mute it out.
You may be on to something.
Pamela Anderson winked at me the other night.
Why are you convinced it must be pure coincidence? As mentioned, Time Warner does occasionally send on-screen messages inviting viewers to press a button to get additional info about advertised products, and they obviously know their customers’ names. Why is it inconceivable that the ads are personalized?
By the way, I’m the author of the original item: governs=Mark F., and I can assure you that I was stone cold sober while watching and writing.
Maybe Obama’s teleprompter is moonlighting.
Seriously, I HATE her. She gives me the willies and douchechills simultaneously.
Just to mess with my head, they had her in a commercial with this blonde chick who was smoking like a young Roseanna Arquette. That commercial would make me vacillate wildly through lust and revulsion like a roller coaster ride.
Those two guys in that commercial are queer as $3 bills.
Not sure I’d want to claim any kind of personal content in that commercial relating to me!
How did they know my name was "State Farm", and that I was a "Farmer"?
*&%#!!
I have Progressive Ins. (now, I can say I HAD it, thanks!)
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