Michael Bay 'Awesomely' Blows Stuff Up For Verizon - Telco ramps up advertising, Time Warner Cable picks a fight...
Links: home · search · speed test · login · more ·
Michael Bay 'Awesomely' Blows Stuff Up For Verizon
Telco ramps up advertising, Time Warner Cable picks a fight...
(old news - 10:14AM Friday Feb 15 2008)
tags: Fiber · competition · business · cable · Verizon FIOS · RoadRunner Cable
Verizon has tapped Transformers director Michael Bay for a new suite of ads that should start showing up this weekend. Jam-packed with explosions and use of the word "awesome," Verizon writes us to note that the advertisements are already available here. The ad is first of several that will include higher profile personalities as the carrier continues to deploy their FTTH service.
Click for full size
"Michael Bay is a larger-than-life figure because he"s a powerful game-changer," said John Wimsatt, senior vice president of marketing for Verizon Telecom. "Verizon FiOS is the best and first choice for home entertainment because the power of our fiber-optic network delivers the best picture quality, fastest Internet and most-innovative interactive services."
In response, cable providers like Time Warner Cable have been pushing their own new ads that take a shot at the telco's bubbly enthusiasm for fiber. Verizon responds to the new Time Warner Cable ads over at their policy blog.

Related:
  1. Verizon Advertising: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
  2. Verizon Says They're Making Their Bills Simpler
  3. Verizon Promises Not To Cherry Pick Philadelphia
  4. Bright House Slams Verizon On FiOS Grounding
  5. Comcast Successfully Delays Philly FiOS
  6. Time Warner Still Pretending Core, Last Mile Fiber The Same
  7. Verizon Laughs Off DOCSIS 3.0
  8. Cablevision Gets Wrist Slap For Misleading Ads
Links: New Topic
Forums »

Shamayim @ 15th Feb 10:19AM:
Optimus Prime?

What's that?
reply
pnh102 @ 15th Feb 10:19AM:
Reactionary Response

Verizon has already won in making fiber look like "a good thing."

Comcast does the same thing here. Their ads explain how your TV, voice and data all go through Comcast's "enhanced fiber optic network."
--
This isn't fair! I was only supposed to hate just ONE presidential candidate!
reply
Anonymous @ 15th Feb 10:27AM:
Re: Optimus Prime?

one of the transformers AFAIK.
reply
bcronin @ 15th Feb 10:28AM:
Can't get it

Great, glitzy ads hawking something I can't get. Yeah, that'll really make me feel good about Verizon. Sigh ...
reply
anon @ 15th Feb 10:28AM:
MOAR

I love the commercial lol and they finally show off their upload with it! You go verizon! Just wish you would come to my are lol.
reply
dogo88 @ 15th Feb 10:52AM:
Cable lies

I love the Cable ad. Especially when they say they have their entire network on fiber. Gee, last time I looked my neighborhood have coax drop lines to every home.
reply
fatmanskinny @ 15th Feb 10:57AM:
When you are doing something right, haters come out!

Verizon is obviously on to something that is making cable companies a little nervous.

If Ma Bell completely merge back together, I would hope it is Verizon's technology leadership that is implemented and not AT&T's.
--
The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary.
reply
KCrimson @ 15th Feb 11:08AM:
Downloaded the Ad - Why Distribute Via Skinney Pipe?

I've got FiOS, and I just tried to download the video (instead of streaming it). I filled out the brief form (no problem), and commenced the download. Why provide the file on a server/pipe that shows obvious bandwidth limitations? My transfer topped out at about 1 MB/sec. Not a smart method of distribution. IMHO.
reply
MooJohn @ 15th Feb 11:42AM:
Yeah, he's a game changer

I don't see how rehashing 80s cartoons into CGI-driven movies makes anyone a game changer, any more so than taking the name Knight Rider and changing everything else about it makes it new & fresh. It takes zero talent to redo what has already been done. The design of today's "retro" vehicles shows that too - no imagination, just regurgitation of what was new 30 years ago. One look at abomination that was called the Dukes of Hazzard movie is enough proof of how bad it is.

This guy can plan his entire career just by watching the Boomerang Network during the day. It won't be long until we see live-action Jabberjaw starring today's hottest comedians. They've already warned us CGI-animated Smurfs are coming, not to mention a sad take on the neglected Thundercats franchise. Need we remind Hollywood that nobody has done an A-Team movie yet? They could use a cast of unknowns, tie in the marketing with a GM SUV, and it's make millions.

Michael Bay is a disgrace to my avatar -- which I've used for far longer than the latest movie's craze.
--
John M - Cranky network guy
reply
Gogo1 @ 15th Feb 11:56AM:
Re: Optimus Prime?

said by Shamayim :

What's that?
It is a Transformer: a robot in disguise.
reply
koolkid1563 @ 15th Feb 12:00PM:
Re: Reactionary Response

Those same commercials for Comcast also air here in Houston.
reply
Gogo1 @ 15th Feb 12:07PM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

He is not stupid though. He observes that the majority of movie go-ers have no taste, imagination, or desire to think; then he devises a movie making model to encourage them to throw as much money at him as is humanly possible.

Or maybe Im being too optimistic and he just happens to *be* one of those movie go-ers that stepped onto the other side of the camera :D
reply
moonpuppy @ 15th Feb 12:08PM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

Dude, where have you been? Hollywood loves to recycle stuff.

I Am Legend = The Omega Man

All the Marvel Comics characters are coming back to life.

Even Indiana Jones is coming out with another movie.
reply
Gogo1 @ 15th Feb 12:09PM:
Re: When you are doing something right, haters come out!

Yep. What a pathetic, mis-leading ad by TWC. Talk about playing on the ignorance of the average user.
reply
Gogo1 @ 15th Feb 12:19PM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

I think the movie industry in recent years is at the lowest point of all time. Rambo 7; Rocky 15; Mission Impossible 3; Die Hard whatever number; terrible Supermans; Batman. Is there a new Terminator coming? Im sure there will be soon.

I get excited over about three movies a year these days. And I end up at least mildly let down by one or two.
reply
travisc @ 15th Feb 12:24PM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

Terminator 4 is coming (with Christian Bale as John Connor) and an A-Team movie to boot.
reply
fatmanskinny @ 15th Feb 12:29PM:
Re: When you are doing something right, haters come out!

I just watched the TWC ad. ROFLMAO!!!! That is a sham. Yeah, they have been using fiber for years but not to your home. Last time I used a Road Runner internet connection (in Jan 2008), it was coaxial to the home. I prefer FTTH and not CTTH.
--
The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary.
reply
cableties @ 15th Feb 12:40PM:
Dumb

Hmm, I recall Michael Bay professing how HD-DVD will be the ultimate delivery for movies, yet somehow Blu-Ray is winning out.

A movie-director is a bad choice for a role model. Matter of fact ANYONE from Hollywood is a bad choice. Well, except for James Earl Jones...that voice is perfect (for an empire).
reply
N3OGH @ 15th Feb 12:48PM:
Re: Can't get it

Yeah, it would be awesome.

If Verizon would get off their collective asses and string some fiber.

Two years ago, my town signed a franchise agreement with Verizon. Half the town is wired, the other half isn't.

It's bullshit. I see half the ghettos of Wilmington set up for Fios, and I can't get Fios surrounded by half million dollar houses.

I say Verizon is redlining us on time bill paying, nice home owning people.

Blatant discrimination....
--
Petty people are disproportionably corrupted by petty power…
reply
plencnerb @ 15th Feb 01:16PM:
One Word

Awesome!

:)
reply
N3OGH @ 15th Feb 01:24PM:
Re: Dumb

IF ONLY YOU KNEW THE POW-AHHH
reply
SKYWARP @ 15th Feb 01:45PM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

Oh. . .don't hate.

I honestly thought that the Transformers movie kicked ass. It was pretty damn cool.
reply
xerxes3642 @ 15th Feb 03:12PM:
I guess

this is what they spend their hidden fees on.
reply
irsean @ 15th Feb 05:04PM:
Re: Cable lies

What the cable companies have is a miniature version of Vzn'z backbone (fiber). But they don't have fiber to the house nor do each customer get their own strand. Theirs is still a shared network and Vzn's is not. When Comcast or any other cable co puts a fiber drop in your house then they can claim they have a fiber network. LEC's have had fiber backbones for thirty years. Who's playing catch-up?
Fact is Vzn'z bandwidth can't be touch, their voice is superior and as soon as they build up their channel lineup some more (which they have plenty of bandwidth to do so) then cable co's will be going by way of MediaCom. But hey maybe they should've left "voice" to LEC's and everything would be as it was.
Au revoir cable co's....finally!
reply
C0deZer0 @ 16th Feb 10:13AM:
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer

What do you expect? Hollywood is shit scared of spending any money on any (relative) unknown, new property now.
reply
Smith6612 @ 16th Feb 10:52AM:
"Advanced Fiber Optic Network"

Time Warner says the same thing in their commercials as well and all I see here on Time Warner Roadrunner connections in this area is loads of lag. I have Verizon and I believe that even though Verizon is giving people insane speeds compared to the rest of the big ISPs in the US, my DSL has never slowed down one bit, and pings have always been low. This may not be a super accurate thing to do, but it seems as though Verizon has the better network, so yeah.

Though I haven't seen any Transformers commercials yet, I have been seeing LOADS of Verizon ads trying to load up (Firefox's adblock anyone?) advertising both FiOS and DSL saying that I just got that new computer and that I should switch to the network that the computer wants, and yet, according to that ad I already have it lol.
reply
Anonymous_ @ 17th Feb 12:49AM:
Re: Cable lies

said by irsean :

Theirs is still a shared network and Vzn's is not.
your lieing ALL INTERNET Is shared
--
Ω?
reply
irsean @ 17th Feb 08:48PM:
Re: Cable lies

I'm talking about bandwidth across the network. Cable is shared.
reply
Anonymous_ @ 18th Feb 10:57PM:
Re: Cable lies

So is the fiber

640mbps of shared bandwidth
reply
irsean @ 19th Feb 11:11AM:
Re: Cable lies

There's a difference between "shared" bandwidth and "segmented" bandwidth. Other users will not "take" bandwidth from another on fiber. Cable users will.
I.e.:
Cable: More users means a slow down of connectivity.
Fiber: More users means....nothing.
reply
Authority @ 19th Feb 02:17PM:
What a jerk!

I dislike Michael Bay - he was extremely rude to me the first time I met him. He has a horrible reputation for mistreating people, ad just being a jerk.
--
"When Apple Care fails, when all hope is lost, there's one last thing to try... take your issue straight to the top: sjobs@apple.com"
reply
Sopper @ 21st Feb 01:38PM:
Re: What a jerk!

He was a jerk to me the first time we met too...but then we had dinner a couple of times and we and the wives vacationed in Aruba. He really lightened up and is a great friend now!
reply
Authority @ 6th Mar 03:12PM:
Re: What a jerk!

said by Sopper :

He was a jerk to me the first time we met too...but then we had dinner a couple of times and we and the wives vacationed in Aruba. He really lightened up and is a great friend now!
He's not married.
reply

Thank you for using lo-fi dslreports.com - report bugs
© 99-2009 silver matrix LLC