[ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

[Harry Rickards]

On 31 January 2010 14:43, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 31 January 2010 13:16, CShadowRun <lists at cshadowrun.com> wrote:
>> As a suggestion (My video editing skills certainly arn't up to par, and
>> I'm not exactly rolling in money) we could get a TV advert. Looking at
>> this page,
>> http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/advertising-on-itv/cost-of-advertising a
>> regional advert can cost as little as £30, Granted the £30 is an 11am
>> slot on border and only regional, but an adverts an advert.
>
> Cheap slots are cheap for a reason, nobody watches them. Spending
> money to make an advert that nobody watches is an easy lesson in
> futility.
>
> The idea of making a TV advert has been discussed many times on the
> Ubuntu marketing lists over the years.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2007-October/008596.html
>
> Nothing has changed since then. It's still prohibitively expensive to
> make them and show them to people.
>

What about advertising on one of the Freeview SciFi channels (e.g
Virgin 1) that have a lot less viewers, more relevant ones (I'm
guessing here, but I imagine the frequent watchers of SciFi channels
would be more technically able than the average ITV watcher)?


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