{"id":1280,"date":"2008-11-10T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/im-a-what.htm"},"modified":"2008-11-11T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:19:00","slug":"im-a-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/im-a-what.htm","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, I was watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/\">Channel 4<\/a>&#8216;s satirical political show, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bremner,_Bird_and_Fortune\">Bremner, Bird and Fortune<\/a>&#8220;, when a Microsoft &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/imapc.lifewithoutwalls.com\/\">I&#8217;m a PC<\/a>&#8221; ad ran in one of the breaks.  I was surprised &#8211; firstly because I thought the campaign was US-only (although I must confess that I don&#8217;t watch much commercial TV anyway) but also because it seemed to miss the point that 1 billion PC users run Windows.  All we got was Sean the Apple PC guy lookalike, followed by lots of people saying &#8220;I&#8217;m a PC&#8221; and the final &#8220;Windows &#8211; Life without Walls&#8221; graphic.<\/p>\n<p>As for this being effective or not &#8211; for me the question was answered when my wife &#8211; a middle class 30-something marketing professional (presumably in the demographic that these ads are aimed at) &#8211; said something to the effect of &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand!  Why I&#8217;m a PC?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just one example of why these ads don&#8217;t work: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/windows-mojave-the-great-new-version-of-windows-vista.htm\">Mojave Experiment<\/a> made a point (until Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with all the Windows 7 news and speculation about a 2009 release effectively killing Vista off prematurely); Windows without Walls works (especially with the recent web services announcements); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/i-hope-it-gets-better-than-this.htm\">Gates and Seinfeld<\/a> &#8211; probably best not yo go there; but as for I&#8217;m a PC? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/more-on-microsofts-ad-campaign-are-you-a-pc.htm\">It&#8217;s fine to be highlighing all the things that a billion people do with PCs<\/a>&#8230; but this campaign is just not hitting the mark.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: 11 November 2008]: In conversation, Garry Martin made a very good point that I failed to comment on in the original post: if you&#8217;ve seen the Apple ads, then I&#8217;m a PC makes sense and show that PCs are not dull and boring but that they are used for many exciting and worthwhile things across the globe; however, many people in the UK have not seen those ads.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, Apple&#8217;s Mac vs. PC ads didn&#8217;t run on TV here (although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/mac-vs-pc.htm\">there were some UK versions produced<\/a> which may have done for a short while) &#8211; either way they are more of an Internet thing for geeks\/Mac fanboys and so most people miss the point entirely &#8211; resulting in a confused response to I&#8217;m a PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, I was watching Channel 4&#8216;s satirical political show, &#8220;Bremner, Bird and Fortune&#8220;, when a Microsoft &#8220;I&#8217;m a PC&#8221; ad ran in one of the breaks. 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