{"id":6959,"date":"2010-09-06T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2010-09-05T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:39:01","slug":"radio-commercial-levis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/radio-commercial-levis\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN: LEVI&#8217;S DISASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hopelessness_by_jdiaz888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6963\" title=\"Levi's radio commercial\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hopelessness_by_jdiaz888-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Levi's radio advertising\" width=\"403\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hopelessness_by_jdiaz888-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hopelessness_by_jdiaz888-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It&#8217;s with a heavy heart that I share this commercial with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"204\" height=\"79\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"bUseColor=true&amp;sCustomColor= 9451520&amp;bUseText=false&amp;sBrandText=&amp;sBrandUrl=&amp;bAutoPlay=false&amp;bCloakUrl=true&amp;mp3url=jvIM5%2A%21%2BCx%2Fqh%2E%2Fdoo%211Ixoc0Fs%2F%2DTgxjs%2FoEv\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.danoday.com\/siteaudioplayer.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"204\" height=\"79\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danoday.com\/siteaudioplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"bUseColor=true&amp;sCustomColor= 9451520&amp;bUseText=false&amp;sBrandText=&amp;sBrandUrl=&amp;bAutoPlay=false&amp;bCloakUrl=true&amp;mp3url=jvIM5%2A%21%2BCx%2Fqh%2E%2Fdoo%211Ixoc0Fs%2F%2DTgxjs%2FoEv\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\" loop=\"false\" play=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I could critique this on a micro level, beginning with the opening line \u2014 which is inane and which tells us this is the story of the radio station being asked to create a commercial for the advertiser.<\/p>\n<p>But the real disaster lies on the macro level: There is absolutely nothing good about this radio commercial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;because it&#8217;s <strong>not<\/strong> a radio commercial. It&#8217;s a list of bullet points held up to a microphone.<\/p>\n<p>What a depressing way to spend this holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s with a heavy heart that I share this commercial with you. I could critique this on a micro level, beginning with the opening line \u2014 which is inane and which tells us this is the story of the radio station being asked to create a commercial for the advertiser. But the real disaster lies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MONDAY RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN: LEVI&#039;S DISASTER - DAN O\u2019DAY TALKS ABOUT RADIO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/radio-commercial-levis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MONDAY RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN: LEVI&#039;S DISASTER - DAN O\u2019DAY TALKS ABOUT RADIO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s with a heavy heart that I share this commercial with you. 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