{"id":2920,"date":"2011-03-29T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:40:30","slug":"ad-watch-going-after-the-tim-hortons-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"Ad Watch: Going After the Tim Hortons Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, that should read &#8220;Tim Hortons Crowd<em>ing<\/em>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"WIDTH: 480px; HEIGHT: 293px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ykhmKusyEMM?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ykhmKusyEMM?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t really <em>like <\/em>the ad, but it strikes me as one that could <em>work<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The ad is on an issue voters care about. It&#8217;s got Jack sounding confident in front of a big flag. Plus, attack ads done in a &#8220;cartoon style&#8221; like this seem less mean than grainy black and white photos &#8211; that&#8217;s why the Dippers used a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IB6tQ5suCMQ&amp;feature=relmfu\">chalk attack<\/a>&#8221; in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not fancy. It certainly won&#8217;t win any awards. But it gets the message across, which is what it&#8217;s supposed to do. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input value=\"eqtgycbi\" type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\"> <\/p>\n<\/form>\n<table style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 12pt\" border=\"1\" width=\"304\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"middle\">How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input value=\"1\" type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\"> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input value=\"2\" type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\"> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input value=\"3\" type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\"> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input value=\"4\" type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\"> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input value=\"5\" type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\"> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"middle\"><input value=\" Vote ! \" type=\"submit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt\" align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/eqtgycbisr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, that should read &#8220;Tim Hortons Crowding&#8220;: Personally, I don&#8217;t really like the ad, but it strikes me as one that could work. The ad is on an issue voters care about. It&#8217;s got Jack sounding confident in front of a big flag. Plus, attack ads done in a &#8220;cartoon style&#8221; like this seem less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1019,12,983],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}