Advertising Lives To See Another Day: Consumer Ads Stink

If you step away from the masses-with-gain-control-of-all People’s Republic of Internetia for a minute and take a look at one of those “create your own commercial!” contests, you’ll immediately be faced with the reality that people have no idea what their doing. Such is part of the point of “The High Price of Creating Free Ads” in the NY Times. The other half of the article concerns how expensive it is to run these things, primarily in having to watch all the junk that gets sent in (and most of it is completely awful, they say).