Friday, January 22, 2010
USA Today | Promoting subscriptions like it's 1999
On Facebook, USA Today's Patrick Cooper posted this now-retro commercial, hawking home and office (even boat!) delivery of Gannett's best-known paper; he guesses it dates as far back as 1999.
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everything old is new again!
ReplyDeleteMy god, what a stinker! Are all circulation operations so lacking in creativity?
ReplyDeleteThere were several USAT and GCI employees in the commercial...including the parents of the commercial's producer!
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