Those were the commercials, sir.

US Commercial 10 Envelope

When Lexus wants to sell you a car, they're telling you a story.

They used to have those latenight...

Sure. Your commercials? They suck ass.

An hour of television is actually 44 minutes of real show, the rest, as you know, promo time and paid commercial time.

All you get is Mexican commercials.

He's on that beer commercial.

Television programs are interspersed with commercials.

He was in that beer commercial.

He deals with the commercials of the supermarket.

Remember the director of the yogurt commercial?

(Laughter)

Normally the episode would just start commercial free.

This is the venue they chose for their fake auditions for an advert for lip balm.

That cute football player on the Reebok commercials?

So we have the programs and the sporting events and the commercials, and all of the link structures that tie them together make a content graph.

Yeah, I saw the commercial. I've gotta get to work.

For women, the best example I can give you is Enjoli, the commercial.

But I thought, you know, sometimes it's just not the right time for an invention maybe it's time to give this one another shot.

But, we've waged this war on Madison Avenue.

I'll just play one of these and you'll remember it.

That commercial makes a strong impression especially the music. It stays in your head.

So I just want to quickly explain how this would work.

You ow that beer commercial with the guy wearing the toga?

OurBeginning.com. Life's an event. Announce it to the world.

Lameass TV ads aside your lawyer here, he cooked you up a pretty killer deal.

Mr. Rogers, Walt Disney, Nick Junior, and roughly half a million commercials have undoubtedly

Today, after 20 years of watching TV geared to make me emotional, even a decent insurance commercial can bring tears to my eyes.

They hoped to broadcast the flashing lights during commercials so that the viewers would have no choice but to buy their products.

This matrix can produce thousands of different color combinations to represent thousands of different smells.

For the first time, a fragrance is advertised at the Super Bowl finals.

And sometimes you create high art, and sometimes you pay the bills by doing some commercial work.

So, for TED we decided to take our favorite idea for the gel magnet and work with Roman and his team at the Directors Bureau to create a commercial for a product from the future.

They enabled us to tell the story about neuromarketing, as we got into telling the story in this film about how now they're using MRl's to target the desire centers of your brain for both commercials as well as movie marketing.

And this is what they call Zero B type of water, because it comes from the clouds, pure distilled water.

Some of the people in the room might be old enough to remember the guy on the old oil filter commercial.

And you know, without the smell that would have accompanied that, we had the same thing on the Internet very bad burn rate calculations.

So imagine, you're sitting at home watching television and suddenly a commercial will flash onto the screen, and a voice will say

Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday, and, uh, getting paid 2 million... to endorse a whiskey... when I could be doing a play somewhere.

He works on mostly music videos and commercials with his company, The Directors Bureau.

So when Steve Jobs talks to 50,000 people at his keynote, who are all tuned in from 130 countries watching his two hour commercial that's the only thing keeping his company in business it's that those 50,000 people care desperately enough to watch a two hour commercial, and then tell their friends.

Well, the Alliance for Climate Protection, which I head in conjunction with Current TV who did this pro bono did a worldwide contest to do commercials on how to communicate this.

The means of communication can include letters, magazine and newspaper advertisements, radio and television commercials, and telephone marketing, as well as catalogs.

For women, shame is, do it all, do it perfectly and never let them see you sweat.