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Roger's biggest fault is that he often didn't apply himself, but at his core, he's a businessman and he consistently recognized the elements of both advertising and a hustle. He knew Don too well to be taken in by the show he was putting on.

There’s literally a word for word comment directly above yours, months before you commented that you copy/pasted and stole before you posted your “own” comment. I can’t imagine being so sad and needy for attention that you can’t even write your own completely optional comment and you’d steal someone else’s lmao. It’s UA-cam comments, bro. They mean absolutely nothing, everyone is anonymous and no one knows who you are. And you still plagiarize someone else’s comment. Probably the most cringe, virgin thing I’ve seen in awhile lmao

real advertising shi

There's a lot of context im skipping, but whats important is that Don, played by Jon Hamm, is actually a fantastic salesman. He knows exactly how he's pitching this idea to these people with a very specific image for their company: badly. Jaguar is a brand that is meant for upper crusts, people with means. They're high class cars for high class people. Don does not care for the idea he's pitching. He agrees with the jaguar execs, but he's being forced to pitch it regardless. So he makes it sound like going through with this idea would make Jaguar turn into a brand no longer associated with luxury, but rather affordability. He sabotaged the campaign, and nobody could say he wasn't trying. He made statistically validated points, and ruined it all the same.

But why

@@realrobrose It's a luxury thing. Part of what you're buying when you buy many luxury goods is the idea that not everyone can afford them. You're buying the status, the exclusivity. And I'll just say it, what you're buying is the feeling of being better than other people. I remember feeling that way when I bough a used Audi(which is even more silly because it was used and also the lowest tier car they sold, the A3 lol). I shortly corrected that mindset for multiple reasons, but it is human nature to want to feel superior.

@@mattm7798 WHY is he throwing it

What do you mean?

She was friends with megan before Megan even knew Don. Even Sally was friends with Megan when Megan had barely become Don's secretary

haha reminds me of Ferrari today...where it's a "privilege" to buy one of their cars....um sure k, if I could afford a Ferrari and some uppity Italian company says I'm not ready to buy their overpriced breakdown mobile...hello McLaren!

dam your right!! don is not a salesman he is just a punk in a suit and than he also makes facial expressions telling them that they are idiots he is just a child

Really? He brought up used cars as a tactic to undermine Herb? I never thought of that. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

what were his reasons for humiliating Jaguar?

True, but at the same time the company has to turn a profit and there are only so many people that could afford a luxury car, and why Jaguar over Cadillac or xyz? I think the smartest thing companies like BMW, Audi, Mercedes was to make entry level versions of their more expensive models. It gets people in the door with your brand and what a better driving experience feels like(never mind Audi's start costing a fortune in upkeep after 3-5 years lol)

@@mattm7798 They call them "once and dones" in the business.

Aye, verily!

this is false, over here, Don is doing the exact opposite of selling a luxury item with exclusivity, but rather making it more accessible, hence the "7/11" placements. marketing guy 15 years. my 2 cents.

​@@BMB-hg8oo If you rewatch the episode, you'll remember that Don wanted Herb's mass appeal idea to fail. He's purposely nipping this idea in the bud while making it look to Herb that "they tried."

Greatest show ever.

Mathew Weiner's writing stands out

lol, i was thinking the exact same thing. My favourite part of the clip

I guess that depends on the type of meeting and the personalities involved. I get on meetings frequently where people aren't disruptive. So yeah, these types of meetings do take place. Amazing to know life isn't just what you imagine from your own personal experience, right?

​@@JM-db8ezso you say, but then again it's possible that you are all just figments of my imagination and i'm dreaming.

The hell kind of office have you been working in? 😂

@@scottmatheson3346 You probably are a figment I guess, with that kind of response.

the whole show is about her trying to be his protege

OMG haven’t notice it.

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it didn't improve immediately. people forget that most channels didn't have enough material to fill a daily schedule. it was filled with a lot of reruns of older shows and movies. when they had a new movie, they played it 4 times a day, sometimes more, for a week, sometimes more. it was the tv version of radio.

I couldn't understand about "cable" being a big deal in the 1980s. We had cable TV from the late 1960s on. There was something on from channel 2 to 13. Of course, they were all "broadcast" channels from Clarksburg, Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Wheeling, and Steubenville. Things began to change with HBO and Showtime. Then came the converter boxes, then cable ready TV. But I still remember high quality "Cable TV" from the 1970s that stayed on no matter what the weather. We never got anything but snow and static on our UHF dial, but we didn't have an antenna, either.

Well cable got better reception, but cost. Antennas like radios were free. And the broadcasting station we’re getting more powerful to reach more area, but as cable became more popular, weren’t maintained or improved, and we lost free tv and maybe more important lost control.

the big deal about cable TV was "no commercials!" boy that didn't last long enough.

@@EndWach-gi1nhYou can still watch tv with an antenna for free, a lot of people don't seem to know this. You don't need cable, it's a waste of money.

Yes

Yeah, I really think they exaggerated the extent that mod fashion trends infiltrated Madison ave by 1970. In my own memory the 70s brought gradually wider lapels and slightly "jazzier" ties but thats about it. Pete Campbell's long sideburns never would a flown in real life back then. Some guy like Don would a told him, "Shave that off, you look like a god-damned jackass!" Mad Ave was a little less conservative than Wall St. but not THAT much less conservative. Ad guys started doing stuff like wearing regular old gray flannel suits but with a psychadelic lining hiding inside the jacket. Chipp and Press did that a lot of that stuff with suits. Blow-dried hair came along but not until the late 70s and then only in a limited number of really young guys who could pull it off. Lapels narrowed in the 80s, everything got narrower in the 90s but the basic corporate style didn't change until the late 90s. Of course styles for the gals changed but thats another story.