As boring as this advertisement was, at the very least, it wasn't offensive to the point where it involved really bad Chinese accents and awful Asian stereotypes. If you want to learn more about that ad, otherwise known as the monstrosity known as the SalesGenie ad at Super Bowl XLII, click this: ua-cam.com/video/luf2oarpN3Q/v-deo.htmlsi=P3a7rSGLEkrKEney
The commercials are purposefully more boring now because marketing companies realized people were remembering the jokes not the products - it’s just cause greed
Welcome to Dumb Decisions: Advertising Edition. This isn’t for ads that look bad in hindsight. This is for commercials that anyone can say is a bad ad on face value, and you have better judgment than that of a marketing team of a multimillion dollar corporation. Seriously: Did anyone think this ad would pay off? That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars AT&T will never get back (not that they need it today anyway…)!
This seriously sounds like a ad for radio, especially with the info dumping and being targeted for business owners. I wouldn’t be surprised if I walked into a small business and the radio station they where blasting played this during the commercial breaks Also 13:34 congrats on the new position!!!
I lived in Maine from 1989-91. Back then, each town had its own phone company and calling someone across the street from you could be long distance if they were in the next town. I'm glad that's no longer a thing.
Towards the end of the 80s when I was in 6th grade, I moved from a Bay Area / Sacramento suburb to a very small town in the foothills. It was long distance charged to the next town over that was 10+ miles away.
The Super Bowl commercials are nowhere near as fun as they used to be. Sure you had the occasional stinker; but for the most part they were at least funny.
@@LouSephhow is that greed? You expect them to pay millions of Dollars to entertain you during the break of a program you are watching for free? Every business advertises, if they aren’t getting a return on the investment, why pay it.
I think to any Chicagoland native, this ad really reminds me of those Peter Francis Geraci bankruptcy attorney ads Just like this ad, it’s in a boring monotone speaker advertising to someone specifically But the difference is Peter Francis Geraci ads are a bit of a meme in Chicago for how boring it is and how many years it’s aired! No one remembers this ad
The 3D used for the 1989 Super Bowl is anaglyph 3D. It is done with glasses that have red and cyan lenses. This CD works with any color TV and even works with posters. However, it was hot in the 1950s but it is pretty sad. Even back then, if you had a large business, spending $120 a month on long distance back then was easy. Hey I spent $30-40 a month on long distance myself back then. Still, it would be maybe 1 in a 1,000 viewers. That is much bigger than you said but it doesn't change the rest of what you said. As if this writing, this video has over 900 views in 4-5 hours.
And this is why AT&T declined into obscurity, while phone companies like Sprint, Nextel, CellularOne, Bell Atlantic, Bell South and Nynex remain powerhouses in the industry.
Actually... SBC (Southwestern Bell) bought AT&T and chose to keep the AT&T name... Bell Atlantic became part of Verizon when the merger with GTE happened... NYNEX was already absorbed into Bell Atlantic...
Look at Super Bowl ads from the 1970s with Pat Summerall narrating for True Value hardware stores, and it's about as exciting. The only memorable one was the Coca Cola ad with Mean Joe Greene for SB XIV.
I would take Elvis Presto over any halftime show we have gotten for the past decade… but that’s because I’m a hard rock guy. I just wish the Super Bowl would have a more parity when it comes to featured acts. Every year, it’s a pop act. Would it kill them to feature a rock band every few years? I mean, that is what we hear over the PA when a team makes a play.
1-800-collect is better than AT&T in terms of commercials not sure about service though. Man that AT&T Super Bowl was flat as their call fees. LMAO OMG THE AD WAS CREATED BY POWERPOINT
New York City and the rest of New York State had New York Telephone back in 1989. In New Jersey, there was Bell Atlantic, and the voiceover was by Darth Vader himself, the late, great James Earl Jones. He was the spokesman of Bell Atlantic for years.
This wasn't a very entertaining ad, but the point was to get the information out there, which it did. It was much better than that dumb-ass QR code ad that you keep trying to tell us was good every year.
Following Super Bowl 23, AT&T put out more ads for ProWats long distance, with different spokespersons and they were even more boring than this one. That goes on until the end of 1989.
I don't remember any Superbowl halftime shows from the 80's. Up until I was 12 years old (1984) my Mom wouldn't allow me to have a TV in my room and she wouldn't watch the Superbowl at all.
It’s a different company now, they just acquired the name and assets of AT&T through a merger with Cingular. Or something like that, I lost the plot with phone companies, they all suck.
@ as a former AT&T Wireless / Cingular / AT&T employee for 11 years (mid 2000 - mid 2010) they even screwed their employees too. Seen many things change & perks that they gave their employees taken away while their executives & stockholders took in way more than anyone else.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the cheapest commercial in Super Bowl history. I’m channeling the laziness of AT&T by referencing a video to which you linked.
A 3D experience with 0 3D capabilities featuring an Elvis impersonator singing songs from Greese and doing card tricks. Drugs in the 80s must've hit different man the creativity is gone from todays entertainment.
That halftime show wasn't that memorable. I don't remember it. And 4:30 LOL at that dinosaur of a cellular phone. If you had that bag phone you were somebody. And Sprint no longer exists either.
I look forward to 3 things when I watch the Super Bowl, the game, the commercials, and the halftime show and with the commercials being mostly movie trailers and I’m not a fan of the performers, let’s just say that the game this year will be short one viewer. As for the Super Bowl you’re talking about, the game was good as Joe Montana and the 49ers beat Boomer Esison and the Bengals 20-16, the ads, aside from the one in this video, were pretty good, the halftime show, yeah, that was a train wreck
Unless you're a Eagles Chiefs a certain player or coach or singer's fan or want to see if The Chiefs make history one way or another they probably will have more people watching the Puppy Bowl then the Super Bowl.
4:41 The FORMER beauty of America and its lack of monopolies - everything is a monopoly now - not to get overly political just stating facts - trump just squashed all the Biden anti-trust legislation - even with what Biden was doing we still live in one giant monopoly - When I was a kid we had 5 different NFL football games competing - now we have one with a casino inside where every standard element of the game is now extra and game modes are hollowed out to steer you to the pay to win system. I don’t care who you voted for - defending this is gross - it’s just one giant Ponzi scheme. Walmart doesn’t offer a better product or service- they simple don’t pay their workers and Walmart workers are the biggest recipients of welfare in the United States - then the Walton family doesn’t pay taxes cause they bribe the government - then you pay taxes and pay their employees and they buy the broncos - that’s called a societal Ponzi scheme aka modern American business
Yeah, that commercial sure did suck. It just plain sucked. I've seen commercials suck before, but that was the suckeiest piece of suck that ever sucked.
There is an alternate version of this Super Bowl 23 ad that looks exactly the same as this one but with additional text. ua-cam.com/video/lQENct7vQrg/v-deo.htmlsi=WaQVi99L2v2l1mHz
ok so 81.6 million people watch SB23 per Nielson's estimate, and your saying out of that many 9 or less people were business owners who spent 120$+ on long distance calls monthly I think that's a stretch though my estimate of maybe 200-300 who qualify could hear it could understand it and knew they qualified at that time still doesn't justify this as a supebowl ad, its something you put on during say a business segment of the news or a business network or adjoining the televization of a "state of the business" type event where business owners investors and the actual target audience were watching, a better ad you be to see the inconnectability and announce a record low rate or even better a phone plan with unlimited nation wide (which I think in the 80s would've been a true first)
i wonder if you could do one where there's this animal rights group that uses shock value type protest (going naked in picket lines) tries to put their ads in the super bowl. even one that almost made it.
PETA (People Euthanizing Terrified Animals) used to be notorious for this, and they still might be doing it. They would submit commercials to the networks that had zero chance of making it to air, and then they would get free pub when their commercial would get banned. I’ve been seeing fewer articles about banned Super Bowl commercials in recent years. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m no longer reading the right news sources, or if it’s because news outlets have decided to stop playing into the ruse.
Hi, I enjoy yr videos n wat not,but my question is:why do u feel u have to put different helmets on the background,every single time u make a video?it must b tiring for you to do that every time u do a video. Is it necessary?pls dont get me wrong, yours is a very interesting channel,etc etc,.anyway.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld I'm the king of rock, there is none higher Sucker MCs should call me sire To burn my kingdom, you must use fire I won't stop rockin' till I retire Now we rock the party and come correct All cuts are on time and rhymes connect Got the right to vote and will elect And other rappers can't stand us, but give us respec
As boring as this advertisement was, at the very least, it wasn't offensive to the point where it involved really bad Chinese accents and awful Asian stereotypes. If you want to learn more about that ad, otherwise known as the monstrosity known as the SalesGenie ad at Super Bowl XLII, click this: ua-cam.com/video/luf2oarpN3Q/v-deo.htmlsi=P3a7rSGLEkrKEney
Around Every Super Bowl I now look forward to JG9’s Super Bowl commercial videos!
The commercials are purposefully more boring now because marketing companies realized people were remembering the jokes not the products - it’s just cause greed
Yep and now the Super Bowl commerical spending surpassed the amount they target every year for Super Bowl's
Recreating that commercial was so easy, a caveman could do it!
Welcome to Dumb Decisions: Advertising Edition. This isn’t for ads that look bad in hindsight. This is for commercials that anyone can say is a bad ad on face value, and you have better judgment than that of a marketing team of a multimillion dollar corporation.
Seriously: Did anyone think this ad would pay off? That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars AT&T will never get back (not that they need it today anyway…)!
I don't know how the hell he did it, but the greatest trick Elvis Presto pulled off that night was making everyone pine for Up With People.
I just can't believe they got THE Elvis Presto. I hear he was in high demand
This seriously sounds like a ad for radio, especially with the info dumping and being targeted for business owners.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I walked into a small business and the radio station they where blasting played this during the commercial breaks
Also 13:34 congrats on the new position!!!
I lived in Maine from 1989-91. Back then, each town had its own phone company and calling someone across the street from you could be long distance if they were in the next town.
I'm glad that's no longer a thing.
Towards the end of the 80s when I was in 6th grade, I moved from a Bay Area / Sacramento suburb to a very small town in the foothills. It was long distance charged to the next town over that was 10+ miles away.
It's JG9 Super Bowl Commercial season
The Super Bowl commercials are nowhere near as fun as they used to be. Sure you had the occasional stinker; but for the most part they were at least funny.
Cause marketing companies realized people were remembering the jokes not the products - it’s just cause greed
I agree. They aren't as good
@@LouSephhow is that greed? You expect them to pay millions of Dollars to entertain you during the break of a program you are watching for free? Every business advertises, if they aren’t getting a return on the investment, why pay it.
This Super Bowl 23 was the AT&T Pro WATS plan. There were two alternate versions of this ad, and both were still boring as this one.
I agree super bowl commercial used to be not as much now only certain super bowl commercial are good
I wish the Bud Bowl would come back
1:24 Grease, The Stray Cats, The Big Bopper, The Contours, Mitch Ryder, Lil Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. But as you say only 1 actual Elvis song.
I think to any Chicagoland native, this ad really reminds me of those Peter Francis Geraci bankruptcy attorney ads
Just like this ad, it’s in a boring monotone speaker advertising to someone specifically
But the difference is Peter Francis Geraci ads are a bit of a meme in Chicago for how boring it is and how many years it’s aired! No one remembers this ad
Chicagoland low budget commercials...true so bad they're good gems😊
The 3D used for the 1989 Super Bowl is anaglyph 3D. It is done with glasses that have red and cyan lenses. This CD works with any color TV and even works with posters. However, it was hot in the 1950s but it is pretty sad.
Even back then, if you had a large business, spending $120 a month on long distance back then was easy. Hey I spent $30-40 a month on long distance myself back then. Still, it would be maybe 1 in a 1,000 viewers. That is much bigger than you said but it doesn't change the rest of what you said.
As if this writing, this video has over 900 views in 4-5 hours.
And this is why AT&T declined into obscurity, while phone companies like Sprint, Nextel, CellularOne, Bell Atlantic, Bell South and Nynex remain powerhouses in the industry.
Sprint and Nextel merged, Bell Atlantic and Bell South were absorbed into a new AT&T, and Nynex merged with GTE to form Verizon.
@@raytaylor6412No Bell Atlantic merged with NYNex & GTE. Then Bell Atlantic changed its name to Verizon.
Nynex had New York Telephone when it did exists back in 1989, and so does New Jersey Bell.
Erm, former MCI shareholders would like a word with you.
Actually... SBC (Southwestern Bell) bought AT&T and chose to keep the AT&T name...
Bell Atlantic became part of Verizon when the merger with GTE happened... NYNEX was already absorbed into Bell Atlantic...
I found local commercials from around that era or before that are more exciting than this Super Bowl Commercial.
1:35 Since it was the last halftime show of the ‘80s, I’m guessing they were marking the occasion by skiing on the world’s largest pile of snow.
Look at Super Bowl ads from the 1970s with Pat Summerall narrating for True Value hardware stores, and it's about as exciting. The only memorable one was the Coca Cola ad with Mean Joe Greene for SB XIV.
Some very bizarre Super Bowl halftime shows back in the day - Indiana Jones has to be the worst
Halftime show in Florida to promote a Disney attraction exclusive to California
Absolute genius
I'd like to know whose bright idea it was to put a halftime show in 3-D 😅😂
I would take Elvis Presto over any halftime show we have gotten for the past decade… but that’s because I’m a hard rock guy. I just wish the Super Bowl would have a more parity when it comes to featured acts. Every year, it’s a pop act. Would it kill them to feature a rock band every few years? I mean, that is what we hear over the PA when a team makes a play.
1-800-collect is better than AT&T in terms of commercials not sure about service though. Man that AT&T Super Bowl was flat as their call fees. LMAO OMG THE AD WAS CREATED BY POWERPOINT
New York City and the rest of New York State had New York Telephone back in 1989. In New Jersey, there was Bell Atlantic, and the voiceover was by Darth Vader himself, the late, great James Earl Jones. He was the spokesman of Bell Atlantic for years.
This wasn't a very entertaining ad, but the point was to get the information out there, which it did. It was much better than that dumb-ass QR code ad that you keep trying to tell us was good every year.
6:48 I called the number, and this number is still being used by AT&T
Following Super Bowl 23, AT&T put out more ads for ProWats long distance, with different spokespersons and they were even more boring than this one. That goes on until the end of 1989.
I don't remember any Superbowl halftime shows from the 80's. Up until I was 12 years old (1984) my Mom wouldn't allow me to have a TV in my room and she wouldn't watch the Superbowl at all.
You didn't miss much.
In the 80s we had the Cola Wars and in the 90s we had the Long Distance Wars!
yes
AT&T…. screwing over their customers nearly 40 years ago as they still are today.
It’s a different company now, they just acquired the name and assets of AT&T through a merger with Cingular. Or something like that, I lost the plot with phone companies, they all suck.
@ as a former AT&T Wireless / Cingular / AT&T employee for 11 years (mid 2000 - mid 2010) they even screwed their employees too. Seen many things change & perks that they gave their employees taken away while their executives & stockholders took in way more than anyone else.
Just like the Cowboys screw over their fans
@@allthingssports4957lol
@@MrTim2031Yep you're right they pretty much disovled Cingular then created Cricket which is run by AT&T towers an also merged with Direct TV.
IMO, you should have used Comic Sans to further illustrate the ridiculousness of the ad.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the cheapest commercial in Super Bowl history. I’m channeling the laziness of AT&T by referencing a video to which you linked.
A 3D experience with 0 3D capabilities featuring an Elvis impersonator singing songs from Greese and doing card tricks. Drugs in the 80s must've hit different man the creativity is gone from todays entertainment.
Something tells me Brad Childress got REAL excited when he saw this commercial.
'Ya gawta cawl for da discount on Pro Wawts. Whaddaya gawta looze? Cawl aftuh da game, so's ya don't miss nuttin'.'
Now that you mention it, I need to look for those Bud Bowl videos. They're more enjoyable than this ad was! No wonder I forgot about it.
JG9 Super Bowl ad is better than that AT&T commercial!!!
Yep the way he zoomed into the AT&T logo is funny. 😅
That halftime show wasn't that memorable. I don't remember it. And 4:30 LOL at that dinosaur of a cellular phone. If you had that bag phone you were somebody. And Sprint no longer exists either.
Sprint is part of T Mobile by yeah they're gone.
@ didn't MCI merge with Sprint years ago?
I don’t have a problem with the ad. It got straight to the point.
For the most part, I agree. I just think the offer itself was overly specific. Other than that, it was good in terms of sending a no nonsense message
It would’ve been a great ad for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. It made no sense as a Super Bowl ad.
@@clydemiller4776Exactly the problem is what event or program they chose to air the commercial on.
I look forward to 3 things when I watch the Super Bowl, the game, the commercials, and the halftime show and with the commercials being mostly movie trailers and I’m not a fan of the performers, let’s just say that the game this year will be short one viewer. As for the Super Bowl you’re talking about, the game was good as Joe Montana and the 49ers beat Boomer Esison and the Bengals 20-16, the ads, aside from the one in this video, were pretty good, the halftime show, yeah, that was a train wreck
commercials are when you go to the bathrrom, get another beer, or chips. they are not for watching.
1:39 Yes. That's the only answer I will accept.
um, all of the commercials are boring, i only watch the game, the commericals are ignored
So, are we all boycotting the Super Bowl? The Puppy Bowl might have their highest ratings ever.
Unless you're a Eagles Chiefs a certain player or coach or singer's fan or want to see if The Chiefs make history one way or another they probably will have more people watching the Puppy Bowl then the Super Bowl.
@@stephenholloway6893thats what people said last year but yet the Super Bowl was the highest rated Super Bowl ever in the US an in Mexico.
Honestly i kinda like this ad. Straight to the point, gives you the information you need to hear, and gives you a clear message.
Wonder if you watch it now on a 3D tv if the 3D will work now? 🤔
It's up to 105 views now
4:41 The FORMER beauty of America and its lack of monopolies - everything is a monopoly now - not to get overly political just stating facts - trump just squashed all the Biden anti-trust legislation - even with what Biden was doing we still live in one giant monopoly -
When I was a kid we had 5 different NFL football games competing - now we have one with a casino inside where every standard element of the game is now extra and game modes are hollowed out to steer you to the pay to win system.
I don’t care who you voted for - defending this is gross - it’s just one giant Ponzi scheme.
Walmart doesn’t offer a better product or service- they simple don’t pay their workers and Walmart workers are the biggest recipients of welfare in the United States - then the Walton family doesn’t pay taxes cause they bribe the government - then you pay taxes and pay their employees and they buy the broncos - that’s called a societal Ponzi scheme aka modern American business
I hate just about all TV commercials.
Another stinker of a halftime show was Black Eyed Peas at Super Bowl XLII
@@matthewdaley746 Kind of hard to follow your post with all those commas.
XLV, Tom Petty was XLII (which definitely did not suck, though I wish he would have played Scare Easy)
If that video is still available here, Im sure JG9 has had that tripled at least.....but then maybe not, i haven't checked.
So did NBC or the NFL approved of the AT&T commercial before it was aired? It didn't look like it from a entertainment point of view.
It’s actually Garamond Condensed. 😜
At least it's better than the Panda one
Love your ad, but you of all people have a lot of nerve criticizing someone else for talking too fast! 😂😂😂
Yeah, that commercial sure did suck. It just plain sucked. I've seen commercials suck before, but that was the suckeiest piece of suck that ever sucked.
I gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening.......
There is an alternate version of this Super Bowl 23 ad that looks exactly the same as this one but with additional text. ua-cam.com/video/lQENct7vQrg/v-deo.htmlsi=WaQVi99L2v2l1mHz
ok so 81.6 million people watch SB23 per Nielson's estimate, and your saying out of that many 9 or less people were business owners who spent 120$+ on long distance calls monthly I think that's a stretch though my estimate of maybe 200-300 who qualify could hear it could understand it and knew they qualified at that time still doesn't justify this as a supebowl ad, its something you put on during say a business segment of the news or a business network or adjoining the televization of a "state of the business" type event where business owners investors and the actual target audience were watching, a better ad you be to see the inconnectability and announce a record low rate or even better a phone plan with unlimited nation wide (which I think in the 80s would've been a true first)
i wonder if you could do one where there's this animal rights group that uses shock value type protest (going naked in picket lines) tries to put their ads in the super bowl. even one that almost made it.
PETA (People Euthanizing Terrified Animals) used to be notorious for this, and they still might be doing it. They would submit commercials to the networks that had zero chance of making it to air, and then they would get free pub when their commercial would get banned.
I’ve been seeing fewer articles about banned Super Bowl commercials in recent years. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m no longer reading the right news sources, or if it’s because news outlets have decided to stop playing into the ruse.
Hi, I enjoy yr videos n wat not,but my question is:why do u feel u have to put different helmets on the background,every single time u make a video?it must b tiring for you to do that every time u do a video. Is it necessary?pls dont get me wrong, yours is a very interesting channel,etc etc,.anyway.
I always skip the halftime show. Come to think of it , I'm skipping the whole Super Bowl, as we already know who's going to win....🙄😉
So no Kendrick Lamar you don't want to see him rapping?
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld I'm the king of rock, there is none higher
Sucker MCs should call me sire
To burn my kingdom, you must use fire
I won't stop rockin' till I retire
Now we rock the party and come correct
All cuts are on time and rhymes connect
Got the right to vote and will elect
And other rappers can't stand us, but give us respec
I can't stand that Boston accent.
That's not Boston, it's Noo Yawk.
This is the most irrelevant Super Bowl Ever... Nobody cares if the chiefs or the eagles are going to win 🤦♂️
Thats what people said last year but yet it was the highest rated Super Bowl ever in the US and Mexico.
@runrafarunthebestintheworld Yeah but it doesn't matter how many people are watching if you just can't support anyone...
Maybe there is hidden coke in the desk he's sitting on? And I don't mean Pepsi. :/