This year's marketing campaign 2011

Buschy in goal at the Shark Tank, in MLS match attire, taking Danny Heatley slap shots.

Ouch.

 

I liked the first three, but the fourth commercial is pretty awful.

 

I love this one. It would take a lot of creativity though. ManU might not like it.

 

I put a smiley face because I meant a game, not a commercial.

 

A game would be okay, but I like the commercial idea actually.

 

A week late, but humorous nonetheless.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnR6_LhTvg"]YouTube - Charlie Sheen: Motivational Speaker for the San Jose Earthquakes[/ame]

 

Maybe the FO can christen the visitor's SG section at Buck Shaw as the "Winning Like Charlie Sheen" section.

 

Good for the kid. Blessings upon him or her as the case may be.

 

Kudos to whomever put that together. An excellent job. However, I do question the ethics of using the mentally ill for a promo. 　

 

This is a beauty from the Timber's Army

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVW3tYo1UYk"]YouTube - MLS is here, are you ready?[/ame]

 

Come on now, Frank is still pretty darn lucid!

 

That appears to have been pilfered in good measure from a video for Irish soccer.

 

Here's the original: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vzqGB4WLkY"]YouTube - Local Football[/ame]

 

Apart from issues of basic morality and intellectual property law, the Portland re-make is just dandy.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbAUi7savsk"]YouTube - Vanilla Ice says 'Sorry'[/ame]

 

Don just turned this thread upside down!

 

i'm with you in this one TS.But I think this "commercial" is just trying to be cute with the existing fans and is not targeting any new fans for the club.

 

And it's the most popular Quakes ad on YouTube, at 7500 or so views and counting, which is something like 4x greater than number of views of last year's ads, for whatever reason.

 

How many views would they get running the ad during Quakes games on Comcast SportNet Bay Area or something, and what is the cost per view compared to youtube views (i.e. compared to $0.00 )?

And if 7k views is not impressive, then why do last years ads have only a small fraction of that? I don't know the answer. Maybe someone is working to get more views of the ads this year, or maybe the ad is more viral than last year's for some reason.

Now that you mention it, I would say that there is a little bit of "Rebecca Blackness" in the ads, though in her case I'm afraid that the Rebecca Blackness was unintentional.

 

Who the hell is Rebecca Black? Some porn star or something?