Commercial Listing Dilemma

**augiewon** · 09-13-2004, 04:58 PM

I've been getting lots of show and commercial information from you guys for the last month now. I want to thank and congratulate you all for all the great posts.

I noticed that someone once tried a thread to list all the commercials in one place. It was over 60 pages long and a great idea, but unfortunately the "search" feature of the forum could never find the commercial I was looking for.

For the last couple weeks I have been copying all the commercials to a Microsoft Word document. It is 167 pages long and 657kb and the first 11 pages are commercials "under construction".

Using the "Find" feature I am able to access most commercials in an instant and have found it invaluable. But it also takes about 2 hours a day to update.

I will send it to anyone that wants it and would love to hear ideas on how to post such a thing that everyone could update and access through "search".

**Advertisement** · 09-13-2004 04:58 PM

**spiritlife** · 09-14-2004, 07:27 AM

Wow, what a great idea ! I would like a copy at [email protected]

**FreeBnutt** · 09-14-2004, 02:40 PM

By just copying all those commericals, how many duplicates, triplicates, etc do you have? AND do you delete commercials not used? like the Holiday ones? the Weekend specials? (the dept store commercial,) the outdated ones?

And those 'under construction'? how long to do you keep those without being completed? I've noticed there are several commericals that ONLY maybe used a couple of times. AND certain networks use only certain commericals, and IF you don't watch that network, why bother with the commercial? I've also noticed CBS may run certain commercials, and you won't find those commercials on ABC, NBC, FOX etc.

I basically have the same thing, with the exception I've categorized by a section for the vehicles, fast food chains, dept stores, beverages, movies/dvd's etc, and keep it in ALPHA order by the product manufacture. AND put the NEWER commercials first, that way after 2 months I eliminate the older commericals.

A commercial's life is not that long, unless it's Grey Poupon, which has been running their same commercials for 10 to 20 years.

Another thing I've done, because Burger king and their pretend doc ALL have the same answer but different question's is this:

what did a man claiming to be a doctor do as he sat at a table outside while food was prepared in a video window in the upper left corner?
what did a man claiming to be a doctor do in front of an audience in between scenes of him standing near a helicopter and making a chess move?
what did a man claiming to be a doctor do in front of an audience after scenes of him hugging an animal and driving a car?
what did a man claiming to be a doctor do as he sat at a desk while food was prepared in a video window in the upper left corner?
what did a man claiming to be a doctor do in front of an audience in between scenes of him hugging an animal and playing the cello?
what did a man claiming to be a doctor do as he sat at a desk with a monkey and food was prepared in a video window in the upper left corner?
Talked about diet program
Burger King
Angus Steak Burger

I keep everything how RTV has it, even with the grammer mistakes!

Good Luck with your DATA BASE!!

**dreemin** · 09-14-2004, 07:29 PM

You mean "grammar mistakes", don't you?

**FreeBnutt** · 09-14-2004, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by dreemin

You mean "grammar mistakes", don't you?

LOL...yes... They have actually had that, and misspelled word's, and punctuation mistakes, and I prefer when I'm doing a search to have it exactly how RTV has it. Most of the time they leave the mistakes.

**heavenheir** · 09-14-2004, 08:02 PM

**never** · 10-09-2004, 08:09 PM

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