{"id":3734,"date":"2012-09-08T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:57:29","slug":"how-not-to-fake-an-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"How not to fake an ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Nokia. The struggling mobile phone manufacturer is about to introduce its new flagship phone, the Lumia 920. The phone supposedly has a high quality camera with image stabilization, which Nokia proudly showed in a YouTube ad. The ad shows a young couple, the geeky man taking videos of her girlfriend while they ride bicycles, go to an amusement park, or just generally goof off.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cimDfEIEiu0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok1b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3735\" title=\"nok1b\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok1b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok1b.png 576w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok1b-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a--><\/p>\n<p>Except that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/09\/06\/nokia_fakes_lumia_advert\/\">all a fake<\/a>. Look closely at this frame, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cimDfEIEiu0&amp;feature=player_embedded#t=26s\">27 seconds<\/a> into the video:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3736\" title=\"nok2b\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2b.png 576w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2b-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at the reflection in the window of that mobile home (or whatever it is). Do you see the girl&#8217;s goofy boyfriend, riding his bicycle while holding a phone? Of course not. What you do see is a white van with its side door open, revealing a cameraman with a large, professional camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3737\" title=\"nok2c\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2c.png 576w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nok2c-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>I am actually rooting for Nokia. I even think that Windows 8, while a disaster on the desktop, will likely be a good smartphone or tablet operating system if it is given the chance. None of which excuses the phony ad.<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, Nokia admitted the fake right away, and the updated version of the video that is presently on YouTube says that much. Still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But then, as P. T. Barnum once supposedly said, any publicity is good publicity. Maybe Nokia will actually benefit from the extra publicity that their commercial receives as a result of this fiasco.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3734' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Nokia. The struggling mobile phone manufacturer is about to introduce its new flagship phone, the Lumia 920. The phone supposedly has a high quality camera with image stabilization, which Nokia proudly showed in a YouTube ad. The ad shows a young couple, the geeky man taking videos of her girlfriend while they ride bicycles, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3734' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-technology","category-46-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}