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Post number 21181

billsaysthis — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:06:53 -0800

What is Bagotronics? "At Bagotronics we are IN business FOR business. Our scientists, engineers and designers work to develop the innovations that fuel the e-business engine that drives America's economy."

Entertained by an (unfortunately not reproduced on the website) full page ad in the SJ Mercury News, promising a time machine and including an apology to old H.G., I wondered what was up. The ads, the website, all say to stay tuned until Thursday for details, but I'm not really that patient. But quick searches of MeFi, /., and Google turned up nothing, so I swerved over to my favorite lookup service and found that this is simply an advertising comeon, with the site owned by humongous advertising agency Ogilvy & Mathers.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:07:19 -0800

Of course, it had to be something like that because who else could afford the full page ads in the Merc, the NY Times, and the WSJ? Silly me.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:19:04 -0800

Pretty entertaining ad. Sadly, when I clicked on the link to find out more about the magic business beans, it just opened to a pop-up ad saying watch this space.

By: four panels

four panels — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:29:24 -0800

Before you start advertising for free, or doing what the advertising agency gets paid to make you do, try this.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:42:14 -0800

fp, adbusters has nothing on this, so why the reference? Even if it is just advertising fluff, at least there is some entertainment value. And you're gonna see ads anyway, so how about a smile with that.

By: xiffix

xiffix — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:55:50 -0800

I think I can wait until Thursday morning. Looks like OM has a better handle on teaser campaigns than this guy.

By: originalname37

originalname37 — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:29:37 -0800

I know there will be those of you who will judge this to be some sort of fantastic publicity stunt.[xiffix's link] As opposed to the rest of us who judge it to be some sort of lame-ass publicity stunt.

By: xiffix

xiffix — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:54:18 -0800

Some sort of incredibly lame-ass publicity stunt previously derided here.

By: Swifty

Swifty — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:01:22 -0800

The infomercial linked on the website was actually pretty funny I thought. Product will be silly, useless crap though. Unless it's really a business time machine... But, I'm thinking probably not. I figure I'm the kinda guy who would buy something like that when it were to become available... and sure enough, on very careful checking, I'm not a super powerful executive of my very own multinational conglomerate at the moment. I have no idea where the "I *heart* the WTO" plush doll sitting on top of my monitor just came from, but that's probably coincidence. I figure it's gonna be a Transmeta PDA glued to a Segway painted to look like a big, mobile Vanilla Coke.

By: xiffix

xiffix — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:26:37 -0800

Article in today's NYT posits that this is an elaborate lead-in to a promo for IBM. And indeed, IBM's website today unveils something called e-business on demand (you won't need a business time machine). Ho hum.