Mysteries of modern life

[Richard Ryan]

Actually that's pretty credible.  Corporate marketing and
communications divisions often go to 3rd parties to buy blocks of ad
placement that target certain demographic segments; Rush's show would
be desirable because of his high ratings; I'd also guess that he has
relatively large numbers of listeners in rural/remote areas where
residents are dependent on Netflix (rather than a local video store)
for their movies.  It's very believable that Netflix would have no
idea where their radio ads (or online ads, or TV ads) were cropping up
unless someone senior in marketing specifically asked.  The Netflix
folks were most likely looking at the numbers and not paying much
attention to the programming.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My wife called Netflix yesterday after I read here that they were sponsers and what they told her was that their ads somehow got placed on Rush's show sorta like by a third party--i dont know the exact words they used or how that works--but that Netflix was aware of the situation and was going to make sure it didnt happen again. I don't see how Netflix couldnt be aware of where their ads are being placed.
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> Rich
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> http://www.macclaveyphotography.com/
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> --- On Mon, 3/5/12, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
>> Subject: Re: Mysteries of modern life
>> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>, "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net>, "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 10:53 PM
>> Netflix...really?  That's so
>> surprising....Reed Hastings is an
>> interesting, intelligent guy.  A quirky,
>> business-oriented "New"
>> Democrat - pretty familiar sort from the Clinton era; a not
>> uncommon
>> type among Silicon Valley executives.  I would think
>> he'd regard a
>> white trash populist like Rush with unveiled, almost
>> instinctive
>> disdain.
>>
>> Maybe I'll put my subscription on hold for a month....great
>> howls of
>> protest would arise from various quarters of my household, I
>> have to
>> say....
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Paul M>> The p-list isn't big on electoral
>> politics but one thing I'm always
>> > wondering about is where extreme right wing Republican
>> would-be-candidates
>> > can possibly be coming from.
>> >
>> > Today I spent most of it not working, not reading AtD,
>> not doing errands,
>> > not posting......
>> > But trying to get more foax to boycott Rush, more
>> companies to drop him
>> > ....followed the advertisers dropping him.....maybe 12
>> now...........if
>> > Geico news is confirmed......
>> >
>> > Netflix still stands....consider giving up your movies
>> until they give up
>> > Rush.......
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that
>> surround
>> him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to
>> himself.
>> All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw
>>
>



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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw