{"id":612,"date":"2014-01-06T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-01-06T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:23:40","slug":"inspired-used-ad-for-1996-maxima-gle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Inspired: Used Ad for 1996 Maxima GLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fr6FklMc6B0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I keep harping on about every video you make having the potential to promote you or your brand. Here&#8217;s another case that proves my point. This filmmaker used his skills in a comedic way to sell his old car on Craigslist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cars\/best-luxury-car-ever-1996-nissan-maxima\/\" target=\"_blank\">it worked<\/a>: Nissan, in a good marketing move themselves, bought the car and donated another $1000 to the seller&#8217;s charity of choice.<\/p>\n<p>But the filmmaker scores far more than just being able to dump a hard to sell car; his car ad parody has been seem more than 1.5 million times and so it&#8217; has turned into a great piece of promotion for him. It&#8217;s also really entertaining and funny: he parodies the new car ad down to the British narrator (for gravitas) and all the &#8216;beauty shots&#8217; that don&#8217;t even attempt to hide the tie-down strap holding the hood down and the torn seats. It&#8217;s great work and it shows that every video you make, no matter how trivial they may seem, have the potential to be a creative tour-de-force. This is something I&#8217;m going to try to keep in the front of my mind as the new year begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep harping on about every video you make having the potential to promote you or your brand. Here&#8217;s another case that proves my point. This filmmaker used his skills in a comedic way to sell his old car on Craigslist and it worked: Nissan, in a good marketing move themselves, bought the car and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Filmmaker's funny and entertaining used car ad for 1his old car #filmmakimg","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/nissan-maxima-970x01.jpg?fit=970%2C646&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wVJR-9S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}