Advertisers often pay more to have a radio personality read a scripted advertisement live on the radio, then to play a pre-recorded commercial. This morning I was listening to Q 104.3 on the radio on the way to work and heard live scripted commercial for Purina dog food. He was reading off the script and then ad-libbing to the commercial, to make it stand out. As he was talking, you can hear the co-host in the background holding in her giggles. It was pretty humorous, I mean, it sounded to me that Jim Kerr was having way too much fun with the commercial. :)
Hey, I enjoyed it.


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It would be interesting to see if radio can drive SE traffic. The interaction between offline and online marketing isn't very clear yet (though many prominent newspaper are printing "sound off on our site," "get this on RSS" and other similar stuff).
As to the ad-libbing, I think Purina's going to advertise there a lot more. Probably some memorable publicity.
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