I decided to blame HP…

We’re having quite a few discussions on the value of webvertising lately, and its not very positive.

While surfing the interwebs today my eye caught a skyscraper by HP. It had some nice kaleidoscopic thing going round and I’ve seen some nice stuff from HP before so I figured I’d give this one a click - I’m a consumer and I’ll enter your world.

So I clicked it. At first nothing happened since Firefox popupkilled whatever it tried to open straight away, but after having disabled the popupkiller I ended up on some microsite:

hp.jpg

1) YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LATEST FLASH PLUGIN

Right. Well I have Flash player 9.
But I guess I have 9,0,46,0 and I need 9,0,47,0 for this.

I’ll try a different browser.

2) YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LATEST FLASH PLUGIN

Ok, well I’m really sorry and I’ll download it straight away.

3) It appears that a browser is still running on your system please close all browsers and click ‘continue’.

Well I have about six tabs open in two browsers - the Gmails, the Facebooks, Netvibes, work mail… but OK, no problem. I’ll close them all for the sweet people at HP.

4) Adobe Flash Player version 9,0,47,0 installed succesfully.

Thats really great! This HP site must be really something to have me go trough all this upgrading stuff and I * really * can’t wait to see it now.

So where did all my tabs go?

And where did that site go that had me do all this?!?!

I give up.

5) THE END.

So who made a mistake here? Adobe with a flakey upgrading procedure, Firefox for not remembering my tabs or HP for choosing the absolute latest version of Flash which a lot of people won’t have installed yet?

(note - this post is not about HP’s quite nice Toyrama project that was done by Arc Worldwide Singapore and doesn’t need the absolute latest version of Flash to run)

July 29, 2007 | Tagged Advertising, Interwebs 

Comments

One Response to “I decided to blame HP…”

  1. sean on July 30th, 2007 2:36 pm

    More to the point, once you do actually get to the site (sorry! i meant “brand experience”), its fucking shite.

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