I can understand that completely, as I share some of those same thoughts, it is especially getting rough as I am starting to see advertisements from others in this sector. Obviously none of us know what is actually going on, but let's just "PRETEND" for a second!
"Hypothetically", let's just say that something huge is really coming in November! Let's imagine and go on an all out dream fest and say that all the stars are actually aligning! That the combination of Triad, Oi2 Media, IHeartMedia, and UN are all wrapped up along with the faces/representatives of the company (Luis Guzman, Jack Brewer, etc!! Wow that's a lot of stuff to talk about and a lot of things to advertise. Radio, Tv, news, Social Media blows up advertising this incredible company! I can picture Luis Guzman in some witty commercial talking about VivaLiveTV, and how it offers a cutting edge technology in leading the cord-cutting revolution..all these channels, premium channels, live tv, sports, movies, DVR, etc! Then you get in your car, turn your radio on and BOOM.. you hear the Oi2 Media Radio add campaign talking about all this great same stuff! Tired of you current cable provider and excited to hear of this new product, you immediately order (using your credit card) ITS EVERYTHING YOUVE DREAMED OF!! They even offer their own internet (TRIAD) and gave you VivaLiveTv for 30 days free for cutting the cord. A few days later your new DVR box shows up, your in love! Your watching the football game on your phone away from home, the wife's watching the anticipated finale of her favorite series on HBO in her bedroom, your daughters on the couch watching her favorite of thousands of available new movies.. all this while your saving money!! Your so excited and pleased with your service that you tell all your family and friends and they also cut the cord and switch to Viva!!
Now since we're pretending... let's pretend that last month SolielJ made a commercial about Viva! Tired of your cable provide you figured you'd give it a shot! You called to order it and found out that you couldn't use your credit card and had to create a PayPal account in order to get the product! You do and your order is completed.. oh no wait.. they're out of boxes.. it won't be here for a few more weeks! FINALLY, you receive your regular (not DVR) box and install it! Your away from home watching the football game on your phone, it's late in the 4th quarter your teams driving for the win and the app suddenly shuts down for repair , your wife gets ready to watch the HBO season finale of her favorite show..oh no why are the premium channels gone?? You skipped red box and told your daughter she could pick out a movie tonight to watch.. oh no again.. all these movies are old school black and white westerns! You call customer service to complain but there's only one rep and he's busy with another angry customer so you get a busy signal for the next 2 hours! Your football team lost.. your wife leaves you, and takes your daughter, who by the way is now talking like she's Andy Griffiths daughter asking, "hey paw why'd I see mama and uncle chuck naked wrastlin". You bite the bullet and an autopsy report blames Viva for your death.. your story hits the local newspapers.. don't think many people will follow your choice in cutting the cord to VivaLiveTV now!!
Basically, what exactly do you want advertised?? The company did a soft launch in order to work out the bugs.. this product was not ready to be advertised to the masses! It would have done way more harm than good! There's a lot to complain about here but the lack of advertising up to this point is completely justified! You don't think JF wants to unleash his baby to the world?? He's worked to hard to take a chance of putting the cart before the horse! When it's ready.. hopefully we will see and hear Viva everywhere.. but until that point.. find another way to bash!!
By the way.. I apologize for the crazy, exaggerated story, but hopefully it got my point across!
AI
