Damien Katz: Google Denies Our Commercial

As an ad, it was uninformative and not persuasive. The quality was that of a local access cable commercial.

But I suggest you take the feedback from Google and others and use that to inform the next iteration. It can only get better! ;)

Apparently Google doesn't want people to waste money on ineffective commercials.

This actually is a good fit with Google's advertising policy elsewhere. The idea being that the more useful ads are to users, the more likely it is that users are willing to pay attention to them.

Was I just tricked into watching a commercial?

Yeah, the audio was kinda poor.

I'm wondering what's the point of the guitar and hoopla? If they are trying to promote CouchDB, I would hope (dear God, I would hope) developers would choose databases based on technical merits and not image. I think image-based advertising would go better for soft drinks and such. Are they trying to go viral by hitting the delicate sweet spot of so-bad-its-good?

to be fair, we recorded with the mic built-in to an iPhone headset. :)