The Gruen Transfer

We‘ve all seen too many commercials so it‘s time to think about them or maybe even “respond to them” with your own. The Gruen Transfer is a hilarious show about advertising and how it works on us. By introducing the secrets of persuasion, the show made the audiences create more than 10,000 “revenge” ads, which have been viewed online over 550,000 times. Does the show go far enough in criticizing advertising? Or is it just making fun of it? Is this audience empowerment, or merely “long tail programming?