1) I hope no one takes this the wrong way or is offended, but is it possible to form one separate LJ community for strike-related icons, banners, icon and banner requests, etc.?
2) More constructively -- I've been thinking a lot about advertisers. I'd like to get a letter-writing campaign going directly to the people
paying the networks for this newfangled internet thingamajig.
Just a short, polite letter (or email) explaining how this strike is going to hurt them. How I'm no longer watching anything on ABC.com, NBC.com, ComedyCentral.com, or Hulu, and I'm encouraging other people not to. An unorganized fan boycott may not make too much of a difference, but if and when new episodes of their sponsored shows dry up from the strike (already true of the Daily Show and Colbert Report, I'm sure) there will be a sizable drop in the number of eyeballs going to those websites -- and seeing their ads. Let the advertisers know that fans blame the AMPTP for all this, not the writers. The ball is in the network's court to end this and negotiate. They need more pressure to.
So. Who ARE the advertisers? What I'm looking for is a good list of where to start. From the last month of watching online content and being bombarded with the same stupid commercials over and over, I know NBC.com shoves ads into their episodes from
Allstate,
Target, and
Fidelity Investments. Comedy Central had
Hyundai,
Doritos, and
A T & T. Can anyone add anything else to the list?
(ETA: Hi, I need to check the archives before I post willy-nilly. There was a
post about advertisers earlier this month with some more valuable contact information -- more general and less specifically about the online stuff.)
ETA: More sponsors from the comments...
On NBC.com: Kay Jeweler's, Mastercard, careerbuilder.com
On ABC.com: Hilton, Red Lobster, Charles Schwab, Carnival Cruises, Jack in the Box, Oil of Olay