Apple has begun airing a new iPod + iTunes TV commercial featuring the song “Love Train” by Wolfmother and the same silhouetted dancers with iPods and white-corded earbud headphones as in its previous iPod + iTunes ads. The current ad features psychedelic background colors and a 60’s-style influence.
See the new ad here.
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Nice but nothing new here.
Hey! Get that Apple logo off that commercial!! It makes me think the Beatles released a new album
Boring ad. They are starting to all look the same.
The title comes up, but the video doesn’t seem to be loading.
Maybe Apple was hacked
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good to see wolfmother getting a bit of exposure.
great band.
…and a few reloads later, the video has popped up again. Wonder what caused that.
Too funny, Yoko!
Now go scream like someone is strangling the shit out of you.
The use of the Apple logo by itself as the final image of a brand new ad suggests they’re pretty confident about what the judge will say Monday in Apple vs. Apple.
MacWorld beat you to the punch on this story, MDN.
Cool, but the guitar smashing would have been better suited to a Who song.
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Is everyone on crack? Is there no possibility of an ad on which you don’t have to turn down the volume?
I know what the May 9th release is…
It’s the beatles catalogue on iTunes. Isn’t the ruling May 8th?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
How many people using an iPod dance around like in those ads? Every person I see with an iPod is like some zombie on prozac staring out into the nothingness.
I dig it. Nice colors, just really cool to watch. These ads got a little bit left in them methinks.
I alos think they are a great compliment to the “Get a Mac” ads, which are very dry. This ad gets the energy of Apple across.
Apple is smart – Ads for teenagers = $$$$$$$ deducted from parents bank accounts. Style sells
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I don’t like that song. It doesn’t sound good at all.
good song. bad ad. i agree with the prozac comment.
now, someone will sue apple arguing that it makes their kids use drugs.
The ipod adverts are getting a bit stale…
New iPod ad features a crazy idiot dancing around like their finger is in a light socket… loud “music”… crazy colored backgrounds…
It’s a *different* ad??
I hadn’t noticed….
I dance like that when im alone… with my ipod… so to say people dont is just your assumption
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“nothing new”? are you stupid, thats some real art there. It looks uber sweet!
MDN word: Dead, like your brains.
I like it more then the Get a Mac ads that’s for sure. I often think that people are expecting you to bust into a silhouette ad just because you’re listening to an iPod…too funny!
It pisses me off that my not quite 2.5 year old iMac running Jaguar cannot play that add but my almost 5 year old Compaq laptop running XP has no problem at all.
I think the ads would be more productive if they showed people using the calendar or the games or going through the address book or waking up to the iPod alarm or checking an address or watching a movie or … forget it.
I like the colors – now where did I place those shroons?
I think the ads would be more productive if they showed people using the calendar…
Yes!! Apple needs to get off their butts and do something to increase market share!
Or I’m going to get Creative! or Rhapsodized! Ooooh, I’m feeling the Urge!
Anybody getting as irritated with MacDailyNews’ new pop under ads, as I am?
It was bad enough that they existed at all before, but now they include an obnoxious voice over that can’t be ignored. Firefox doesn’t seem able to block these ads.
Hey, MDN, I don’t want a free this or that. I especially don’t want it if I have to complete a survey.
Advertise, but not with these invaders.
More sleezy ads.
Mine was for a refurb iPod.
MDN, get your act back together. This site sucks nowadays
Last time I danced with that with my iPod I had to get a chiropractor to readjust my back, and I dropped my ipod, but apple care fixed it.
Gregg Thurman.
I don’t get ads–I use PithHelmet.
nice ad
on Safari with pop-up blocker on.
Jake
Gregg – Camino: http://www.caminobrowser.org
I get nada……..pair it up with CamiTools and you will get even less than nada.
Fantastic ad… this variation on the silhoutte theme is still fresh!
Nothing ironic about complaining about the ads on a site where you are commenting on… a new AD!
Is there?
my not quite 2.5 year old iMac running Jaguar cannot play that
I call BS. My 3-year-old 1 GHz PPC PowerMac running Tiger, with Unison running in the background and Azureus running in another logged-in account, played the video without the slightest hiccup.
Yo Thurman… haven’t you heard of Pith Helmet? haven’t seen a poop up or pood under or poop over for so long, I almost forgot what you were blathering about…
As for the ad… those who are exlaiming their dislike for it – how many times did you watch it before you thought it wasn’t catching your attention? AND if you can do better – sweeter – then Do It..
Or as my MDN-MW says – lighten up “already”
Not as many comments on MDN as their used to be a few months back…. people starting to move on I see.
i somewhat agree with lordrobin. my SIX year old dual 450mhz g4 tower can play it flawlessly. however, my equally old 700mhz pentium iii has problems with it.
on the other hand, my 900mhz g3 ibook (which IS about 2 1/2 years old) can’t play it.
apple’s h.264 seems to love simd. the old sse of the p6 architecture doesn’t seem to be enough, though the equally old altivec of the early g4s seems to be. g3s are just left out in the cold, as they have no simd instructions at all.
on that note, the pentium iii seemed to play it a BIT smoother than my ibook did. not smooth enough to claim that a five year old laptop (which would probably be a mobile pentium iii) could run that video decently, however.
i wonder how well the first tibooks handle it? =)
also just tested it on my brother’s g4 500mhz upgraded blue&white; tower – flawless. it’s all about altivec/simd! =)
John: “Not as many comments on MDN as their used to be a few months back…. people starting to move on I see.”
You are correct. Same old stories regurigitated over and over by MDN plus tidal wave of advertising plus boring Apple news (as in none)….its time to move on.
Why no news about software that runs on Macs (other than from Apple)? I know why, because any news item with Microsoft in it gives MDN something to whine about.