{"id":4395,"date":"2014-02-20T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2014-02-20T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:51:54","slug":"lg-pranks-job-interviewees-with-meteor-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/lg-pranks-job-interviewees-with-meteor-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"LG &#8216;Pranks&#8217; Job Interviewees with Meteor on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LG&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lg.com\/us\/tvs\/lg-84LM9600-led-tv\" target=\"_blank\">84<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lg.com\/us\/tvs\/lg-84LM9600-led-tv\" target=\"_blank\">\u2033 Ultra HD 4K TV<\/a> goes for $17,000 right now. It looks beautiful both on and off, but would it fool you into thinking you were looking out of a skyscraper window?\u00a0Probably not.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4396\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lg-84.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4396\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4396\" title=\"lg 84\" src=\"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lg-84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lg-84.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lg-84-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your kid&#8217;s tuition or &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217; in 4K: your call.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But a far-fetched premise doesn&#8217;t mean you still can&#8217;t create compelling content marketing.<!--more--> Witness this &#8216;prank&#8217; from LG that has gone viral, amassing more than 16 million views in five months:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ultra Reality: What would you do in this situation? - LG Meteor Prank\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynvKWYvyCqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During a job interview, the interviewees don&#8217;t notice anything unusual about the view behind their potential new boss. But when the floor starts to rumble and a burning meteor appears in frame, the concerns about getting hired are dwarfed by their survival instincts. Even though it&#8217;s not in English, the dramatic expressions of fear and panic are universal. Now, if only they were <em>real<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Call us skeptics, but this one rings about as true as that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/early-lead\/wp\/2013\/03\/15\/jeff-gordons-test-drive-viral-video-for-pepsi-is-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Gordon\/car salesman spot for Pepsi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/Q5mHPo2yDG8<\/p>\n<p>But hey, we&#8217;re not knocking LG or Pepsi at all for this. These ads fool half the people, leave 25% wondering about the legitimacy of what they just saw, and the other 25%, well, like us, they know better, but still recognize an example of clever marketing when they see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG&#8217;s new 84\u2033 Ultra HD 4K TV goes for $17,000 right now. It looks beautiful both on and off, but would it fool you into thinking you were looking out of a skyscraper window?\u00a0Probably not. But a far-fetched premise doesn&#8217;t mean you still can&#8217;t create compelling content marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[234,233,209,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}