Sprint Commercial Tells Us What’s Happening Right Now

Sprint's "now" promotion seems to be in full swing. In line with their dashboard to the universe, they're currently airing this commercial (below) that shows various statistics on things that are happening right now. Apparently, the most common text messaging topic is...diapers?

[via TechCrunch & Twitter]

10 Comments

David Crandall — April 7, 2009 at 10:23 pm

I saw this commercial this weekend and immediately thought to myself, “I bet I’ll be seeing this on Flowing Data soon.” For real!

Cool commercial!

Eliot — April 7, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Why do all those cool numbers make anyone want to use Sprint? Don’t understand the connection.

John — April 7, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Was i the only one that was reminded of:

Colonel Sandurz: Now. You’re looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We’re at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can’t.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

kim — April 8, 2009 at 1:11 pm

hot!

Andrea Biasi — April 9, 2009 at 7:09 am

The ad is very good, but it raises a question. Why on earth should a carrier know the content of the contents of the text messages that its subscriber are sending?

BCC — April 9, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Andrea,

I’m pretty sure the data in the ad was largely made up.

But they could ad the following tagline- “Sprint- snooping on you without warrants since 2003″

Market — April 17, 2009 at 3:52 am

I’m sorry but I love the two new commercials I’ve seen from Sprint!!! The numbers can’t be true, but it’s neat to think about everything that is going on via cellphones at any given time. We’ve come a long way in 15 years!

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