We're going to watch some ads, which you guys hate the most, um, basically in the past year.
I've been making ads. We're starting right off, telling Flowplain,
hey guys, we know you specifically subscribed to Flowplain to not see ads, but here's a bunch of ads.
We don't put down there, but once we, they watch the YouTube version and they'll be
complaining that they wish they wanted to see some ads. Anyways, I've been working on all these ads,
more creative way to deliver our sponsor pre-run and roll.
And I've been working with Riley to come up with some ideas. Sometimes.
Yeah. It's been a while, to be honest. He's been really busy. Bring me, is my fault?
It is. So we're going back to the very first one that we did.
So this one's Vessy. We did a very, I think it was last year.
I think it's one of my favorite I did for Vessy. I have a sponsor message from Vessy.
Dennis, why are you running? Because of Vessy, I can run in any conditions.
Even something like this happened. I don't care. Believable.
And I believe David right there. He looked traumatized. My dog is here.
He's just a little dip. He was like, boop, my dog. Oh yeah.
He passed away in favorite. In January.
What was their name? Charlie, I miss him. Charlie. And I don't remind him much at all.
Ew, Dennis. Your shoes are dirty. I bet you came in and washed them.
Don't you dare underestimate Vessy. All you need to do is gently scratch Vessy.
I feel you are the best audience because I watched this so many times.
I cannot laugh anymore. Oh really? Yeah. Well, I haven't seen it in a while.
But I just, I don't know. I feel like these, what makes these ads so great sometimes is just kind of the,
like I was a big Monty Python fan. They were this British sketch group.
They were very silly and they were known for kind of like, there was one character who would stop a sketch in the middle of the sketch.
He was a general and he would tell everyone, stop this, stop this sketch. It's far too silly.
I can do a much better British accent than that, but I'm not trying right now.
So I love when you pop up there and you're like, no, and it's like in the middle of a scene.
It's, it's got that chaotic energy. I love it. Okay. That's what was, what I was going for.
We all know you love it, Dennis. Boom. They keep my feet dry like a desert, but also breathable.
Like a desert. Of course we got you a deal. Use code taglinn and Vessy.com, taglinn.
Oh, that was it. That was it. On your purchases.
With the hit marker. I love that. That was actually by us in the hitting.
That wasn't plain. No, no, no. We didn't, we didn't mean to do that. I was actually injured.
Because we're trying to do corporate, some core transition set to wherever we're going.
Float plain users out of everyone will know that it's very jarring and annoying
when you're watching content. And then all of a sudden it's an ad with no transition.
Like the least you could do is put in a transition.
Yeah. Or have Linus make a dad joke or something.
You know, it's funny because making sponsor spots is something we have to do for our job.
But it's almost like there's an art in making a sponsor spot
that is entertaining and informative and it isn't too disruptive for the rest of the content.
I have friends who work at ad agencies and I appreciate the like creativity that it involves.
You can absolutely go to the other end of the spectrum and like a lot of the sponsor spots
that even we do at Linus Media Group are like kind of low effort. We'd put in a talking point and we'd just read them
and like we have to pump these out. And some of them have a very strict guideline
some message that need to be delivered like the way they want us to. Yeah.
Yeah. The way we're doing here is trying to be more creative
and delivering some sort of way that you would be somewhat interested to watch.
Gradually we're going to see other ones that we did recently
that I'm trying in different ways. Not just what we just see is
we're still going along with the talking point. Right.
So I did try to do different way to create different kind of ad.
We can go and invest here. Yeah, this one wasn't even that out there. This one is what I'm going to show you guys.
This is his favorite. This was like the first one. The very first one.
The very first one. But I feel now it's maybe a little bit too much energy.
Some people love it. This is a more informational.
Informational. Informational. Kind of like that kind of style.
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No, I still love this.
This was great. Big one or the small one.
What is this script? That was, I just, I don't know.
I love moments like that where you have the person,
the host reacting to the script. Yeah. I think I also like this because we do that on TechLinked
when someone hosts and they haven't read the script beforehand.
That's kind of part of the conceit is that they'll like react. They're like, what? You're writing what in the script?
And we'll keep that in this video. Pricing is exacerbating or mass?
Exacerating. Definitely not masturbating. Especially I love trolling Linus when he's doing this kind of stuff.
Usually we don't tell him what's happening and we'll get his like real reaction.
Yeah. I mean, I helped you write that part so I knew it was coming.
But I still thought it was funny to be like, what? Dennis, what are you doing?
And did you? What are you making me do? You must have noticed that a lot of script I wrote,
somehow, I have little, you know, the pun or hinting is in the dirtier side.
Oh, yeah. Dennis likes to- I don't know why he just-
He likes to go there. I think you do it to get a reaction.
You like put it in there and you just want me to read the script. I would just like-
And I can see you like I'm reading the script and I can see out of the corner of my eye, you're like-
Is he gonna- Yeah. Is he gonna do it?
I put it-
It's like a penis. It's like when you make a meal for someone and then just watch someone eat.
Just like, is it good? Is it good? Okay, that's the thing now.
I'm just making it uncomfortable. Wow, so much room.
But I'm not handy. That's no problem. They have over 70,000 repair manuals on their website.
You can be the iFixit Master 2. Yeah.
Fix your device in iFixit.com slash tech link.
Have you done something like that since with the throwing an object out and then someone catches it?
Not subject. No, not throwing things. It's a little cliche, maybe.
It's a little cheesy, but like, I don't know. But this one works perfectly with this phone because I fix it.
Yeah, it really does a lot to make the sponsor spot not feel like an intrusion on the main content.
It's just part of it. But you're saying it's hard to do that kind of transition for-
LTT. LTT. Because the schedule is totally different. Right.
You guys have a set schedule every-
How many tech- How many tech link videos? Two videos a week.
Two tech link videos a week? Tuesday and Friday. What?
Are you- You edited tech link for years?
You were like the only tech link editor- Monday Wednesday Friday. Dennis.
I actually forgot. I did subscribe to a tech link girl.
Are you sure? I don't believe you.
GameLinked on Tuesday, Thursday. Right, you have that.
Tech link Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I can't believe you.
But I still love you. For Linus Tech Tips, it's really, it's harder for us to schedule.
Even for the one we're gonna be watching soon,
they film transitions three times for three different videos because they were not sure
which video's gonna be on that day. Yeah, and you don't want to do that for every ad.
It's just really tough. Yeah. Like we only log in for sponsored videos, but it's for regular content.
We don't have a set date. People loved it.
Well, yeah, it was the first one we did. So I think like it was shocking to people that-
People like, yeah. It's this. Yeah, but I think-
But people love it. I think you're right that, you know, you probably, you don't want to keep that same level of energy for every ad.
Because it's- Because it will be, yeah, it can be a little bit overwhelming.
If we eventually do it for every single video. Yeah.
I love the little mini-me being like, oh, so cute. Wow, so much room.
Yeah, you're tired. I know what you like. Yeah, it's kind of fitting.
Like this kind of style, kind of fitting the tech link style humor.
So now let's watch LTT. This is seven months ago that we did for Rich.
Really, really good feedback. And the retention actually went up.
So people rewatched. Really? It actually went higher than the real content.
That is unheard of. That is insane. In YouTube land, retention always goes down for the ad.
Yeah, so retention is like how, means like how many people are watching at that timeline.
So usually like people would skip, skip ad.
It's basically, yeah. It will be like that and back up, right? People just wanted to keep watching the ad.
Yeah. Wow, they're the opposite of you guys Flow Plane.
They exist. To our sponsor. That's my line. The Rich sent over their new luggage.
They talked over each other. The multiple line eye. Yeah, I have no control of none.
You don't have control over that? Rich sent over their new luggage for this spot,
but I'm participating in a test. Now the litmus test.
A Linus test.
Linus resistant construction.
The Rich designed for line life.
Who was that again? Was that James Scott? James Scott. It was supposed to be you.
You did a great job. You know what is so cool about this ad is because it's so simple.
And we're delivering a strong message. And also pun and joke and trolling Linus.
Because everyone loves. I think I remember watching this and being like,
what the heck is with that piece coming off of the luggage? Okay, so I want to explain.
There's only a bunch of it on the floor that I did not clean up.
That's my fault. Okay. So that piece you see that flying off is not the luggage.
Oh, it is there. It's already there. It was already there. It's already there.
Again, the comment section, insane.
I love that Dennis is somehow always both. That's not about Dennis.
That's Dan. I love that. Oh my God. I love that. I love that. Dan. It's okay.
Why do I just always thinking about myself?
I read this wrong one. People loved this. For example. I was like, what the hell?
Okay. I read it wrong. Putting Dennis in that role was probably one of the best decisions ever made.
Ever made by anyone ever. This is your favorite one? That's my favorite.
Oh, interesting. Okay. There's an N-roll for the luggage as well.
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That was funny. Yeah, I think you're right. That's probably my favorite.
I'm sorry. We lost your cool luggage. There's a lot of small jokes in there.
Yeah, there's great little moments. Look at these chunky boys.
I think I did get you helpful to review the script.
Yeah, I helped you with this one. Yeah. I didn't, I don't know how much I contributed,
but I definitely remember going over the script with you. I'd love to have an emotional baggage.
You know, I was looking for more puns.
And guess what I did? I looked up charge.gpt. I said, give me some baggage, a luggage pun.
No, you did it. I did. And they gave us a bunch of stuff.
That just means that charge.gpt took that from someone else.
You should ask charge.gpt who it got that from. And then we can give them proper.
I'm just kidding. Well, slightly. Sometimes I need some inspiration for puns.
And then this is good for that. And do you see lenses facing there?
That's so funny. I did. And that's why I laughed.
My favorite was when you shooting lines with the water. Oh yeah.
That was intentional. Also, I did not expect that.
You looked way too happy there. You looked very, very happy to be putting Linus in an uncomfortable position.
Yeah. And people love that too.
Okay. So next one I'm showing the really recent one.
I've been trying to do different tie-up ad instead of going through talking point.
It's really interesting what we did before. People can eventually get tired of.
So we should always find a new way to make ads.
Show me the spot. Okay, this spot is for the rich again. This is for Starbucks?
Father's Day campaign for rich wallet.
Ridge wallet Father's Day. Oh, and I looked at this one too.
I thought you did. I thought you've done like so many, but you picked the ones that I was kind of involved in, but not really.
I have more. Oh, and did I do the voiceover? Yes, you did. You did.
Okay, that's why I chose this one. Ads are amazing, but their wallets are not.
Make daddy a baddie again.
Happy Father's Day.
I like that one. I can hear my lips smacking in the in the VO.
Maybe that's just the voice the voiceover artist in me. I could hear like you're like dads are amazing and then you hear me go.
Dads are amazing, but their wallets are not.
Yeah, right there. Oh, I did hear it now. But, but their wallets.
The slogan actually, I came up with a bunch of different ones.
And we, I was, oh, sorry. I was talking with Schrad.
Schrad. This is where I came up with this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make daddy a baddie again.
We almost went with make daddy a zaddy again. Oh, do we?
I don't remember. And then we were like, are there connotations?
There are some other ones that not as appropriate, so we didn't use it.
Wait, are there, are there connotations with zaddy?
An attractive man who is also stylish, charming, and self-confident.
Okay, well then zaddy would have been perfect. I thought it was, no, it's just daddy has the sexual connotations, not zaddy.
Andy, he was on his phone the other day when we were in Taiwan.
He say, he saw an ad not rich, use this slogan.
Really? Yes. In Taiwan? But he couldn't, well, while he was in Taiwan on Instagram, he just scrolled and he saw,
he didn't screenshot it. But he saw someone must copy my slogan.
I mean, I can see this slogan kind of emerging simultaneously in different places from the,
from the soup. But it's from us first. That's, I mean, that's true.
And I don't have someone, I don't know, I've never seen anyone use it. I've already initialized legal proceedings.
I was looking for someone who had the dead look, dead look.
I love that you have a relationship, the type of relationship with Colton where you
can just say that. What's wrong with that look?
What? Nothing. I'm a dad. You're grown up adult.
I'm a dad. I'm not offended by it. Well, I would be a little offended if someone said, you look like, wow, you look like a dad.
That means that you, you're mature. You are, you have the shoulder, you have, you have responsibility.
I have the shoulders? Colton looks great in here.
What are you talking about? I'm not saying he doesn't. I think he looks great. You said he looks like a dad.
So I don't know what that means. I heard that this was Colton's only shot where he did the shush.
Oh yeah, he did this. He also did the mute thing.
The muting. Yeah, yeah.
I, I, I did, I have to confess, I did muting for a technical, technical mail recently.
I was like looking right at the camera and I was like, What's location? I like did like a, like a model face.
There was a comment under the video being like, is Riley muing?
What, okay. What was the purpose of the muing? And I was like, what the hell? What's the muing?
What's the, what's this for? It, you're a, your crop, your, your chicken crop down here.
It, it, that's not what it's called, but it's under here. It kind of tightens it up.
What are you trying to show? I'll show it. I'll show it. Look. Wait.
Not.
Wait, that thing, you can do that? What? You just, you just press through your tongue.
But why, why do you want that? Why do you want to do that? So it makes your jawline more pronounced.
Oh. Yeah. Okay. Why? Okay. We took a real tangent.
And now there's another one. Okay. There's another one. Enrol. Okay. So, so it's for Father's Day, right?
So I was like, okay, why don't you go get some dad jokes? To celebrate Father's Day, Rich sent me to find some dad jokes in Vancouver.
Who had a dad? Give me some dads. My neighbor gave me a new roof and he said that it was on the house.
Easy of dad, buddy. Where does the dad keep all his dad jokes?
Pocket? In his data base.
What biscuit plays? Little plan one. Biscuit?
I love that guy walked away. I want a rum.
And coke. The bartender says, what's with the pause? The polar bear says, well, I was born with those.
So the dictionary tattoo on my stomach adds definition.
This is a rich, rich, mech safe wallet. You can put it on top like this.
Do I have a gift for my dad? No, I'm not buying my dad anything. But I do call him.
What's your catch? It's for your father. Okay. Yeah, I'll give it to my dad.
This guy's vibe is impeccable. I was so nervous to go on the street, just film, even just film in public.
I don't like that. I don't like talking to strangers. I don't like filming with strangers.
And a lot of people don't like to be on camera and they're not comfortable.
And you don't want to force them. That was a successful shoot.
I was there for like three hours. Went three different locations in Vancouver.
And you can see the different places have different five different people.
Different types of people. Different type. Living different places.
Yes. They are actually so different. Like even they're like five kilometers away.
And I'm surprised I found so many comedians.
That guy, the younger guy, he has a lot of jokes because he's a elementary school teacher.
So he has a lot of jokes. I would not put those two together. I know, but he said he needed to tell a lot of jokes in the class.
So he has so many. He even has a notebook just all for his jokes.
I guess I can see like, because when you said elementary school,
I'm thinking like kindergarten or something. But like, no, I guess like grade three or four.
They're kind of like, they want to, they want, they like the dad jokes.
Yeah. You didn't seem uncomfortable at all. I was in the beginning, it's really hard to find people.
And I just feel to approach strangers is cut.
You have the experience. I totally feel you there because I did those like D brand YouTube shorts.
And those were, yeah, very uncomfortable. And also just hard, hard to find people to who like kind of fit the description of what you're
looking for. It would have been better to shoot like on the weekend at like a public area or something.
But like, you know, we still want to have a weekend. And you also found, wow, a lot of people don't work in this time.
They're just hanging out. Well, dads might be, you know, on leave or like have a different schedule, hopefully.
One thing that I would have done with that spot is maybe because you had all the jokes in the
beginning and then, and then you were kind of like, okay, the jokes are done now.
And now we're going to talk about the wallet. I feel like I would have tried to try to like squeeze the details in between the jokes.
It does go down during the ad.
It's not like the best, I think. If anything, it like drops like crazy during the jokes and then it levels out a little bit.
When I lived with my parents and actually watched cable television, I used to like,
I was so happy when an ad came on and it was funny.
Like those Skittles ads. Did you, I don't know if you saw these, but like Skittles had a, I think they still kind
of, their ads tend to be kind of wacky now, but like there was a point in time when they
started, when Skittles started doing these like wacky ads, like taste the rainbow, be the rainbow.
There was like, there was one, I remember, there was one I remember where this guy was like,
the premise of the ad was that everything he touches turns to Skittles.
Yeah, I think I've seen that one. I see ads like that. I'm like, why can't every ad be like that, you know?
So I love what you're doing, Dennis. Even if Flo Plain hates it.
No, Flo Plain loves it. Flo Plain loves the song.
You know, instigator. I don't know if you've seen- Flo Plain, I'm joking.
It's a joke. And if you guys want to see more kind of ads like this, we will do maybe like this form
to show you on Flo Plain that we're not going to attach to Flo Plain.
Are you talking? Like, if you want to see more, we'll react more. Are you talking to them?
Yes. I was just on my phone. I didn't know that we were still going. He's in the outside world.
I was trying to end this video. I was messaging Jacob. We have to shoot GameLinked because it's Tuesday, Dennis.
We do one of these every day.
Sorry. Continue. Anyways, thank you guys for watching.
Please leave a comment below if you want to see more like this.
Yeah. And tell me how much you love me.
They probably, I mean, they probably won't do any of that. They don't. Just ended there.
They.