Later they appeared in his show Lopez Tonight, where he called them "undisputed masters of bad local commercials". In 2010, Rhett & Link produced a commercial for Donut Prince, George Lopez' favorite doughnut place. A commercial for Cullman Liquidation Center won Best Local Commercial at the 2010 Ad Age Viral Video Awards. The popularity of the duo's commercials garnered the attention of major advertising publications such as Advertising Age and AdWeek, and their commercials were featured on CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Forbes, and TMZ. to nominate their favorite local businesses to take part in the web series. The success of these commercials spurred Rhett & Link to continue creating commercials and for that they offered people across U.S. These videos quickly went viral on YouTube, especially the Redhouse video, with its controversial jingle "Where Black People and White People Buy Furniture". At first they made 4 commercials for local businesses in their home state North Carolina – TDM Autosales, Bobby Denning Furniture, and Redhouse Furniture. in the web series "I Love Local Commercials", sponsored by Microbilt. In 2009, the duo started to create free low-budget commercials for small local businesses throughout the U.S. In September of the same year, they joined the Collective, a media company in Los Angeles. 22 on Business Insider's Top 25 Most Creative People in Advertising List. As the hosts, Rhett & Link responded with an Internet video. The premiere episode was seen by 1 million people, but the show was cancelled after only four episodes. In 2007, along with Stevie Ryan and Joy Leslie, Rhett & Link hosted the short-lived series Online Nation, a show that featured the best viral videos from the Internet, part of the 2007 fall lineup on the CW Network. Rhett & Link are among the first group of Internet personalities who tried to transition from the Internet into network television. Originally filmed in a backroom at Cru, the two soon relocated to a spare property belonging to Rhett's father-in-law in Lillington, North Carolina. In 2007, Rhett & Link created the RhettandLinkast for iTunes. Many larger companies have since sponsored the duo's videos including Alka-Seltzer, McDonald's, Wendy's and Cadillac among others. Rhett & Link's first sponsored video, "Cornhole Song", was made for AJJ Cornhole in 2007, and since then the duo have integrated other small brands like Smule, with "I am a Thoughtful Guy" and iRESQ. On Septemthe duo released the movie on DVD, distributing it over the Internet. The documentary was an official selection at the Real to Reel Film Festival, the Landlocked Film Festival, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, BendFilm Festival, Asheville Film Festival, and the Cucalorus Film Festival. The film also won audience choice awards at the ACE Film Festival and the Secret City Film Festival, and won 2nd place documentary at the Secret City Film Festival. The film released in 2008 and won the Southern Lens Award from South Carolina Public TV, which led to the film screening on PBS in South Carolina. In 2006, Rhett & Link began work on a documentary about their search for their first grade teacher, Ms. After the video was removed for unknown reasons, the duo uploaded it to their channel, Rhett & Link, where it currently has more than 600 thousand views. YouTube wanted to feature this video on the home page but the duo asked to have one of their songs featured instead as they wanted to be known by their comedic work and not a viral video. Their first viral video was "Wolfpack or Tarheels?" uploaded on Rhett's personal YouTube channel in 2006 (no longer active) of his 3-year-old son Locke McLaughlin crying over the loss of the NC State Wolfpack and their rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels.
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