Dell launches star-studded "Yours Is Here" ad campaign

There's nothing like a little B- and C-list star power to get your holiday offerings the bump they need to bounce out the door, right? Check in with Dell's shameless "Yours Is Here" promotion, wherein you can pick from an array of celebrities (Ice T, Burt Reynolds, Vivica Fox, Brooke Burke, Estelle Harris, or Chuck Liddell), and get their flash-avatar to pitch your product of choice to friends and family. Sounds like a hit, right? Well, only if you think a stiff, unhappy-to-be-here Burt Reynolds can sell your girlfriend on a laptop purchase better than a dozen roses and a cut-out of a Dell circular can. Point your browser in the direction of the read link, and hear all the tongue-in-cheek action for yourself.

[Via Notebooks.com]

[bman @ Nov 21st 2007 3:41PM]

sweet, brooke burke.

[Truthjerk @ Nov 21st 2007 3:41PM]

That's just bad.
Period.

[Joseph @ Nov 21st 2007 5:03PM]

There's a reason that is called juicy coutoure. Someone had a little too much turkey this thanksgiving.

[Joseph @ Nov 21st 2007 5:03PM]

i meant to post this here:
There's a reason that is called juicy coutoure. Someone had a little too much turkey this thanksgiving.

[Joseph @ Nov 21st 2007 5:05PM]

engadget! you damn reply is broken! it wouldn't put my reply in the right place.

[Deputy Doffoos @ Nov 21st 2007 6:21PM]

For a moment I thought Chuck...
NORRISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Now if they had Chuck Norris in there that would be a dealbreaker for me!!!

[brad @ Nov 21st 2007 4:27PM]

they have earned this

www.pursuitofFAIL.com

[Anthony @ Nov 21st 2007 3:42PM]

Burt Reynolds is an angry man that could convince the Amish to buy laptops!

[Luigi193 @ Nov 21st 2007 3:48PM]

Turd Furguson... Its a funny name...

(If you know what I am talking about kudos to you, if you don't youtube Celebrity Jeopardy)

[LordJohnWhorfin @ Nov 21st 2007 3:52PM]

XPS comes bundled with a free toupee (for a limited time, while supplies last).

[Shawn Wildermuth @ Nov 21st 2007 3:58PM]

OMG...Brooke Burke and Bunnies...i'll buy anything from her!

[Joseph @ Nov 21st 2007 5:06PM]

those are chubby bunnies! she is pretty old and unflattering now. down hill fast! or should i say, need for speed: downhill.

[Adoniteking @ Nov 21st 2007 3:59PM]

link:http://www.yoursishere.com/

[Nushio (NDF - Blue) @ Nov 21st 2007 4:20PM]

I can't be the only one who read that as "Your Sis Here", am I?

[Johnny @ Nov 21st 2007 4:51PM]

You weren't. I wonder if they had to buy the domain name from a porn site.

[Bucky @ Nov 21st 2007 4:02PM]

Holy crap. I couldn't stop watching the painful, painful pitches. I need eye bleach now. Argh!

[diggler @ Nov 21st 2007 4:03PM]

Why do I feel so sleazy (and guilty) for following Ice-T's pusher-like suggestion: "Get the electronics you want......."

I think I'll check myself into rehab for preventative measures.

[js @ Nov 21st 2007 4:07PM]

Sorry, but I think the Mac guy in the oversized Engadget ad is more convincing.

[Josh L @ Nov 21st 2007 5:33PM]

I would buy a Dell and a Mac both, if doing so would make them stop making obnoxious ad campaigns.

[Ethan @ Nov 21st 2007 4:08PM]

I prefered "all I want for christmas is a PSP," at least that was funny.

I'm pretty sure these aren't actually meant to be sent to relatives etc, it's sort of reverse psychology "you want this?" "sure you do." Doesn't work.

[Lein @ Nov 21st 2007 4:19PM]

Ouch. I don't know what's worse, being told I am a loser because of what operating system I use, or being told BY losers what operating system I should use.

[Atanas Boev @ Nov 21st 2007 4:33PM]

That guy should have married Monika from Friends.

[Peter @ Nov 21st 2007 4:44PM]

Dell: Fail

[Eden Zik @ Nov 21st 2007 5:45PM]

Gay

[JohnTitor @ Nov 21st 2007 6:04PM]

Hello I'm a Mac, and I'm a Dell

[ethana2 @ Nov 21st 2007 11:44PM]

And even though our hardware is basically the same now, mine is shinier, and /I/ have a TPM that should be frgging illegal, and /you/ don't. Ha!

Cha-chink. BAM!

~your friendly neighborhood penguin :)

[Jacob Kennedy @ Nov 21st 2007 7:18PM]

Actually, if you go all the way to the pitches, they're pretty funny. Burt sleepwalks through the intros but even his pitch is Burtalicious. The Hard Sell with Chuck Lidell is pretty good too. "Oh hey. I was just pounding the crap outta this bag."

[northernmunky @ Nov 21st 2007 11:13PM]

This ad campaign can only work in the US, Not only do I have no idea who any of these people are, its clear they have no idea what they are talking about and I couldn't even understand that second girl her accent is so thick! Sounded like 'haaht espiraaahn destaahp' to me..

[Magallanes @ Nov 22nd 2007 12:06PM]

At least here (a generic banana country) DELL ads are showing colored notebook over "famous" people.

[me @ Nov 22nd 2007 4:01AM]

A black turtle neck and a levi's geans would have gathered more attention.

[Sushi @ Nov 22nd 2007 4:32AM]

What a terrible ad

[Peter @ Nov 26th 2007 10:04PM]

The Yours Is Here campaign is about the worst marketing I have ever seen. Whatever Dell spent on that campaign, it was way too much.

[Dickie @ Dec 1st 2007 11:52AM]

Wow...Engadget peeps are a bunch of haters and clearly clueless. This campaign is pretty genius. Never seen celebs used like this before; it's pretty damned funny, and you can get people to buy you shit. Seems smart and cool to me.