Bitcoin Forum

Starting today,  there will be two ads for bitcoin per day on 98 radio stations across the country, plus XM Satellite radio, and the LRN.FM radio network.
There will be one 30 second live read,  and one 30 second recorded ad.
The live read has been going for over a week now,  the recorded ad will start today.

You can hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15HyTti8vk
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15HyTti8vk)

I'm paying $2,500 a month for these ads,  so if you would like to help chip in with the cost,  please buy some networking equipment from me,  or send a donation to:
1CMjGYzaStRStKwsoRUJYHR9Vev2UjpyfB

We need to get people using bitcoin in every day life!

sadly, reminds me of some of the scammish adverts i used to see late night on TV... the impossible knives that can cut through a cinder block... :p

I like it.

It's tough to make a national radio ad about bitcoin without making it sound like some scam/commercial stuff.  I think you managed to make something that's clear about what bitcoin is.  I would have liked to hear it's open source software, though.

only suggestion i would have made, would be to try and be clever... make people wonder what you are talking about, but give them, clearly, a place to get more information. :p human curiosity is awesome.

Yeah talk about a carrots a little at the start

hope you cleared it through a friendly lawyer - this talk about price appreciation etc, may deserve some kind of disclaimer about 'past performance not guaranteeing future results' and about your ad not being investment advice and things like that.

Not a fan of that ad. You'd be better off with more localized physical ads.

Yes, but we need a viable smartphone client to do that.  Don't you think that this is a bit premature? 

Great publicity.  10 BTC donated.

Thanks for the help XF2!
If anyone thinks they can put together a better ad,  please do.
We can switch it out any time, but the new one must be 29.X seconds long exactly.

Roger asked us to give it a go:


Let us know what you think, if we get no feedback or positive feedback we'll have Chris record it on Monday. (He's the voice from the video as well.)

Sounds good Stefan!

Tv spots with google adword coupons?

Love that second one.

I really want to stay away from promoting BTC as a means of getting more fiat currency.  I like the emphasis on how it is a better tool than USD.

Free Talk Live has agreed to accept part of the payment for the radio adds in Bitcoins!
I hope they will use the bitcoins to pay their vendors as well.
This will help get the real bitcoin economy started!

If you want to help out with Funding the ad,  please send a few bitcoins to 1CMjGYzaStRStKwsoRUJYHR9Vev2UjpyfB

This is premature.  What I think when I watch the video on your site is that I can generate free money with my computer.  Everyone wants free money.

What we need right now are not more miners.  What we need are more high quality merchants - trusted merchants.  The price of bitcoin will continue to drop until miners can spend their bitcoin rather than just cashing them in for dollars.



I agree, but the way to do this is to start selling goods for bitcoin, not advertisements for bitcoin.

Please buy some goods from me in bitcoins!
www.memorydealers.com (http://www.memorydealers.com)

FTL actually has vendors who accept bitcoins. ;D

congrats, MemoryDealers, good work!

to get good value for your advertising dollar consider advertising on alex jones radio and internet broadcast at www.infowars.com

he has very cheap advertising and he reaches a large audience of over 1 million per day and a lot of his listeners are the types of people that would be interested in btc.

Stefans ad sounds better to my mind. The one originally posted does make it sounds a bit too scam-like, saying their value is going up all the time etc.

That graph shown just before the video ends look like bitcoin literally hit a brick wall of value or something :P

The ad does sound kind of scammy :D
Well, as long as it sparkles debate it's all good

I greatly prefer the second ad, especially since it doesn't have the thing about value going up all the time (not true). I'd even more prefer a third ad which focuses more on actually using Bitcoins for everyday commerce. (Offer goods and services, people!)

That's the ticket.  I applaud you for making goods available in bitcoin!
That alone should be enough to make people ask... what is bitcoin... and then start learning more...

Sent ya 10, I prefer the second ad as well. Thanks for the publicity!

"Don't be kicking yourself in the pants..." made me laugh. Good work. :)

thanks Brocktice!
I will post some additional audio from the show online soon.
The other day they spent about an hour discussing bitcoins,  and Gavin even called into the show.