Rejected Ad Copy Read

I love watching you be embarrassed about having your channel pimped. Cutest ever.

JasCollins says it's pronounced 'Jazz'

I signed up for real and got Turtles all the way down. I’m gonna DO IT with audiobooks just like BumbleBee did it with the radio;)

LeftOn4ya

Lindsay can do no wrong. If she shows me her enemies, I will smite them.

JM

You can't do it with with audio books. You can try with regular books but it's not really recommended.

I'd say the problem here is not that the reading makes Audible look unattractive - it doesn't, but it does make the Audible advertising writers look silly. And it's the Audible advertising people who - I presume - get to decide whether they like the reading. I hope I'd have more humor about it if given the opportunity to reject a video that points out that I used "more" twice in one sentence and called my tagline terrible. But would I? I'm not in advertising, and I doubt I'll ever have an opportunity to test it.

Frances Webb

Eeee hee hee ;D

Beetlecat

Love it, and I have no idea why they didn't use it. Hey, I have to ask: what is that jazzy theme playing under the video?

Mark Tomczak

Jeff Bezos does not care if we are entertained. He owns us.

Antha Auciello

I joined your Patreon to watch this and it was worth it.

Michael Green

This is great! If I were an evil corporation, I'd be happy with it. It's talking about the brand while actually being entertaining.

Zoë Blade

I can't see what they possibly could have disliked about that ad copy.

Clinton Johnston

Hey... Don't tip over your own rice bowl, Ellis! But, surely, they knew what they were buying, the sponsor...

Exprmntle

lol wow i don't see why they rejected it. it's like your best work! :D

Sterling Treadwell

It would look like a wetter world, Lindsay.

Of all the Audible ads I've seen, this is the only one that made me actually consider signing up

Jasmijn Wellner

Never mind -- I'm obviously having a brain fart kind of morning!

??? I can't seem to access what she's posted, despite being a patron. Is there a link somewhere in this?

Is this not basically the version we saw in live? How could they not like this? XD

MercuryBuddha

:-D What made me grin the most were the few times when genuine Amusement was breaking through the rictus smile of your sales person persona.

Martin Karsten

John's weirdly agressive reading of "IT WOULD LOOK LIKE A BETTER WORLD LINDSAY" gets me every time.

Josh Draper

how could they not like this

i'm like 400% more likely to listen to this version than any half-earnest attempt.

issa

I am shocked... shocked, I say... that they weren't overwhelmed with enthusiasm.

Dan Wilson

Baahhhhahaha!!! Oh fucking hell, this is the thang! 🤣

Matt Kulisch

And I got 8 audiobooks for Christmas! Sounds like they'll get me through some lonely nights

muddlewait

I feel so privileged to see this.

Callen

Honestly, this is the closest a paid Audible promotion has ever come to making me want to subscribe. They should have gone with this.

GrumpySteen

"You CANNOT do it with audiobooks!" ... not with that attitude 😉

Becky Pennock

I would love to do it with audiobooks!

Player13

Bezos be praised!

mud

lol

mud

this is everything i need

TalysAlankil

You can also do it with your PS4. :) It's the leading cause of death in basements.

I'm sorry for your video's loss, this was a truly beautiful section

Sue Donem

I would just like to say that the introduction of John Green in the episode was executed perfectly. From the moment Lindsay name dropped him I went from "alright, cameo incoming in 3, 2, 1" to "meh, no cameo after all" to "how could I have for a second thought there was not going to be a cameo!".

Well, the tagline definitely catches your attention lol

Thanks — I love it!

I mean, it is, but the officially published version didn't include "That is a terrible tagline ... you CANNOT do it with audiobooks."

Stephi Anne-with-an-E

Lord Bezos is displeased.

Lol, that is some quality advertising right there.

Jason Harner

LFW you fly too close to the sun :D.

Orellien

I had a feeling some bits were cut out when watching the original video. This clip makes more sense than the clip that ended up in the video.

Anna Keet

(Tries to muster an iota of sympathy for yet another aggregator company that "earns" a percentage off creators' backs) ... Nope. Just can't. Sorry, Audible.

Jason Olshefsky

I guess they don't like backtalking on the their taglines.

Seraphina

In case you haven't read it yet, she shared an anecdote of the interview on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1080201842259197953" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1080201842259197953</a>

Rodrigo V. Perez

I had a feeling that hijinks and shenanigans ensued for that part of your last video.

Rich Stoehr

I have never seen so many of your teeth at once, and typing that was weird.

i'm dying lmaooooo

Thanks for sharing this

John Diniz

Dammit lindsay that was precious!

Sam Fulton

Why was this rejected? Like surely this is just as goofy and irrelevant as what actually got put out, isn't it?

you slumping into the couch at the end is the BEST

HA!

John Diniz

Look I don’t want to get to personal here But Lindsay’s right. You can.

Jackson Bockus

I get the feeling that all online content creators now need a skill point spent in advertisment or a year's worth of experience at a TV shopping channel lol

I was impressed that they approved the one that did appear in the video!

Get To Know Nature

Amazing

IT WOULD LOOK LIKE A BETTER WORLD, LINDSAY

Tobasco da Gama

The sponsor should listen more.

What would the world be like if we glistened more?

PLEASE tell us more about this. I am delighted by it even without context but any more info would just widen the scope of my delight

Loretta Pontillo

THAT IS NOT A GOOD TAGLINE

Luke Fowler

more

"I think I listen enough." -John Green, 2018

Max Marriner