Mad Men - The Carousel (Higher Quality)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN holds it up as one of the best pitches ever, an example of selling feeling and nostalgia rather than features.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TomR35

Topic

pitching and storytelling

Format

other

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Why this product? Nostalgia. Why only Instagram? Because it's good product alignment. Instagram also sells Nostalgia and has a huge user base. If you haven't seen it before, take a moment to watch this clip from an American television show called Mad Men. It's a …

• Mad Men's Kodak presentation in season one is one of the best pitches I've seen. If you haven't seen it, and even if you haven't watched the show, you should. [VIDEO]

• I want to believe you're on to something here, but how do you "tease" a show like "Mad Men" at low cost? The best tease for that show would be something like the incredible "Carousel" pitch from the end of Season 1[1], and indeed, a …