{"id":862,"date":"2022-09-03T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/?page_id=862"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:29:14","slug":"viacom-banners-vs-directv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/viacom-banners-vs-directv\/","title":{"rendered":"Viacom Banners vs. DirecTV\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Up to 20 million DirecTV’s subscribers lost their MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon when the satellite provider pulled 26 channels owned by Viacom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Viacom
728×90 leaderboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The dispute over programming fees spilled on to the web where Viacom websites, whether for South Park or Spongebob Squarepants, ran both animated and static banners complaining about the blackout and dispute with DirecTV. The PR campaign urged viewers to call DirecTV and press for a resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the campaign\u2019s website WhenDirecTVDrops.com<\/strong><\/a>, the banners\u2019 designs were scaled to read best from desktop to smallest mobile screen.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  • \"DirecTV
    300x50 mobile banner<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
  • \"DirecTV
    216x36 mobile banner<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
  • \"DirecTV
    120x20 mobile banner Nick<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
  • \"DirecTV
    120x20 mobile banner MTV<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    The two sides came to an agreement after two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n

    \n
    \"Viacom
    300×250 banner – Comedy Central – pre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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    \"Viacom
    300×250 banner – Nickelodeon – tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
    \"Viacom
    160×600 banner – TV Land – post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    During their contractual dispute, Viacom urged DirecTV customers to call 800-531-5000 and demand that DirecTV put its customers first, and keep Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET and all of Viacom’s channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-862","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banners","tag-viacom_","end"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":105,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tancin.net\/portfolio_mobile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}