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In the 1985 film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future and the first episode of the 1987 science fiction television show Max Headroom, blipverts were a new high-speed, concentrated, high-intensity television commercials lasting about three seconds. The term Blipvert was first coined by George Stone. Their purpose was to prevent channel-switching during standard-length commercials.
"Blipvert" is a portmanteau of the onomatopoeia blip, a brief sound, and advert, the British abbreviation for advertisement. In his in-the-field newscast, The What I Want to Know Show, investigative reporter Edison Carter exposes his own network's decision to broadcast them even though they kill people.
Real-life examples of compressed advertising
Master Lock, which had already made the image of a padlock shot by a sharpshooter into a lasting advertising image with their ad in the Super Bowl in 1974, incorporated that video image, along with its logo, in a one-second-long television commercial in 1998.
In May 2006, GE introduced "One Second Theater," television commercials with additional material included as individual frames in the last second of the ad, for frame-by-frame viewing with digital video recorders. When viewed at normal speed, the frames flash by rapidly, much like blipverts.
Miller Brewing Company aired a one-second ad during the Super Bowl XLIII football game in February 2009. The ad featured Windell Middlebrooks, who had been featured in Miller High Life ads since 2006, standing in a warehouse filled with High Life boxes and quickly shouting "High Life!"
E-mail blipverts
In September 2006, term blipvert was used by security researcher Richi Jennings to describe new kind of image-based spam email with animated GIF pictures showing subliminal "BUY BUY BUY" messages for very short period of time (10-40 ms).
blipvert-Music Producer In September 2009, music producer "blipvert" performed at Leeds Sonic Art Festival. During the performance the artist triggered a series of films using live performance software.
blipvert has worked on audio/visual projects with The Light Surgeons, http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk ,an established multimedia collective.