More Videos from "The Man"

Yes, it's true. Somewhat apropos of Alice's post about Playboy on MySpace, I'm now luring people to the website with images of scantily clad women (but thankfully not Obama Girl).

Actually, this is one of four new PSAs from Declare Yourself and the folks behind Reno 911. These videos are almost as good as the last batch and still about ten cuts above the rest of the field when it comes to PSAs aimed to increase civic engagement among young people. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like they're making that much of a splash.

Looking at the number of views for each of the previous four videos, none of them are above a few thousand. Fairly paltry for what looks to be a pretty good attempt at creating a viral video, and leading me to wonder what other distribution outlets they're using. Are these videos just sitting on YouTube, or are they pushing them through outlets other than their (presumably old) email list?

And why not run these on TV? Norman Lear, the money man behind Declare Yourself is an old TV-producer and responsible for some of the biggest hits in latter half of the 20th C. He's got the money to afford some pretty ambitious ad-buys between now and November 2008. And he's got the smarts to know that, for all the buzz about the internet, kids still do watch TV. Maybe they're waiting for the fall when everyone is back at school and we start to approach the 2007 election, but why not by some ads during the Daily Show or Adult Swim?

More new videos after the jump.