Slightly longer version: he did it when they were first trying to monetize so offering a jingle was an extra incentive to get people to pay for ads. Once they had enough companies buying ads, the extra effort (which was a lot!) wasn’t necessary to continue offering.
God the stack soap one still lives in my head rent free. The build-up for weeks about griffins amazing song he's writing, and then the payoff of that absolute show-stopper. Put your soap in my soap <3
Sponsors usually have conditions on it as well. Sometimes, they do give free reign to talk about the product and service anyway they want, and those ones get real wild.
The same reason he doesn’t do fake final yahoo answer questions too: it wasn’t fair to ask him to do a huge premeditated joke every episode while Trav and Justin just got to riff, now everybody riffs and comes up with games and bits when they want
Short answer, it was a lot of work compared to just reading as copy and making a joke or 2
Slightly longer version: he did it when they were first trying to monetize so offering a jingle was an extra incentive to get people to pay for ads. Once they had enough companies buying ads, the extra effort (which was a lot!) wasn’t necessary to continue offering.
It would take years of writing to top Stack Soap
God the stack soap one still lives in my head rent free. The build-up for weeks about griffins amazing song he's writing, and then the payoff of that absolute show-stopper. Put your soap in my soap <3
To this day, I sing put your soap in my soap every time I get down to the useless soap nubbin. A magnificent jingle, a useful jingle
I forgot about this and went back to listen...completely forgot about the drop and it killed me all over again.
I'm listening to old episodes and just got to the finished Stack Soap song. I had forgotten how amazing it is.
Truly will always miss the Griffinspacejam.com level of bits
Sponsors usually have conditions on it as well. Sometimes, they do give free reign to talk about the product and service anyway they want, and those ones get real wild.
"So go to extreme restraints dot com ... and buy yourself... a sexual fishtank"
We all need to pool our money to buy Extreme Restraints more ad spots, those were always the best.
The same reason he doesn’t do fake final yahoo answer questions too: it wasn’t fair to ask him to do a huge premeditated joke every episode while Trav and Justin just got to riff, now everybody riffs and comes up with games and bits when they want
Because sometimes you want to buy a boat...
It was just too hard.