“Four commercials for the Pepsi-Cola soft drink sold by PepsiCo ranged from mildly amusing to hilarious. The standout was a cheeky spot, introducing a promotion co-sponsored by the iTunes division of Apple Computer, that smartly teased the recording industry for suing teenagers for illegal file sharing,” Stuart Elliott reports for The New York Times.
“Sixteen of the miscreants appeared in the commercial, identified with tongue-in-cheek labels like ‘Incriminated,’ ‘Accused’ and ‘Busted,’ as the soundtrack played ‘I Fought the Law (and the Law Won).’ The jest was topped at the end as these words appeared on screen: ‘Drink down Pepsi and download music at iTunes. Legally,'” Elliott reports.
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Opinions are like rearends, everyone has one and everyone thinks that everyone elses stinks. :oP
Interesting the use of the word “miscreants”.
iTunes, a division of Apple. I thought it was a product.
Anyway, the TV ad is big crap. Apple could have done it better…
Kuno: Pepsi could have done better, it was their ad.
Regardless of whose ad it was, it lacked all the elements of an ad to remember. It was not funny, it did not tug at anyone’s emotion, and it was not bold.
Whoever was the creative/art director in charge of coming up with the concept was probably a little too old to still be in touch with the younger audience.
But like everyone else, it is just my opinion.
Kuno probably knows that it was Pepsi’s ad. My guess is Kuno was saying Apple would have done a much better job than Pepsi, but don’t know if I agree. Jeff Goldblum anyone?
“iPod and Pepsi, easy as one two three….. Oh wait, there is no three”
Right, no three since they licensed ‘1-click’ from Amazon.
I admit it, I was wrong!
When I said the Pepsi/ITMS commercial would go over like a ton of bricks because it glorified music thieves, I forgot it was made by Pepsi. If the ad was made by Apple, the computer “analysts” would be lining up around the block to denounce Apple for their moral misstep.
Oh, it was made by Pepsi? That’s cool.