iTunes Store ad debuts featuring Coldplay and Apple’s dad (with video)

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Apple has begun airing a new television ad for the company’s iTunes Store featuring the band Coldplay and lead singer and pianist Chris Martin (and father of Apple Martin).

The ad highlights the upcoming release (June 17th) of Coldplay’s new album, Viva la Vida (Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends) exclusively on Apple’s iTunes Store:

Direct link to video via YouTube here.

See the ad in higher quality via Apple.com here.

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  3. Excuse those of us who do not keep up with the personal lives of performers we hardly listen to, let alone the names of their young (?) children. But what do I know, I listen to music by dead African-Americans and watch B&W;movies.

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  7. I just bought the song! Give a penny to Apple’s college fund, k?

    Oh, and I totally agree with ndelc. That ad obviously capitalizes on technical video expertise available to Apple. By the same token Apple will capitalize on the ad too, just like her dad as well as her namesake.

    I want to learn that video technique as well as the song!

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  9. They could have picked a better band.

    Like that sockpuppet Triumph the Comic Dog says, “I liked you better when you were U2.”

    Now we have the Comic Dog to thank for making your lips move. Man! The thought of Comic Dog’s body buried up to his neck in your ass is something I don’t want to look at. Unless you have an original thought

    Please go away.

    I’m not real crazy about Coldplay fans, who can be a lot like some of the apple fan boyz around here, but think even less about either’s detractors.

    Coldplay detractors come across to me like Apple-bashers who unwittingly resort to misinformation when making comparisons to their own lot in life because they don’t know any better or they’re too lazy to see for themselves.

    The band can stay.

    Besides, a better band than what? Can you elaborate?

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  10. I’m not real crazy about Coldplay fans, who can be a lot like some of the apple fan boyz around here, but think even less about either’s detractors.

    So if I say I don’t like a band I am a “detractor?” You have way too much invested in your defense of this “coldcream” band.

    My honest associations with the sound is a more popish, melodic U2. -So there.

    Now there’s two of us that think so and now, not only are we detractors of this band “coldcuts,” but together, we are also a conspiracy.

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  11. “So if I say I don’t like a band I am a “detractor?”

    That’s quite a leap. You coldsweat haters are all the same. You’re everywhere. Look at you! You’re now here in a Mac news forum bashing coldduck. What’s next apple bashing?

    fsck the band, you, and your co-conspirator. I’m more interested in the process and technology behind the video itself, the music is an afterthought making coldplay twice removed so you don’t even matter.

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  12. It’s funny that Apple made a commercial with this exact song. I downloaded the song a while back when it was first available and when I was listening to it I thought to myself —- this song should be used for the next iTunes commercial. I thought they might use it because its a unique, catchy song like the rest they’ve used in the past. However, I was skeptical because Apple usually doesn’t choose songs and bands that are already popular and well-known.

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  13. Coldplay or U2 – whatever! each of these bands bring on the necessary vibe’ when the time is right.
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  14. @Webbyswim

    Hey retard its “everyone here is a bunch of retards” not “everyone here are a bunch of retards” at least use proper grammar when calling others retarded.

    @yomamma

    huh???

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