Apple and Pepsi iTunes Promotion

[solitarycow]

Re: pepsi, coke, jolt, whatever...

Originally posted by sinisterdesign
maybe if someone collects a couple hundred of them & sold them at a small profit. maybe a homeless guy w/ an entreprenurial spirit & an ear for tech news...

Yeah I can definitley see a homeless bum whip out his T-mobile Sidekick to check out the latest tech buzz

 

[evilbert420]

"Unfortunately...only Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, and Sierra Mist. I wish it was on Dew as well, but it ain't."

You don't want to drink Mountain Dew anyway.

Brominated Vegetable Oil? Take a look at what that is, and then wonder why it's been deemed "unsafe for human consumption" by the FDA. Yuck.

 

[hotwire132002]

Originally posted by Raiden
I think this promotion is great, but damn, 100 million songs? I mean havent we only sold like 30 mil so far? Also, thats 300 million bottles of pepsi. How long does it take normally take pepsi to sell that many?

I think the idea is good for this campaign, but untill I see more numbers, im going to remain a bit skeptical....

My bet is Apple is somehow getting some money out of the deal--i.e. Pepsi paid them... or something.

 

[hotwire132002]

Re: Never have never will

Originally posted by xtekdiver
I have never had a soda in my life and I'm not about to start. No free songs for me

Never had a soda? Are you insane! I drink like 6 a day!

 

[hotwire132002]

Originally posted by pascalpp

tile that image and you've got yourself one ugly-ass desktop. go on, you know you wanna try it.

-p

I tried it on a PeeCee--you're right--butt-ugly (It would look better on my iMac )

 

[iChan]

Originally posted by iMax531
I apologize if this has been posted before, but I bet there's gonna be a huge ebay market for these things...

if someone wins and doesn't want to use iTunes, thinks it sucks, whatever, they could sell the caps on ebay for something like 75 cents a pop.



no pun intended.

would be ver hard to prove that the codes hadn't already been redeemed

 

[jacobslateralus]

Re: Is that an iMac in the Ad?

Originally posted by kramnala
Is that an iMac in the screenshot, because it doen't really look like one to me. I don't know... It doesn't just look like it is lit wierdly. The screen border looks metallic. I could just be me though...

I hope this hasn't been discussed already!?!

I have to agree. I guess it could be the lighting, but it doesn't look that way to me. But, after all the hoopla lately, I don't dare even keep my fingers crossed. I mean, certainly apple would do something to celebrate the mac's 20th birthday (besides remaking the 1984 commercial just to post it on their website). But I wish they'd hurry up and do it, so I can finally calm the f down.

 

[hotwire132002]

Re: Re: Is that an iMac in the Ad?

Originally posted by jacobslateralus
I have to agree. I guess it could be the lighting, but it doesn't look that way to me. But, after all the hoopla lately, I don't dare even keep my fingers crossed. I mean, certainly apple would do something to celebrate the mac's 20th birthday (besides remaking the 1984 commercial just to post it on their website). But I wish they'd hurry up and do it, so I can finally calm the f down.

To me it appears that the lighting for the shot is behind the iMac, so that the clear frame around it appears to have a sort of fibre-optic type glow. I think that's just an ordinary iMac.

 

[jacobslateralus]

Re: Re: Re: Is that an iMac in the Ad?

Originally posted by hotwire132002
To me it appears that the lighting for the shot is behind the iMac, so that the clear frame around it appears to have a sort of fibre-optic type glow. I think that's just an ordinary iMac.

I don't know. after watching the ad on appleinsider, it looks even more like metal around the screen. But, on the other hand, the rest of the imac looks the same. It does seem unlike apple to make such a small adjustment in the design. So it must just be some weird effect of the lighting.

 

[rdowns]

Originally posted by Raiden
I think this promotion is great, but damn, 100 million songs? I mean havent we only sold like 30 mil so far? Also, thats 300 million bottles of pepsi. How long does it take normally take pepsi to sell that many?

I think the idea is good for this campaign, but untill I see more numbers, im going to remain a bit skeptical....

Maybe there's a PepsiRumors.com site with some forums to answer your question. My guess would be they will sell them in the time allotted for the promotion but the faithful will hold out for the rumored Pepsi upgrade next Tuesday.

 

[hotwire132002]

Originally posted by rdowns
Maybe there's a PepsiRumors.com site with some forums to answer your question.

Nope, no Pepsirumors.com-- I checked

 

[Peej]

Re: Re: Pepsi and Coke and the difference

Originally posted by jobberwacky
The Green Party linking up with a vendor of sugary water with artificial flavors and sponsor of car racing?

Not very likely

Yeah, I geuss so...... I'll stick to green tea sweetened with honey. And I'd better not sell my 1986 Volvo 240 wagon just yet.

 

[Sol]

I'll tell you why not Coke...

A lot of people seem to be dissapointed that Apple and Pepsi are working together on this promotion. Being a Cherry Coke drinker myself I feel your pain but there is a very simple explanation about all this: Coke has its own online music store that uses the WMA format.

 

[grouse]

I just couldn't resist

I know this is a little more the kinda thing that spymac listeners tune in to but, hell, it only took me a couple of seconds!

Enjoy...

 

[VicMacs]

all in all

for being a pepsi commercial... its not that bad... it will do good... you guys are too harsch...

 

[whooleytoo]

Originally posted by hotwire132002
Nope, no Pepsirumors.com-- I checked

Hmmm... maybe PepsiTunes.com...

 

[mobility3]

divergent product lines

This is one of the most intelligent and well planned campaigns by Apple that I've seen.

Unfortunately it turns my stomach worse than pepsi. I hope they go back to low key monochrome ADs after this. I can associate myself with being a Mac user but not a pepsi drinker (haven't used iTunes download yet).

Maybe I will start to distinguish more between iTunes as a product line and other Mac products.

nothing more rolls with the times than business.

 

[hotwire132002]

Re: divergent product lines

Originally posted by mobility3
This is one of the most intelligent and well planned campaigns by Apple that I've seen.

Unfortunately it turns my stomach worse than pepsi. I hope they go back to low key monochrome ADs after this. I can associate myself with being a Mac user but not a pepsi drinker (haven't used iTunes download yet).

Maybe I will start to distinguish more between iTunes as a product line and other Mac products.

nothing more rolls with the times than business.

Problem is, it's not an Apple ad. The ad is done by Pepsi, and, quoting the contest rules (not word for word) "Apple is not a sponsor of this promotion" or something to that extent.

 

[maclamb]

Branding

I was most impressed when I saw the strength of the iTunes "Brand". No "Apple" no "Macintosh" no "iPod" - just iTunes
impressive