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Pepsi and iTunes Promotion

Re: Re: Re: Pepsi and iTunes Promotion

Originally posted by mainstreetmark
I could argue with that.
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:)

I meant good in terms of being high profile. I wouldn't personally be interested in any of them. Apart from Beyonce, and that has little to do with music...
 
I wonder if it's just going to be Pepsi or Pepsi products? I'm a big Mountain Dew drinker, it's be nice to get something free for drinking that!
 
Originally posted by LinuxGigolo
I think you and the poster below you missed my point. To clarify, the point is not that the product is "Pepsi". The point is that the product costs more than the "prize" and given a 1 in 3 chance, if you don't drink a lot of (soda)(pop) (pick your word depending on what you call it), it makes no sense to buy it just for the free song. You'd be better off bypassing the (soda)(pop) purchase altogether and buying the song straight from Apple. I definitely do not care what type of beverage a person drinks.. I just mentioned Pepsi cause.. well.. the promotion is with Pepsi.
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I think everyone is saying that they would be drink some type of soda anyways (promotion or not). So why not win some music in the process.

If you are going to buy Pepsi just to win music that is stupid, but if you are going to buy soft drinks anyways, buy some Pepsi while they are giving away free music!
 
Originally posted by crazytom
I wonder if it's just going to be Pepsi or Pepsi products? I'm a big Mountain Dew drinker, it's be nice to get something free for drinking that!
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From previous rumors, Moutian Dew will not be included in the promotion, which sucks because that is all I drink besides Coke.
 
No Purchase Necessary?

Isn't this a 'contest' or 'sweepstakes'? Doesn't there then have to be a "no purchase necessary to win" clause somewhere?

Then again, if you have to send a $0.37 stamp to request a gamepiece and the odds are 1/3 and the song costs $0.99, it's not worth it (plus no soda).

Oh, and if the Apple guy is reading, the alt tag on the Pepsi image is "more then just pop". The grammar is correct in the image. See, if Mountain Dew was in the promotion this never would have happened. :)
 
Stocking up on Pepsi makes sense to me

Originally posted by LinuxGigolo
Do you ordinarily drink a crapload of Pepsi? If not, why not just bypass Pepsi's 1 in 3 chance and spend the $1 you're gonna spend on the bottles of Pepsi on songs from the iTMS. Heck, you'd even save a penny.
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Rather than assume people are fundamentally stupid and can't add, I assume that these people (like me) will buy a lot of Pepsi... INSTEAD of other beverages we'd buy. Thus we are not spending any more, and are getting free songs. That's a much better deal than the one you propose: buying whatever we used to buy and paying full price at iTMS.

Unless you assume everyone only drinks tap water at zero expense :)

There's also the question of how late you can REDEEM the yellow caps. If they are available only for 2 months, but redeemable later, then buying ahead makes sense.

Since I'll be buying iTunes music anyway I'm sure, I don't think of this as winning free music... I think of it as getting 1/3 off beverages which I'd buy anyway... not bad since I buy on sale to begin with :D (Diet... I'm killing myself with chemicals rather than calories!)

Personally I prefer Coke's taste, but Pepsi is fine too. A change will not kill me. And I'm boycotting Coke for some specific and nasty practices overseas (polluting ground water in India for one), so I've already been buying Pepsi--or smaller brands--lately.
 
Originally posted by Sonofhaig
I can't taste or smell anything. I haven't been able to for years. Only taste I can get are the basics... sweet, bitter, etc.
To me, Pepsi and Coke are the same. In fact, there was a period of time a year ago, with steroids, I was able to get taste back briefly. I found out during that time that they're both horrible. But now taste isn't an issue. I only get "sweet" out of them. I drink soda anyway... so I for one will load up on Pepsi. (I'm promotion driven) Actually since I can't taste anything, maybe I should sign up for "Fear Factor". :D
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could you taste stuff when you were a kid cause an ingredient in those types of drinks is aspartamine (cant spell) it nulls your tast so you cannot tell that it tasts like crap hence I never dink stuff like that EVER.
 
Fun with chemicals

A more serious note on chemicals and artificial sweeteners... I don't trust that their effects are even known--so I very my habits! Safety in variety. Don't load up my system non-stop for years.

Sucralose (mostly inverted sugar molecules... so why can't it taste just like sugar??) scares me less than aspartame, so I lean towards that. And I change what I drink after having a lot of any one thing for a time. Think I'll be buying an aspartame beverage right after the iTunes promotion? Nope--I'll take a water break or choose RC Diet Rite with splenda or something.

(For the record, I drink lots of things besides pop anyway.)
 
Britney, Enrique, Beyonce & Pink

Brit, Enrique, Beyonce & Pink will be featured in the upcoming marketing onslaught from Pepsi. This has been annnounced previously a month or so ago at the very least.

Pictures for these upcoming ads, or at least teaser photos, can be found at www.worldofbritney.com. The ads will feature a Gladiator theme.
 
Originally posted by Dippo
From previous rumors, Moutian Dew will not be included in the promotion, which sucks because that is all I drink besides Coke.
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Ditto. We should protest to Pepsi. Not only is Coke the only thing besides Mt. Dew that I drink, but I bother to drive up to Canada to buy the stuff still made with sugar rather than corn syrup.
 
Originally posted by cubist
Gateway is abandoning the PC market to sell TVs. It looks like Apple is about to abandon the computer market to sell music players. :-(
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Doubtfully..
I think the basic stratagy is this:
iTunes exsists to sell iPods and iPods exsist to sell macs.
 
Way OT but...

Originally posted by painandgreed
..... drive up to Canada to buy the stuff still made with sugar rather than corn syrup.
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Just a note to the old before new coke and now old coke with corn syrup fans (?!) You can also get Sugar coke in jewish communities around passover, as CC makes a special *Kosher* batch then (I'm no longer in close prox. to Canada or Mexico for the Real real thing!
 
Re: No Purchase Necessary?

Originally posted by ClimbingTheLog
Isn't this a 'contest' or 'sweepstakes'? Doesn't there then have to be a "no purchase necessary to win" clause somewhere?

Then again, if you have to send a $0.37 stamp to request a gamepiece and the odds are 1/3 and the song costs $0.99, it's not worth it (plus no soda).

Oh, and if the Apple guy is reading, the alt tag on the Pepsi image is "more then just pop". The grammar is correct in the image. See, if Mountain Dew was in the promotion this never would have happened. :)
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I love it when people correct the grammar of others and yet mess up their own grammar. That should read, "See, if Mountain Dew were in the promotion this never would have happened." It's one of those rare kind of statements in English that requires the subjunctive.
 
Originally posted by LinuxGigolo
Do you ordinarily drink a crapload of Pepsi? If not, why not just bypass Pepsi's 1 in 3 chance and spend the $1 you're gonna spend on the bottles of Pepsi on songs from the iTMS. Heck, you'd even save a penny.

I've been hearing a lot of people say that they're going to buy a whole bunch of Pepsi once the promotion starts for the free song, and they seem to forget that individual tracks are only $0.99 @ the iTMS, generally less than a bottle of Pepsi. When they say that, I give them the :confused: face. Anyway.. enjoy your Pepsi.
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Well we can buy Pepsi here for $.75 out of a vending machine.

Pepsi bottling company is only 15 mins away from where I live and Coke bottling company is only 2 hrs away from here.

Most places are selling large stocks of Pepsi for around $.50 a bottle and sometimes even lower.
 
Re: Questions in relation to this promotion.

Originally posted by Other.au
Firstly i would like to ask wether this promotion will be available in Australia.

Secondly, with all these songs available only through the itunes music store, wouldnt it force thousands of people to download itunes?
Forcing many users to use it as their jukebox software and eventually buy more ipods. =)
This would also a result promote the use of ACC and hurt WMA.

Thirdly, i would like to ask why AAC is such a powerful format.

Fourhtly, is WMA such a widespread format on PC even though its the standrard one with Windows Media Player.
I was under the impression that Windows users avoided this format at all costs, and that it was as a result not used very often.
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I don't think this will be promoted overseas unless Apple opens up some more iTMS stores overseas.

The promo will promote iTunes downloads and I figure more promo's will happen in specific countries once iTMS launches there.

AAC is developed by Dolby. Recent benchmark of MP3, WMA, and AAC showed AAC was the best format.

Windows users don't avoid AAC because of just AAC format...they avoid it because they don't like Apple...not because it's a bad format.
I would say about 90% of all Window users I know have iTunes or have something like Winamp that will play raw AAC's.
 
Re: No Purchase Necessary?

Originally posted by ClimbingTheLog
Isn't this a 'contest' or 'sweepstakes'? Doesn't there then have to be a "no purchase necessary to win" clause somewhere?

Then again, if you have to send a $0.37 stamp to request a gamepiece and the odds are 1/3 and the song costs $0.99, it's not worth it (plus no soda).
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Has someone not been paying attention? They spelled it out THREE TIMES in the first Stevenote, and another time at Macworld. Sheesh. Anyway, here's how it works.

1. You buy bottle of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Seirra Mist.
2. Open bottle of soda and look under cap. If you win there will be a 'Congratulations!' message and a code. This message will appear on 1 out of every 3 bottles. The other bottles will have a 'Sorry, play again.' message. In case of first message go to step 3, otherwise go back to step 1.
3. On the iTMS front page there will be a pepsi link. Click on it. This will take you to a page where you enter your code.
4. Enter your code.
5. You now have $.99 in that gift certificate field, just as if you had recieved a gift certificate for $.99.

And finally to the poster from Sydney. Since there's no iTMS for you aussies to buy songs from, it wouldn't make sense to give you codes you can't use.
 
If there were multiple ads I would imagine they are a series for the Pepsi deal. Apple wouldn't want to dilute the message it is putting out by running concurrent hardware ads as well.

Looks like the 20th Anniversary is going to pass without any form of product release - probably just a page on the webstite, although what mention of the 20th anniversary has now been removed ... so maybee another MWSF 2004 deal - i.e. disappointment.

By the way, SJ also used to work for HP. Anyone notice a trend developing here?
 
Originally posted by mrsebastian
was just checking out the pepsi site and noticed they offer a winamp skin that seems to be for another campaign
http://www.pepsi.com/music/index.php
i wonder what kind of promotion material they'll have on their website for itunes?
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I happen to be a Coke fan also, it's because they aret he ones that always have their product on sale. With a 1 in 3 chance of winning, I plan to give Pepsi a try during this promotion. Hopefully iTunes will have some songs that I like.
 
Re: Re: No Purchase Necessary?

Originally posted by guifa
I love it when people correct the grammar of others and yet mess up their own grammar. That should read, "See, if Mountain Dew were in the promotion this never would have happened." It's one of those rare kind of statements in English that requires the subjunctive.
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I don't know that it should. If the poster was talking about Mountain Dew as a group, then the correct word would be "were".

Otherwise, the poster may have been talking about the singular product "Mountain Dew," in which case the use of "was" would be sound grammar.
 
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