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Quicktime of Pepsi-iTunes Superbowl Ad
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savar
macrumors 68000
You people are ridiculous!!
This commercial isn't terrible!! The people in this forum are just snobs! As if any one of the geeks who hangs out here could hop in front of a camera all of a sudden and be Bogart.
"Marbles in her mouth"!?! That poor girl has a slight accent, and is probably a bit shy since she's gone from being nobody to being vaulted into the brightest spotlight in the world: the super bowl.
Some of you people don't even know who's playing in the super bowl, so just accept the fact that this ad is most definitely not targeted at you.
When Arn posts a story about new G5's next week, then everybody can throw their opinion into the hat. Until then, shut up! 😀
This commercial isn't terrible!! The people in this forum are just snobs! As if any one of the geeks who hangs out here could hop in front of a camera all of a sudden and be Bogart.
"Marbles in her mouth"!?! That poor girl has a slight accent, and is probably a bit shy since she's gone from being nobody to being vaulted into the brightest spotlight in the world: the super bowl.
Some of you people don't even know who's playing in the super bowl, so just accept the fact that this ad is most definitely not targeted at you.
When Arn posts a story about new G5's next week, then everybody can throw their opinion into the hat. Until then, shut up! 😀
one word...
pathetic !
It makes me feel quite sick to see how big corporations use these kids for their own profit ... Just pathetic how the producers made them hold these little bottles of Pepsi. What an image of youth..
Drink water !
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PS.: the current apple.com entry page is enough to make me p**e.. thousands of brown plastic sugar water bottles with blue an white labels...
pathetic !
It makes me feel quite sick to see how big corporations use these kids for their own profit ... Just pathetic how the producers made them hold these little bottles of Pepsi. What an image of youth..
Drink water !
😕
PS.: the current apple.com entry page is enough to make me p**e.. thousands of brown plastic sugar water bottles with blue an white labels...
Re: one word...
I do hope you are joking.
Its not like the kids aren't being paid or there is someone in the background with a cat-o-nine-tails in case they don't fall in line.
I do hope you are joking.
Its not like the kids aren't being paid or there is someone in the background with a cat-o-nine-tails in case they don't fall in line.
Wow, I can't beleive that so many in this site didn't like the commercial. I do agaree that big corporations should not use kids for their advertising but at the same time it is an effective ad for Apple.
Re: Re: one word...
Does paying them justify that ? What next ? Ask some people of the same age group if they identify themselves with the image given by the ad... if they do, I take back what I said..
BTW what is a cat-o-nine-tails ?
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Does paying them justify that ? What next ? Ask some people of the same age group if they identify themselves with the image given by the ad... if they do, I take back what I said..
BTW what is a cat-o-nine-tails ?
🙂
Why in the world will Apple be laughed at for a month if this is a PEPSI COMMERCIAL?????? PEPSI paid it, PEPSI paid for the airing time, PEPSI is the product!
Now, if one day APPLE does a commercial that's lame, than people might laugh at Apple for a week, or a month...
Daschund
Agreed. I only hope that when USA Today publishes the 10 best and 10 worst Super Bowl ads, it's listed as "Pepsi - "I Fought the Law" and not "Pepsi/Apple - "I Fought the Law".
i agree with those that dont understand where all this animosity is coming from. its a soda ad, and one that gets the iTunes name out there. its for people who arren't total dorks yet, that like Pepsi (and god forbid anyone like a soda product omg itz teh unh34lthy lolz).
I think it does what it set out to do, show that pepsi has a new 'look under the bottle cap' game, and it just happens to be related to an Apple service. You dont think that if MS had the best music service that they wouldnt work with them now do you? So its not about Apple at all, you dont have to worry about your wintel friends making fun of you because your fav thing in the whole world was poorly represented in a superbowl ad.
besides there will be so many high budget ads that the most people will do is forget about this one, that or they will jump on the internet and check out itunes, or better yet (if your the guy that paid for the ad) they will buy a pepsi product.
So stop all the bitching, its about the game anyway, not the ads. Go Pats!!!
I think it does what it set out to do, show that pepsi has a new 'look under the bottle cap' game, and it just happens to be related to an Apple service. You dont think that if MS had the best music service that they wouldnt work with them now do you? So its not about Apple at all, you dont have to worry about your wintel friends making fun of you because your fav thing in the whole world was poorly represented in a superbowl ad.
besides there will be so many high budget ads that the most people will do is forget about this one, that or they will jump on the internet and check out itunes, or better yet (if your the guy that paid for the ad) they will buy a pepsi product.
So stop all the bitching, its about the game anyway, not the ads. Go Pats!!!
Terrible
For those who are saying that this is not an ad for Apple, you're wrong, it IS an ad for Apple. This is not the sell-Pepsi ad, this is the buy-pepsi-and-get-free-iTunes commercial, which makes this an ad for Apple by default.
If you want to see a GOOD example of a cross-promotional ad, go look at the BMW-iPod ad. THAT was a good ad! This one barely tells you what they are advertising (except Pepsi, and as I said, this is the iTunes promotion commercial).
Since the purpose of this commercial (in theory) is to promote the iTunes promotion, it DOES reflect on Apple, like it or not.
For those who are saying that this is not an ad for Apple, you're wrong, it IS an ad for Apple. This is not the sell-Pepsi ad, this is the buy-pepsi-and-get-free-iTunes commercial, which makes this an ad for Apple by default.
If you want to see a GOOD example of a cross-promotional ad, go look at the BMW-iPod ad. THAT was a good ad! This one barely tells you what they are advertising (except Pepsi, and as I said, this is the iTunes promotion commercial).
Since the purpose of this commercial (in theory) is to promote the iTunes promotion, it DOES reflect on Apple, like it or not.
JDOG_
macrumors 6502a
Kids: "HAH HAH HAH we're Losers!!!"
Um,
Whoever enjoys this ad deserves to fill themselves full of brown sugar water and enjoy movies like "Godzilla"
Seriously though, as somebody who this ad is aimed at (12-24) it makes me sick to see all the people in the ad sell-out like that. I also can't believe it's being touted as "groundbreaking" what would be groundbreaking is if they spent that $1,000,000 on public services or something valuable to those who need it as opposed to exploiting kids and paying them to hold a glistening 20 oz. bottle of pepsi with a sly smirk---give me a break.
At least we can count on the beer ads to be funny...this one is just kind of pathetic in it's attempt to be cutting-edge while missing the mark sorely.
Um,
Whoever enjoys this ad deserves to fill themselves full of brown sugar water and enjoy movies like "Godzilla"
Seriously though, as somebody who this ad is aimed at (12-24) it makes me sick to see all the people in the ad sell-out like that. I also can't believe it's being touted as "groundbreaking" what would be groundbreaking is if they spent that $1,000,000 on public services or something valuable to those who need it as opposed to exploiting kids and paying them to hold a glistening 20 oz. bottle of pepsi with a sly smirk---give me a break.
At least we can count on the beer ads to be funny...this one is just kind of pathetic in it's attempt to be cutting-edge while missing the mark sorely.
ariza910
macrumors regular
What message is that? the message makes no sense. its basicly saying that these kids are some sort of rebles and the law has come down on them but they will do all they can to get free music so the answer is to buy tons of pepsi to get the free music, thats stupid.
And who is the target audience, some one said 12-15 year olds, I didnt realize that there were that many 12-15 year olds watching the Superbowl.
My bet would have been to go after the elusive 18-25 year olds. This is your biggest audeince for the superbowl and the hardest to reach with advertising.
Re: Terrible
The official Apple promotion page
Watch the ad
I belive you are refering to the Apple/VW Beetle promotion, where if you bought a new VW Beetle, you got a iPod free.
The official Apple promotion page
Watch the ad
The message: Pepsi is giving away free music legally.
End of statement.
There is no deeper philosophical meaning, this isn't a Think Different or 1984 style commercial, nothing. It is meant to sell Pepsi products.
...and dodge commercials are meant to sell gasoline. 🙄
geerlingguy
macrumors 6502a
Yes, but if that friend has it, you are not allowed to possess the songs anymore... If you didn't copy the songs to your computer, that this is okay; the friend, in effect, "owns" the CD. But, if you still are listening to the songs on your computer (or iPod, or whatever else), while your friend has them and rips them on his/her computer, then that's illegal. Also, if your friend has ripped the songs, then hands you back the CD, that's illegal.
It's called copying. Or, the RIAA would say "stealing". (but I like copying). 🙄
ariza910
macrumors regular
Who said there was a deep philosophical meaning? I'm talking about the main message of the commercial!
no one expects it to be a 1984 ad. I wouldnt even expect a pepsi ad to be anything like the 1984 ad.
What bothers me is that what is being said in the commercial doesnt make sense. Why are these kids so determined to get their music for free? And how is using a P2P like kazza "fighting the law" ....stupid.
one last thing, the kids in the commercial are a bunch of dorks. people dont want to associate themselves with these kids, especially since they where stupid enough to get caught, I would much rather see celebrities and music artist promoting iTunes/iPod and drinking Pepsi.
stop fooling yourselves, this ad is a failure.
I don't understand the bile being spewed on this forum over this. It's just a commercial, and it's fine. The kids aren't professional actors, they are just regular people. And being rough around the edges lends them a legitimate air, I think, of just being regular people. That's what it's about. As if everyone who's launched a criticism here would be better.
Not all commercials aspire to art; the fact that Apple commercials are made to a higher standard underscores the fact that they are after a certain market. I suspect there's a demographic that regularly goes out and buys Pepsi in 16 oz. bottles to a greater extent than any others, and they have targeted that demographic.
But, seriously. Go criticize the acting ability of J.Lo or Ben Affleck, but not of some teenage kids in various stages of adolescence, some with braces, others with their braces just off, no doubt. They've been through enough already, getting sued by the RIAA.
Not all commercials aspire to art; the fact that Apple commercials are made to a higher standard underscores the fact that they are after a certain market. I suspect there's a demographic that regularly goes out and buys Pepsi in 16 oz. bottles to a greater extent than any others, and they have targeted that demographic.
But, seriously. Go criticize the acting ability of J.Lo or Ben Affleck, but not of some teenage kids in various stages of adolescence, some with braces, others with their braces just off, no doubt. They've been through enough already, getting sued by the RIAA.
geerlingguy
macrumors 6502a
Re: Most of you people really...
Yes, we know, we're just too stupid to not waste our time here. Or, we have a one-and-one-half-hour-long study hall with nothing better (besides homework - which is boring) to do.
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Yes, we know, we're just too stupid to not waste our time here. Or, we have a one-and-one-half-hour-long study hall with nothing better (besides homework - which is boring) to do.
😛
El Tritoma
macrumors member
Not a good Super Bowl ad
I think this ad will be at the bottom of the ratings after the Super Bowl, but on the other hand it is way, way better than the MS ads I see on TV. Those things are embarrassingly bad.🙂
I think this ad will be at the bottom of the ratings after the Super Bowl, but on the other hand it is way, way better than the MS ads I see on TV. Those things are embarrassingly bad.🙂