You may or may not be old enough to remember the classic Pepsi commercial from 1995 that features a Pepsi driver dropping into a diner for a bite and meeting a Coke delivery driver at the lunch counter. They hit it off just great until the Pepsi driver offers the Coke man a can of his cola. Well, lets just say the Pepsi driver had to get his soda back forcefully. Continue Reading »
True story: when one puts Mentos candies in Diet Coke, an eruption occurs.
In 2006, this modern day marvel (and awesome party trick) reached the level of Internet stardom when Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz posted the “Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments” video on EepyBird.com. The original video, in what became a series, re-created the famous fountain display outside the Bellagio Hotel in Vegas, using a timed series of eruptions. Continue Reading »
So clearly the higher-ups at Coca-Cola read my skeptical blog about their social media-fueled search for happiness yesterday and immediately realized they screwed up. Enter Avatar-themed Coke Zero to patch things up. BRILLIANT. Or is it? Continue Reading »
Is it just me, or are companies running out of creative online promotions? For instance, consider Coke Zero’s new facial profiler promotion. The website asks:
“If Coke Zero has Coke’s taste, is it possible someone out there has your face?”
Next, you upload a photo of yourself, and it tells you if a duplicate version of yourself exists out there somewhere.
I’m pretty sure a bizzaro version of myself does not exist. And if by some stretch there is, I want nothing to do with that person. In terms of practicality, I could see minors using this to find fake id candidates, but beyond that, I don’t know how this idea made it out of the pitch meeting.
Using Stephen Colbert’s proven process of “gut feeling journalism”, I have uncovered that Japan is developing weapons technology against which the United States will have no defense. The fact that Japan has perfected the Coke robot effectively makes them the world’s leading superpower. Continue Reading »
