Pepsi Pulls Controversial Kendall Jenner Ad After Outcry

[Beachlife!]

Nice! I especially liked their slogan: "Live, for now"

[Skeptic]

Originally Posted by Sue

Was that old one for coke!? I completely got that one wrong then .

That was Coke. Interestingly, Coke refused to redo the ad with black people removed from it at the request of the South African government, and eventually pulled out of the country altogether.

[Mouse]

Cracked also has a delightfully scathing video about the ad.

[ASL]

Originally Posted by That Cracked Video Mouse Linked

Millennials are gonna NFBSKing love this ad!

Stupid Millennials. I'm so glad I'm Gen Y...

[Beachlife!]

I totally get it now, I have to 'Join the Conversation' to find out what it's about. And then I will prolly be woke or something.

[ganzfeld]

Originally Posted by Skeptic

That was Coke. Interestingly, Coke refused to redo the ad with black people removed from it at the request of the South African government, and eventually pulled out of the country altogether.

Well, not really. They had already been reducing investment in the country and at that time said they would pull out completely but Coke never actually left South Africa. That's why they dominated that market for some time after (and probably still do I guess). Both companies tried to look Anti-Apartheid as much as possible: 1 so they could keep both markets, 2 to avoid political and marketing pressure in the US and other markets. But it was Coke that succeeded in keeping the SA market.

[gopher]

"Pepsi, for when they don't have Coke" is the best ad I have ever seen for them.

[Eoin]

[mbravo]

Piraro sometimes really misses the mark with some of his current events takes, but that one was good.

[Tootsie Plunkette]

Seattle Police added a bit of humor to yesterday's marathon bunch of marches and protests (which by the way seem to have been mostly benign in our city).

[Lainie]

Seattle PD has some good social media folks.