{"id":7466,"date":"2008-03-26T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brants.wordpress.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-03-26T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:04:22","slug":"cola-berate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/03\/26\/cola-berate\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngistunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Remember the fun we used to have with the Sprite vs Mountain Dew which used to be so entertaining &#8211;\u00a0 the &#8216;I want to do&#8217; version that Sprite did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QRIwkKF2cm8\" target=\"_blank\">response<\/a> to &#8216;do the dew&#8217;, in addition to the various fwds it had spawned from &#8216;Mount and Do&#8217; to &#8216;Brokeback Mountain &#8211; Do the Dude&#8217;? We also had the Cola wars with SRK taking shots at Hrithik. Guess what, we have more fun coming our way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This blog has already written about <a href=\"http:\/\/brants.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/20\/stan-is-young\/\" target=\"_blank\">Youngistan<\/a>. Allow me to introduce to you the latest entrant in the Cola-Uncola TVC wars, the all clear Sprite. (thanks to the tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/chupchap.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Balu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">[youtube=http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=0_N-FVryV1I]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I think Sprite has gauged the public response to the Pepsi ad before taking such a step. I&#8217;ve not heard too many good comments about them, online or offline, and this must be a big factor in reviving the ad wars. I guess some agencies are in for sleepless nights trying to outwit each other. In fact these cola wars actually remind me of those UCB-Spring collection type stuff,\u00a0this summer like the last couple of summers, we have the Pepsi\/Coke &#8211; Summer 08 ad collection.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Long before i was made aware of dental problems and pesticides, i used to be a Pepsi guy more than a Coke guy. During the first round of cola wars, I always wondered why Pepsico chooses Mountain Dew to do battle with the Coke products. Pepsi has a perfect weapon in its hand, if only they knew how to use it. What am i talking about? Remember this cool pencil thin character we used to love, he lived &#8216;cool&#8217; long before cool became cool. These days he&#8217;s wasted sitting on elephants or jamming with Mallika Sherawat or relegated to taglines. He&#8217;s called Fido Dido. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.in.msn.com\/business\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1306203\" target=\"_blank\">Research<\/a> apparently says his ads don&#8217;t make sense anymore (thats because of the ads silly, not him), and when he does battle against &#8216;Clear Hain&#8217;, I&#8217;d want front row seats.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">until next time, youngistan main jashn mana le, clear hain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the fun we used to have with the Sprite vs Mountain Dew which used to be so entertaining &#8211;\u00a0 the &#8216;I want to do&#8217; version that Sprite did in response to &#8216;do the dew&#8217;, in addition to the various fwds it had spawned from &#8216;Mount and Do&#8217; to &#8216;Brokeback Mountain &#8211; Do the Dude&#8217;? <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/03\/26\/cola-berate\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2534,21,22],"tags":[24,180,198,233],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-brand","category-india","tag-7up","tag-mountain-dew","tag-pepsi","tag-sprite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}