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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Software

Pepsi Issues “Apology” For Offensive iPhone Dating App

4:40AM Sean Fallon | Pepsi’s “Amp Up Before You Score” iPhone app is intended to help men score with women (and brag about it with their friends on Facebook or Twitter). Not surprisingly, this has created something of a PR issue. More »
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Entertainment

MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to ‘Pepsuber’

1:00AM Jack Loftus | MacGruber, the gadget-heavy SNL sketch that always ends with an explosion, was heavy on something else last night: Product placement. And not even a cameo by Richard Dean Anderson—MacGyver himself—could save these three commercials. More »
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Regulars

Weird Combo Of The Day: Yoghurt Flavoured Pepsi?

11:30AM Nick Broughall | Inspired by yesterday’s Weird Combo of the Day, reader Mark sent us in this image of Pepsi White from Tokyo. What makes the Pepsi white? Yoghurt. Are there any two flavours that would go together less than Pepsi and Yoghurt? If there are, I can’t imagine them (nor do I want to). [Thanks Mark!] More »
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Entertainment

Amazon-Pepsi Promotion Gets Official and Awesome: Free MP3s, Unbox Downloads, DVDs, CDs and Gadgets

4:55AM Gizmodo US Edition | Good news on the Pepsi-Amazon MP3 contest front: It’s official, it’s not a contest and they’ve giving away more than MP3s. It’s a point-based promo that launches on Feb. 1, with 4 billion Pepsi products carrying points that you can bank on PepsiStuff.com for MP3s from Amazon store, which now has tracks from all four major labels. Five points scores one download. The bad news: More »
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
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Pepsi and Amazon Giving Away 1 Billion MP3s

10:40AM Matt Buchanan | The Great Pepsi MP3 Giveaway returns, but this time with…Amazon? Yup. Starting Superbowl Sunday (Feb. 3), Pepsi’s stuffing 5 billion bottles of Coke soda with download codes, but you need five of ‘em to get a free song. That’s right, there will be no casual Pepsi drinkers getting free songs on Pepsi/Amazon’s dime – which is about 40 cents a track, down from the 65-70 cents Amazon usually places in labels’ pockets. Consequently, not all of them may participate, which is lame-o on their part. It’s a promotion people, come on – it helped put iTunes on the map back in 2004 and it might help Amazon’s MP3 store gain some much needed visibility. What’s interesting is that Billboard says this contest might serve as a tipping point to push Sony BMG into selling songs in the MP3 format – right now, Universal and EMI are the only two major labels doing so. If the contest isn’t an adequate carrot, Wal-Mart might be providing the stick, since it’s rumoured to be threatening to drop Sony and Warner’s catalog if they don’t supply its online store with the MP3 format. Given the fear labels have of the iTunes monopoly, you’d think they’d jump at a player-neutral format, and moreover, the chance to promote alternate players in the online music market. I, however, am not jumping at the chance to drink Pepsi. Blech. [Billboard via Paid Content, Flickr] More »
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