While Coca Cola Company has been doing an ok job keeping the ad off of YouTube, below is proof that getting something off the internet is about as easy as stirring your cream back out of your coffee.
That’s via the Russian site TopNews and was the fourth link on a Google video search for “Banned German Sprite Ad.”
I hope Coca Cola is glad they’ve wasted all those resources on a fools errand when they could have been laughing it off and soaking up the free publicity.
From the country that brought the world sauerkraut comes the return of “Smell-O-Vision“:
“A company called Cinescent is giving marketers the chance to pump out the scent of their brands in German theaters, where it first tested the technology for Beiersdorf’s Nivea. For the test, a specially made 60-second spot showed a typical sunny beach scene, with people lying around on deck chairs or sunbathing on towels while waves crashed and seagulls cried in the background.
As people wondered what the ad was for, the scent of Nivea sun cream permeated the cinema, and a Nivea logo appeared on screen along with the words “Nivea. The scent of summer.” (via)
It’s bad enough that, after paying $12, I am bombarded with close to 30 minutes of commercials before I get to see my movie of choice. Now they want to attack my olefactory glands?! As if we needed another reason to stay home and pirate a movie or two off of mininova.