Real or fraud?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nquccBCNYpg

This is what comes up when you click the link:

"This video is no longer available due to a trademark claim by a third party."

Gonna go with fraud, and they pissed the Sprite folks off.

Sprite ... Are/were we talking soda pop ?

It's available here:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917356

--LT

That's one interesting spurt you got there...

Rather obviously if it appears on a site called "College Humor" and Coca-Cola claimed copyright infringement on U-tube it must be a hoax.

I love the Internet. A big mega-corp tries to stop something their marketing department thinks hurts their brand image, and it just keeps moving from place to place.

Frankly, this might help their stale brand image among young people more than hurt it.

--LT

Works in marketing.

>>Here's the story as it has evolved:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/2 ... 40851.html

UPDATE:

The New York Press reports that a New York City-based director was responsible for the now-infamous Sprite ad, and that the spot was produced without Sprite's permission. The ad is the work of Max Issacson, and was not produced in Germany, according to the NY Press.

The NY Press spoke to John Jones IV, the male model pictured in the video: "The funny thing is, it's a spec commercial--it's not even real," Jones said.

Current TV initially reported that the ad had been banned from the air, for pretty obvious reasons. It combines oral sex and the desire for a refreshing Sprite to create a big finish that has to be seen to be believed. It even beats the climax of this similarly-themed ad.

>>Here's the similarly themed advertisement -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/0 ... 24688.html

It's NSW in that it shows bare male butt cheeks.