[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

It's a Pepsi ad.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/pepsi/ads/

It features kids who were sued by the RIAA. Overall I think it's was a stupid commerical, but Pepsi probably paid for their court fees. I haven't seen too many commercials that I love yet, but the Cadillac ones are cool and so was the one with the talking chimp.

According to the WSJ article on Friday (which is no longer available online), many companies are moving away from the "carte blanche" attitude that they passed onto their advertisement companies. Furthermore, the extravagant ads were at a time at which there wasn't much going on in the world...whereas now there is tons of drama, and thus eye-catching ads are less necessary in the company's eyes.

Hence, more down-to-earth ads.