CSI Badland - DP DDB v. BBDO in the Burgled Beverage Barricade Brand Boggler

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Posted by claymore on 18. October 2004 - 8:03

It's a quasi-effective anti-theft device.
It's a Bud Light commercial.
It's a Pepsi commercial.

Oops.

Read more for the forensics on this defensive drink device doppelgänger...

Exhibit A: This month, a Bud Light commercial hit the airwaves via Downtown Partners DDB. In its latest Bud Light Institute spot, CEO Keith Geurts reveals their latest innovation - the Bud Light Security Clamp. It's an excellent spot, as is the campaign.

Superadgrunts can view the spot here.

There's just one wee little problem...

Exhibit B: Back in 1997, BBDO came out with a spiffy Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi. In it, Robert Stack (of Unsolved Mysteries fame) revealed their latest innovation - the Pepsi Club.

Superadgrunts can view the spot here, and a later variant here.

To further raise suspicions, both fictitious devices are/were fictitiously available in single and six-pack versions. Hmmm....

Was the idea drinkjacked, or is it all an amazing coincidence?
We'll leave that up to you.

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Submitted by dabitch on 18. October 2004 - 9:39.
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HA! Good catch Claymore, this is funny.

Submitted by kamari on 18. October 2004 - 23:06.
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Great catch indeed. How embarrasing. The gag isn't that funny in the first place... Ten points for the hosted by Robert Stack Pepsi version, that was the touch that made a so-so joke much funnier.

Submitted by TDD on 30. May 2005 - 20:49.
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The Bud Light Security Clamp looks like it might be the result of 8 years of Research and Development by the Bud Light Institute from original, or facsimile, Pepsi Club blueprints that quite possibly had been acquired covertly from Pepsi.

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