{"id":12327,"date":"2007-04-23T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/ad-bits-diy-pepsi-cans-custom-wiis-more.html"},"modified":"2007-04-23T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T08:03:43","slug":"ad_bits_diy_pepsi_cans_custom_wiis_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/ad_bits_diy_pepsi_cans_custom_wiis_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad bits: DIY Pepsi cans, custom Wii&#039;s, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked at a couple of interactive ad shops, I&#8217;m always interested in seeing what&#8217;s being created these days: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pepsi is running a contest to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designourpepsican.com\/\">design the next Pepsi can<\/a>&#160;(more info in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/25363.html?cprose=daily\">press release<\/a>). Watching the site,  my wife remarked, &quot;Now <em>there&#8217;s<\/em> a sound I don&#8217;t like to hear in isolation&#8211;that wet, pouring sound&#8230;&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of unique packaging, Nintendo is offering a chance to win <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofwii.nintendo.com\/\">custom-painted Wii consoles<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>How about a scrumptious Whopper?&#160; Er, maybe not: food photography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewvsr.com\/adsvsreality.htm\">advertising vs. reality<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/04\/13265.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In response to visual chaos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/12\/12\/news\/brazil.php\">S\u00e3o Paulo goes ad-free<\/a>, with eerie results (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tonydemarco\/sets\/72157600075508212\/\">photo set<\/a>). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/14\/sao_paulo_goes_adver.html\">Via<\/a>].&#160; I&#8217;m headed there in two weeks &amp; will keep my eyes peeled for the lack of ads.&#160; In a somewhat similar (but voluntary) vein, Clear Channel is trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/23\/business\/media\/23radio.html?th&amp;emc=th\">commercial radio without the commercials<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Lastly, here&#8217;s a  solid&#8211;and I do mean solid&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/reynolds-wrap.html\">ad for Reynolds Wrap<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked at a couple of interactive ad shops, I&#8217;m always interested in seeing what&#8217;s being created these days: Pepsi is running a contest to design the next Pepsi can&#160;(more info in the press release). Watching the site, my wife remarked, &quot;Now there&#8217;s a sound I don&#8217;t like to hear in isolation&#8211;that wet, pouring sound&#8230;&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}