Pepsi-Cola Company: Choice Of A New Generation campaign

The Pepsi-Cola Company and its longtime advertising agency BBDO, New York, made marketing history on February 28, 1984.

Pepsi-Cola Company: Choice Of A New Generation campaign

Rebecca Stanfel

Overview

The Pepsi-Cola Company and its longtime advertising agency BBDO, New York, made marketing history on February 28, 1984. During the Grammy Awards Pepsi launched a commercial starring Michael Jackson, the pop music superstar whose Thrilleralbum was the best-selling record up to that time. The spot, which garnered so much advance publicity that some television channels offered to air it free, was the first of many such marketing extravaganzas in Pepsi's new advertising campaign, the "Choice of a New Generation." Pepsi employed musicians, actors, and other celebrities to...

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