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- BUSINESS, Page 55Business NotesADVERTISINGSinging for Their Soda
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- The major career decision for celebrities at the moment is
- not whether to sell out but which cola to endorse when they do.
- In the latest episode of their unending battle to top each
- other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one
- can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl,
- Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising
- campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song
- from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March
- on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has
- already starred Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, David Bowie and
- the Miami Sound Machine.
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- Coca-Cola has not lost its fizz either. In December the
- company signed teen heartthrob George Michael for a diet Coke
- commercial, to begin this week, which features music from a
- previously unreleased single (his fee: a reported $4 million).
- In the past, Coke has recruited the Pointer Sisters and Whitney
- Houston. All of which raises a profound question: Which brand
- would Elvis have chosen?
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