Brian Braiker, Editor at Ad Age, talks the year’s best and worst in advertising. From the notorious Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad to the moving New York Times piece on fake news, 2017 was quite a ride for marketing advertisers.
The Pepsi commercial showed the model ending racial tensions between police and Black Lives Matter protesters with the delivery of one soda. We dig into how tone deaf the ad was and how advertising agencies used the flop to their advantage, since the idea came from an internal Pepsi team.
As inflation-weary consumers cut back on dining out, brands like McDonald’s are relying more heavily on celebrity and influencer endorsements to move the needle
Plus, Starbucks reported its first quarter of declining sales and earnings since the pandemic, Biden tries to tackle the national debt and Warren Buffett is set to host the annual meeting of his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway.