{"id":236,"date":"2008-07-23T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=236"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T05:02:14","slug":"everybody-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com\/\">Dr Pepper Snapple Group<\/a> has been promoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpepper.com\/\">Dr Pepper<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpepper.com\/IJ4\/html.aspx?r=false\">a sweepstakes<\/a>.  Entry codes are obtained from bottle caps or packages.  The promotion claims <q>1 in 6 WINS!<\/q>.<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/?p=127\">The Woman of Interest has ostensibly won five times, but the award has each time been an <em>advertisement<\/em> &mdash; two Dr Pepper screensavers and three Dr Pepper <q>wallpaper<\/q> graphics.<\/a><\/p> <p>Which brings me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.com\/en\/index.html\">\u0421\u0423\u041f<\/a>.<\/p> <p><a href=\"?p=197\">As previously noted<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lj_2008\/4376.html?thread=987160#t987160\">they are <em>eliminating<\/em> Basic Accounts<\/a>, under <a href=\"http:\/\/news.livejournal.com\/109461.html\">the pretense of responding to <q>popular demand<\/q><\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lj_2008\/4376.html?thread=987160#t987160\">Basic Accounts will be <em>replaced<\/em> with accounts such that advertising is to be presented to holders or to visitors, though the precise details <em>might<\/em> not yet be decided.<\/a><\/p> <p>Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.com\/en\/index.html\">\u0421\u0423\u041f<\/a> should copy a page from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com\/\">Dr Pepper Snapple Group<\/a> playbook!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.com\/en\/index.html\">\u0421\u0423\u041f<\/a> just needs to stop referring to these advertisements as such, and start calling them <em>prizes!<\/em><\/p> <p>G_d knows that lots of <abbr title=\"LiveJournal\">LJ<\/abbr> members would <em>thank<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/marta.livejournal.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">mustela prima<\/span><\/a> for the bounty.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Pepper Snapple Group has been promoting Dr Pepper with a sweepstakes. Entry codes are obtained from bottle caps or packages. The promotion claims 1 in 6 WINS!. The Woman of Interest has ostensibly won five times, but the award has each time been an advertisement &mdash; two Dr Pepper screensavers and three Dr Pepper [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,4],"tags":[293,3],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-dr-pepper","tag-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}