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Pepsi and Amazon announced they
would join forces in a move that is likely to become highly popular among both
music fans and music labels. Starting with February 3, or Super Bowl Sunday, Pepsi
will begin a promotion that will allow customers to download one free MP3 track
after collection five song codes from soda bottles’ caps. The company said the promotion
will include up to 5 billion bottles and that customers would have to visit a
specific redemption store on Amazon’s web site for accessing music from
participating labels.
Pepsi’s first promotion of giving
away free music downloads took place three years ago, when the company
partnered with Apple’s popular service iTunes. The 2004 Super Bowl campaign
resulted in 5 million people downloading free music tracks over three months.
For the latest promotion, Pepsi
and Amazon will offer a lot more tracks for free, although the actual number
won’t be 1 billion, as the campaign is theoretically offering, because some
people will have more or less than the required five codes. Pepsi and Amazon
asked all of the major music labels to participate to their campaign, but only
some of them accepted, due to Amazon’s offering labels only 40 percent per
track.
However, the promotion still has
big chances to be a hit, taking into account that people are craving after free
MP3 tracks.
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