Wieden's newest Coke ad maybe not so new

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Well, this is interesting. It turns out Wieden + Kennedy's "Sleepwalker" spot for Coca-Cola, which broke on the Super Bowl, bears a more-than-passing resemblance to a 2001 Israeli milk commercial by Young & Rubicam. Many of the visuals are almost identical, and the music is identical: Ravel's Boléro. See clips from both ads below; check out the spots in full at Adland. A Coke rep tells AgencySpy that both client and agency "were unaware of this other ad"
prior to the Super Bowl.

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