Eight years ago, in 2000 «Wassup?» video advertising Budweiser beer, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes advertising festival. In those days, there were no large-scale video-hostings in the Internet, but the audience of the Wassup? clip could be compared with today’s most popular videos on YouTube. Видео передавалось по электронной почте и файлообменным сетям, и по сей день является самым успешным примером вирусного маркетинга. Video was transmitted via e-mail and file-sharing networks, and is still the most successful example of on-line marketing. Later, Wassup? also spawned a whole wave of parodies.

And now, after 8 years of the Republicans in the White House, the video characters are back and ask the eternal question: «Wassup?» In response, another character says: «Change. That’s wassup.» We’ll remind that the main slogan of the U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama campaign is the phrase «Change We Can Believe In».

In this video creators of the remake from the Obama’s electoral headquarters criticize all the current problematic issues – from Iraq to health problems and of course the financial crisis.

Inside, you can see the original videos «Budweiser. True.»  from 2000. It was created by DDB Chicago for Bud Lights.

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