Delta and Diet-Coke Cause Creep-Out at 30,000 Feet. Apologize.
The Washington Post reported that Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola have apologized for nudging passengers “to slip their number to their ‘plane crush’ on napkins.” Since then, the questions have been pouring in here. “Was this cool? Or creepy?” “How can people be creeped out by this?!?” “What were they thinking?!” I’ve got some in-plane advertising experience, so I’m in a good position to answer these questions. For example, back in the early 2000s, my agency, DiMassimo Goldstein, created a series...
