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Campaign Promotion

Milk Goes to the Moon

Release year:1998
Category:Advertisement / promotion
Collections:Campaign Promotions
Times published:1
Type:Video offer / promotion
Relationship:HBO/MILK video offer

Notes

Listed in Milk Ad Collecting Central’s Advertisements/Promotions index.

Main image replaced with a sharper scan of the same full-page ad from SPIN, April 1998, p. 22 (2000 pixels wide; the earlier copy, 1250 pixels, is kept below). The new scan carries a faint “Copyrighted material” stamp in the lower right corner from the Google Books viewer. Wording as printed: “It costs billions of dollars to go to the moon.” / “Milk can bring that price down to Earth.” / “$6.95 ($19.98 value)” / “…proofs of purchase from two gallons of milk plus $6.95 for shipping and handling and you can get a videotape of the Apollo 11 mission, a part of HBO’s From The Earth To The Moon miniseries.” / “HBO IT’S NOT TV. IT’S HBO” / “MILK Where’s your mustache?” / “©1998 National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board”.

Recovered archive image

Exact ad recovered:The collector’s file was ad_milkmoon.jpg. The surviving copy comes from the original collector contact sheet.

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Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1998Video offer / promotionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central Advertisements/Promotions inventory documents this different ad.
SPINApril 1998 find this issue22Full-page adGoogle Books full viewIssue from the saved file name.