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Main • #323

Shaquille O'Neal - retirement

Release year:2011
Category:Main campaign
Collections:Main Campaign
Times published:1

Notes

Main 2011 retirement creative. Exact placement resolved: full-page USA Today ad on June 9, 2011, reported at the time by Sports Business Journal. CBS and MilkPEP/Oreo launch coverage confirm the campaign timing.

Main image

Main campaign ad

Direct full-size main ad verified from MilkAdMan's rebuilt high-resolution archive.

Credits

Photographer / credited image source:Kwaku Alston
Campaign / production note:Retirement Ad
How certain the credit is:A — agency-side archive metadata

Variants of this ad (1)

Different printed versions of the same ad are grouped here.

Shaquille O'Neal - retirement — USA TODAY newspaper version
Year:2011
Version type:Newspaper version
Difference:The ad as a tall newspaper page in USA TODAY; the proportions and layout differ from the magazine page.
Notes:Seller photograph of the folded page, eCrater listing 19581836 (seller adfactory).

Images of this version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved2011Newspaper version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
USA TodayJun 9, 2011 find this issueFull-page newspaper adsourceSports Business Journal reported on June 9, 2011 that Shaquille O’Neal appeared in a full-page “Got Milk?” ad in that morning’s USA Today, carrying the copy “Here’s to retirement.”

More sources

CBS News: Shaquille O’Neal and Heidi Klum show off milk mustaches
Date:Jun. 2, 2011
Confirms Shaq’s newly retired status and launch of the 2011 ad.
source
MilkPEP / Oreo campaign release via PR Newswire
Date:Jun. 1, 2011
Official release confirms Shaquille O’Neal and his mother Lucille in the 2011 Oreo-and-milk campaign during National Dairy Month.
source

About this entry

Shaquille O'Neal - retirement is an ad from the main Milk Mustache campaign dated 2011, filed in the collection “Main Campaign” of the Milk Mustache Database, which lists 2,339 entries from the got milk? and Milk Mustache campaigns. Recorded appearances: USA Today (Jun 9, 2011 find this issue). The entry also shows 1 further version of the piece. 2 pictures are shown.

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