Holy licensing costs, MasterCard

In one commercial, you’ll see Marlon Brando, Carols Santana, Marilyn Monroe and the Ramones, with a David Bowie tune in the background:

youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQp8lzikSsU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]

Usually you get derivatives “in the style” of those sorts of artists, on the cheap. I wonder what MasterCard paid for all that stuff.

Published July 14, 2009