Orange Man (advertisement) Tango can on top of the orange man's head, which bears the slogan "You Know When You've Been Tango'd". A deep male voice (Gil Scott-Heron) says the slogan at the same time. At the time of the advertisement's production, successful soft drink television advertising was dominated by Coca-Cola; Trevor Robinson, co-creator of "Orange Man", recalled that "Coca-Cola was the big name in soft-drink advertising then. Nothing was taking on the Coke ads; nothing came close." Robinson recalled that "cause and effect advertising" was very popular on British advertisement at the time, which he described as advertisements where "you come into
Shasta (soft drink) produced its first soft drink, a ginger ale. Until the 1950s, the company's products were mainly mixers for alcoholic drinks: mineral water, club soda, and ginger ale. Shasta introduced new marketing strategies in the 1950s, which became industry standards: the packaging of soft drinks in cans, the introduction of low calorie soft drinks, and the distribution of cans and bottles directly to grocers through wholesale channels. By 1960, Shasta was a well-known brand in the western United States. During the 1960s, under the ownership of Luke Wienecke, Shasta was sold to Consolidated Foods (later known as Sara Lee) and was