The California Milk Processor Board is a nonprofit marketing board funded by California

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processors and administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. It is most well known for its Got Milk? advertising campaign. The organization was created in 1993 to counter falling sales of milk as Americans switched to

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s, health drinks, and other beverages. The board is separate from the

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, which created the Happy Cows campaign and supports the Californian dairy industry.

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In 1993, the Board launched its most successful and longest-lasting campaign, "Got Milk?". Designed initially by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, the campaign is intended to convince current milk-drinkers to consume more milk. In 2008, the Board launched the "White Gold" marketing campaign to appeal to teenagers, featuring a self-consciously fake

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style commercial, with lead singer "

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" performing with the "Calcium Twins". In 2009, the Board launched a sequel to the "White Gold" campaign by releasing "The Battle for Milkquarious", a 22-minute-long rock opera featuring an array of old and new characters, including "

", Strawberry Summers, Jug Life, Bovina the Uni-Pega-Cow, and the evil Nasterious. It was marketed as "The most amazing rock opera ever made about milk." In 2011, the Board was criticized for its "Everything I do is wrong" campaign which critics claimed was bigoted. The board halted the campaign early, but enjoyed the negative publicity generated by launching a new site - www.gotdiscussion.org.

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gotmilk.com
- official Got Milk? site Agricultural marketing organizations American dairy organizations Organizations based in California Dairy marketing Agricultural marketing in the United States Dairy products companies in California {{California-stub

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