I'm sorry, but that's just ignorant. By that I mean that modern English Bible translations have been around for decades before the CEB was published: the New International Version, the Living Bible, the Good News Bible, the Contemporary English Version, the New Living Translation. Those are just a few off the top of my head that were published before the CEB. So maybe it's possible that the young man in the video (who was probably just an actor) had never read a Bible that wasn't a King James Bible, but it's not likely. If he was in high school in 2011, there had literally been numerous modern English translations available for his entire life. I know the publishers of the CEB weren't claiming that theirs was the first ever English Bible in easily understandable, everyday English, but the video strongly implies it. I just wish Bible publishers would be more responsible and truthful in their marketing.
I know it's old news, but as I indicated in the title of my post, it's been ten years, and this promo still rubs me the wrong way! Maybe someday I'll get over it...