Coca-Cola appointing WPP as its lead agency for just about everything last year was probably just about the most significant account move and the mighty resources of WPP’s newly-minted Open X team have now produced a new global “platform” for ...
Read More »Coca-Cola and WPP’s Ogilvy get off to winning start with Year of the Tiger for Lunar New Year
It’s the Lunar New Year of the Tiger (Water Tiger officially, South China Tiger for some) on February 1, the festival bringing families together. Coca-Cola is giving it all barrels in this cross-platform effort across ten markets from Ogilvy Shanghai: ...
Read More »From the MAA Archive: Publicis Groupe and Omnicom in $35bn merger
Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here by Stuart Smith. As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s ...
Read More »WPP lands massive Coca-Cola global marketing task
Take that Publicis: WPP has ended Publicis Groupe’s run of big account wins with the biggest of the lot, Coca-Cola’s global network business encompassing creative, media and much else. Coke’s global adspend is currently about £3bn although, presumably, that’s set ...
Read More »Is a result on the way in the giant Coca-Cola review?
The result of Coca-Cola’s massive creative and media review (Coke spent over £3bn pre-lockdown, down from its previous levels) is reportedly imminent. We’d forgotten all about it as it began, incredibly, in January 2021 and seems to have morphed from ...
Read More »Coke changes platforms in search of ‘Real Magic’
Another day, another “platform,” this time it’s Coca-Cola with ‘Real Magic,’ the first time it’s changed platforms (as you do) since 2016. CMO Manolo Arroyo explains it thus: “Coca-Cola is a brand defined by dichotomies: humble but iconic, authentic yet ...
Read More »Is Coke wise to invite a meteorite into its orbit?
Is Coca-Cola getting a bit desperate in its old age? Here are two new ads from McCann for (new) Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, always a contentious brand in Coke’s sugary portfolio. The assumption seems to be that some people will doubt ...
Read More »Droga5 London debuts for Coke with new/old earworm
Droga5 London makes its debut for Coca-Cola with this number, reprising Coke’s ‘Just for the taste of it’ from 1982 (when we used to call them jingles.) As such ‘Just Because’ should be an event: D5 London has finally established ...
Read More »W+K crafts another punchy 30 seconds for Coke – now let’s have a proper campaign
Coca-Cola, which seems to be undergoing something of an identity crisis at the moment, has promised to up its post-pandemic ad spending and here’s new international effort from Wieden+Kennedy London to coincide with the launch of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Featuring ...
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