How many more ‘happy lockdown’ ads (many majoring on food) will we see? Depends where you are; in the US, which seems to have ever more Covid outbreaks, we might be seeing them for a while yet. Interesting that Coca-Cola, ...
Read More »Coke launches new flavour with a car crash
Coca-Cola doesn’t launch new flavours very often but here comes Orange Vanilla Coke, with a diverting launch ad from Wieden+Kennedy HQ. Featuring a car crash. Is Coke hedging its bets on OVC? Pleasingly bonkers. And another ad that sends up ...
Read More »What’s WhoreNickels doing for Coke Zero?
It’s turning into one of those mornings. We’ve had Apple’s Appocalypse, about which one’s feelings are mixed. Now reader Craig Mills sends me this bizarre outing, presumably on behalf of Coke Zero’s marketing budget, featuring one WhoreNickels (left) whose bizarre ...
Read More »Coke showers more goodies on the world in epic Copa Coca-Cola campaign
Big brands lavishing goodies on the world seem to be the flavour of the times. Can you recall when they tries to sell us stuff? Maybe it’s because, unlike most countries, they aren’t running stonking great deficits so they can ...
Read More »Creative Circle awards go AWOL, OgilvyOne and BA, Tribal DDB, Saatchi Denmark’s ‘Pablo’ magic for Coke
***London’s Creative Circle (a collection of old creative hands) had its awards do on Thursday but doesn’t seem to have shared the information about winners with anyone else – which is a bit of a shame as by the following ...
Read More »Coke bigs up iconic status with half-size cans
Just back from a fleeting visit to New York, where Coca-Cola is an absolute obsession; it’s almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks (but that’s ‘cos Starbucks has grabbed all the best sites and turned them into scruffy branches) and there doesn’t ...
Read More »Coke spreads ‘Open Happiness’ with new campaign from Ogilvy Brazil
Coke’s ‘Open Happiness’ appears to be a campaign with legs; because it’s making the world a better place of course (that’s the idea anyway). Here’s the latest, ‘Lets’ Go Crazy,’ from Ogilvy Brazil, featuring Supertramp’s Give A Little Bit. Do ...
Read More »Ridley Scott produces polar bears epic for Coke
Funny how Coca-Cola has made polar bears a brand property: maybe, way back, someone in Atlanta decided it needed a winter strategy. Anyway, it’s now produced on online epic featuring said animals, produced by Ridley Scott, David Scott is involved ...
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