Coke officially is done producing their iconic, 6.5oz glass bottles. The bottle was designed by the Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1915. It went on to become a product and advertising phenomenon. So the next time you see Santa in a Coca-Cola print ad, he may be holding the plastic kind. Read more here.
Better get used to these silly commercials now. There will be a lot more come Feb 5.
I only hope my Super Bowl party will be as cool as the one in this Tostitos commercial.
And it's NOT a scene from the movie "Meet the Parents". It's also NOT a Saturday Night Live spoof, (although I'm guessing it will be in the near future). It is a 60 second cat food commercial. Although if you swapped out the Fancy Feast logo for a Kay Jewlers logo, would anyone notice?
Sweet commercial for Fruity Pebbles. From Burns Group out of NYC. Not many ad agencies would do a :30 Flintstones animation that has absolutely zero dialogue from the main characters. Fred and Barney say nothing throughout the spot while "funny-dentist-looking-guy" takes all the lines. Gutsy. And very, um, tastefully done.
More fast food fun - this time from creative frontrunner Burger King.
We're awaiting the episode where Milka Duno comes in for an application, then gets put on probation because she can't turnover the drive-thru customers fast enough.
Using the guise of the McCafe brand, McDonald's has broken away from their traditional ad look for their new fruit smoothies and the results have been visually astounding. It seems they are finding their mojo in terms of having appropriately different looks and raising or lowering the creative effort depending on the perceived value of the product their pushing, much like a carmaker does with different models.
After all, the smoothie audience probably isn't going for the Double Quarter Pounder. And vice-versa.
Maybe we’re a little partial to the name (spelling aside), but here’s a toast to the artisans at Hendrick’s gin. Its infusion of cucumber and rose petals gives this Scottish small batch distillery a unique taste and quite the cult following.
Even more unique is this promotion of elegantly-wrapped cucumbers, a main garnish in many of their cocktail recipes. (Best to save your “wrapped cucumber” jokes for a less sophisticated crowd).
Each meticulously-designed wrapping is printed with 6 unusual cocktail recipes. They are sealed with a sticker and placed in wooden produce crates ready for delivery–- accompanied by a bottle of the potent potable, we would assume.
This makes the case that print is not dead, but when used wisely, can even be cherished. I would have a hard time throwing away such an attractive and useful piece of printing.
So, take note…. the next time you need to make a mundane gift or garden-variety vegetable look more expensive:
1) Wrap it in pretty paper.
2) Place it in a wooden crate.
3) Call it a day.
Coke is IT - using information technology in new test vending machines that let customers pick their drinks based on calories, caffeine content or just color through a touchscreen.
Coca-Cola Freestyles will dispense customizable soft drinks available from nearly 150 flavors, storing the favorite choices of the thirst-quenched masses. Peach Coke? Blueberry Sprite? Go for it. People will even be able to tweak their choices to strike the perfect palatable balance. 
These new Freestyles will send the info back to the Coke mothership, telling them what flavors are faves, when people are buying, how much their imbibing and what locations are seeing the most traffic. The Coke heads can even stop any flavor from being dispensed (presumably from some discreet red button under a desk).
But don't go thinking you'll be able to make a movie-theater-style Suicide like a Grape Fanta, Coke Zero with a spritz of Sprite. New technology apparently has only come so far.
Coming to a White House lawn Easter Egg Hunt near you from chocolatier pinkwhitebrown.com. Although, I'm not sure how repeated headshots will help his image as a socialist. Melts in your Mao-th?
