Christmas 2007

It was Santa giving a coke to a little girl for Christmas, and every year as she was getting older him doing the same thing. The ad ended with the same girl who was now an old woman prodding santa, him turning around and her giving him a Coke. Was all very nice actually

Yeah, it's a fantastic advert which is a decent upgrade from the early 90s trucks. It's just the soundtrack which is crap - surely they could put the traditional song on top of the new ad?

For those of you who haven't seen it, the version played in Northern Ireland both last year and this year use the traditional soundtrack. I've uploaded it to YouTube here.

Why is it that this version is played here but not in the rest of the UK?

The franchise is operated by a different company in Northern Ireland. So they're free to do what they like with their own marketing, because it's all run seperately to Coca-Cola GB, which is the mainland company.

Ah right, thanks!

It is a fantastic reworking of last years ad to include the sounds as they have on top of the old tune.

As has been said, the only problem is that the old tune ends with 'Always Coca Cola', though I'm sure they changed it to 'Coca Cola Enjoy' when they were using that catchphrase, which didn't work right at all.

Is it only me that thought they should have sort of incoporated Christmas into the vending machine ident? Surely that would keep the branding simple and coherant?

But if they do bring back last years, I hope that they bring it back with the Truck soundtrack on top.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/christmas.jpg

Yeah thanks for that Tom9

*cough*Akinbola*cough*

Northern Ireland Coca Cola advert is here... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EMTy4OrOEao

It's ok!

Bah Humbug!

Bid tv and price-drop TV have extended their hours to 7:45am - 1:30am

Emailed coca cola about showing the version of the holidays are coming ad with the botched song and got this.

"Our Company has always been consumer-oriented, and the opinions of our consumers are very important to us, especially in areas such as advertising. As a result Coca-Cola Great Britain will be airing this year, two of their best loved ads during the festive season. This was due to the large number of enquiries we received from our valued consumers."

It says two of their best loved ads. We have seen the first one, so what will be the second? Last time I checked last years one wasn't loved by anyone, so they might be showing a proper version of the holidays are coming advert. And the fact that two ads was mentioned in the same paragraph as complaints it suggests it wasn't last years.

EDIT: "The first Christmas campaign started on the 18th November with the screening of the popular and iconic 'Holidays are Coming' Christmas ad, and will be closely followed in December with 'The Greatest Gift', which brings back the traditional Sundblom-inspired image of Santa to capture the magic of Christmas and celebrate the gift of giving. "

They still mention "the greatest gift ad" but they still say two of the best loved ads and the greatest gift certainly isn't.