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Just thinking about the Coca Cola trucks, ask anyone and you'd think they've played that advert every single year for about two decades, but am I right in thinking that the one brought out every year was only first aired as recently as 1997? I don't think it was on at all from about 1999 to five or so years ago when it got brought back, certainly around the early-mid noughties they were doing different campaigns.


It dates from the "Always Coca-Cola" (1993-2000) era at any rate, the jingle is a re-arranged version of the jingle that launched that slogan. In fact it is only in the last few years that they have cut the final line which is of course, "Always Coca-Cola". Strange that it harks back to a long forgotten campaign, but there you go.

EDIT: 1995, according to this: http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/about-us/heritage/christmas/coca-cola-christmas-trucks-by-numbers.html
Last edited by rdd on 18 November 2013 6:32pm
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rdd posted:

Just thinking about the Coca Cola trucks, ask anyone and you'd think they've played that advert every single year for about two decades, but am I right in thinking that the one brought out every year was only first aired as recently as 1997? I don't think it was on at all from about 1999 to five or so years ago when it got brought back, certainly around the early-mid noughties they were doing different campaigns.


It dates from the "Always Coca-Cola" (1993-2000) era at any rate, the jingle is a re-arranged version of the jingle that launched that slogan. In fact it is only in the last few years that they have cut the final line which is of course, "Always Coca-Cola". Strange that it harks back to a long forgotten campaign, but there you go.

EDIT: 1995, according to this: http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/about-us/heritage/christmas/coca-cola-christmas-trucks-by-numbers.html


The version which gets shown every year is the 1997 version, but there were a couple of versions which preceded it. I don't have video, but I distinctly remember seeing an early version which had far more of the trucks and less of the people (i.e. without the boy ringing the bell at the start and running out behind the trucks at the end.) I think this must be the 1995 version?
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DJ Dave
Peacocks Christmas Advert

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A former member
What er? strange KFC advert... which has just aired during the latest X factor advert slot
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Jon
What er? strange KFC advert... which has just aired during the latest X factor advert slot

I don't know what was strange about it, but it worked clearly.

8 days later

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A former member
How much did Sainsburys pay for that ad slot?
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