holidays are coming! (Coca Cola Christmas Advert)

Member Name: Shellywelly

Product:	Coca Cola Christmas Advert
Date:	05/10/08 (120 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Get that christmas feeling

Disadvantages: Promotes a unhealthy drink

"holidays are coming..." as soon as I hear that sound on the TV I finally get that Christmas feeling! It makes me get a soppy feeling and a reminder of christmases when I was young. The best thing about this advert is it doesn't usually start showing until its actually the run up to christmas - late November not september!!

Apparantly last year coca cola sparked a outrage as they showed a non conventional advert. This year however they are meant to be going back to what they do best and the first airing is on the 18th November.

In many a pub quiz I have often heard the question what colour did santa used to wear and the answer is green and they usually give the reason being because Coca Cola created the jolly Santa with the red outfit that we are all familer with today.

However it seems this is wrong as while the company did in fact start promoting this image in the 1930s in its winter advertising campaigns, it was already common before that. Coca-Cola was not even the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa in its advertising - White Rock Beverages used Santa in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923 after first using him to sell mineral water in 1915.

Summary: You know christmas is here!