Comments on: Weekly Ad Uncoiling: Skittles

By: GadgetGirlMarie

GadgetGirlMarie — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:04:47 +0000

O_O Wow, hahaha!

By: R.

R. — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:54:29 +0000

Is it wrong that I’m now craving Skittles? That could just be me though.

This ad did make me go “What?” and maybe that’s really what they were going for. I doubt that, but I hope right?

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:35:18 +0000

I’d like to teach the world to sing…

Oh wait, wrong overreaching campaign.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:20:26 +0000

Well, outright surrealism does sometimes seem to work the way Jerem suggest it ought to…

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdQC-hbY7k

I suppose I do kinda appreciate the attempt at something creative. It’s probably preferable to the ‘epic and completely unsubtle approach to tug at the heartstrings’ method anyway.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4c4ER8Pzo

(apologies if either of those were brought up before…)

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:54:45 +0000

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Hahaha. Make the oddest commercial ya’ can, and it damn sure keeps people talking about the ad…and hopefully, from the suit’s perspective, the product itself?

By: papercup_mixmaster

papercup_mixmaster — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:55:02 +0000

Agreed on the trying too hard assessment. Kind of with the whole campaign (Touch, in my opinion, is the only really successful one), but especially this one. It’s just…wholly unclear what’s meant to be going on or even how it relates to skittles even remotely. (Jumping off in a new direction now) Of course, my very favorite candy commercial of all time is definitely the Snickers “Song of Satisfaction.” Gold.