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Friday, December 10, 2010

Coca-Cola Christmas Commercial 2010 – Italian Advertising Series No 6 – Friday Feature

 

Created in Atlanta, Georgia, by Dr. John S. Pemberton, Coca-Cola was first offered as a fountain beverage by mixing Coca-Cola syrup with carbonated water. Coca-Cola was introduced in 1886, patented in 1887, registered as a trademark in 1893 and by 1895 it was being sold in every state and territory in the United States. It has sure been around a long time!

The Christmas Coca-Cola advertising campaign has been launched in over ninety countries around the world, so many of you will have already seen this on your own television screens, but I felt it was still worth sharing with you to get us all in the mood for the festive season now it is actually December. Mind you this commercial has been showing on Italian television for quite a few weeks already, sadly Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year.

The 2010 commercial opens with several images of individuals who are obviously feeling separated from friends and family – a young man working late at night in a grocery store, a couple on opposite ends of a park bench, even a lonely dog in an alley.  It pans out to show they exist in a glass snow globe sitting on Santa’s workshop desk.

Santa is taking a break to have a Coca-Cola and he picks up a snow globe and gently tilts it as Train’s ‘Shake Up Christmas’ plays. This action causes the Coca-Cola Christmas delivery trucks to roll into action and brings the couple together on the bench.

It also sends the grocery clerk tumbling into a shopping cart and rolling through the streets of the city only to end up bursting through the front door of his home, where his family awaits him, for a Christmas meal along with the no-longer-lonely pup.

Enjoy as after all Christmas is not Christmas without Coca- Cola.

Courtesy of Coca-Cola

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Coca-Cola has been associated with having a special Christmas advertising campaign since 1931 when The Coca-Cola Company commissioned illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop advertising images using Santa Claus. Apparently for inspiration he used the poem by  Clement Clarke Moore written in 1822 which starts 'Twas the night before Christmas  Moore's description of the man as "chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf" led to an image of Santa that was warm and friendly and human. For the next 35 years, Sundblom painted portraits of Santa that helped to create the modern image of Santa an interpretation that today lives on, the images proving so popular that his images are still used by Coca-Cola to this day.

The Train from San Francisco, California are the group chosen to perform ‘Shake Up Christmas’ on this year’s commercial and it has been released as a single, which can be downloaded on iTunes. http://CokeURL.com/baur

If you want to find out more about Train a good place to start is on Wikipedia

Lyrics courtesy of  Coca-Cola Website

"Shake Up Christmas" by Train

Shake up the happiness
Wake up the happiness
Shake up the happiness
It’s Christmas time
There’s a story that I was told
And I wanna tell the world before I get too old
And don’t remember it,
so let’s December it and reassemble it, oh yea
Once upon a time in a town like this
A little girl made a great big wish
To fill the world full of happiness
And be on Santa’s magic list
Shake it up
Shake up the happiness
Wake it up
Wake up the happiness
Come on, y’all
It’s Christmas time
Shake it up
Shake up the happiness
Wake it up
Wake up the happiness
Come on, y’all
It’s Christmas time
Ho ho ho, It’s Christmas time
At the same time miles away
A little boy made a wish that day
That the world would be okay
And Santa Claus would hear him say
I got dreams and I got love
I got my feet on the ground and family above
Can you send some happiness
with my best to the rest of the people of the east and the west
And maybe every once in a while
Give my grandma a reason to smile
Tis the season to smile
It’s cold but we’ll be freezin’ in style
And let me meet a girl one day
That wants to spread some love this way
We can let our souls run free
And she can open some happiness with me
Shake it up
Shake up the happiness
Wake it up
Wake up the happiness
Come on, y’all
It’s Christmas time
I know you’re out there
I hear your reindeer
I see the snow where
Your boots have been
I’m gonna show them
So, they will know then
Their love will grow when
They believe again
Shake it up
Shake up the happiness
Wake it up
Wake up the happiness
Come on, y’all
It’s Christmas time
Shake it up
Shake up the happiness
Wake it up
Wake up the happiness
Come on, y’all
It’s Christmas time
Ho ho ho, It’s Christmas time

 

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I am also including an item of Coca-Cola memorabilia a photograph of an old coca-cola box we found in our house when we moved in, it was falling apart but my husband has renovated it and it is now on display on top of the kitchen cabinets.

There is even a free application available to download for iPhone and iPod touch users to create your own virtual snowglobes to share with friends on Facebook.

To keep in touch with this world famous brand, just click on any of the links below.

Coca-Cola Website   Twitter   Flickr Group  YouTube   Facebook


Christmas is not Christmas without Coca- Cola.

25 comments:

  1. I have to admit I will be very happy if I do not see a bottle, (or tin) of Coco Cola over Christmas, I can think of far better things to dring including just plain water!!! Diane

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  2. It puts me in the mood! Thank you for sharing this with us. I haven't seen the commercial, but I'm impressed already.

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  3. Diane - Christmas humbug, although I agree there are better choices to drink I do sometimes like one if I am not drinking alcohol for the lift it gives me with all that caffeine! I also love this series of Christmas ads, just a jolly happy part of Christmas.

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  4. Lindy the Christmas ads are great, I love all Christmassy pictures and videos, it is just the taste that does not grab me :-) Diane

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  5. Now I want a Coca Cola..and that was a great video!

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  6. That is very festive and I love the snow globes. We are about 2hrs from Atlanta however I avoid it with the horrid traffic. Would be cool to see the Coca-Cola mueseum.

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  7. I absolutely love this video. Now I want a Coca Cola. Maybe Santa is listening.

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  8. I hadn't seen this and I loved it! Coke always has such clever commercials. Plus, I love Train and I hadn't heard the song before either! This was fun, thanks!

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  9. You know there is nothing that could compare with the Coke Santa..It always brings back happy memories. Walking with my dad, holding his hand and saying to him, while looking at the coke Santa.."There has to be a Santa, how else would they get this picture?"...Honest it makes me laugh..I always remember that day..I always enjoy a coke every now and then. Heck, Coke is like Apple Pie..very much a part of the USA..

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  10. Very interesting and I agree...Coke is All American. I remember my Grandma drinking some out of the small glass bottles when I was young...what a treat that was!

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  11. Thanks for sharing the article. I was really wondering and i get here and get amazed by the article. Hope that we will get more ahead.

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  12. Diane@ I could not resist teasing you for not liking coke, however it would be boring if we all liked the same things.

    IcyBC@ There is something special about this Christmas series of coke commercials.

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  13. I love snow globes, though we always called them snow storms when I was little. I keep meaning to buy myself a really good quality one, maybe Santa is listening. That box is beautiful by the way.

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  14. An ice cold Coca-Cola, it is American as apple pie. Love it.

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  15. The coke commercials have become classics in their own right, and for many the Coca Cola Santa is the real thing.
    A couple of nights ago the coke truck was in a neighborhood shopping center. It was lit up just like the ones in the commercials. Children were having their picture taken with the jolly old man. Wish I had had my camera or camera-phone with me.

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  16. What a sweet commercial! They usually have fun ones each year. I miss real commercials!!! AFN has such tacky ones!

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  17. I remember some old Coke ads from my childhood, but I don't have a TV so I haven't seen the more recent ones. I still think of cold, fizzy drinks as a summer thing, though!

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  18. So right! You know it's Christmas when the Coca Cola advert comes on! Thanks for the background information.

    I hope you're well? Thanks for your comment about the "followers numbers game", it's sad and I don't really believe that's what blogging is about...

    Have a lovely week, Love from London xo

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  19. Jenny@ They seem to be very popular in Italy. As for the box now I am looking for some old bottles!

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  20. Your Coca-Cola box is very nice! This kind of "not very old" wares, in Italy are called "modernariato".

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  21. Great video. Grazie, I wish you a wonderful Christmas too. The problem is fixed now with my photos. lol I didn't even know I had a picasa album, until when I was uploading photos I saw it said "Picasa'. So I guess it went automatically into my album maybe because it's through google. haha I have no idea.

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  22. I am also looking forward to reading forward to your blog in 2011.

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  23. Oops typo error haha I meant I am also looking forward to reading your blog in 2011.

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  24. Hi Lindy, I see you did a lot of homework here, leaving a lot of songs for us to enjoy! Thank you!
    I wish you a wonderful Christmas and Happy celebrations for the New Year! I will see you again in 2011. Take care!

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  25. Dona@ Happy New Year. Thanks for the new word for my Italian vocab. I now have some original glass coke bottles to display in the crate.

    The Sweet Life@ Happy New Year. Good to hear you got your photo problem sorted.

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