Telephone kiosk - UK Advert

[FABphones]

For those who haven't seen this, or noticed, this very clever advert for Cadbury chocolate is currently gracing our television screens.

Set in a corner shop, the advert celebrates 200 years of the Cadbury chocolate bar.

The clever and well thought out part of the marketing is as the young girl buys the chocolate bar, the exterior of the shop changes through the years. To my mind very 'Time Machine' (H. G. Wells) esque.

With regard to its telephone connection, look at the telephone kiosk as the girl enters the shop. Then watch the exterior background through the shop window update over the years. The telephone kiosk accordingly changes too.

And when the girl exits the shop to give her mother the chocolate bar as a birthday gift - the telephone kiosk has completely gone. How apt, and sadly accurate.

Well done to whoever storylined that advert. Very good.

[RDPipes]

Tugs at ones heart strings doesn't it?

[ka1axy]

o/t, but...how come US advertisements can't be that good? (except the DunKings...that set a high mark)

[RDPipes]

o/t, but...how come US advertisements can't be that good? (except the DunKings...that set a high mark)

Because most US business thinks it needs sex to sell. If they'd pull their heads out of
the gutter for just a moment they'll find that not everyone thinks like Caligula and
finds out there's more to life then the filthy little world they've made for themselves.

[G-Man]

A bit sidetracked but applicable to "change"...
 
I have always enjoyed their Christmas Holiday commercials but yes, things do change; even iconic companies and their products!
 
"Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelez International (formally known as Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world, after Mars Candy.
 
However, Hershey owns the rights to make and sell Cadbury bars for the U.S. market, but the American chocolate giant uses a different recipe. The first ingredient in U.K. Cadbury chocolate is milk, while sugar is the first in American-made Cadbury chocolate, according to The New York Times."
 
I am an avid reader of British and Australian news publications and recall several year ago reading about the outrage of Cadbury's being taken over by the U.S. based Kraft Foods who started "tweaking" the original recipe and packaging.
 
According to their longtime customers, the quality and taste varies greatly from one country to the next and even in the U.K., it no longer taste like their original once beloved chocolate candy that previous generations absolutely revered.
 
Not too surprising from a company like Kraft Foods who calls their mainstay product, which is a completely chemical concoction, "cheese."
 
What a complete shame that the U.S. companies had the audacity to drag a once beloved product down to their level!
 
Below is a sampling of complaints from various Cadbury's customers.
 
United Kingdom, Yep make the bars smaller and charge us more for them, Cadbury is no longer the quality company they were before they sold out to the Americans.
Palumeu, Suriname,
It's waxy, sickly sweet and cheap-tasting and here's the packaging from back when it wasn't.
United Kingdom,
They can change the label but it still tastes rubbish!!! Take it back to original recipe with cream and no forest destructing, cheap, palm oil!
Lyme Regis, United Kingdom,
They're getting smaller again. Yet staying the same price??
United Kingdom,
Shame they are not taking it back to the old recipes from the 80's and 90's instead of the American palm oil type they have today.
Worcestershire, United Kingdom,
Do think that they could also go back to the original ingredients and do away with present greasy version.
Kent, United Kingdom,
Would be better if they went back to their original recipe instead! So much better than the taste now!
Essex , United Kingdom,
Could they maybe put back the chocolate they have been skimming off the bars the past 5 years, but charging more Normal bars are not much bigger than fun size now.
 
 

[Kellogg Kitt]

Those with a sharp eye will notice that the telephone inside the store changes over the years, too.

[FABphones]

Those with a sharp eye will notice that the telephone inside the store changes over the years, too.

Well spotted, indeed it does.
A Candlestick and on through time to the introduction of coloured phones as well.
The more one watches the more there is to observe.