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The most popular Coke ads of all time?
Posted by Creative Review, 26 May 2011, 14:21 Permalink Comments (5)

Coca-Cola is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Whatever you might think of Coke, it's certainly popular and so is its advertising. Unruly Media have put together the top 10 most shared Coke viral ads of all time for us
Remember, these are not CR's choices but a list of the most 'shared' Coke ads compiled using data from social networks. What, no Hilltop?
In top spot, the Happiness Machine viral from Definition 6, in which a vending machine gives out doses of 'happiness' in a US college
Number two, Snow Globes by McCann Erickson Madrid
At three,cheesy old Christmas Trucks (so brilliantly sent up by AKQA's Pot Noeldle)
Four, Friendship Machine by Ogilvy Argentina
Five, History of Celebration, done for the 2010 World Cup by Santo Buenos Aires
Six, the Simpsons spectacular, Hard Times, Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Seven, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam's Happiness Factory
Eight, this saucy spot for Diet Coke
Nine, Border by Wieden + Kennedy
And ten, GTA, by Wieden + Kennedy, directed by Smith & Foulkes
See numbers 10 to 20 in the list here
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5 Comments
I really liked the Coca Cola monsters ad with Music by Calvin Harris, makes me sad it didn't make it.
2011-05-26 15:51:39
Would have thought the new seekers 70s one would have been there
2011-05-27 14:32:37
Can't say I've got time to watch these - where's the other ten?
2011-05-27 15:34:31
@ bluepigcreative
sorry, yes, should have said 10. I've changed that now
2011-05-27 15:40:47
Happiness Factory is my favorite
2011-05-27 17:32:43
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