Cadbury reintroduces Wispa Gold with user-generated ad campaign by Fallon

 

LONDON - To celebrate the launch of Wispa Gold - a new caramel variant - Cadbury is offering its consumers the chance to put their own messages up on billboards around the country.

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The confectionary company yesterday sent an e-mail to fans directing them to a sneak preview of wispagoldmessages.com, a site on which they can log messages that will have the chance of going up on billboards all over the country. The site will launch officially on 7 September, when the bars go on sale.

The website, created by Fallon, reads: "We've decided to give our advertising space to you guys as a thank you for all the love you've shown to Wispa."

"We have bought thousands of billboards all over the UK and Ireland so that you can share your special messages with the world. Yes, that's right, you let us know your special message and if it gets selected we will post it on a real billboard in the location of your choice.

"So if your mum lives in Birmingham you could post her a special message, say a poem, and we'll try to give you a site as near to her as possible."

Poster sites have been booked in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Cardiff, Nottingham, Belfast, Plymouth, Brighton and Norwich.

The idea follows 2008's social media campaign, also created by Fallon, to bring back the Wispa, which resulted in a TV ad starring hundreds of Wispa fans. 

 

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Dave Hall - 28 August 2009

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Grilla Login - 28 August 2009

Dear Brands

Thank you for giving Joe Public and me the opportunity to deliver your content. I'm sure the world won't miss the Ad industry and all the so-called creatives whose job it used to be. We're all capable of being creative after all, even untrained Grilla's with no experience. Why stop there? I look forward to the day when the airline industry also asks its customers to step into the cockpit and fly the plane and hospitals inviting us into the theatres to perform the operations. My furry fingers can feel squishy insides already.

 
FP

FP - 28 August 2009

Can you reintroduce something that's new?

 

wendy kozinska - 03 September 2009

It isn't new - wispa gold was out some years ago. so they are reintroducing it!

 

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