Comments on: Cadbury’s Dairy Milk – Gorilla Playing Drums

By: Harnser

Harnser — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:46:08 +0000

No poing missed at all Suzanne.
Its a man. Dressed in a gorilla suit. Miming on the drums. And thats it.
Pointless.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:08:08 +0000

No, you haven’t missed the point Suzanne; the gorilla is disgustingly infuriating. i used to like that song (phil collins i believe) but no more cos of the ape

By: Suzanne Lawson

Suzanne Lawson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:46:53 +0000

I don’t understand why a man in a gorilla suit playing drums is so poular with many people? Or have I missed the point?

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By: Duck Quacky

Duck Quacky — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:34:52 +0000

This is a brill advert, it’s original, absurd and the fact that it has millions of viewers debating over it is what makes it good! The tele needs these ‘originilaties’ or absurdities for our minds to grasp, the adverts where it shows people with the product is old and boring now, it doesn’t excite us in any way, doesn’t make us think about it. But with something as bewildering as a gorilla playing drums to phil collins, Dairy milk is bound to increase in popularity and make profit and thats exactly what they want!!! BEST ad ever…. well along with the cravendale ones! They are hilarious!!! Duck!

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:26:02 +0000

This is one seriously stupid ad. If it got people talking about it, it’s because it’s a stupid ad. Does nothing for me or for the company

By: Fes

Fes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:34:20 +0000

This advert HAS served its purpose….it aimed to get people talking about IT, and CADBURY…it has accomplished that, has it not?

By: Hafoot

Hafoot — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:20:31 +0000

I actually kinda like this advert.

Granted it has absolutely nothing to do with chocolate but hey…

Whatever we all know who cadbury’s are anyway.

By: R E Krishna

R E Krishna — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:40:51 +0000

Cadbury’s: Hello is that the Advertising Agency?
Agency: Yes it is…how can I help?
Cadbury’s: We want you to produce an advert for us, approx how much would that cost?
Agency: Depends on production costs and time slot. Anywhere between £250,000 and
£15,000,000 for 30 seconds. What product do you want to advertise?
Cadbury’s: Nothing really, we just want you to make something incomprehensible to make people feel
good and promote debate.
Agency: Money well spent sir……………………..hmmmmmmmmmm

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:19:18 +0000

To be honest, that is the stupidest thing you could say because the whole point of the advert is for everyone to watch and be like Whhhoooaaa, that’s really cool how they’ve done it. Not ooooo I wonder what the hell this means.
Just watch the advert again and forget your stupid thoughts and keep them to yourself unless they’re nice thoughts.
Can you honestly tell me that your favourite advert has the meaning you expect on it. If it does, then that’s amazing, but I’m sure there isn’t.
So, get a gripa nd shut up.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:47:09 +0000

“Are you stupid Silky? I mean seriously? I do business so I understand the advert perfectly. Obviously you do not. The idea of this advert is to catch the viewers attention. The song will first draw the viewers attention as it is a classic. Then seeing the gorilla will make the viewers want to watch further. Then “BAM” Cadburys chocolate bar appears right on the screen in front of viewers. A fantastic way of advertising I reckon but obviously those of a lesser mindset such as your self won’t understand. The advert does not need to be specifically about the product. The idea of an advert is to make the viewer remember the product in question. Remember that the next time you slate an advert and make yourself look like a complete imbecile on the World Wide Web”

“…and make yourself look like a complete imbecile on the World Wide Web…”

Looks like somebody leads by example…. *BAM* lol lol lol

By: R E Krishna

R E Krishna — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:35:46 +0000

Don’t quite understand how just talking about Cadbury’s improves their financial situation. Surely they’re looking to increase sales. Perhaps I’m missing some vital point here. In that case, where were all you debaters when Woolworths needed you??

By: Stewart Jardine

Stewart Jardine — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:51:34 +0000

the whole point of glass and a half productions campaign is to make feel good adds that have nothing to do with the product, you say the advertisers must be on drugs, I say they have got it spot on, I mean on a general level look at the word of mouth and media coverage, and on a personal level, you have increased the coverage by creating yet another page for people to discuss cadburys, they must be wetting themself for all the covarage they got from the advert there is 3 times as much discussion and media coverage, worst advert??? one of the best!!!

By: R E Krishna

R E Krishna — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:27:39 +0000

Look, this ad never once made me want to buy more chocolate than usual. It also didn’t raise my awareness of the company or its products, I had already heard of Cadbury’s, and I already knew they make chocolate. It just made me think….”that’s one fucking clever gorilla”.

By: Kerre

Kerre — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:21:20 +0000

Adverts dont have to neccessarily mean anything, Cadburys are just interested in getting more customers. Which this gorilla advert did successfully.

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:15:03 +0000

I do business too, Alexander, every morning at 9:24.

“BAM” you could set your watch by me.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:53:41 +0000

Are you stupid Silky? I mean seriously? I do business so I understand the advert perfectly. Obviously you do not. The idea of this advert is to catch the viewers attention. The song will first draw the viewers attention as it is a classic. Then seeing the gorilla will make the viewers want to watch further. Then “BAM” Cadburys chocolate bar appears right on the screen in front of viewers. A fantastic way of advertising I reckon but obviously those of a lesser mindset such as your self won’t understand. The advert does not need to be specifically about the product. The idea of an advert is to make the viewer remember the product in question. Remember that the next time you slate an advert and make yourself look like a complete imbecile on the World Wide Web

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:19:48 +0000

I’ve just watched the latest iteration of this ad with even worse music, and still believe this (along with its sibling, the equally dire airport vehicle ad) are two of the worst examples of lazy advertising I’ve seen in a long time.

OK – I get the whole ‘But if it makes you remember the brand name, the ad has done its job’ idea, but c’mon, rather than being the inspired idea of hardworking ad execs, I get the feeling it is more a ‘pissed in the pub, oh no, we’ve got 10 minutes until closing time and 15 minutes to get an idea for the latest ad campaign’ type idea.

If ads of this ‘quality’ are acts of advertising genuis that takes students 4 long years at university to come up with, then I think I have insomnia, and must have attended a course of this nature but can’t remember it. I can come up with better at the drop of a hat – a squirrel in a canoe, parachuting towards the earth, playing George Forman’s ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’ on a ukulele, with comb and paper accompaniment from a zebra wearing a ten gallon hat. What better example of expressing the ‘pure joy of eating Cadburys’?

Total bollocks.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000

do people not realise that gorillas are an endangered species well done to cadburys for employing one and probably saved him from extinction joking apart i love this advert what has it got to do with chocolate nothing but who cares television is for entertainment adverts are entertaining so if cadburys sell a few more bars of chocolate then good luck to them after all they are in the business to make money and provide employment and welll done to the unsung hero in the gorilla suit who you don’t get to see it would be nice to think that this advert might rekindle peoples thoughts of the plight of the mountain gorilla
ps. shortened versions never work

By: yeah, no.

yeah, no. — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:41:33 +0000

that gorilla looks horny.