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Q&A with Adshel's Rob Atkinson
Online trading is the next big thing says Rob Atkinson in a piece that first appeared in Encore. Who is the most powerful person in Australian media and why?
Harold Mitchell because of his influence and the footprint he has left. He’s built a huge brand in Mitchells, offloaded it into Aegis, Aegis has obviously done extremely well to be then sold on to Dentsu. So if you think about it, he is very much a father figure of the industry.
Making it overseas
Is the best way of being successful in Australia not be here at all? In a feature that first appeared in Encore, Lee Zachariah speaks to Aussies making it big abroad.I always wanted to work in New York,” says Julian Cole. “I thought it was the number one place to work in advertising; a lot of the best campaigns were coming out of there. So I moved over and was lucky enough to have a couple of interviews in the first couple of weeks.”
Cole’s story is indicative of the somewhat contentious idea that the best way to be successful in Australia is to not be in Australia any more.
Got a book in you?
From journos to ad execs and PRs, these days everyone seems to have a book in them. But what does it take to get published and will you actually make any money? In a feature that first appeared in Encore, Brooke Hemphill finds out.Attention wannabe authors. Forget big fat advance cheques and living off royalties. The reality of having a book published today is another story altogether. There are only two reasons you should even consider sitting down at your computer to bash out a manuscript – passion or profile.
Savage counsel
In an article that first appeared in Encore, Chris Savage tackles your career and agency dilemmas in his weekly advice column.Hi Chris,
My clients seem to be demanding more and more from us. At the same time, it seems many of the younger people in our industry simply don’t have the client servicing skills my generation grew up with. How do we instill in our executives some of the good old-fashioned behaviours that would keep a client happy and loyal?
Fake it til' you make it... as an ad agency receptionist
From dressing the part to playing the gatekeeper, Leo Burnett Sydney’s Susie Henry tells us how to make it as the face of adland in a piece that first appeared in Encore.What does a receptionist in an ad agency actually do?
Well, there’s the frantic every-day, all-day stuff of deliveries, courier bookings, doing expenses for directors – always challenging – plus arranging all the travel. But one of my main jobs is counselling the account service people. I also keep up with all sports information to discuss with our sports-loving clients – because who wants to be bored while they’re waiting? And I know how they like their coffee. You need to know everyone – from accounting to HR. I’m also the go-to for all catering and sending flowers.
Whose views skew the news? Media chiefs ready to vote out Labor, while reporters lean left
Most journalists lean left-of-centre, says Folker Hanusch of the University of the Sunshine Coast, in a post first published on The Conversation.Most Australian journalists describe themselves as left-wing, yet amongst those who wield the real power in the country’s newsrooms, the Coalition holds a winning lead.
But while the media’s political leanings will no doubt be debated in the lead-up to September’s federal election, our study has also found other largely unscrutinised biases remain – particularly whose views disproportionately shape the news.
It's time for a new New Wave in the film world
Government funding bodies are lazy and decadent, says industry veteran Michael Thornhill but in a piece that first appeared in Encore, Ed Gibbs begs to differ.I vividly remember the time I first saw Animal Kingdom, David Michod’s breathtaking labour-of-love feature debut. The press screening was half empty, despite the film winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance just months earlier, in 2010. Yet its superb performances, stylistic flourishes and overall polish left me speechless. Could this really be a feature debut, an Australian one at that, I wondered, almost out loud? It seemed too good to be true.
Going cold turkey on an agency addiction
Life is sweet for freelance writer Max Kitchen, but in a feature that first appeared in Encore, he admits his struggle against returning to the agency fold.I’ve never taken heroin. But I suspect if I had, the temptation to try it again would not be too dissimilar to the lure of returning to agency life.
Can sport save Ten?
First there was the Grand Prix. Next came the reported $500m bid for cricket rights, then Ten secured the 2014 winter Olympics. So, can sport save the ailing network? In a feature that first appeared in Encore, Nic Christensen investigates.The television sports rights bidding process is a bit like a game of poker.
Check, fold or bet. Those were the options for the Ten Network last week when it had to finalise its bid for the cricket rights.
Andy Lark: good for the marketing of marketing
I can still remember the first story I wrote about Andy Lark, when it emerged that he was to be the new chief marketing officer of CommBank.
It was immediately clear that Australia was about to meet an interesting marketer, one who blogged and tweeted and thanks to his time at Dell in the US was digitally savvy. Even two years ago, that was a big deal. The fact that he also had a stint in public relations gave him an absolutely intriguing background before he even arrived.
Storming the media barricades - advice for young journalists
This week Mumbrella’s Nic Christensen, who began his career four years ago, gave the keynote address to would-be journalists at the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s Student Day. This is an edited version of his speech.Good afternoon, I can remember distinctly the last time I was in this room.
It was 2009 and I was sitting where you are. I’d come to this event, a friend and myself — from memory we sat up the back — and I can remember at the time wondering if I’d ever get a job as a journalist.
It was only four years ago and then as now getting a job was ultra competitive but I’m not sure there was quite as much media ‘doom and gloom’ as there is now…
Paywalls will help fund campaigning journalism
In this guest post, News Limited’s group editorial director Campbell Reid responds to the views of ninemsn’s Hal Crawford that the company’s push into metered paywalls is about data rather than dollars.Hal Crawford is both right and wrong in his article which argued that our digital subscription plans are all about the data.
Fake it 'til you make it... as a features editor
Cosmo’s Kate Leaver tells us how to bluff it in her job in a feature that first appeared in Encore.What do you do, as a features editor?
Really, play with words and ideas all day. At any one time, we’re working across three issues of the mag – getting one on its way to the printers, pooling all the words together for another, and planning the issue after that. It’s busy but it’s a pretty magnificent process.
Savage counsel - JFDI
Hi Chris,I run a medium-sized agency that is doing pretty well. As the leader, I am finding my workload just seems to go up and up. I am struggling to stay motivated and particularly to tackle the bigger and tougher challenges I have to face every day. How do I keep up the energy when there just seems so much to do? How do you do it?
Productive, successful executives are those able to consistently tackle difficult and big challenges. It’s a constant struggle for me so I know how you feel. How do the successful leaders do it?
Q&A with Brett Clegg
Brett Clegg, group director – business media, Fairfax Media, in a Q&A that first appeared in Encore, on the journo who refuses to work with him – his wife.Who is the most powerful person in Australian media and why?
Hard to go past Rupert Murdoch. He controls the single largest and most diverse portfolio and is intent on leveraging its scale (and, of course, influence). He’s an innovator and his will to win is obvious to all.
Coca-Cola launches phase two of ‘Share a coke’ campaign, 50 new names to go on bottles
Coca-cola has launched the second phase of its popular ‘Share a Coke’ campaign, inviting consumers to vote on 50 new names to be put on bottles and cans of the fizzy drink.
Coke’s name-on-a-bottle campaign, which launched at the end of September, has received “an unprecedented consumer response”, the company has said.
Initially, 150 names were printed on bottles and cans of Coke. Now another 50 names will be added, which can be voted on by the public via the brand’s Facebook page.
People will be able to nominate a name up until November 24. Coke will release a shortlist for a public vote that will run from 6 – 14 December.
The final 50 names will be announced in mid-December, and consumers can expect to see the selected names on retailer shelves in January.
Online, outdoor, Facebook ads and live reads on Southern Cross Austereo radio stations will support the campaign.
“The wave of positive response from consumers and their interactions with the campaign has far exceeded our expectations,” said Lucie Austin, marketing director of Coca-Cola South Pacific.
“We’ve received a tremendous amount of requests for specific names to be included in the campaign. And we’d love to deliver on all. But it’s seemingly impossible to choose. Who better to help us make the decisions than the consumers themselves, so we’re asking them to nominate names and vote.”
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18 Nov 11
11:48 am
Best. Campaign. Ever.
And I’ll fight anyone outside who says otherwise.
Simon
http://www.TwoCentsGroup.com.au
18 Nov 11
12:17 pm
I would like to see my son’s name Dennis on the Share a Coke Campaign…..Please. Thanks
18 Nov 11
12:18 pm
Kiah and Tahnee are becoming popular names as well
18 Nov 11
12:27 pm
Yep, still a great campaign. However, I can no longer tell whether Tracey is trolling or not.
Coca-Cola could take a few SEO tips from you, Tim!
18 Nov 11
12:27 pm
Happy to take that fight up Simon!
What is actually so good about this campaign? CC Amatil have a technological advance that enables them to print peoples names on bottles. So they print names on ALL the bottles, so when you go into a shop 99% of the time if you want to buy a Coke it will have someone else’s name on it. It makes no sense.
The campaign’s line “Share a Coke.” Most people buy cans for themselves, not other people. And people don’t get our two straws to share the same can or bottle. So how is it sharing a Coke? It makes no sense.
So Simon, why Best. Campaign. Ever. ?
18 Nov 11
1:11 pm
@Accountant. Regularly on Facebook a friend will upload a photo of a name on a Coke bottle. Perhaps another friends, or a family member. The thread with then decsend into banter and jokes and fun and even further photo’s will be added to the thread.
I do not drink the diabetes causing awful stuff, however the Coke brand is being shared around and for branding purposes it is a great campaign and I would also feel that sales will benefit also over time for sure – we shall see…
‘Pepsi’ on a Coke bottle would be awesome!
18 Nov 11
1:21 pm
Happy to oblige, I hate Coke but…
http://mumbrella.com.au/enjoy-.....epsi-60396
18 Nov 11
1:40 pm
It’s such a damn simple and effective campaign.
18 Nov 11
2:09 pm
Campaign of the year…by a very long way.
18 Nov 11
2:51 pm
@ accountant
Stand in a fast food outlet, supermarket checkout or anywhere else coke is merchandised and wait the short amount of time until kids are nearby, trawling through the names trying to find theirs or friends… and then talking about it non-stop and pestering mum/dad to buy one if they find one.
Or look at any number of teenagers who have a coke bottle as their display pic on facebook.
They’ve created entertainment out of a product that would’ve had minimal emotional involvement thought given to it with a standard label.. And this next stage is just going to build on that.
Simple. Effective. Brilliant.. and so intrinsically linked to product.
18 Nov 11
2:54 pm
Often the most simple ideas are the most brilliant! I would love to shake the hand of the copywriter/marketer who coined this campaign.
Katherine
18 Nov 11
3:13 pm
Colin… is there a Colin on one I wonder? I don’t drink coke but if I see my name on one I will be buying it
18 Nov 11
3:16 pm
I don’t drink the stuff anymore but even i find my self searching for friends names and either taking pix on my phone and sending to them or uploading the pix to Facebooka dn linking friends in pictures. i even had to buy a Scott bottle to give to my colleague because he was disappointed he ahdn’t found one – it now sits on his desk unopened!
Definitely a great campaign giving such fun meaning to an otherwise very bad for your health product!
18 Nov 11
3:35 pm
Still searching for a Jo. Not a huge fan of Coke but have 3 unopened bottles in my fridge just because they have friends’ names on them. Would love to know the sales figures around the campaign, surely that would be a gauge of its success.
18 Nov 11
4:12 pm
@simon @andrew
I am wrong. Valid points have been brought up. Happy to admit when I am mistaken (is that allowed on an industry blog?)
18 Nov 11
4:13 pm
@TheAccountant
Best. Campaign. Ever. because….
Simple.
Personable.
Cheap (from a creative point of view anyway).
Social (1000s of shares of static Coke can shots on social media).
Interactive (get your own name on your own can).
Longevity (been about for a while now and people are still hunting for names).
Extendable (see this article).
Original.
Appeals to die-hard Coke fans.
Good enough?
And finally:
“The campaign’s line “Share a Coke.” Most people buy cans for themselves, not other people. And people don’t get our two straws to share the same can or bottle. So how is it sharing a Coke? It makes no sense.”
I was thinking your screen name might be ironic. Now, I’m not so sure.
18 Nov 11
6:25 pm
Haven’t seen too many non Anglo names yet.
18 Nov 11
7:09 pm
I would love too see share a coke with Franca. It would be awesome cause the name is different. Awesome campaign it’s always a laugh trying to find friends names but I’m always dissappointed cause I’ll never find mine
18 Nov 11
8:31 pm
Wonder if the names they select will skew baby names!!
18 Nov 11
9:43 pm
Best local campaign in recent memory. Genuine involvement on a massive scale. Well done on getting everyone talking about red coke again.
19 Nov 11
1:22 pm
Great idea.
It’s going to clean up every media award and a bunch of creative ones, too.
I just hope the person whose idea it really was gets the credit they deserve…
19 Nov 11
5:35 pm
CAN YOU PLEASE PUT THE NAME TORI ON A COKE BOTTLE !!!!!
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19 Nov 11
6:29 pm
hayyyyy this is my friends name hehe
19 Nov 11
8:21 pm
would love to see my name =) got people serching high and low but still no Krystal
19 Nov 11
11:35 pm
Go to You Tube and search for “coca cola the kitchen”
Now that’s marketing that Coke / Amatil has not gotten close to matching in the last two decades.
Back when a soft drink could be fun.
20 Nov 11
8:39 pm
I should start out saying I don’t work for Coke or Singo’s or whatever it’s called now. Seriously, I don’t. I wouldn’t want to, to be completely frank.
The reason I think it’s great (as a non-coke drinker, who has come up with some successful and highly noticeable campaigns during my very short time in converse shoes and skinny jeans is pretty simple.
It appeals to people on the most basic level. Vanity and ego. And to look at the increasing trend of narcism these days (especially in the age of facebook and twitter), it’s definitely a case of right campaign, right time.
And even if my middle-eastern inspired name (hate my hippy parents) isn’t on a bottle, I still see friends names and buy them – not for myself, I hate the crap, but for them.
It’s not the best campaign ever, I’ll give you that. But it’s pretty decent, and if it doesn’t pick up at the award shows we’ll know why – because Singo’s did it, not Droga 5.
Still though, I don’t think we’ll see a ‘share a coke with the accountant’ bottle out anytime soon, although the ‘share a coke with the riot police’ is apparently very popular in certain suburbs.
Bless that sugary tooth and stomach decay bogan killing monstrosity.
21 Nov 11
12:02 am
I’ve look everywhere for a Scott for my best friend but found none.
Can you please make a Scott?
21 Nov 11
1:47 pm
Would love to see ‘Share a Coke with Cellulite’
21 Nov 11
4:25 pm
Would love to see Colleen on a bottle, its fairly old name, so Col or Cole will do!!
21 Nov 11
4:26 pm
Am dying to see Share a Coke with ‘Charlie’……..
Get it!
21 Nov 11
7:54 pm
Would love if u could do a bottle with Emma on it thanks
21 Nov 11
8:19 pm
please make one with ‘Millie’ on it!
21 Nov 11
10:25 pm
Share a coke with “Karlee”
) PLEASE/
send to perth
21 Nov 11
11:49 pm
Share a coke with eunice
22 Nov 11
7:42 am
HEY THERES GOTTA BE A MILLION CHARLIE’S OUT THERE MEN AND WOMEN GIRLS AND BOYS SO COME ON LET US SHARE A COKE ….. WITH CHARLIE
22 Nov 11
3:46 pm
I want my name on a bottle of coke cause iv neva been able 2 find my name on anything my hole life and it sucks but would be awesome if Aleisha was on a coke bottle :p
22 Nov 11
6:10 pm
i would absoultly love my name on a coke bottle. i never eva see it on anything . and theres quite a few people out there with my name
22 Nov 11
9:05 pm
I would like to see my sisters name on a bottle of coke her lovely name is DEWAR so please put her name on the come bottles thanx
22 Nov 11
9:41 pm
Hi
22 Nov 11
11:18 pm
Could you tell me if Abby and Jake are names for bottles. My niece and nephew are desperate to obtain one.
23 Nov 11
3:13 pm
could u put a BYRON on a bottle and a TAMIKA ……. Those are my kids names .. oh and LLAYNE would be nice too
23 Nov 11
10:07 pm
Can you make one saying “feef”
24 Nov 11
1:20 pm
what is wrong with all you people???
24 Nov 11
4:14 pm
hi would love my sons name……..Blake ……
which is a popular name these days
24 Nov 11
10:35 pm
would love the name mitchell to pop up on a coke…..it is very popular n theres not even a mitch
25 Nov 11
8:05 pm
I’d like my name on a bottle
25 Nov 11
11:18 pm
Please put Colin and Verna on bottles of coke as I think
Thank you so much
26 Nov 11
2:57 pm
Can you please put Tanika
Allison
Phil
telisha
26 Nov 11
2:59 pm
Can you please put tanika
and telisha
On a coke bottle please ???/??
26 Nov 11
4:55 pm
can we have more of Danielle and David Hailey thank you
26 Nov 11
8:27 pm
Please put ANTON on a coke.
27 Nov 11
5:49 am
can you put Nathan welch on the bottle please
27 Nov 11
5:51 am
Could you put Alice bretagne
on it please
27 Nov 11
8:07 pm
CAN YOU PLEASE PUT “RADE” ON THE COKES.THANK YOU
28 Nov 11
4:15 pm
I would love to share a coke ” CHARLIE” “SUNNY” CHLOE” “LISA”
Thankyou
Chalsee
28 Nov 11
7:03 pm
Please put my dog’s name on a bottle. His name is WARNING ,CAUSES OBESITY IN CHILDREN. Thank you.
29 Nov 11
3:55 pm
Hi my name is waiora it would be so cool to see my name on a coke bottle I live in the goldfields
29 Nov 11
4:30 pm
i would love to see a holly, especially around christmas time, it is such a pretty name, my daughter holly would love it as i already have the other kids names
29 Nov 11
4:38 pm
Hi my name is Imoronicallytypecommentsonlinelikeadafterversionofalobotomisedsheep
Can you print this on 7-Up cans. Or bottles.
Can you also do it on a bottle of Jim Beam for my step-uncle.
Can you also bring me Lara Bingle in an elf suit.
29 Nov 11
5:43 pm
i think Bianca should be on a bottle
29 Nov 11
5:44 pm
i think Amy should be on a bottle
29 Nov 11
5:46 pm
i want Amy to be on the bottle
29 Nov 11
9:33 pm
Bottle and glass…
29 Nov 11
9:40 pm
I am trying to collect my family before Xmas and I need Sue, Damian, Dale, Cameron, Marnie and Sarah. I have not been able to find these names. Have they been printed or not. Thanks Sue
30 Nov 11
1:05 pm
i would love to find a coke that says share a coke with shenay, viviana, adem, aydin and leah i have not been able to find one and ive looked everywhere so please make a coke with my familys names on please =]
30 Nov 11
5:48 pm
I have found 6 of my boys names but I am still missing one .
I need a Beau please
thank you Maryanne
30 Nov 11
7:16 pm
Would love to see my sons name NOAH. It’s a popular boys name, how did you miss it COKE?
1 Dec 11
2:39 pm
would like to see my name on one iv got loys of people looking and havent found one yet thanks xxxx
2 Dec 11
8:00 pm
Pretty please my kids and I have unusual names Jenica, Brayden, Kytiarna and Temeesha I love my coke and it would be great to have all our names on a can/bottle.
Thanks heaps
x x x x x x x x x x x x
2 Dec 11
9:33 pm
I would like to share a coke with Marley on the coke bottle please
2 Dec 11
9:47 pm
I found a bottle with my son’s name and would be great if I had one with his girlfriend’s name Patrina.
2 Dec 11
10:27 pm
Please I would love to put my name on coke bottle, because I’m number 1 addicted to coke…. Since back then from when I was young ultil now…
3 Dec 11
5:31 pm
i have been searching for a Hollie but never find one. All my sisters and brothers have their names
4 Dec 11
1:27 pm
i was really diapointed when all my friends had a coke with their name on it but i coulnt find one for me so i think there should be on for Mak. i think the whole things a great i dea and those who have found a coke with their name on it will probebly keep it for ever. so if they could make a Mak that would be the best thing in the world.
4 Dec 11
7:58 pm
I would like to see Eli and tennille
5 Dec 11
12:34 am
Why are you asking via Mumbrella to print names on Coke cans? Go to the Coke facebook or website you tards.
5 Dec 11
2:41 pm
Was there nothing better than the Coke ads on old – think, blow up water device (trampoline), bikini glad girls, spunky young men and a bit of all round good fun and adventure.
5 Dec 11
3:01 pm
don’t Coke’s staff and agency have better things to do than astroturf a marketing trade website?
5 Dec 11
3:12 pm
@betty10 Don’t worry, they already have a can to cover all those names. They just labelled it “Bogan”
5 Dec 11
4:47 pm
Uh hello? Why has no one mentioned the more original (note “more”) and given the Contintental Cup-a-Soup RED name-on-a-cup promotion by Unilever. Its exactly the same only happened years bfore Coke did it.
6 Dec 11
1:50 pm
i would like to share a coke with Estelle please its a gorgeous name and person to put on a coke bottle or can i really hope use can make this happen ill buy all of them lol
9 Dec 11
3:09 pm
Hello
I am looking out for these names 
Gary, Barbara, Leaetta, Tracey, Brooke, Andrew… THANKYOU..!!
9 Dec 11
4:16 pm
im looking for my name tiaha. its hardly common. ive never met anyone with it spelt the way it is and pronounced the same way. it would be awesome if i could find it thanks
9 Dec 11
9:32 pm
I would like to have my friends name Sairne on a bottle of coke because she hasn’t seen her name yet
9 Dec 11
9:34 pm
i like to have eminem on a coke bottle because i think it would be popular
9 Dec 11
9:37 pm
please put danika on a coke thanks
12 Dec 11
11:08 am
Putting this name on a coke bottle would mean alot to me.
It’s different and it could give perants ideas on what to call their baby :p
SOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU
12 Dec 11
11:10 am
SHARE A COKE WITH SOMER OR…
SHARE A COKE IN WEZZA
12 Dec 11
3:34 pm
sian
timo
tiba
kaylee
larissa
erin
kamali
takoda
kirrah
cait
hehe c;
12 Dec 11
3:34 pm
dj tiny
12 Dec 11
3:36 pm
sian
timo
tiba
larissa
kaylee
shaylee
takoda
tessa
kirrah
12 Dec 11
3:39 pm
karli …
12 Dec 11
7:52 pm
share a coke with Carly….. pleaseeeeee
12 Dec 11
10:01 pm
I would love to see my name kiara on a coke bottle i have looked every where for a bottle with kiara on it and i just want to see kiara on a bottle so please put my name on a bottle and one last thing can you put wozzy on it to thank you
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
12 Dec 11
10:03 pm
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13 Dec 11
10:06 am
Hello my name is Lara and for many weeks I have been trying to find my name on a coke bottle at the shops I always look through all the coke bottles and still haven’t found my name. The closest name to Lara is Laura and it would be very much appreciated if you could bring out share a coke with Lara bottles because I would be so happy to know that my name would be on a coke bottle!!
If you are going to to do this please send it out to Woolworths!
Thanks heaps!!
13 Dec 11
1:17 pm
I would love for my name Cara to be printed on a coke bottle and or can.
Why? because for 30 years now i stuggle to find anything i mean anything with my name on it as its very unsual, I must admit the only thing ive come across was a work out barbie doll her name was cara and yes it suited me to a tee being blonde however now at 30 years of age its not so cool to to displace a barbie doll around the house.
Sooooo Please pick a great name like Cara for your compition
13 Dec 11
1:36 pm
hilarious, this thread could become like the blog post about Facebook that readers confused for a new login page:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar....._login.php
If you actually read the article, you’d see the right place to go to vote on names: Now another 50 names will be added, which can be voted on by the public via the brand’s Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/CocaCo.....6147260366
13 Dec 11
3:44 pm
Or….we could all change our name to “Coke” – that would make life easy…..
13 Dec 11
4:33 pm
I want to put my name on a coke bottle,
My name is Silvio.
13 Dec 11
10:36 pm
Erm I kinda think this is dumb because names like mine and my friends [Including Li-wei and Sahil] never come up anywhere on these sort of things. I mean it must be fun for other people but some of us do want our names on there but they’re never going to appear because we’re probably the only people in the world with these names.
14 Dec 11
11:41 am
Whoever came up with this one is GENIUS. So simple, yet soo engaging!
Am definitely Interested to see if other brands start trying to knock off similar ideas over the next few years….. Please don’t make this the new flash mob craze. The reason it worked so well was because it was different!
14 Dec 11
12:45 pm
Can u plz plz plz put the name Chloe on a coke bottle!!
I have been looking for months and still havent found my name
If i do find my name i will never drink the coke or i will but i will keep he bottle and keep re-filling it !!! lol
14 Dec 11
12:50 pm
Can u plz put Chloe on a coke bottle i really wont 2 find my name !!!! :*
14 Dec 11
3:26 pm
I would love my name on Coca Cola bottle SILVIO
I’ve been a collector off Coke items for long time
That would go real good with my collection.
14 Dec 11
5:10 pm
I would love my name chantelle on there it’s never on anything that has names it’s sad but if you could do one better Telly would be
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15 Dec 11
8:28 am
I would like to see the name SHANNON
They had my mums name and my dads name and my sister name and my brothers name but not mine!!!!
Please get a SHANNON
Also all those people looking for Charlie on of my friends went up to a westfields were they were printing names onto coke cans and ask for CHARLIE but they would not print it cause some names they are not allowed to print for some reason?????
15 Dec 11
5:55 pm
SHARE A COKE WITH SHANNON! ITS A POPULAR NAME AND AND AND ITS A UNISEX NAME!?!? PREASEEE ILL LOVE YOU FOREVER ^^
16 Dec 11
12:00 pm
put the name sian on a bottel PLEEAASSEE
16 Dec 11
2:58 pm
yes, they do read this page and put all of your names on the bottles, NOT !! Suckers…
17 Dec 11
6:08 pm
WOULD LOVE TO SEE MY GIRLFRIEND’S NAME TRACEY ELIZABETH AND OUR DAUGHTER’S KRYSTAL AND MY NAME GENEVIEVE
17 Dec 11
10:13 pm
I would like to see my brothers name on a bottle please it is
Cooper