Comments on: oops, we forgot the website!

By: joe silva

joe silva — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:40:01 +0000

what are root beer made out of?,i have to know

By: Ratty T.

Ratty T. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:59:16 +0000

I am an employee of the carbonated side of Cadbury Schweppes, although I don’t work directly with VML, I can say that this is another VML screw up. I work in very close proximity to the A&W (and other carbonated drink) managers in Plano, TX. Needless to say, they are pretty fed up with VML’s attitude, processes and account management.

Due to VML’s “holier than thou” attitude towards Cadbury’s agency partners, nobody wants to deal with them. – so it’s bad communication all the way around and a press release goes out without VML’s input and you get what you have here. A half-assed lunder construction page thrown up to cover VML’s slow asses.

Let’s just hope that that VML comes through on the website, but rumblings within the office down here in good ‘ol Texas is that the website doesn’t hit the mark. Of all the concepts presented, this was the only “usable” one that came close. Due to budgets, VML wouldn’t budge on any redo and they had to make this one work. People aren’t to happy about it either.

2008 will be interesting for the Cadbury and VML relationship.

By: Eick

Eick — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:28:32 +0000

I just posted about this on my blog as well. The site is not going up anytime soon, it’s just going to be a dead link for a while. I contacted the PR agency for this campaign, and they said the site will not go live “until later this month.”

Not sure why they even put the website in the press release.

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A&W, Sunkist Launch Ice Cream Floats in a Bottle | So Good — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:25:57 +0000

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By: dailybiz

dailybiz — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:44:38 +0000

The exact same thing – how could something like this be allowed to happen?

And the site is STILL not up…

By: Tangerine Toad

Tangerine Toad — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:39:10 +0000

Sort of like when Smirnoff lauched Tea Partay but didn’t have the website up for about 3 weeks as a million some odd people watched the spot on YT