Some storks bring you babies. But watch out for the one with the glasses; he’s got nothing but pickles.
Publicis & Hal Riney/SF is helping to reposition reinvigorate pickle company Vlasic and its 34-year-old stork icon. The stork’s personality was modeled off Groucho Marx and appears in current TV ads* as a quirky friend of the family. Vlasic’s tagline was also changed to “That’s the tastiest crunch I ever heard.”
The campaign went live May 14th on TV, online and on the radio. The updated Vlasic site is AJAXed to the hilt, and a contest seeks infants for Vlasic Stork Baby 2008. (Pickle model! Way to start life off right.)
Fun fact: pickles are the food most associated with pregnancy cravings. Who better than a stork to bring them? You can chomp resentfully while waiting for that other stork to arrive with your kid.
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*We don’t have any, but we promise to find some soon.
