Advertising campaign of the week

John Plunkett. Updated June 22nd, 2020

Advertising campaign of the week – that week being sometime in 1883 – goes to the good people of Cronk.

‘In 1883, a drink called “Cronk” started advertising in the Calgary Herald. See if you can spot their ads,’ said Paul Fairie – @paulisci – on Twitter.

And his post went viral because, well, see if you can spot them.

And here are just a few of the things people were saying about it.

Subtle.

— Lynora Saxinger MD (@AntibioticDoc) June 21, 2020

That ad had absolutely no effect on me whatsover

— Lukas Neville (@lukasneville) June 22, 2020

*moments later* man I could really go for a cronk

— Lukas Neville (@lukasneville) June 22, 2020

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— Wear a mask and wash your hands! (@edwinmundt) June 21, 2020

It’s a ‘celebrated root beer’, apparently.

“celebrated root beer” https://t.co/FWSR9heuv0

— Jason Markusoff (@markusoff) June 21, 2020

Drink Cronk.

Source @paulisci