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Dairy Milk gets the gorilla, but Galaxy gets the growth

September 27, 2008By Simon FosterAdvertising Evaluation, Media Evaluation

So, Dairy Milk with its Drumming Gorilla TV ad campaign has posted a sluggish 2% market share growth whilst ‘run of the mill’ Galaxy has romped home with a 12% growth. Research has shown that the Gorilla ad is more memorable than Galaxy activity, but clearly this success in recall does not seem to have … Read More

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