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Skittles 'Blank the Rainbow.' The Dark Art of a Magical Campaign
This week on Tagline, the brand's golden age of surreal humor—and its revival a decade later
Tagline is our podcast about the making of great ads. This is Season 2, Episode 2.
This week we explore one of advertising’s strangest and most delightful confections: the “Blank the Rainbow” campaign for Skittles. We look at how a product truth, combined with a cultural insight about millennial teens, led to a string of beloved, absurdist ads from TBWAChiatDay NY in the mid-2000s—and how DDB revived that spirit in two subversive Super Bowl stunts a decade later.
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Below, check out all the Skittles ads we talk about on the episode, and images from the Skittles Brand Book, created by Ashley Marshall and Craig Allen in 2006.
The Ads
Skittles Brand Book (2006)
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