Onwards and Upwards
Onwards and Upwards
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UK Christmas Markets: Overpriced and Underwhelming
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Why go to Frankfurt when your local town centre has their own Christmas market that feels like a Disneyland theme park version of the real thing?
At every Christmas Market you'll see the same stalls, the same food and drink, the same attractions and the same goods for sale. That pretty much everyone agrees is not worth the extortionate asking prices. Like everything to do with Christmas, it started as a festive tradition that has now become an overpriced, overcrowded, underwhelming tourist trap.
Despite the popularity of Lincoln's Christmas Market with record attendance in 2022, the following year's event was cancelled. With many fin...
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This is Adobe.
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.Месяц назад
Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Adobe is an Ai company now. After their most recent conference, Adobe MAX, there was an uncomfortable amount of Ai centred talks and product features. On top of their other issues such as confusing subscriptions, cancellation fees, killing Adobe XD, and training their Ai software on artists work without their permission. With the creati...
Castore: Britain’s Worst Sports Supplier
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd In less than 10 years, Castore has managed to become the supplier for a number of Premier League and European teams, as well as supplying England, the West Indies and South Africa in international cricket. But in a few seasons, Castore has been holding a masterclass on how to lose all their Premier League contracts. Suffering from horre...
Cadbury and How to Kill a British Icon
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Ever since the American company Mondelez (Formerly Kraft) bought Cadbury in 2010, the classic brand has seen a steady decline The classic British brand has suffered through changing recipes to resemble horrendous American chocolate, shrinkflation and bland advertising. Cadbury is now just another cog in a huge corporate machine, and a s...
The Olympics that Bankrupted Montreal
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd With the Paris Olympics being one of the most ‘in budget’ in modern times, let's take a look at the most over budget Olympic Games in history. As 1976’s Olympic games held in Montreal were plagued with problems. Which includes the organising, funding and construction. Leading to corruption, scandals and one of the most expensive stadium...
Etsy Terrible New Policies on Ai
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Support the Channel buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Etsy has had to wrestle with on set of Ai generated images for the past and year and a hafl. And now their new policies double down on Ai images, saying that images that are made with generators are fine, while prompt bundles are not. The update also includes new catergories, so Ai images will now be marked as ‘designed by a seller’. A slap ...
The Changing Face of Las Vegas
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd While Las Vegas may forever be called Sin City. Vegas has been attempting to diversify in recent years to change its image and bring in new tourists that don’t simply want to gamble or attend a bachelor party, The new attractions include brand new sports team, a new F1 circuit, plus new attraction in the form of the Sphere and a glorifi...
The Man that Destroyed Xbox
Просмотров 264 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Over 10 years since Don Mattrick left Xbox, the impact of his influence and terrible decisions can still be felt even now. After taking the reins of Xbox in 2007, Mattrick lead the brand to try and appeal to casual gamers in order to compete with the Wii. And later the disastrous reveal of the always online/Kinect bundled Xbox One meant...
The Apprentice’s Terrible Logo Challenges
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd With Series 18 of the Apprentice coming to a close, it has reminded me of how not to design a logo. While I do enjoy the show (sometimes), branding and logo challenges are very hard to watch when you see so many awful decisions being made before your eyes. Such as the cringe adverts, good ideas being botched by non-designers, and colour...
The Lawsuit Apple Can't Win
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Support the Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Back in 2012, two Italian brothers registered the trademark for the name Steve Jobs for their new clothing brand. Despite the logo being an obvious rip off, this lead to an embarrassing dispute in which Apple lost, and could do nothing about it. Since then however, Apple has been even more protective regarding its own trademarks. Especi...
Ai Art is Killing Etsy
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*Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd As Ai does everything it can to take our jobs, Ai art has flooded Etsy in the last year or so. With entire stores making 6 figures, and racking up thousands of sales with shoddy, unoriginal artwork made by Ai image generators. Etsy was once a place that claimed to ‘keep commerce human’. But Ai art and drop shipping has led to Etsy fee...
Tokyo Olympics Logo Plagiarism Scandal
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*Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Tracking the saga of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics logo plagiarism scandal that stretched from 2015 into 2016. Was the logo really stolen, or simply a coincidence. As well as looking at the final logo design, the contest, the plagiarism lawsuits and the allegations against the Tokyo Olympics logo designer, Kenjiro Sano. *Articles and Links*...
New York Islanders Disastrous 1995 Rebrand (and it's Odd Redemption Story)
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Warning: This video contains a British man trying to talk about Hockey. *Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Why buy new players when you can hastily refresh your team brand in an attempt to latch onto a popular trend. This is what happened with the NHL team, New York Islanders and their 1995 rebrand and logo. But even with all the hatred and backlash, the once maligned ...
Mcdonald's wants to be Starbucks
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*Support the channel:* www.buymeacoffee.com/pathfinderthe2nd Ever since launching McCafe and after Supersize me, Mcdonald's has radically shifted it's branding, messaging, and architecture to appeal to a more mature audience. As well as following in the footsteps of coffee chains like Starbucks to appeal to a similar audience. And most recently, Mcdonald's has now launched its own sister brand ...
TV Show Openings Suck Now
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TV Show Openings Suck Now
Logo Design 'Plagiarism'
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Logo Design 'Plagiarism'
Starfield and the Return of the Console Wars
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Starfield and the Return of the Console Wars
Tesco vs. Lidl and the War over a Yellow Circle
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Tesco vs. Lidl and the War over a Yellow Circle
Elon Musk’s X Obsession
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Elon Musk’s X Obsession
The Dark Truth of Primark
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The Dark Truth of Primark
A.I. Logo Generators are Terrible
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A.I. Logo Generators are Terrible
How a WW2 Poster Became a Meme
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How a WW2 Poster Became a Meme
The Rise of Nostalgic Branding
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The Rise of Nostalgic Branding
Sports Teams Trying to be Fashion Brands
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Sports Teams Trying to be Fashion Brands
The Rise of Corporate Logos
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The Rise of Corporate Logos
Move Fast and Fire People
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Move Fast and Fire People
When You Lose the Hosts that the Fans Love
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When You Lose the Hosts that the Fans Love
Flat Car Brands
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Flat Car Brands
5 Controversial Abandoned Logos
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5 Controversial Abandoned Logos
Brands Cashing in on Nostalgia
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Brands Cashing in on Nostalgia

Комментарии

  • @Norton600ss-sj5nr
    @Norton600ss-sj5nr 20 минут назад

    Stopped buying Cadburys it tastes like some sort of pigs bladder and sugar .Go woke go broke

  • @bobcarptheTaf
    @bobcarptheTaf 52 минуты назад

    I had Cadbury finger's the other day the chocolate was so thin you could see the biscuit through it and tasteless same as digestive biscuits they think we stupid to not notice the decline in quality

  • @AhmadSurati-m7z
    @AhmadSurati-m7z Час назад

    Even macron kits are better than this. Even Sudu was better

  • @LonnieSmithYaDig
    @LonnieSmithYaDig 2 часа назад

    The level of E numbers in its ingredients!!

  • @maureenm8462
    @maureenm8462 4 часа назад

    Its changing a lot and this is because the americans bought it.

  • @lynnbargewell3833
    @lynnbargewell3833 5 часов назад

    I was a Cadbury’s girl for sooooooo many years. I’m 66 years old and I can’t tell you how utterly disappointed I am with what they’ve done to this once superbly delicious chocolate. Is there nothing these greedy corporate losers can’t just leave alone. Can anyone suggest a lovely creamy chocolate I will enjoy instead please, because I won’t be buying anything Cadbury again, it tastes foul.

  • @rikardogibola1312
    @rikardogibola1312 5 часов назад

    Tony's chocolate for me from now on.

  • @Tom88
    @Tom88 6 часов назад

    8:05 we do have uk markets inspired by victorian history, deckiansen evening .... only they are also full of stalls selling tat and glow sticks

  • @THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of
    @THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of 7 часов назад

    I STAY WELL AWAY FROM THEM

  • @ronaldamber8865
    @ronaldamber8865 9 часов назад

    I was at the market in Lincoln in 2019, it was incredibly bland, lots of tat and there was a dozen alternative medicine stalls, magnet therapy, aromatherapy and so on. I'm glad it's gone

  • @studebaker4217
    @studebaker4217 9 часов назад

    Mondelez also makes Costa Coffee's retail packs, which manages to taste even worse than Costa's in-house "coffee".

  • @thewaywardgrape3838
    @thewaywardgrape3838 9 часов назад

    The Christmas market in Monaco are superb! Best new year's event too imo.

  • @Mandy830
    @Mandy830 9 часов назад

    Im 64 and when I was a kid chocolate tasted so much different........ It was when we had European laws and regulations put upon us that they took animal fat out and replaced it with vegetable fats, that was the start..... Now I dont think they put even the coco in they used to...... Cadburys used to be morish,,,,, not any more,,,,,, the people and rulers that be,,,, destroyed our chocolate..... Like everything else they lay there hands on.. What Id do for an original bar of chocolate made with the original recipe......

  • @jsnsk101
    @jsnsk101 10 часов назад

    i was wondering why my big Christmas bar of dairy milk tasted odd,then this video shows up in my feed, but i had no idea it had been going on so long

  • @dryliner65
    @dryliner65 11 часов назад

    Cadbury’s dairy milk is just shit now . Well done for changing the recipe . W⚓️s

  • @bealtainecottage
    @bealtainecottage 11 часов назад

    And…do you notice it’s no longer named chocolate on the packaging?!!!

  • @busgreaser
    @busgreaser 11 часов назад

    Cadbury chocolate used to taste delicious. I haven't eaten the crap since Craft ruined the chocolate and sacked British workers.

  • @kevinsavage808
    @kevinsavage808 11 часов назад

    Cadbury would turn in his grave. How can you sell a company with so much history? Bring it home before it's too late. I bet most British chocolatiers are now retired or have passed on. Profit before product or people.

  • @bimblealong
    @bimblealong 12 часов назад

    American Enshitification of Everything.......The land of the free, and the home of 'Bonhoeffer' stupidity.

  • @claphamalex
    @claphamalex 12 часов назад

    Muslims love them though !

  • @claphamalex
    @claphamalex 12 часов назад

    Utter crap , never been and will never go !

  • @Silverene444
    @Silverene444 13 часов назад

    I’ll definitely remember the current advertising campaign. Once you’ve seen and heard the Australian dubbed version of the West Indian guy talking to his son… they’ve changed the narrative as well as the accents and, together with the fact i cannot remember ever seeing a British West Indian in Aus, it’s cringingly implausible. Such lazy advertising.

  • @babcon1523
    @babcon1523 13 часов назад

    Easy don’t buy

  • @babcon1523
    @babcon1523 13 часов назад

    I hardly ever buy chocolate or sweets anymore due to what sugar can do to your teeth and health. these companies would be better to come up with healthy options for people as you will find people are becoming more aware of food and their effects on health❤

  • @darkedge4011
    @darkedge4011 14 часов назад

    Thank you I thought I was the only one who felt this way can’t believe how popular they are when theyre just hell on earth

  • @SusannaSaunders
    @SusannaSaunders 14 часов назад

    Boycott these brands! As for the advert "you don't have to throw that one back"... Because it's so awful we don't want it back...

  • @PJ-ml3yy
    @PJ-ml3yy 14 часов назад

    I have some sympathy for the market traders because the Council's charge extortionate amounts for a pitch that the traders have to re-coop their fees in some way or another. Years ago, you would expect a trader to be selling produce at bargain prices due to lack of overheads but not any longer. Hence, I don't go there.

  • @alanblake8107
    @alanblake8107 14 часов назад

    Just doesn't taste the same. I will never buy the products again.

  • @alanwood4968
    @alanwood4968 15 часов назад

    What you did not say on the first pages is;- Cadbury how to kill a british icon BY GETTING AN AMERICAN COMPANY TO BUY AND RUN IT. They thought all you have to do is make it smaller add sugar change the taste a bit now one will know. (he he he) Unfortunately the British have better taste buds than Americans We really think American hersheys is the worst chocolate ever made. So do not try to make it smaller, keep it the same and increase the cost by a small amount. We do not take kindly to being screwed by investors remember a fair price is a good way of doing it. You want to screw people do it in the states not over here we will just tell you to piss off.

  • @davidmartin5099
    @davidmartin5099 15 часов назад

    Ask any chocolate maker in Europe they will tell you Cadburys is not chocolate less coco more veg fat than Europe taste tells you everything 😢

  • @ido8071
    @ido8071 16 часов назад

    the quality of the chocolate has gone down since it was taken over. I have stopped buying it.

  • @Souscheff
    @Souscheff 17 часов назад

    im sueing them

  • @GolfMike09
    @GolfMike09 17 часов назад

    I buy chocolate at a local chocolate deli, have not bought Chadbury's since the 'sellout'. As I was passing their products in a local supermarket, I spotted the price of a small bag of chocolate buttons and thought, 'you have to be joking'.

  • @interceptor6893
    @interceptor6893 18 часов назад

    No way was it worse than Britvics takeover of C&C which led to them reformulating Club Orange, Club Lemon and Rock Shandy which now have sweeteners and taste like piss!

  • @John-ul4hv
    @John-ul4hv 20 часов назад

    Chocolate melts at approx. 32-35 degrees C, an additive is added to Cadbury's Australia because weather gets so hot here, to increase it's melting temp. I personally don't like Cadbury's in Australia it tastes of sugar plus chemical taste. Aldi provides Belgian, Italian all are far superior

  • @MickAngelhere
    @MickAngelhere 20 часов назад

    I used to work not far from the factory and even visited it once . Shame to see what happened to the factory

  • @ronwade2206
    @ronwade2206 20 часов назад

    Oreos taste like shit now! Yuch

  • @Dawn_Aramoana63
    @Dawn_Aramoana63 21 час назад

    I feel Cadbury NZ made the right decision. Us kiwi don't like it when you change a recipe that didnt need changing in the first place. Now, 15 years later I'm wondering if OUR attitudes have changed. Hope not.

  • @iansenior9759
    @iansenior9759 22 часа назад

    Cadbury Chocolate is foul tasting. A cheap imitation. Not our nations favourite.

  • @downtoearth1950
    @downtoearth1950 23 часа назад

    Palm oil is in it.

  • @JaxSwim1
    @JaxSwim1 День назад

    It taste awful now, been saying it for years….

  • @howsik2sik
    @howsik2sik День назад

    If EA was a person it would be this guy

  • @ldarm
    @ldarm День назад

    100%

  • @robliptak93
    @robliptak93 День назад

    Interesting, I found Cadbury to be a wonderful surprise at the train stations when I was hiking in Scotland decades ago. Then here in the states a few years ago, I purchased a Cadbury and found it to be rather, nothing special. Thanks for this video. It sure explains that my taste buds and memories weren’t going bad, just another big corporation destroying a great product.

  • @karma3101
    @karma3101 День назад

    I wonder if old Charlie boy realises he will soon be the king of a bankrupt little third world country!

  • @derick1259
    @derick1259 День назад

    Does anyone else have particularly vivid memory of the Kraft food takeover? Like to me the news was a significant tangible feature of the recession at the time, in conjunction with Woolworths closing the the like.

  • @benswaine-y7x
    @benswaine-y7x День назад

    The YCC gains 10K in rent for a hut ,so about 100 huts makes 100K ( food huts win .... a few break even and some lose but they still have to cough up 10K for rent ) it is a rip off and also it takes away the true message of Christmas by not being allowed to say 'Happy Christmas' ... Happy holidays ? really ? All this is pushed by local gov't ,it is profit making for them and that's all it is

  • @latchmere100
    @latchmere100 День назад

    Chocolate has got boring. Where is Topic.

  • @Dekedence
    @Dekedence День назад

    In comparison, I found myself in Hamburg a week before Xmas this year. Here's how that went... They didn't have one official market. Instead, it clustered where it made sense. Whereever there was a bit of open space that could take it, there was a little bit of Xmas market. All drinks used reusable mugs (3 EUR pfand), most were drinking Feuerzangenbowle (a warm, spiced mulled wine) for ~6 EUR or Kakao (hot chocolate) for ~4 EUR. Food-wise, it ranged from 5-8 EUR for things like Bratwurst, Gyros, grilled salmon, garlic mushrooms and soups. As for stores, I never saw two stalls very obviously selling the same merchandise. Some traditional Xmas decorations, some nice little gifts / trinkets, one store I saw sold nothing but Stollen and oranges. But as my comment might suggest, the vast majority of stalls were food and drink. It was basically a christmassy "restaurants and bars" but in the streets.

  • @johnbadman3340
    @johnbadman3340 День назад

    Bournemouth resident here - we get the market and its exactly as described in the videos, cheap crap and overpriced food. It doesn’t seem to get more crowded than any other busy day in town centre but yeah it just isn’t worth going to at all