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Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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This is beautifully executed and quite fun, but it's not riffing on the Android announcement page nearly as much as it is on Apple's Mac Pro announcement page: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

The Android page is a brief history of the OS, while the Mac Pro page is an animated product brochure, which is what this really is.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Great parody. I suppose this is a relevant article to attach this question. What is the general consensus on using the scroll event to trigger animations/content changes? I am working on an article that uses animations to help explain scientific processes and triggering these with the scroll position seems to offer many advantages over having the user keep clicking a next button. I know where they are on the page and…

The more annoying thing is the big YouTube embed that causes the experience to fall apart since the scroll does not propagate to the page.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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post #25

This honestly makes me wonder: what is the point of web sites for stuff like KitKat? Clearly, they can replace the entire thing for the purposes of a joke so it can't be that high up there. Who visits those sites? What do they do on them? The Nestle/Hersheys site, sure. Standard corporate stuff. But a site specifically for KitKat? EDIT: there seems to be some confusion in the replies. I am not talking about this joke…

Marketing is a tricky beast. Sometimes "viral" things like these will drive more traffic (and thus, awareness of your product) than money can buy. As for who visits these sites? Almost no one. Until they pull a PR stunt like the one that just happened.

Many/Most brands in this don't-need-their-own-site category have PR stunts continually in the works with their homepage just pointing to their latest microsite.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it comes to a chunk of sugar as delicious as a KitKat, all they really need to do is plant the word "KitKat" in your brain and you'll want one. Or maybe it's just me.

I find the thought of dead babies in Africa tends to put me off my confectionary.

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Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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post #5

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity. Scrolling down the page pushes a new history URL every half page, using the back button is then essentially broken (on Firefox at least) and actually getting back to the page that unfortunately sent you there requires something like 20 clicks. Not so bad joke otherwise, but the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

Hold down the back button and you can go back 1 to 12 pages at a time, depending on which one you pick.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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post #35

Love the easter egg - try "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a" :)

Check out jQuery Raptorize.

Konami fun can also be found on wired.co.uk, sometimes in raptor form, other-times not.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite the opposite. Hershey adds so MUCH milk and sugar that it's more of a slightly brown sugary mass than anything resembling real chocolate.

They use soured milk.

and corn syrup
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