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Cadbury Silk The Story of Us: turn memories into a film invitation

Cadbury Silk invited couples to turn relationship memories into animated short films through a proprietary text-to-animation AI experience.

Campaign period: January 2024Source published: Date not statedArchive entry prepared: 15 September 2026

Retrospective coverage, prepared in September 2026 from the original record.

A phone shows an animated couple beside a Cadbury Silk box.
The Story of Us campaign visual published by Ogilvy. Cadbury Silk / Ogilvy; image published by Ogilvy.

Reported execution

Ogilvy says couples scanned a Silk pack, answered questions about their relationship and received animated short films from a proprietary text-to-animation system; selected films could appear on Disney+ Hotstar.

Our reading

The product became an entry point to authorship rather than a prop inside a conventional Valentine film. Personalisation works here only when the generated story retains the couple’s specific details rather than producing a generic romance.

Production and evidence limits

Relationship memories are sensitive inputs: consent, retention, sharing and moderation must be explicit. The source establishes the activation, not that every generated film was accurate, welcome or appropriate for public distribution.

Sources & limits

Ogilvy case study; campaign-reported scale is not an independent quality or consent audit.

  1. Ogilvy — The Story of Us — source publication date not stated.

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