To launch the iPad version of the Ikea-catalogue in Norway, ad agency SMFB created a brand new Ikea product called “Beröra”.
“Beröra” was a sewing kit with a special conductive thread to sew into say the index finger of your favorite gloves. Once the operation was done the gloves would work on a touch-screen.
The promotion generated a lot of interest and 12,000 of Ikea’s sewing kits were distributed for free in just two weeks.
Despite healthy brand tracking data, 50% of the teens and young adults in Australia hadn’t enjoyed ‘Coke’ in the previous month alone. So to increase product consumption amongst the masses Coca-Cola jump started some real conversations with people they had lost touch with.
After 125 years of putting the same name on every bottle of ‘Coke’, they decide to do the unthinkable. They printed 150 of the most popular Australian names on their bottles and then invited all the Australians to ‘Share a Coke’ with one another…
The result…
To demonstrate the zero carbon impact of its new fuel cell vehicle, Mercedes-Benz along with ad agency Jung von Matt/Elbe have created an “invisible” car that uses LEDs and a camera hack that transmits images from the opposite side of the car to blend the vehicle with its surroundings. 😎
For Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary, Istanbul’s creative agency Antilop created a “Future Room” concept, made specifically for the Turkish modern-art museum Santralistanbul. They transformed a section of the gallery into an impressive 90 square meter, 270-degree projection mapping installation…
For their customer Mercedes-Benz Vans, ad agency Lukas Lindemann Rosinski implemented an interactive outdoor event on Wall AG’s digital advertising displays in Berlin’s underground station Friedrichstrasse. This display blurred the line between classical outdoor advertising and interactive entertainment. Under the slogan “Key to Viano”, passers-by were offered the unprecedented opportunity to control the digital advertising displays using their own remote car keys…
Wimpy wanted to let visually impaired people know that they offered braille menus in all of their restaurants. To spread the word they built braille burgers that blind people could actually read. With the help of skilled chefs they took sesame seeds and meticulously placed them on burger buns so that the seeds formed a braille message… 😎
Most nightclubs in India put an admittance stamp on the wrist of their customers. Turquoise Cottage a nightclub based in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi was no different. However with their digital agency, Webchutney, they created what then went on to be coined as “The Buddy Stamp”.
“The Buddy Stamp” was a unique QR code stamp which upon scanning gave customers useful and actionable information depending on the time of night… 😎
In the past couple of years, airlines like KLM, SAS, Lufthansa, Air China etc have taken the social media world by storm. These airlines have successfully pushed the boundaries and created some of the most innovative social campaigns out there.
Now in their Fly2Miami campaign, KLM has managed to once again create tons of social buzz by hosting a Guinness World Record breaking in flight dance party at 35000 feet!
It all began with KLM announcing their new non-stop route from Amsterdam to Miami. In response, they received a tweet from Dutch DJ Seid van Riel and Producer Wilco Jung requesting KLM to move their inaugural flight up a week so that they could attend the music festival in Miami.
KLM then tweeted back a challenge…if they could get enough people to fill the plane then KLM would reschedule the flight. Within a couple of hours the flight was sold out… 😎
Mini along with ad agency TBWA\Agency.com created a social spectacle to increase the number of fans on their recently launched Mini Facebook page in Belgium and Luxemburg.
A Mini Countryman was attached to a thick rope in the parking lot of the “Brussels Motorshow” and a burner placed under the rope. Every Facebook fan was then encouraged to remotely initiate the burner and spit some flames on the rope. A webcam broadcasted the scene 24×7 and the Fan whose flame ultimately broke the rope was the one to win the Mini Countryman. 😎
Jeep Poland launched Jeep-in, a geo location game, which turned Poland into a big treasure map. To play it people had to go off-road. Every player received a map with the exact location of the awards. To win one had to find the point, go there and Jeep-in (check-in). The awards were put in the most remote and hard to get places in Poland. The player who at the end had the highest number of points won a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
