T-Mobile with agency Saatchi & Saatchi is capitalizing on the Angry Birds fever with a clever new viral video titled Angry Birds Live.
In a square in Barcelona they created a human-scaled mockup of the Angry Birds, with lucky participants using the game on a smartphone to launch birds on their castle-smashing journey. It included authentic sounds effects and exploding pigs, and was obviously popular judging from the size of the crowd that appeared. 🙂
Corinthians, a Brazilian football club, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010. Nike decided to give the club’s more than 30 million fans a gift that would measure up: a new country called “Republica Popular do Corinthians”. In number of inhabitants this new country was bigger then 150 other countries in the world.
To guarantee the recognition of Republica Popular do Corinthians as a country, ad agency Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi from Sao Paulo developed everything a nation has i.e. a coat of arms, documents, legislation, a flag, currency, heroes and an embassy. Even a president was appointed. The campaign generated free media coverage worth $7,800,000!
Guys everywhere have always faced the same challenge of needing a good excuse for going out drinking with the boys.
Cerveza Norte based out of northern Argentina set out to solve this timeless dilemma. Teaming up with ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, they developed a campaign that is not only very clever but also socially responsible.
The idea was simple, for every Norte beer consumed at a bar the company would donate 1 minute of time to a worthy cause that included fixing houses, maintaining city parks, repairing schools etc.
The campaign allowed followers to monitor the donated minutes and the progress made by their good deeds on a dedicated website.
People love to share moments of their lives, what they do, what they think and, of course, what they like. Because of this, the “Like Button” is clicked 3 billion times a day.
So agency Fullsix Madrid decided to give people the chance to like their favorite Diesel outfits in the real world. All customers had to do was go to a Diesel Store, fall in love with a Denim and as they would do on Facebook, “Like” the product by scanning a QR code which would post on their Facebook wall. Easy!
At the moment this is being tried out in Diesel stores in Madrid, Spain. If successful it may well be rolled out across Europe.
DDB Stockholm has created another interactive outdoor campaign for McDonald’s Sweden called Pick N’ Play. This time they bring Pong-like fun into their latest interactive outdoor effort.
Passersby’s are invited to use their mobile phones as controllers to a fun and interactive challenge where they can play for their favorite McDonald’s treat. If they last for more than 30 seconds, they score a coupon earning them free fast food at a nearby McDonald’s.
Last year they had challenged pedestrians to take pictures of McDonald’s food to get it for free.
On an average, commuters in Bogota spend daily 4 hours stuck in traffic. The infernal rush hour traffic jams are the result of unfinished constructions on main avenues, as well as on the rapid transit system—Transmilenio, which has seen work on its expansion come to a halt, due to irregularities in the handling of funds, and corrupt contractors.
So Coca-Cola with ad agency Ogilvy Colombia turned these traffic jams into a drive in cinema! The soda-pop giant launched this ingenious initiative on the eve of their 125th anniversary.
Ogilvy Brazil sought to reinforce Fanta’s brand image of “joy” in USA. So they came up with an elevator prank called “Lift & Laugh”.
An elevator in a school in Atlanta was chosen to arouse students curiosity and laughter. In the elevator they installed a device that responded to the movements and comments from the students.
In the end many students did not want to get off the elevator and asked for a repeat trip. 🙂
The game of vending machine one-upsmanship between Coca-Cola and PepsiCo continues with Coke’s “Friendship Machine”.
To celebrate International Friendship Day last August, Coca-Cola in Argentina planted machines that appear to be about 12 feet tall and require that you ask a buddy for a boost to use it. As a reward the Coke machine dispensed two Cokes instead of one.
The “Friendship Machine” plays off of Coke’s “Happiness Machine” viral video, which shows a Coke machine spitting out free soda and pizzas to a group of delighted students. Coke also updated that idea in February with a “Happiness Truck” video that features a Coca-Cola truck giving out Cokes along with surfboards, beach toys and sunglasses.
PepsiCo this week has responded to Coke’s experiments with their very own “Social Vending Machine” that lets you gift free Pepsis to friends and strangers via a text message.
For 7 years he has played on chairs in front of the Warsaw Central Station. They call him Paul “The Chair”.
Since no one knows chairs better than Paul, JWT Warsaw decided to get IKEA Warsaw fans to chose which chairs Paul could test in their latest Facebook Campaign.
The results were posted on the IKEA Poland Facebook page and within 7 days the number of IKEA Warsaw fans increased by 70%!
The city of Santa Claus is situated in the state of Indiana, USA. The museum in the city brings together different objects related to Santa Claus and for more than 70 years has received letters from people around the world.
Coca Cola with its ad agency Ogilvy Brazil selected 75 forgotten letters and set out on an impossible task to find the writers and give them exactly what they asked for! The result was a touching movie that translates the concept of Coca-Cola to believe, and reinforces the magic of Christmas.
