Category: Live Communication

There’s more to life than a Volvo

Volvo is aiming to move away from its perception as a cold Swedish marque, more famous for just being safe, with an emotion-led brand campaign.

A global campaign, by incumbent ad agency Sapient Nitro, focuses on making Volvo a more ‘modern, innovative and engaging’ brand. The activity is built around the line, ‘There’s more to life than a Volvo’.

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Copy for the print ad reads: ‘There’s more to life than a Volvo. There’s running off for a weekend, with no phone reception. Running into an old friend and rolling back the years. Running into your ex and running right past. […] And there’s not running into the car ahead of you, in your XC60. That’s why you drive one.’

In Germany  we see a very unique 3D projection taking place to drive home the ‘There’s more to life than a Volvo’.

The 3D projection video you are about to see has been done in Frankfurt and produced by NuFormer in co-orporation with Saatchi & Saatchi.

Egg-splatting bus shelter

Only available from New Year’s Day to Easter Day, the Cadbury Creme Egg is one of the best selling confections in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.

In a bid to boost Creme Egg sales in the lead-up to Easter, Cadbury’s has come up with some really unique bus shelter in UK.

Cadbury's Creme Egg Game

Waiting for a bus is boring. Now though, you can fill this time by playing Cadbury’s first ever-interactive outdoor game called Splat the Egg.

Is this the future of advertising – every lamp post and bus shelter calling out to be stroked, touched or hit? 🙂

For those who wont have the chance to experience the real thing…you can have a go at the online version…

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Flyvertising!!!

Trust the Germans to come up with some real new age ideas…Jung von Matt an advertising agency from Germany just re-defined advertising for their client Eichborn. 😎

At the recent Frankfurt book convention they attached banners to 200 flies and set them loose to do their jobs as miniature sky ads around the convention center. Thus inventing Flyvertising or as they would call it in German…Fliegenbanner. 😆

The weight of the banner itself, attached with a string and some sticky stuff that allowed it to eventually fall off without harming the fly, was so that the fly could fly with it, but not very high and they kept landing on visitors.

Toyota Prius iPhone app

Everyday we are seeing more and more brands using a mix of digital and traditional advertising to create unique marketing strategies.

Today we see Saatchi & Saatchi LA and appssavvy coming up with a unique idea for the Toyota Prius.

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Together they have created a free Prius iPhone app that the users can use to draw into the environment of the Prius…and if standing in front of the Reuters digital billboard in Times Square they could even see it getting replicated live on the billboard.

The billboard was available from Oct 26th to Oct 28th

Other than drawing, the consumers can also take a tour of the Prius, interact with a print ad campaign and play a game.

Social Media Happiness

In a first of it’s kind undertaking, we are seeing Coca Cola using social media marketing and a travel campaign to tap into regular people to be their “Happiness Ambassadors” and travel the world for the whole of 2010 and document their entire quest via blog posts, tweets, YouTube videos, TwitPics, and other social media mentions.

Currently their is a contest in progress to shortlist the brand ambassadors whose mission will be to find happiness in the 206 different countries that sell Coca-Cola products across the world.

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The winning three-person team will begin their journey on January 1, 2010 and attempt to travel more than 150,000 miles in 365 days, visiting each of the 206 countries where Coca-Cola is sold. Their duty will be to engage with local denizens and uncover what makes them happy. After which they are to share their experiences online, and complete tasks in each country as determined by online voters.