Argentina continues to set the standard in creative Twitter campaigns! In this latest campaign, when you visit the Smart Car’s official Twitter account you will think some kid got in there and had his way with the keyboard. Well in reality, its their social media team that has been hard at work to come up with various ASCII art tweets. This has led them to create the worlds first twitter based animated tweet commercial!
Visit the smart Argentina twitter account and hold down the ‘J’ button on your keyboard to see what happens. Alternatively see it on video below…
Speeding cars and pedestrian safety is a huge problem in Ukraine. In fact Ukraine is responsible for 56% of pedestrian collisions in Eastern Europe. To make people think twice about speeding, Shell along with JWT Ukraine created an ambient campaign where they invented the pedestrian ghost. The campaign was run during Halloween and has generated a lot of buzz over the internet…
To promote the excitement around Copa America 2011, OgilvyAction worked with Coca Cola to set up a giant screen in downtown Buenos Aires for fans to watch their favorite teams and provide unconditional cheer to the Argentinean National Team. But there was a catch. Sound sensors were installed to keep the screen on and if the fans stopped cheering, the screen would go blank. 😎
Last year to launch the all new Magnum Temptation Hazelnut ice-cream, Swedish agencies Lowe Brindfors and B-Reel created an advergame called “Magnum Pleasure Hunt Across The Internet”. In the game players were taken across 20 well known websites as they collected Bon Bons, the special ingredient of the Magnum Temptation Hazelnut ice-cream.
Since the game did exceedingly well, Magnum and team have come up with round 2 which has been enhanced with 3D graphics. Also this time players are taken on a run in New York, made to fly over Paris and surf the waves in Rio De Janeiro.
I think its a great follow up to the first version. Don’t you think? Experience Magnum Pleasure Hunt 2 at www.pleasurehunt2.mymagnum.com.
The European Football Championship is going to kick off in a few months, and brands are already getting ready with their advertising pitch. However the brands are not the only ones who want to grab people’s attention.
In Ukraine there a lot of street dogs and cats that are being killed to make the country cleaner and ready to welcome thousands of football tourists. So pan-European animal charity ETN has conceived an incredibly smart and attention grabbing ambient campaign in Hamburg to get people involved in its animal protection program…
During the Geneva Motor Show 2012, Mini came up with a novel way to get people talking about their new Mini Countryman. A special vibrating bench was installed on the streets. Every time someone sat on the bench, a Mini would sneak up from behind and rev up the engine. The bench in turn would vibrate and get some great reactions…
Over the years there have been numerous noteworthy 3D projection mapping events and installations. In this latest example, Samsung for the launch of its Galaxy Y Duos, a Dual SIM card smartphone has created a very unique projection mapping on a human face!
Generosity is one of the basic elements in human happiness. However, research shows that just 1 in 10 people experience generosity from others. So to help change that trend, Danish chocolate maker Anthon Berg opened “The Generous Store”.
For one day only the pop-up store became the world’s first chocolate shop where people couldn’t pay with cash or card! Instead the store provided iPads where people could login to Facebook and post their promise of a generous deed to a friend or loved one…
Now thats what I call an innovative way of spreading positive brand messaging through people’s Facebook network. 😎
Pinterest is one of the most talked about and fastest growing social networks of 2012. What makes this social site different from the others is its pinboard-styled social photo sharing feature that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections.
Since its still very new, a lot of major brands out there don’t know what to make of it. However, a couple have already found creative ways to exploit the potential of the new social media destination…
Women’s Inspiration Day by Kotex
In Israel, Kotex found 50 inspiring women and looked at what they were pinning on Pinterest. These women were then sent virtual gifts. If they re-pinned it, Kotex would send a real gift via mail. Smoyz, the agency behind the effort, claims nearly 100% of the women posted something about their gift, not only on Pinterest, but on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram…
Puzzle by Peugeot Panama
Peugeot’s Panama unit ran a contest that awarded fans who completed their Pinterest puzzle. The brand’s Pinterest profile featured images of cars running over two or more boards. In each case, a board was missing. To get the missing pieces, fans had to go to Peugeot Panama’s website.
Color Me Inspired by Guess
Guess challenged its fans to create boards based on four spring colors: Noir Teal, Hot House Orange, Red Hot Overdue and New Plum Light. The participants were asked to title their boards as “Guess My Color Inspiration” and pin at least five images (each tagged with #GUESScolor) in them. Four winners were then chosen by fashion bloggers Kristina Bazan of Kayture, Michelle Koesnadi of Glisters and Blisters, Jennifer Rand of Belle De Couture and Samantha Hutchinson of Could I Have That.
Pinterest Lottery by British Midland International
British airline “bmi” launched a game of chance to engages its fans. With “Pinterest Lottery“, bmi encouraged fans to re-pin upto six images of its seven travel destinations Beirut, Dublin, Marrakech, Moscow, Nice, London and Edinburgh. At the end of each week, the company choose a number at random and the users who had re-pinned the image with that number would qualify for a chance to win a free return flight.
Cadbury along with agency MCsquared Dublin created an integrated advertising campaign that enlisted the support of the Irish public to help their giant Creme Egg release its Goo.
Eight rocking giant eggs protected in transparent cases were placed around Dublin. Fans were asked to tweet Goo using #tweet2goo or enter via the campaign Facebook app. Every Tweet and Facebook post caused the egg to get more egg-cited until it egg-sploded!
The entire Goo event was broadcasted live on the Cadbury Ireland Facebook page and participants were also automatically entered into a draw to win tickets to The London 2012 Olympic Games.
