Category: Marketing Strategies

Mickey Mouse brings Disney magic to NYC

Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse! Walt Disney’s beloved icon turned 83 this month and Disney Parks celebrated at the Disney Store in Times Square with an augmented reality installation.

Disney is also using a Twitter hashtag #DisneyMemories to track the experiences at Times Square and the campaign.

This augmented reality installation seems to be trending with brands wanting to do live events, as National Geographic and Lynx have also used the same style of augmented reality to engage with their audience.

Santa Tags

Brands generally use QR codes to direct consumers to websites. But this holiday season, J.C. Penney is taking a different approach.

As seen in the below video…J.C. Penney shoppers receive a “Santa Tag” sticker with each purchase this holiday season. These tags contain individualized QR codes that can be scanned with any QR code reader to record a personalized voice message! Gift recipients can, in turn, scan the codes to hear the recorded voice message when they open their gifts.

If there was a J.C. Penney around where I live, I would have definitely shopped there this season. 🙂

Slide to Unlock

AlmapBBDO Brazil has developed a very unique and innovative iAd for the new Brazilian Audi magazine app. The ad seen in the video below appeared in various publications on the iPad and used a nice play on Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” feature to engage the users.

Users who saw the ad instantly recognized the swipe gesture used to unlock Apple devices. So after racing their finger around the track, they were rewarded with a free download of the first Audi Magazine copy from the app store.

Before I could publish this post I came across another “Slide to Unlock” iAd! It seems this iOS feature is becoming a popular creative feature for iAds. In the below example, Amnesty International has created an iAd in Sweden’s largest newspaper, DN, where readers were presented with an image of a prison cell and prisoner inside. “Slide to Unlock” was used to open the prison cell and reveal a strong call to action to join Amnesty International as an activist.

ASICS “Run With Ryan Hall”

ASICS aims to become the number one brand for sports enthusiast in America. While being one of the sponsors at this years ING New York City Marathon, they developed a 60-foot video wall to bring up the level of physical interaction with their brand.

With the help of their agency Vitro the interactive wall was installed at the Columbus Circle subway station. The messaging displayed on the video wall challenged passersby to race against Ryan Hall, U.S marathon runner…

Another great example of a video wall installation is the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 launch at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, New York.

National Geographic “Live Augmented Reality”

Appshaker recently launched a large scale way of immersing people in some of the most amazing scenes from National Geographic’s extensive archive. Using augmented reality they placed people right inside the content, and allowed them to immerse themselves in different scenes such as leopards, astronaut, dolphin, storms and dinosaurs.

The reaction to this was huge. Tens of thousands of people interacted with the National Geographic brand while it toured Hungary and thousands shared pictures and videos on Facebook.

Sometime last year Lynx had also done a similar activity with their Fallen Angels in London’s Victoria station…

Cadbury “Keep Our Team Pumped”

Training for the Olympics is tough and so Cadbury has come up with its loudest campaign to date…Keep Our Team Pumped. Here the supporters of the Great Britain Olympics team can sing a series of motivational iconic power anthems to keep their team motivated during their long, hard training sessions before the big event in 2012.

Cadbury will release six tracks (two seen below) over the next seven months and will culminate with a finale in March 2012, which will feature a medley of the six songs created by the British public and a performance to the athletes of Team GB in London.

The Final Countdown

Simply the Best

The integrated campaign involves recruiting singers through social media, followed by a TV Campaign airing on 3rd October and running for 6 weeks. There will also be radio partnerships, events and digital media with extra support on-pack and in-store, rallying the British public to keep singing.

To follow it all visit www.keepourteampumped.com.

Nike Jordan Melo Water Projection

I have seen tons of really cool projection mapping events in the last year or so. In fact I even have a small collection of the noteworthy ones at my YouTube Channel.

In this latest example, Nike has tried to do something different with projection mapping for their new Jordan Melo M8 shoe. They have created the entire projection on water fountains, which complement the movement and desired effects to create something pretty special for the eyes…

The Volkswagen Beetle. Juiced Up.

Volkswagen has made their biggest ever re-vamp of their classic Volkswagen Beetle. With the help of their agency Red Urban, they launched the new VW Beetle through a series of standard billboards, bus shelters and just about every other traditional print-based media property that they could buy. So whats the big deal about that? Well, the twist was that every ad was an Augmented Reality marker that unlocked a 3D experience to the users who downloaded and pointed the custom VW Juiced Up app at the various ads.

The Contrexperience

Every year, magazines announce new fad diets. And each time, the conclusion is the same…it does not work. To lose weight effectively and permanently, one must adopt a balanced diet, drink water and do regular exercise.

So Contrex a mineral water brand owned since 1992 by Nestle Waters, decided to create an ambient campaign that shows how losing weight can be fun…

Opel Movano Banner

To promote the Opel Movano Van range, McCannLowe created a banner that is both useful and innovative. Working just like websites such as YouSendIt or WeTransfer, the banner allowed users to upload up to 2 GigaBytes of file in the rear of the van and then send it to someone across the web. The recipients would then receive an email to download the file and learn about the Opel Movano.

Simple, practical and spot-on target.