The Best Excuse Ever

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.

Miami Ad School

This year Miami Ad School has produced some great conceptual projects from their current students. Here are a couple that caught my eye…

McDonalds Burger Roulette App

This student concept has been designed for McDonald’s and is a Facebook app that offers to help find the perfect burger for your mouth…

UNICEF Donate A Word

This student concept has been designed to create a new way to donate money for child education by utilizing the spelling feature inside Google Chrome to trigger donation prompts…

Heineken Invite

This student concept uses a social media connected bottle opener that invites friends over for a beer. Whoever has the most friends attending, gets a free case of Heineken…

Andes Friend Recovery

Following the huge success of the Andes Teletransporter in 2009, and the Grand Prix win at the 2010 Cannes Advertising Festival, Andes the No. 1 beer from the Andean region of Argentina along with ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi have engineered yet another way for the bros to throw off that female anchor.

Andes Friend Recovery (AFR) is a cutting-edge robot with human features, which was installed in the main bars of Mendoza. The AFR enabled men to be present at the bar with friends without neglecting their duties as boyfriends; because at the same time, they are with their girlfriends somewhere else.

The AFR was installed in the most important bars of the Mendoza, during October and November 2010. During that time, the Andes Friend Recovery website received over 2 million visits, 5000 of which were “recovered” friends.

How does it work?

  1. Your friends go to a bar and sit at the Andes Friend Recovery table.
  2. They ask for a password which is sent to you via an SMS, while you fulfil your boyfriend duties.
  3. Wherever you are you have to log in to the AFR page and use the webcam to map your face.
  4. Then you appear at the bar, via the Andes Friend Recovery robot.