User Generated Orange Juice

Prigat, a leading company in the Israeli fruit juice market, has come up with one of the most innovative Facebook campaigns you are ever likely to see.

A unique Facebook application was developed by Publicis E-dologic, who gave it the fitting name of “User Generated Orange Juice (UGOJ)”. The application enabled internet users to squeeze real fresh orange juice simply by smiling at a webcam. It used face recognition technology that digitally activated a real giant juicer whenever a user smiled. The juicer could be viewed live 24/7, allowing users to actually see the outcome of their smiles.

The Facebook page got 30,000 new likes, over 20,000 photos were uploaded and a whopping 40,000 fresh oranges were squeezed!

Diesel’s Real Life “Likes”

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.

3D Video Mapping Interactivity Test

NuFormer after executing 3D video mapping projections onto objects and buildings worldwide, have now used interactivity in their latest addition to this technology.

During the interactive projection test the spectators became the controller and interacted realtime with the building by using gesture based tracking (Kinect). People could influence the content by using an iPad, iPhone or web based application made available for both mobile phone and computer use. For this test Facebook interactivity was used but any type of social media can also be incorporated into the projection.

This is an exciting development for projection mapping and we should be seeing this featured in some great campaigns to come.

Multiple Girlfriends App

Ogilvy Tunisia has created an Axe Facebook app that uses the relationship status update feature to allow people to be in a “relationship” with 100’s of girls at once. When people click on the relationship update link, they are taken to the Axe Facebook app page that allows people to also install the custom relationship app. 😎

Vodafone Pixel Hunt

To promote the new Vodafone LG Optimus Windows 7 phone with 5 Megapixel camera, German ad agency Jung von Matt/Alster launched a website where the users had to search for the winning pixels in a picture of 5 millions pixels. There were one hundred winning pixels and each one of the winning pixels contained a brand new LG Optimus Windows 7 phone with 5 Megapixel camera.

In under a month, the entire 5 Million Pixels were clicked out by over 300,000 visitors (pixel by pixel). Thereby making this a great example of how a simple engagement campaign can generate the best results.

Renault Facebook “Likes” in real life

For the Amsterdam Motorshow, Renault introduced the possibility of “liking” real objects (offline) and immediately sharing them online via the Facebook wall. They created this innovative and real-time social sharing experience with the help of a RFID Facebook card.

Specially made Facebook pillars were placed in front of the Renault cars. All the visitors had to do was hold their pass in front of these pillars and an automatic connection would be made to their Facebook profile, with the car being “shared” on their wall. This way their offline car experience was instantly shared with their online friends.

Renault has used the RFID technology well, but last year Coca Cola has used the same in a more engaging manner at their Coca Cola Village event in Israel.

SAS “Up for Grabs”

To promote a million seat fare sale, Scandinavian Airlines via Crispin Porter Boglusky Stockholm ran a competition on Facebook where SAS fans could grab a free trip. All the fans had to do was make their profile pic into a custom made Up For Grabs image and simply post a matching image where they grab the trip on the SAS Facebook wall.

The campaign was against the Facebook promotional terms & conditions, so eventually it was shut down. But not before a winner was chosen!

KLM Surprise

KLM launched a great Social Media Customer Engagement campaign which involved monitoring people who check in via foursquare for flights or tweet about waiting to board the next KLM service, and they called it “KLM Surprise” as their aim was to bring random surprises and happiness to the boring wait for flights.

Once the customer was chosen for the KLM Surprise, the team would then come up with the perfect (small) gift based on the customers various social networking profiles. The gift would then be hand delivered to the surprised customer at the airport gates.

Greeting your customers and thanking them for visiting your business after they’ve checked in is, of course, a best practice for any company using foursquare, but KLM Surprise takes it to a whole new level. The personal touch that’s exhibited through each of the interactions shows that the KLM team is really looking to make peoples days while they’re traveling, and that goes a long way to “spreading happiness”.

Yellow Chocolate

The Yellow Pages Yellow Chocolate campaign in New Zealand has been recognised with a Gold Titanium/Integrated award, a Gold Media Lion, and a Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes International Advertising Festival 2010.

The campaign began in August 2009 with a call for video entries for a mysterious quest of ambition. 28 year old surfer and actor Josh Winger was chosen to design, market and distribute a chocolate bar that tastes like the colour yellow, and to use only companies listed in the Yellow books, both online and mobile, in the process.

So Josh proved Yellow can help an ordinary bloke get an extraordinary job done. His was the fastest selling chocolate bar in New Zealand in ten years. People were paying $2 for what was actually a piece of direct marketing. Supermarkets were sold out and the bars were traded online for up to $320. There were 80,000 followers online, 16,000 Facebook fans, 800 Twitter followers. It was the most talked-about campaign in New Zealand with 61% recall and 27% of people talking about it in everyday conversations. Online usage grew by 9%.

Flashback Book Facebook App

Bouygues Télécom asked ad agency DDB Paris to come up with an idea to launch their facebook platform. They wanted DDB to create something that would go beyond using just profile pictures in a funny way, or pranking friends with small jokes.

So DDB decided to look at the way we use facebook and found that even though we use the social networking site everyday, we forget our favorite moments we share online. So they created an app that could change that, and keep facebook, in a book.

Facebook ads engaged people to participate in the creation of their books and receive a printed copy of their statuses and photos. One could also chose up to 10 friends to add into your book, as well as the desired timeframe, whether it be ones birthday, wedding, or from the very beginning of your profile.

After only two days they received 15000 fans and the limited edition of 1000 books were gone in only an hour.