The Canal+ Borgia TV series is the world’s first 360 degree narrative that works seamlessly across your desktop, iPad and iPhone to provide a complete experience. The campaign has already picked up a number of awards, and aims to pull new viewers into the brand new show about a family worse than the Mafia, and [...]
Continue reading...19. October 2011
I was in a meeting this afternoon chatting about banner campaigns and the general lack of innovation that surrounds them, for the most part anyway… We spoke too soon, welcome to the stage this great banner from Opel to showcase the utility potential of the new Opel Movano van. The banner literally carries your files [...]
Continue reading...7. September 2011
Here is something a little different from the guys at Wunderman Buenos Aires in Argentina, for the launch of Nokia’s N8 smart phone. #The8N8 was a twitter based activation campaign where you were required to get 8 popular celebrities to follow you on twitter to win a new Nokia N8. After enlisting top celebrities to [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2011
Right, so I thought it might be cool to round up as many of the 2011 Cannes Cyber Lions winning case study videos as possible into a single post, so that over the next year you’ll all have a great reference point to come back to if you need to find a case study to [...]
Continue reading...28. June 2011
Here is an interesting take on those famous old “Touch The Car” endurance competitions of days gone bye.. With Peugeot launching the “Take The Car” challenge online, where users would compete live from around the world to score a week with the car of their choice. After connecting with Facebook, users would choose a car, [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2011
Here is a neat little case study for Stadsmission, a small charity dedicated to helping the homeless in Stockholm. The “Homeless Banners” campaign was based around a blank, homeless banner with no website to live, a banner that has been re-sized, and waiting for a home… When users got to the micro-site, they were promoted [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2011
Facebook groups?! I can already here you saying it… Well, they might actually still be relevant for something, and here is a really simple, really smart campaign that helps demonstrate just that. It’s called Facebook Blood Groups, a campaign aimed at acquiring group members based on blood type, so that when the government’s NATAL trauma [...]
Continue reading...2. March 2011
Volkswagen Brazil recently sponsored the biggest music festival in Sao Paulo, the (sold out) Planeta Terra Festival, where they decided to promote their coolest young car, the Fox, through a seriously good mashup of Twitter, Google maps and real world prize locations. Volkswagen hid secret tickets across the entire city, and then displayed them on [...]
Continue reading...13. February 2011
With the arrival of Valentine’s Day it seemed appropriate to mention the digital campaign that Mattel have recently launched. I’m imaging that the majority of you won’t be Barbie and Ken fans however it’s hard to ignore the clever use of social channels in this fun and well integrated campaign. The world’s largest toy company [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2011
Here is a pretty interesting way of generating campaign engagement. Burgeranch, an Israeli fast food chain launched a new burger deal called “combina” which basically means “outsmarting the system” with the burger deal giving you a whole lot more food for less money. So the campaign to launch the burger deal, followed on the “combina” [...]
Continue reading...19. January 2011
Everyone loves a great case study video, so what a great way for an awards show to kick off the call for entries! The AICP will be releasing 5 special case study videos over the coming weeks to help build some hype about the upcoming awards. If this first one is anything to go by, the rest [...]
Continue reading...19. January 2011
There is a reason some Facebook apps generate hundreds of thousands of fans while others just flop. Generally, success comes down to a few key things… Simplicity, Shareability and Insight. Most apps should be seriously simple, 3-4 steps, clear instructions, engaging graphics, big punchy buttons and great copy. Then they need to have the right Shareability, and [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2011
Here is very cool campaign for Polar Beer by the guys at AlmapBBDO in Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul is the birthplace of Polar Beer, it also just happens to have two of Brazil’s most competitive soccer teams; arch rivals “Internacional” and “Grêmio”, so what would a beer brand do? Alienate one fan base by [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2011
Remember how great it felt the first time you got a social response from a brand you love or business you deal with? All the good will generated by their speedy response? Well, KLM decided to run an experiment with it’s social community, for people who check in via foursquare for flights or tweet about waiting to board [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2010
Remember Leo Burnett’s “David On Demand” social experiment at Cannes this year? Well, here is the case study video that captures exactly what happened with David On Demand at the 2010 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. For those who didn’t see it, “David On Demand” was created as a social experiment to promote Leo Burnett’s Wildfire conference at [...]
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17. December 2011
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