It looks like Volkswagen are targeting YouTube to find new ways to communicate their message, this time, it’s the Volkswagen GTI in Spain, with ‘The Fastest YouTube Ad’ that you literally can’t skip… I’d love your thoughts on this one! Created by the guys at DDB. (thanks Fernando!)
Continue reading...18. March 2012
Sometimes you see something a little different, it takes a while to compute because it is different, and when different is good, it’s actually amazing. For me, this is different, a brilliant piece of storytelling used to highlight the importance of creative thinking in a technical world. Introducing Project Re:Brief by Google. A series of [...]
Continue reading...16. February 2012
What do you do when you need to showcase features in a car like the Ford Fiesta? Create an instagram campaign of course!? It’s called The Fiestagram, a campaign run through Facebook via Instagram where a new hashtag associated with one of the Fiesta’s high-tech features, such as #entry, #music and #hidden. People would then [...]
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...20. September 2011
Another case study? Well, kinda… But this one is different, it’s a great, wait… perfect satirical take on how the creative world sells itself, and how it can literally sell anything, to anyone! I remember watching this and laughing out loud back in January when the video had about 500 views… 250,000 views later and [...]
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...11. June 2011
Check out this case study from Sony Ericsson Australia. To launch their new range of Xperia smartphones they decided to embrace social media and create something engaging for their audience. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties in the past there was some pretty bad brand sentiment on their Facebook page. To overcome this Iris Sydney created [...]
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...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...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. July 2010
Digital is unique in the fact you can create almost anything, anywhere. So for this Polish Breast Cancer awareness campaign, Change Integrated devised something a little different around an insight into making breast cancer detection methods fun to learn, for men! So in the adult section of one of the most popular polish websites, they placed a very smart [...]
Continue reading...5. July 2010
By now you would have heard that Volkswagen’s “The Fun Theory” won the Cannes Cyber Grand Prix for a digitally led integrated campaign, it won along side Nike’s “Chalk Bot” who took out the award for the other digital solutions / digital channels category in the Cyber section. The Fun Theory was all about generating [...]
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