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...20. February 2013
There’s almost been an Insta-everything over the last year, but this might still be a first, with Orange in France launching a new hi-speed network and creating ‘Instagallery’ to promote it. Instagallery which targeted influential instagramers, pulled their photos into staged galleries half a world away in Los Angeles, with short films made of awkwardly [...]
Continue reading...22. December 2012
Here’s a new way to play with Skittles in a campaign from Australia called ‘Telekinize The Rainbow’. A Facebook app that allows you to control a single Skittle with your mind… Err… Eyes, in an interactive, multi-user experience created by the guys at Clemenger BBDO in Sydney. The campaign plays into the global creative framework, [...]
Continue reading...26. June 2012
Less of an ad and more of a test, this is the latest recruitment campaign for the Australian Defence Force, called Mobile Medic – and it just won 4x Gold and many more silver/bronze at Cannes Lions 2012. A mobile app that challenges you to diagnose the patient in the ad through the Mobile Medic [...]
Continue reading...30. May 2012
I’ve seen many agency recruitment campaigns before, most try to be innovative, few are, but how about this one from Jung von Matt? So if you’re looking for creatives, where do you find them? There’s one sure bet, at the Lorem Ipsum site you visit when you’re mocking up creative, infact over 50,000 unique people [...]
Continue reading...13. May 2012
Car manufacturers do anything to hide upcoming car models with those black and white patterns. Each of them do it, and the car-parazzi stalk them the world over, lying in wait to snap a photo of a new model, guessing what the new shape will really look like… Technically that combo of car and pattern [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2012
ING sponsors the Basketball league in Germany and wanted to connect their offering to a younger audience at Basketball events across the country… So they aimed to leverage smart phones to create an interactive experience anyone could play, and “Free Throw Billboards” were born. Users could connect their phone directly to the billboard, essentially turning [...]
Continue reading...9. April 2012
I love this piece from IKEA in Russia. It’s not easy to create new, interesting ways to allow users to explore kitchens and the various accessories, but if anyone can do it, it’s IKEA, who’ve got a rich history in doing so. And again, they’ve created a new way for users to experience their kitchen [...]
Continue reading...4. April 2012
I love finding campaigns that create new ways of getting to consumers, and here is a seemingly weird one, with a really smart distribution method. The Blood Transfusion Service in Russia wanted a digital project that could connect with people in a different kind of way, and what agency SmartNewSolutions came up with was a [...]
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...4. March 2012
Brazil’s Gol Airlines created a simple Facebook competition to grow their online community and raise brand awareness in the highly competitive airline market. Based on the insight that a trip is the most romantic Valentine’s gift that you can get they turned the Valentine’s weekend into a competition on their Facebook page with ‘Valentine’s flight’. [...]
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...17. December 2011
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...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 [...]
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24. April 2013
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