Hands up if you are a scrabble freak? Well, you’ve got a new challenger, and it’s the entire twitterverse! To help launch the brand new board game (remember those?!) Scrabble Trickster, they’ve created TwitterScrabble, a whole new way to get people involved in the game from around the world, purely via twitter, and laced with [...]
Continue reading...22. November 2011
Here is a really interesting way to run a competition using YouTube videos. IKEA Belgium wanted to celebrate the Swedish mid-summer vibe, a time when sales are usually pretty flat for them in Belgium, so they created a series of product based videos called “Catch The Swedish Light”. The stop motion videos showcased the latest [...]
Continue reading...17. November 2011
Mercedes-Benz UK are running a pretty interesting campaign called “Escape The Map“. It’s lead by a TVC challenging a much younger demographic to jump online and play the “Escape The Map Game”. I’ll be honest, it’s a pretty weird game, and that’s a dam expensive car, but you have the chance to win a new [...]
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...13. May 2011
This was a great little promo for Vodafone’s release of the LG Optimus in Germany, created to help highlight the quality of the 5 mega pixel camera. The promotion was called the Vodafone Pixel Hunt, and was based around an online game that held a 5 Million Pixel image that just happened to be holding [...]
Continue reading...27. April 2011
Last week Aden posted a nice like campaign from Orange ‘Predict-A-Chick‘ and this week they have just launched My Royal Plate which is a fun little campaign that takes advantage of the hype surrounding the pending Royal Wedding. The campaign invites users to Tweet a special un-royal moment that they would like to remember to [...]
Continue reading...21. April 2011
If you didn’t catch it about a week ago, Orange was running a cool little campaign called Predict-A-Chick on TheFeed, streaming a live hatchling lab of about 17 numbered chicken eggs that would become a real-time guessing game for “First to Hatch” and even things the “Loudest Tweeter”… You could make your predictions and then [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2011
Here is the latest global campaign from Magnum, this time to launch the all new Magnum Temptation Hazelnut ice-cream. To do that, they’ve created an Advergame called “Magnum Pleasure Hunt Across The Internet” and it follows the concept pioneered by the Lynx Party Across The Internet campaign, but this is much more Advergame, than the [...]
Continue reading...24. November 2010
Leo Burnett Iberia recently launched this cool little campaign on twitter for Jeep. Called #jeeppuzzle, the idea was that users would follow the jeeppuzzle profile, and inside that profile, jeep would be following a total of 12 other profiles. Now, in each of those profiles, they would be following a further 36 profiles, with each [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2010
Doritos have been doing this for a few years now at the Superbowl. It’s their Crash The Superbowl Social Campaign that sees thousands of normal people, along with ad creatives & film makers create and submit their funniest Doritos ads in an online competition in the lead up the to Superbowl, with the winner, to [...]
Continue reading...29. November 2009
Last week Sony released their own version of cult online competition “Fantasy Football” so if you can’t pick football players but love music, then you will love Sony’s Fantasy Festival Competition! It’s is a free, points based league game with an the aim being to assemble the ultimate, imaginary music festival line-up to gain as [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2009
Wieden Kennedy & Levi’s have launched a serious brand experience campaign that mixes online and offline with treasure hunts and problem solving challenges in this hugely detailed online competition based on the legendary Grayson Ozias IV, an American explorer from the 1890s and friend of Levi Strauss’ nephew Nathan. It’s essentially a massive treasure hunt [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2009
EA Games has a great Twitter promotion running at the moment catering to car aficionados, and gamers alike for their new Need For Speed: Shift game. There are five missions that need to be completed over five days. Todays mission? Find a BMW on Google Maps Street View, take a screenshot and post it to [...]
Continue reading...10. September 2009
If you live in Australia, then chances are you’ve seen the new LG Reward Yourself Campaign. It’s a brand positioning and sales promotion campaign created by IdeaWorks to help entice customers to buy up into the Premium range of LG products by giving away 36 BMW 3 series cars over 8 weeks. It’s actually the biggest [...]
Continue reading...9. September 2009
Hasbro and Google have teamed up to create the biggest game of Monopoly ever, with the board being the entire world in Google Maps. They are calling it “Monopoly City Streets“. The basic premise is that you start out with $US3 million. Then you can roam Google Maps and buy any street in the world [...]
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