Renault Netherlands wanted to promote their Facebook page with their latest campaign, they enlisted the help of agency Dorst & Lesser who developed this nostalgic Facebook campaign around the character Grandma Hilda. The Facebook campaign focused around the story of Hilda and her Renault 4. The concept of the story was that Hilda had loved [...]
Continue reading...30. June 2012
Here’s a unique idea for the Missing Children Society of Canada, aiming to create the world’s most valuable social network, by allowing people in Canada to donate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to the cause, so that when a child is reported missing, it activates each of the donated account and uses them somewhat like [...]
Continue reading...27. June 2012
This was always going to happen. UNIQLO was going to hit Pinterest with something super cool, we just didn’t know when and how, but here it is. The UNIQLO “Dry Mesh Project” on Pinterest, designed as the first-ever branded mosaics to wake Pinterest users from their scrolling slumber. UNIQLO has hijacked some of the most [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2012
Here’s a fun app idea from Guaraná Antarctica, who recently launched the Ex-Lover Blocker app for iPhone, which gives friends the tools they need to help their heartbroken mate get over an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend. The app, created by DDB Brazil, blocks the ex’s phone number so that the heartbroken mate can’t call their ex, if they [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2012
Here’s a nice little idea from Ogilvy Argentina that started for one campaign last year but has spread across Twitter to mark other tragic events. To enable mourners to pay their respect to the victims of the Amia terrorist attack in Argentina, Ogilvy developed a site where users could tweet their condolences with the tweet [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2012
Here’s a pretty interesting concept from two students over at the Miami Ad School. They have created a social media concept called ‘Smirnoff Guardians‘ to help people ensure that their friends get home safely after a night out. This idea centers around a Facebook campaign, which adds a ‘safe ride’ button next to the like [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2012
Here is a great piece of social outreach from Call of Duty in anticipation of the next instalment of the mega game franchise, which is due out this week… Tapping into perhaps the most famous gun blogger on YouTube, FPSRussia (who, with his almost 2.5 million subscribers seems to get his hands on literally every [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2012
Last week we wrote about the Smart Car Twitter Ads from Argentina, it was some what of a Flipbook in the Twitter stream… Today, Volkswagen has one for the Amarok, but in the shape of a Facebook Flipbook. This one, utilising the Facebook Photo Gallery, takes it to the next level with 200+ images that [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2012
Tax time gets pretty tough and nobody wants to get audited, so Trident gum has just launched an audit process you might actually like, it’s called the “Facebook Fun Audit”. The Fun Audit is an interactive video experience that uses Facebook connect to analyse things like your photos, posts, check-ins, de-friends and pokes to see [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2012
If you’ve ever wished you could start hitting the “Like” button for things in the real world, well… Now you can, courtesy of the “LikeBelt” from the guys at Deeplocal, who’ve created a prototype belt and android app, complete with all the instructions you’ll need to start making it happen. If you can get past [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2012
This might just be the most creative use of Twitter yet. Smart Argentina (you know the guys who build the tiny little cars?) have successfully created a very cool animated Twitter Ad built right into the brands stream… On first glance the ad is pretty simple, but as it gets going, you’ll follow the car [...]
Continue reading...5. April 2012
Heineken celebrated their 140th birthday by offering the design community the chance to create a limited edition bottle via a Facebook collaboration piece. The challenge aimed to showcase social connections from all over the world and received over 30,000 entries across 100 countries. In order to connect designers with each other, part of the competition [...]
Continue reading...25. March 2012
Mad Men is back and along with it comes a host of great content, including this weirdly wonderful 8-Bit YouTube “Choose Your Own Adventure” style Advergame that is getting some solid traction. It’s less than 5 days old and already over 300,000 people have played the game (or at least started it), plenty of the [...]
Continue reading...24. March 2012
With Pinterest being all the rage this year, it wasn’t going to be long before someone claimed the “World’s First Pinterest Campaign” if it already hasn’t been claimed somewhere else. Yes, I’ve seen the Peugeot Puzzle one too, think these guys beat them?! (created by Smoyz) The campaign was called “Womens Inspiration Day by KOTEX” [...]
Continue reading...19. March 2012
Cadbury have launched the ‘Cadbury Keep Team GB Pumped Parade’ to rally support for the British Olympic athletes in the lead up to London 2012. The virtual parade can be viewed from within a Facebook app on the Cadbury UK page which let’s users create an avatar to join the parade. Users can select their [...]
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3. July 2012
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