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 [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2012
Tomorrow Domino’s Pizza in Australia will launch a new campaign on Facebook called “The Social Pizza”, this ‘Social Pizza’ app will allow their 500,000 fans to create a custom-made pizza which will feature on the real Domino’s Menu. Facebook fans will be building the pizza by voting on their favourite crust, sauce and ingredients. The [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2012
Here’s a nice little campaign from IKEA in Norway to launch the iPad version of the IKEA-catalogue. They created a brand new IKEA product called “BERÖRA”, it´s a simple sewing kit with a special conductive thread to sew into the index finger of gloves. This transforms your gloves enabling them to work on a touch-screen, [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2012
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...4. March 2012
Finding a car space at Christmas time is a daunting task just about anywhere in the world, so Mercedes-Benz created “The Tweet Fleet” to fix just that by tapping into the “Park Assist” feature. Mercedes-Benz Park Assist can automatically detect empty car spaces near you as you drive, so what if they could take that [...]
Continue reading...15. February 2012
It’s not often you see a LinkedIn campaign, so I’m always super eager to see what has been done with the LinkedIn API. On this occasion it’s a global campaign for Fujitsu, called Profile Pitch, where users connect with the campaign site (utilising the LinkedIn API)… The Profile Pitch puts you (and your resume) against [...]
Continue reading...14. February 2012
Remember Ted Williams? He was the homeless man with the million-dollar radio voice who went from panhandler to viral sensation to Kraft-sponsored stardom (practically overnight). Well, he’s back. After a short hiatus from the limelight, he is now starring in a Valentine’s-centered social media campaign for Kraft Mac & Cheese. The gist: Tweet a message [...]
Continue reading...13. February 2012
Remember Ted Williams? He was the homeless man with the million-dollar radio voice who went from panhandler to viral sensation to Kraft-sponsored stardom (practically overnight). Well, he’s back. After a short hiatus from the limelight, he is now starring in a Valentine’s-centered social media campaign for Kraft Mac & Cheese. The gist: Tweet a message [...]
Continue reading...10. February 2012
Domino’s have always claimed an innovation story, in fact a lot of their best selling products have come from store staff, not the head office chefs. Looking beyond just Domino’s, most businesses now attract innovative ideas via their social channels, free of charge from customers who love them, but while their social media policy mandates [...]
Continue reading...2. February 2012
We’ve featured a few “1 Million Fans” celebration campaigns and content pieces over the last year, and suitably, the guys at Top Gear have taken their celebration just a little further than normal, perhaps that’s because they’ve just hit 10 Million Fans, or is it just because they can? A little of both I suspect… [...]
Continue reading...2. February 2012
Backing up from the last amazing brand film called “The Date”, Heineken have launched “The Serenade”. A cool Facebook app designed to help you ask people out on a date this Valentines Day, via a personalised “Serenade” video. It’s available in something like 20 languages, so just about anyone in the world can participate, a [...]
Continue reading...2. January 2012
Happy New Year to everyone who has enjoyed and supported Digital Buzz this year! In tribute I thought I’d post this nice short film created by Tourism Australia showcasing what a NYE event in Sydney means to people, and because I live in Sydney, I’m biased, and couldn’t agree more. The film features people sourced [...]
Continue reading...22. December 2011
Here’s a great Christmas campaign from Vodafone Ireland, bringing together social media, projection mapping and street art to encourage their Facebook community to hit the streets. Vodafone enlisted digital agency Cybercom to help them create something different this Christmas. The experience started with “Make Someone Happy” on the Vodafone Playground Facebook page which, over the [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2011
Keep an eye out for the Heineken Super Social Christmas Tree in Clarke Quay, Singapore, from the 17th-26th of December. It’s a huge digital art installation that’s over 11 meters tall and stacked with 48 huge LCD screens, that will become perhaps the most social Christmas tree ever created! If you head to the Facebook [...]
Continue reading...29. November 2011
This is a pretty interesting social play from Olla Condoms in Brazil, and while I probably wouldn’t recommend a campaign like it for any brand, I think the idea is kinda neat at the very core. Targeting young guys, Olla Condoms set about creating hundreds and hundreds of fake Facebook profiles, setup with the names [...]
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19. March 2012
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