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The GuardianWitness: Citizen Journalists App
The Guardian has launched a new crowd sourced news platform called the ‘GuardianWitness’ which basically forms the mechanic to create Citizen Journalists, via a new smartphone app. The App allows wanna-be-journalists or every day people to submit interesting stories, or in times of need, The Guardian will issue ‘Assignments’ to gather additional photos and video [...]
Continue reading...Maes Belgian Beer: The Free Beer Campaign
14. April 2013
Maes is a pretty popular beer in Belgian, in fact, it’s the 2nd most popular, but the market leader was out selling them 4:1. Maes also just happens to be the 3rd most common last name too, so they decided to recruit all the Maes’ in Belgian, by giving them a free barrel of beer… [...]
Continue reading...Orange: The Instagallery Campaign
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...KLM: The Must See Social Map
18. February 2013
Here’s the latest global social media campaign from KLM, and knowing the success of their past, this one has big things to live up to, and at first glance, it delivers in spades… A socially powered ‘Must See Map’ that aggregates everywhere your friends have been in a certain location, along with comments, tips and [...]
Continue reading...Google Maps: Explore the Grand Canyon
5. February 2013
On their quest to map the earth Google Maps has gone off road with the release of these panoramic images of the Grand Canyon which allow people to virtually explore this natural wonder by viewing the site with full 360° views. Google’s ever expanding image collection aims to give people wider access to the world [...]
Continue reading...Infographic: Social Media Statistics for 2013
10. January 2013
As we kick off 2013 it’s good to recap some of the impressive stats from 2012. Here’s a great infographic that visualises a piece by the Huffington Post – 100 Social Media Statistics to kick off 2013. A few of the highlights are: 1 Million websites have integrated with Facebook 23% of users check Facebook 5 times [...]
Continue reading...Mercedes: Twitter Powered TVC #YOUDRIVE
19. October 2012
Mercedes-Benz UK has created a social media first by using Twitter to allow viewers to select the ending of the recently launched TVC. Check out this video that shows the promotional trailer for the campaign. The ads, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, and aired during the X Factor, saw viewers drive the action of a [...]
Continue reading...Comodo: The Instagram Menu
16. October 2012
While I can’t say this concept is completely original (a tonne of apps already do this), formalising this tactical idea for restaurants in leveraging hashtags on Instagram is brilliantly simple, low cost and provides an earned media platform almost instantly… So, just make the food look brilliant and don’t leave any hairs in there! If [...]
Continue reading...Redbull: Human Powered Freerunning Machine
15. October 2012
Here’s the latest piece of content from Redbull’s Parkour sponsorship of Jason Paul, this time, they’ve setup what’s been named a ‘Human Powered Freerunning Machine’… Which from my decryption is an engineered environmental dominos setup that sees Jason Paul run through various contraptions to the finish line. The video has racked up 5 million views [...]
Continue reading...Infographic: 1 Billion Facebook Users
10. October 2012
Just 4 years ago, in 2008, Facebook had just 100 million users, last week we saw the release of their first ever ad campaign,Things That Connect Us celebrating the billion fan milestone. Here’s a nice infographic that summarises some of the facts behind this extraordinary platform: There have been 140.3 billion friend connections 219 billion [...]
Continue reading...NightTag: Social Music App
15. July 2012
Here’s a nice app idea that lets users easily share their night with their social networks. Olmeca Tequila have teamed up with Amsterdam Worldwide and created NightTag. NightTag aggregates your party experience and integrates nicely with Facebook offering a new way to share directly to your wall in one photo post. With the app you [...]
Continue reading...MNDR: Interactive Music Video
11. July 2012
Here’s a great innovative way to engage fans, from band MNDR, as they take users on a journey with them in a new music video. The interactive video is made to look like an iPhone text exchange, pulling in Facebook data and information around your hometown and job to create personalised posts and texts between [...]
Continue reading...Thunderclap: The First Crowdspeaking Platform
4. July 2012
I’m a big fan of the non-profit campaigns that Droga5 has created over the years. Besides their commercial success, they’ve demonstrated the power of an idea, how it could influence the culture and make a real difference on social issues. As in the lead of their previous strategy director Hashem Bajwa, Droga5 has launched a [...]
Continue reading...Missing Children: The Social Search Party
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...UNIQLO: The Pinterest Dry Mesh Project
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 [...]
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