Axe|Year Book Photo

The Axe Effect

Advertising Agency: Mccann Erickson, Tel Aviv, Israel
VP Creative: Tal Raviv
Creative Directors: Sigal Abudi, Nir Levi
Art Director: Guy Laufer
Producers: Guy Laufer, Maya Kushnir
Graphic Designer: Eli Azarzar
Photography: Photo Azi
Published: December 2009

Aljarida| Number One

KDD Chocolate Milk is Back

Teaser

Teaser

Revealer

BMW Financial Services|Scent

Joy is an exciting new fragrance from BMW.

Joy is the scent of a new BMW. To make your dream BMW a reality, visit your BMW retailer orwww.bmwfinance.ca and explore all of your leasing and financing options today. BMW Financial Services

Advertising Agency: Cundari, Toronto, Canada

Chief Creative Officer: Brent Choi

Creative Director: Andy Manson

Head of Art: Andy McKay

Art Director: Andrew Bernardi

ACD/Copywriter: Cory Eisentraut

Retoucher: Warren Hardy

Production: Georgettte Iordanous, Cecily Lo

Account Service: Serene Fattouh, Rex Yulo

Studio: Berry Rao, Tricia Lawson

Published: January 2010

German Road Safety Organization (DVW)|Buckling up can save lives

This print ad from The German Road Safety Organization (DVW) aims to show the importance of wearing seat belts while driving. The message has been conveyed clearly through the meticulous way of art-direction.
DVW is an organization which has been working towards greater safety and fewer accidents on Germany’s roads for over 85 years. This print ad aims to bring this message home to German car drivers. The copy reads-Buckling up can save lives.


CREDITS
Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends NRW, Duesseldorf, Germany
Managing Director: Niels Alzen
Creative Director: Alexander Hansen
Art Director: Pia Niehues
Copywriter: Leander Schmalfuß
Graphics: Stephanie Blaschk, Sebastian Jahrmarkt
Photographer: Bsmart Stockholm, Johannes Pöttgens
Managing Director: Raphael Brinkert
Management Supervisor: Bastian Kühl
Junior Account Manager: Holger Hansen
Consultant: Jens Lange

Breast cancer| One in Nine

Via: osocio

One in Nine is a non profit organization in Israel dedicated to make awareness of breast cancer. The name compels further reading of the startling statistics that one in every nine women in Israel will be forced to cope with breast cancer during her lifetime. This campaign for One in Nine, developed by McCann Erickson, Tel Aviv, aims to tell women that they should be more cautious about the attack of breast cancer disease and gives a message that early detection can prevent the disease.
As part of this initiative, they launched the campaign in association with several daily newspapers. They took the horoscope page and moved the reading for the Cancer sign several pages back, so that the reader would discover the cancer horoscope earlier than usual. The campaign was signed with “Early detection of cancer can save lives. Get yourself tested”.
The campaign is sure to grab the necessary attention. But, there is a slight problem of misleading the readers from what they actually intend to read. Considering the magnitude of the subject, we can leave it. Right?


CREDITS
Agency: McCann Erickson, Tel Aviv, Israel
VP Creative: Eldad Weinberger
Creative Director: Ido Ben Dor, Sigal Abudy, Meiran Pachman
Art Director: Guy Laufer
Copywriter: Ido Mymon
VP Accounts: Hagar Barzelai
Account Supervisor: Alona Dekel

Pepsi Refresh Project

It was a great idea when Aviva Canada did it last year www.avivacommunityfund.org. This will be the first time in 23 years that Pepsi will not air an advertisement during the Super Bowl. That’s a big deal, both culturally and financially.


Instead of advertising during the Super Bowl, Pepsi is focusing its energy and money on its online presence where the brand believes a younger and accessible demographic is spending its time. 


The Pepsi Refresh Project is a multi-million dollar marketing platform that invites people to submit and vote for ideas that help make the world a better place. Pepsi is a brand that has always embodied the spirit of youth. Whether through social initiatives, or its place in pop culture, Pepsi has always fuelled and created culture. In 2009, Pepsi launched the Refresh campaign, celebrating optimism and its role in our changing world. This year, Pepsi is putting that optimism into action, with the launch of the Pepsi Refresh Project. Over the course of the year Pepsi will be awarding millions of dollars in Pepsi Refresh Grants. Rather than simply donating the money to charity, the Refresh Project promises to connect to consumers on a personal level, increasing their involvement with the brand by letting them decide which projects to fund. Submissions are welcome from all walks of life: consumers, for-profits, non-profits. Anyone with an idea is eligible. As for how the money is distributed, that’s up to the public too. Voting is open to everyone, and only the most popular ideas will be awarded Refresh Grants. This isn’t a cause marketing initiative. It’s not an advertising campaign. It’s not a social media campaign. It’s a refreshing new way of doing business, based on a firm belief at Pepsi that doing well means doing good.


The Pepsi Refresh Project will feature social-networking campaigns that leverage the participate/contribute-and-vote-online model that many brands have used in the past to encourage consumers to engage with their products via the Internet.


Pepsi is looking to appeal to the consumer’s more compassionate side by offering grants "to those presenting the best ideas to improve the communities we call home and, perhaps, transform the society we call America.” The $20 million digital-based project will highlight a new website and Facebook presence – because isn't that where all the kids are these days? And their parents for that matter?
Ralph Santana, VP of marketing for PepsiCo North America, felt strongly about the new strategy: “We’re living in a new age with consumers. They are looking for more of a two-way dialogue, storytelling and word of mouth. Mediums like the digital space are much more conducive towards that.”

Pepsi Refresh Project

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Pepsi is giving away millions each month to fund refreshing ideas that change the world. The ideas with the most votes will receive grants. We're looking for people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact. Look around your community and think about how you want to change it.

Join the Pepsi Refresh project today; anyone can submit their ideas and vote for their favorites. Your idea could help change the future. Your vote will help great ideas become reality. For grant ideas, or to submit your own, visit www.refresheverything.com.

The big winner is this development, however, is Facebook. Major brands such as Budweiser and Coca-Cola are increasingly investing advertising dollars and building their marketing strategies around the popular social platform. Facebook allows corporations to contact consumers directly with the creation of brand-centric pages and themed applications. 

And now, Pepsi will skip commercials during the Super Bowl in favor of a more contemporary and personal form of advertising.

If it is successful, look for big changes in how brands invest in Super Bowl commercials in the future and Channel selection guided by reach of your target market should always apply.


Advertising Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day, Los Angeles, USA
Global Director of Media Arts: Lee Clow
Chief Creative Officer: Rob Schwartz
Group Creative Director: Brett Craig
Interactive Creative Director: Michael Tabtabai
Associate Creative Director: Xanthe Hohalek
Art Director: Dustin Artz
Copywriter: Chris Jones
Managing Director: Erica Hoholick
Account Director: David Dreyer
Management Supervisor: Kristen Latto
Executive Producer/Agency Producer: Anh-Thu Le
Assistant Producer: Doris Chen
Production Company: Paranoid US
Director: Francois Vogel
Director of Photography: Michael Cleary
Executive Producers: Cathleen OConor/Claude Lettessier
Line Producer: Janice Biggs
Editorial: Union Editorial
Editor: Einar Thorsteinsson
Assistant Editor: Daniel Moreno-Luna
Executive Producers: Michael Raimondi, Megan Dahlman
Producer: Joe Ross
Visual effects: Resolution
Sr. Visual Effects Supervisor: Todd Iorio
VFX Artists: Amir Qureshi, Seth Silberfein
Compositors: Evan Guidera, Jason Jenson, John Nierras, Mannix Richenbacher
Music: The Black Eyed Peas One Tribe
Mixing Facility: Resolution LA
Mixer: Josh Eichenbaum

Making glucose testing child’s play

Diabetes meters are generally functional rather than fun. This works fine for adult diabetics, but doesn’t make the testing process very engaging for children. By transforming a potentially harrowing experience into a fun one, Bayer eases a potential source of family tension. Partnering with an existing handheld gaming console makes it even easier to slot into people’s lives. It’s a winner for kids, parents and Bayer.

Parents of children with diabetes face a constant struggle to instil the habit of regular blood glucose testing that is critical for managing the disease. Monitoring diabetes requires a pin prick single drop of blood, which can cause a gallon of distress amongst children. Blood glucose monitors had traditionally been created with adults in mind, but pharmaceutical and health care company Bayer sought to address this with the launch of Didget – the first and only blood glucose meter for kids, which connects directly to Nintentdo DS and DS Lite gaming systems.

Taboo Jeans

the original work

Diesel Jeans – 2005

Source : Luerzer’s International Archive,

Agency : Euro RSCG (France)

the copycat work 

Taboo Jeans – 2009
Agency : Unknown (Lebanon)

Improve your English

It seems that there are many aspirants for English learning courses across the world. In non-English speaking countries, proficiency in English is considered as a dignity and qualification for higher positions. So, there are so many advertising initiatives for this kind of institutions which aim to teach English.

We have seen how an Indian institution ad featured people who literally beat around the bush, and bring the horse to the well. Now, this advertising campaign from Language studies worldwide(www.smallworld.ch) , though not so subtle way, aims to convey the message mixing the copy and art-direction.

The campaign, developed by Wirz/BBDO, fairly succeeds to make an appeal among the target audience.

CREDITS

Advertising Agency: Wirz/BBDO, Switzerland

Creative Director: Thomas Kurzmeyer

Art Directors: Kim Sokola, Rahel Boesinger

Copywriter: Thomas Kurzmeyer

Illustrator: Kim Sokola

Via: Pixel pasta

How brands can create a successful Facebook page

How brands can create a successful Facebook page By Stephen Haines, Commercial Director at Facebook UK.

Facebook Pages are free public profiles for your brand that  provide you with an easy and powerful way to connect with your customers regularly.  Facebook Pages look and act like your personal Facebook profile page.

When you share information about your business, whether it be upcoming sales or new store openings, these stories go directly to your fans’ News Feed where they spend a lot of time – an average of 5.75 hours a month.

Your fans can comment and click “Like”, which sends their friends stories linking back to your Facebook Page and creating a viral effect on Facebook.

So, how do you create and update a successful Page on Facebook?  Here are four simple tips.
  1. Be open and authentic -People relate to genuine messages.  When posting, consider what your customers want to hear and listen to their feedback.  Make sure to include messages that aren’t purely commercial.

For example, if you are a luxury handbag brand, you can share articles about fashion or women’s causes.  Post content that sparks conversations and create a dialogue with your customers.  This can be significantly more valuable than broadcasting one-way marketing messages.

2. Be active and update often even quick updates can be interesting -Your Facebook fans are interested in your brand, so make sure to keep them informed about what you’re doing.  Post pictures of new merchandise or extended store hours.

Ask them for feedback on products or survey them to see what they love most about your business.  Or pose questions about your business or industry to start a conversation among your fans.
  3. Use Facebook Ads to drive more traffic to your Page -Facebook Ads help you target your exact audience precisely with an image and a few lines of text.  It’s one way to find people who might be interested in your businesses or service and point them back to your Facebook Page or website.

Facebook also offers “Facebook Ads for Pages” which allow users to fan your Facebook Page by clicking on “Become A Fan” right in the ad.  When a user does this, it automatically creates a story on the user's profile page generating free distribution for you. 
  4. Listen and Adapt -Learn from your customers and take their feedback into consideration; they can provide helpful insights about how to improve not just your Facebook Page, but your business.  Ask questions and adjust your strategy as you grow.  Just like your business, your Facebook Page should be dynamic, not static.

Top tips for successful advertising on Facebook

1. Target the right people.

Reach people who are already interested in your product or service by selecting the best keywords. Keywords are derived from user profiles and provide you with detailed information to be able to precisely target your audience.

During the selection process, Facebook may also suggest up to three new keywords for you based on those that are most common among the group of people you have targeted.

 Adding these keywords will help you increase the size of your ad’s potential audience while ensuring you are still reaching people with relevant interests. Also, let the user know what it is you want them to do in the ad copy. Be as clear and specific as possible.

2. Ask people to participate.

Take advantage of some of the unique features Facebook ads offer that encourage people to take action directly on your ad. Drive customer awareness to your Facebook page or Web site by highlighting a specific promotion or event right in the ad, or simply ask people to click on your ad.

Facebook ads allow people to engage with ads in the same way they interact with other content on the site without leaving the page they’re viewing. For example, potential customers can directly engage with your business by clicking on the “Become a Fan” link or the “RSVP to this Event” link.

In addition, this action automatically creates a story on the person’s profile page and possibly in their friends’ home page “Highlights”—generating free distribution for you.

3. Keep it fresh.

Keep an eye on your ad and most importantly keep it fresh. You can do this by using different images, trying different calls to action, and even changing up the text and the groups of people you are targeting.

One of the best things about Facebook ads is that you can see what ads are working the best and use that information to tweak and change your ads as you go.