2.5.09

French Fries making hands



GAS-X TABLET, 2009
Advertising Agency: Rivas Herrera/Y&R, Quito,Ecuador











LESS ORIGINAL
Burger King - 2008
Agency : Young & Rubicam (New Zealand)









LESS ORIGINAL
Mo’Men - 2008
Source : Adsoftheworld,
Agency : Strategies, Cairo (Egypt)













THE ORIGINAL?

Heinz Tomato Ketchup - 1999

Source : Cannes Lions Archive.

Agency : Young & Rubicam (Israel)

30.4.09

Ball crashed on a car’s roof


THE ORIGINAL?
Nike ambient - 2004
Agency : Ogilvy & Mather (Singapore)










LESS ORIGINAL
K-Swiss Roland Garros Ambient - 2008
Source : CB News,
Agency : Kassius (France)









LESS ORIGINAL

PGA Tour Superstore - 2008
Source : Cannes Lions Archive,
Agency : TheRichardsGroup Dallas (USA)

Disneyland :::A platform for children's dreams

BRAND OWNER:Disney
CATEGORY:Sport/Leisure
REGION:France
DATE:Apr 2007 - Jul 2007

Disney is famed for creating magical experiences for children, and wanted to do something special to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Disneyland in Paris in 2007. The 15th Anniversary Celebration was a year-long event held at the holiday resort.
Disney wanted to drive children to go to the amusement park and celebrate the landmark date. Disneyland wanted to create a platform where children could express their dreams and so commissioned a huge billboard featuring several Disney characters along with 2 LED screens; a long one across the top and a smaller, shield-shaped one in the centre.

The long screen at the top carried the message ‘dream like you have never dreamed before’ and the shield-shaped one carried the number 15.
A message to the side of the billboard read: “You too can send use your dreams via disneylandparis.com”. Visitors to www.disneylandparis.com could upload their photo along with a one-sentence dream.
Then the children’s dreams along with their faces were posted to the billboard. The child’s face would appear in the central shield and their dream would be posted to the long screen at the top of the billboard.

Heineken:::Design-your-own bottle



BRAND OWNER:Heineken International
CATEGORY: Drinks (alcoholic)
REGION:Netherlands
DATE: Apr 2009 - Dec 2008


Heineken wanted to extend its strategy of positioning the brand as one that helps socializing. It wanted to offer something unique to consumers that would turn the humble bottle of beer into a special occasion gift.
Heineken has created a site that allows people to design their own Heineken bottle. Visitors to
http://www.jouwheineken.nl/ can choose from either the Quick Route or the Designers Route. The quick route offers a selection of bottle themes ranging from smiley faces to rainbows, to bicycles. Users can then also place their personal text on the bottle, adapting the font style, colour and size. They can then order their 6 pack to be delivered anywhere in the Netherlands. The designer route allows the more creative user to start from scratch, choosing a background, symbols and place multiple text boxes.
Users can then save their design and order it or even select someone else’s designer bottle and order that - all for € 15,95. The bottles are ready for giving as gifts within 5 working days. Users can also download their bottle design to their desktop, share it on social networking site Hyves or via email.

Advertising effectiveness , put into test [50 cars or 1 bus]





























Steve Haslip — Hangerpak

The concept was fairly simple:
I buy t-shirts online and they always come wrinkled and I always run out of coat-hangers. So I designed a sustainable, reusable way to send and keep your t-shirts.


As you open the package you create a coat hanger.The packaging could be made from recycled material whether it is card or plastic and the only waste is the green tear-away tab.
The t-shirt seen here is from Threadless.

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29.4.09

Mercedes enters the land of Narnia

BRAND OWNER:Mercedes-Benz
CATEGORY:Automotive
REGION:EMEA
DATE:Jul 2008 - May 2008

To celebrate a partnership between Mercedes and Disney’s movie series The Chronicles of Narnia, the auto brand sought a magical online experience that bridged the two brands and harnessed the pester power of children which can greatly influence parent car purchasing decisions. A limited edition of the Mercedes Viano designed to coincide with the release of the Narnia film featured independent screens, infrared headphones with game console connection, an iPod and multimedia reader.
Together they came up with an online communication platform at
www.mercedes-benz.com/narnia.
The website was a 3D world willed with adventure and inspired by the second film in the series based on the CS Lewis novels, Prince Caspian.
The interactive website is a complex 3-D globe on which the user experiences their online adventure while travelling with the Mercedes Viano model of car. The car was positioned as a modern steed; the very best place for heroes. After an archery game, the user meets their new travelling companion in the deep, dark forest: the Viano. Users can also share the site with friends by entering their email, challenge the Narnians to an ear waving contest, upload a picture of themselves to be morphed into a mythical creature or watch a trailer of the film.
This was supported by an online banner campaign to support the launch of the website and drive traffic to it, featuring the headline ‘Beware! Enter at your own peril!’.
The site received over 100,000 visits, with an average dwell time of more than 5 minutes. The game also allowed for data capture of thousands of addresses.

Microsoft::: Exec Tweets

BRAND OWNER:Microsoft Corporation
CATEGORY:Computers/Software
REGION:Global
DATE:Apr 2009 - Dec 2008
MEDIA OWNER:Twitter


Microsoft wanted to target those in the realms of micro-blogging, but specifically those business executives using Twitter as a way to position the brand as well suited to create business value through better collaboration.
Finding all of the business people on Twitter can be quite difficult, but Microsoft decided to sponsor a service that would address this problem.
The solution was ExecTweets, a programme which saw Microsoft sponsoring a page that collects Tweets from various executives. It opened up a business model for Twitter, which had until then not really found its commercial feet.

The service enables people to track what is on the minds of business executives including Bob Jeffrey at JWT, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Virgin’s Richard Branson. Microsoft paid to set up the page in return for getting Twitter approval and for promoting the site on Twitter itself.

The channel offers the capacity to find influencers by topic, view their conversation and engage with them, all within a single environment. You can also recommend new execs to follow, vote for interesting tweets and users, search through a tag cloud and follow @exectweets on Twitter.
Federated Media plans to launch similar programmes on Twitter with other clients.

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