Archive for May, 2012

Those Clever Folks at VW

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Very smart idea from VW Brazil and their agency.

To promote “original parts” they came up with smart idea using YouTube – creative and effective.

Chose the original

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0KLVdFwYk

If you ever worked on automotive, you probably know it’s not always  easy to communicate in a clever way about aftersales and original spareparts.

VW found a good one through this youtube media buy

Tell me what you’ve got in your caddie, I’ll tell you how to eat

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

A modern follow up of the 80′s Hellmett commercial in the previous post.

Brands are at their best when they play an active role helping people get more/be inspired in the category they’re playing in.

This Hellmann’s very clever instant recipe proposition is a great example

 


Lonely Lettuce

Monday, May 21st, 2012

A clever idea from Karft, relabeling their salad dressings as “Anything Dressings” and hopefully not only refreshing the brand and creating awareness but expanding usage too.

The strategy reminds me a little (or a lot!) of what Hellman’s Mayonaise did in the UK in the early 80′s with its “Don’t Save It For The Salad” campaign.

Happy Eating!

 

 

 

 

Ford park assist

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

How bad are you when parking your car?

Now there is a way to know…

 

Viral 2012

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

It’s only May so far, but Adweek have posted the 20 most viral films of the year (so far).

At No.1 is this very clever ide,a watched over 30 million times by TNT, the entertainment channel.

You can also check out the other 19 here

One of the joys of the digital age. Longer format entertainment without a big media spend attached.

 

Pee reward

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Fun can change behaviour.

Following some previous posts, here is another example of what has been theorized by VW as the fun theory.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Dmuf1Mtuw

Being rewarded to drink beers and pee will make many men happy.

Tipp-ex is back

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Tippex is back with hunter and bear first anniversary.

Very nicely done, some funny dates to try like -6400000, 0, , 1493, 2000, …

Quite fun interacting and playing with dates even though there is less the wwwoowww effect of the first time.

Fun, fun, fun

Monday, May 14th, 2012

VW fun theory seems to keep inspiring other automotive brands with Smart using technology to make people experience their car in a fun way.

In a world filled with bad news (economic crisis, climate change…), brands are the new entertainers.

Twittergame

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

In order to promote their new game, scrabble are using a twitter scrabble competition.

Very clever use of social media and completly in tune with the product.

Unfortunately it’s only in dutch…