AXE’s promotional activities traditionally revolve around major interests of young men—hot girls, dating without any responsibilities and the ways to attract the opposite sex. Now, AXE is kicking off an online promotion for new product, which builds on another male passion, gaming. The brand has unveiled a new mobile game, Axeman, and launched a new online destination Planetaxe, where guys can play and earn points, which can be ‘turned’ into prizes which cost $1+ million rewards, gear from MTV, GameFly, Xbox, SteelSeries, Live Nation, Philips, WildTangent, and Klondike.
Author: Anna Rudenko
Ahead of the London Olympic Games 2012, Panasonic is launching an extremely useful app for real sport fans. The new application dubbed Flag Tags will allow users to connect with each other and celebrate the spirit of the global sporting event, paying tribute to fan traditions. Using the Flag Tag app, members of the online community and owners of mobile devices will be able to paint their faces with national flags in the digital space.
Being in the trend means not only to know something or buy something, it also implies ‘being there.’ LG is offering its fans in Britain a great opportunity to be among those who will attend the biggest events of this summer including One Direction, The Voice UK and The X-Factor Tour Live to be hosted at the LG Arena. The electronics giant is to give away over 100 tickets through a one-of-a-kind cross-country twitter scavenger hunt #LGTicketHunter, which launches on June 6.
The airline company KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is promoting its services on the international market with a recently launched initiative under a friendly ‘Be My Guest’ tagline. The new campaign, developed by Tribal DDB and DDB Amsterdam, uses an undying trend, which has been used in recent marketing efforts by Burger King and adidas to name but a few—it features famous people from various industries. Since KLM is a Dutch company, the new promotional activity features six celebrities originating from the Netherlands—DJ Armin van Buuren, fashion supermodel Yfke Sturm, football legend Ruud Gullit, Hollywood actor Jeroen Krabbé, astronaut Wubbo Ockels, and designer Hella Jongerius, who can ‘be reached’ by the airline guests in the virtual chat.
Pepsi Japan, which has a lot of shocking and weird varieties in its portfolio, including Strawberry & Milk, Ice Cucumber and Baobab, has unveiled another revolutionary seasonal variety. Now, the iconic carbonated drink brand is inviting its loyal fans to try a new variety with the salted watermelon flavour. The new drink, which pays tribute to the traditional Japanese summertime treat, will hit the local market on July 24.
Diesel has unveiled a new collection of summer eyewear collection SS12 and is inviting its fans to see how differently the world will look through the lenses of the new glasses. There are two ways to experience that—the first way is to buy the male and female items from the new line featured on the official website of the brand, and the second one is to use a new Sunamatic app from Diesel Facebook fan page, which allows to use one of the four different sunglasses filters, Stealing Bullet, Sun Bug, Flirtini, or Bad Max.
Benetton has launched a new online hub Benetton Kids Community dedicated to and aimed at digital-savvy kids and their parents. Children like vibrant colours, and the brand shares this passion, that’s why the new community is extremely flamboyant and is soaked with bright and catchy tones. In fact, parents are those who are expected to bring their offspring to the new online destination, which is totally safe for kids from the informational point of view, and they are who register kids there (the number of kids from one family is limited to three children up to 12 years old).
illy makes another artistic statement by launching a new cup set as part of its extensive illy art collection, which already includes a plethora of coffee cups and saucers created by celebrated artists from around the globe since 1992, the year of the line’s launch. Being one of the artistic illy cups and resonating with the collection’s philosophy (the creator’s style gets splashed on the cup of an unchanged traditional shape), the new piece by a duo of contemporary Turkish artists, Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, :mentalKLINIK stands out by its origin since it’s the first ever co-curated cup. The latest addition to the collection has been developed under the creative supervision of two, illycaffè’s art director Carlo Bach and Jérôme Sans, cultural curator of Le Méridien, the Paris-born hotel brand.