Irish whisky brand Jameson is to activate a huge celebration on St Patrick’s Day, March 17. Unlike beer brand Guinness, it is not going to set any records, but is determined to make it really big by encouraging global public celebrate the holiday in Irish style.
Author: Anna Rudenko
Jaguar, the iconic British brand owned by Tata Motors since 2008, is rolling out a new global campaign to highlight its wild side and prove that it’s ‘alive.’ The new advertising effort with the ‘How alive are you?’ tagline is kicking off on JaguarUSA.com, as on Facebook and YouTube, with a 45-second version of a 30-second TVC, which is slated to air in mid-March, when print, digital and outdoor advertising elements will be launched as well. In addition to the new marketing push, developed by Spark 44 (a London-based agency founded last June and partly owned by Jaguar), the auto giant, which has been on the luxury auto market for decades, is unveiling a new updated logo and its brand symbol and is gearing up for an 18-city United States road show to provide consumers with an opportunity to try the cars and make sure the luxury vehicles are worth buying.
Sprite has launched a new campaign dubbed ‘Uncontainable Game’ in a very Nikeish style, encouraging young consumers to share their dedication to sport. The new marketing effort, which was launched last night during NBA All-Star weekend in the USA, stars legendary basketball players Kobe Bryant and LeBron James along with Andrea Bargnani of Italy, Al Horford of the Dominican Republic, Omri Casspi of Israel and Serge Ibaka of the Republic of Congo, and is considered the largest global campaign Sprite has ever executed since this effort is to be launched across 27 countries. Ad Age reports that “Sprite plans to carry the program into at least 2014.”
Twitter, which is predicted to become the London 2012 major news platform (de facto), is developing more features to provide its users with an opportunity to communicate without barriers. The micro blogging service, which is gaining momentum in Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan now after winning the US and UK, is now testing its translation option, which will allow people to understand tweets in other languages. The translation is made automatically via Bing Translator—the experiments started last week with the option available only to a bunch of users. So far, Twitter doesn’t say when the translation feature will be rolled out to all users.
Miracle Whip, which has launched a bunch of promotions revolving around love and hate to the product (as it turns out, the salad dressing spread can even ruin families or, on the contrary, make them stronger), continues to explore people’s attitudes to the edgy and controversial product. For the new storytelling campaign, developed by mcgarrybowen (the advertising agency behind the previous push), Miracle Whip is traveling in time, to the 17th century, and asking the key question, ‘You hate Miracle Whip, but have you tried it yet?’—the idea is that some people believe the product is disgusting, but it’s just because they’ve never tasted it.
The Guinness beer brand is encouraging public around the globe to show their love of the Ireland’s national holiday St. Patrick’s Day (which is known and celebrated outside the country as well) and help the brand to set a new Guinness World Record on March 17. It’s not the first time when brands are calling their fans to help them achieve big goals—last year, Oreo gathered most Facebook likes for one post in 24 hours and Lynx ‘hosted’ the most massive simultaneous shower-taking event. Just like the cookies brand, Guinness is also using its digital hubs, the brand’s Facebook page and www.Guinness.com, to gather the most people possible for ‘The Largest St. Patrick’s Day Celebration.’
Nivea, the iconic cosmetics brand, which turned 100 last year, is launching new limited-edition packs designed by a fashion designer and leading brand and packaging design agency Bulletproof. The new ‘Nicola de Main’ packaging for Nivea Soft will arrive in stores across UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and The Netherlands in mid-May. The light-hearted and colourful design, which features springs birds, adds to the feeling of the season, sunny cheerfulness and warmth and echoes with the brand’s attitude of making life beautiful.
Stella Artois, the beer brand, which traditionally integrates the French cinema aesthetic of the 60s into its advertising projects (the series of ‘She is a thing of beauty’ adverts and the King of Cannes competition are just a few examples), is now digging deeper into the past and pays tribute to the rich over 600-year history of brewing in Belgium, the brand’s motherland. This time, Stella Artois makes the Chalice the key element of the new outdoor advertising campaign in the UK—the iconic beer glass, the signature image of the brand, has been incorporated in the promotional projects before, but it hasn’t been the key image as the ads were rather focusing on the brand’s 9-step pouring ritual and visual style of people and environment.
The dose of love the brands shared with the world on Valentine’s Day was so big that we still feel it. For the lasting effect of the holiday, Moët & Chandon has teamed up with renowned graffiti artist André, to create a new limited-edition lovely packaging for its Rose Imperial champagne that allows to personalize the bottle and launched the ‘Tag Your Love’ campaign featuring the highly recognizable smiling Mr. A character ahead of V-Day.
Traditionally, February of a leap year (and 2012 is one of them) is a month of reversed relationship as women can freely propose to a men on the last day of month. While Renault is supporting only ladies by encouraging them invent new and astonishing ways of proposing, Hendrick’s Gin is teaching both male and female consumers how to not to be a gentleman (for men) or how to trap your potential spouse (for young fillies) in its two schools, Hendricks’s school for scoundrels and Ladies school of nuptial conquest.