Fanta creates more play for consumers with the brand’s most unified and largest global marketing campaign to date. ‘Less Serious,’ launched in 2007, will now reach teens and moms worldwide in regions representing 90 percent of the brand’s global sales volume in 2011. The fun has started in many markets around the world and is kicking off in the United States on March 30, with the broadcast debut of Fanta’s ‘Chase’ commercial on ‘American Idol’ on FOX.
Author: Anna Rudenko
BMW is first partner of the wide-ranging exhibition ‘The Art of Enlightenment,’ which will open at the Chinese National Museum in Beijing on 1 April 2011. Conception and organization of the exhibition at the reopened National Museum of China are the joint efforts of the National Museums in Berlin, the Dresden State Art Collection, the Bavarian State Art Collection Munich and the National Museum of China.
Nike celebrates speed and dexterity via its latest campaign dedicated to the new SuperFly boot. The previous model, Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II, was presented back in February 2010 and appeared on-counter in April last year. Now, the brand is going to release Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly III (it will arrive in stores starting this Thursday), and for the launch it tapped 16 top professional football players including Cristiano Ronaldo (who appeared in promotion for the previous models), Clint Dempsey, Marco Borriello, Zlatan Ibrahimović and more. The campaign entitled ‘Who Is Superfly?’ is running on Facebook and features a series of short vignettes showcasing the athletes.
The story of close relationship between brands and cinematography started nearly at the same time as the cinema itself was born—in the beginning of the movie era, the big companies promoted their products though short clips which were screened before movies. Now it’s not that easy to tell for sure for which product the pioneer ad was created, but according to a range of sources (IMDB is one of them), the first filmed advertising for a today’s global brand was shot for Dewar’s Scotch Whisky (1897). Today, connections between filmmaking industry and brands go beyond this simple presence and include a lot of examples such as much discussed product placement, festival sponsorship and opening cinema clubs, cinema-related advertising campaigns, collaboration with filmmakers on commercials, and creating movies under brands’ supervision.
The realm of technology neighbors with the world of art. Recently, Intel has proved it through a bespoke project entitled ‘Remastered,’ and now HP is launching its ‘Mobile Expressionism’ to once again celebrate the ties between visual creativity and the technological progress. For the project, which is dedicated to the HP webOS mobile platform and targeted at application developers who use it in their work, the company collaborated with several illustrators and artists who created graphic pieces inspired by a range of popular HP webOS apps.
Nike has released ‘Bleed Blue Pledge,’ a new ad campaign where the pride, passion, and fearless soul of Indian cricket brought to life through the voice of the elite athletes of Team India. During the 60-second ad the members of the Indian Cricket Team articulate the passion for cricket in this country, pulling back the curtain long enough for the viewer to witness how the game is played, loved and revered from the perspective of the athlete.