Mars gets focused on re-uniting adults and regular football in England. The chocolate brand in partnership with The FA to launch a campaign entitled ‘FA MARS Just Play’ across the country to encourage its consumers to take a ball and head to the pitch with their friends to play a football mach like they did when they were kids. Through the new initiative, the brand is “aiming to get 150,000 new participants playing the game for at least 30 minutes a week by September 2013, and deliver a total of 3.9m hours of extra football played each year throughout England,” thefa reports.

Music icon, actress, designer, philanthropist Jennifer Lopez, the ultimate modern goddess, became the one and only Venus Goddess. As the brand’s first-ever global ambassador, she’ll inspire women around the world to “reveal the goddess in you,” which means feeling their most confident, powerful and beautiful, inside and out. Lopez—and her amazing legs— will star in all elements of brand’s 2011 holistic marketing campaign, supporting the total brand portfolio that includes TV and print advertising, public relations, digital, social media and in-store communications.

Yesterday, February 3, Chinese people around the world celebrated the Year of the Rabbit, and Starbucks, which has been present in China since 1998, just couldn’t miss the opportunity to congratulate its fans on the colorful and boisterous holiday. The brand released a compilation of eastern music titled ‘World Is China’ as a precious gift to those who adore the eastern culture. The set comes as a valuable addition the globally-themed collection started by ‘World Is Africa’ and ‘World Is India’ CDs, which represent a diverse selection of recordings by several generations of local music artists.

Coca-Cola India and NDTV, India’s largest news and infotainment network, in association with their NGO partners, UN-HABITAT, Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and Sulabh International, embarked upon a unique initiative ‘Support My School.’ The campaign, started January 24, aims to develop healthy, active and happy schools in rural and semi-urban towns of India by improving basic amenities in educational institution of this kind and subsequently generate monetary resources for over 100 schools across the country.

Dockers, one of the Levi Strauss brands, is offering real men (and women) to enter a new contest for a chance to receive as much as $100,000 to develop their lifetime dream project, either business or personal ones. The US competition comes as part of the ‘Wear the Pants’ global ad campaign, which has been running since 2009 celebrating “a new style of masculinity—one that blends accountability and sensitivity, for the man who knows how to change a tire and a baby’s diaper.” The well-known khaki pants brand is giving away the major prize of $100K as well as additional 43 ‘Man Grants’ with total value of over $75,000 in services, tools, resources, or cash.

Diet Coke and Heidi Klum joined forces on to raise awareness and funds for women’s heart health education and research. February is American Heart Month, and for the fourth consecutive year, Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to support ‘The Heart Truth®’ campaign (read more about the brand’s involvement in the movement in 2009 and 2010).

What does it take to create a stunning, award-winning movie today? For this, you need to assemble a perfect cast and hire a celebrated director (it goes without saying that money and talanted production is included as well). How to make a stunning, really engaging promotional video these days? Do the same. One of the biggest sport gear and apparel brands, Nike, teamed up with celebrity athlete Kobe Bryant, a rooster of movie stars including Kanye West, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, and Robert Rodriguez to shoot a film titled ‘The Black Mamba’ to support the launch of several new additions dedicated to Kobe.