While its rivals Guinness and Grolsch are releasing mini projects inspired by the upcoming Christmas celebrations, Heineken has made it big by introducing a campaign featuring a new global tagline. With a bunch of innovations launched this year to be rolled out heavily in 2011, the brand decided to change its ‘Meet you there’ motto highlighted in a series of hilarious adverts including the hilarious ‘Walk-in fridge’ spots for a more intriguing one, calling to ‘Open your world’.

Gap launched a new project to deliver more discounts to its fans ahead of Christmas through a holiday-themed ‘race’ of reindeer. For five days, the brand has been inviting its fans to visit the www.projectreindeer.com page and participate in the competition of the North Pole animals for a chance to pay less at the participating Gap stores across the U.S. The idea behind the project is simple: to save a Gap venue, you had to say the name of the winner of the every day’s challenge and get a discount he or she carries. The competition, which has been running December 15-19, is now over. 

MINI is expanding its cooperation with Red Bull by becoming a partner of Red Bull Crashed Ice, where groups of four athletes on ice skates plunge down an ice cross downhill track some five metres wide and peppered with bumps, jumps and banked turns. This innovative and—in every sense—cool winter sports events comprises four events. The races take place on an artificial ice cross downhill track specially created for each event and extending to around 350 metres in length. As in 2010, the venue for the season opener on 15 January 2011 is the Olympiapark in Munich.

In 2010, Pepsi proved that anyone anywhere can motivate and inspire Americans to move the world forward. Since February, all 50 states have participated by voting in the Pepsi Refresh Project. With over 61 million votes cast via www.refresheverything.com, the Pepsi Refresh Project is on track to award more than $20 million in grants to over 400 ideas in 2010.

Ahead of Christmas, Levi’s is launching a competition, which echoes the major theme of the brand’s latest ‘Go forth‘ campaign and is supporting the idea of its latest project dedicated to craft, Levi’s Photo Workshop. The brand teamed up with the Hipstamatic community to kick off the ‘Holidays Captured’ contest, which revolves around sharing the festive spirit and taking hilarious digital stills, which encompass the vintage style of film photography.