YouTube pays a tribute to beauty with a launch of L’Oréal Paris sponsored channel. The new hub Destination Beauty, which was opened last week, is designed as a platform for tips from industry gurus (make-up tutorial phenom Lauren Luke, makeup artist Kandee Johnson, and Seventeen Magazine). During a period of a year the page will be constantly updated with new spots, and maybe over some time this online destination will eventually turn into one of the favourite digital spaces for both consumers (any woman 18 to 54, the target audience) and beauty professionals.
Author: Anna Rudenko
To promote the release of its new catalog, IKEA launched a series of spots, “Hooray for the everyday!”, which showcase simple but lovely moments of everyday routine, which actually make us happy with our life. The 2011’s issue celebrates the 60-th anniversary of the company’s annual consumer catalog and as usual focuses on what brings sheer joy to people around the world.
Levi’s is inviting American consumers to watch movies in the open air within the period of August 6—27. The famed jeans maker has teamed up with the Alamo Drafthouse (an American cinema chain) and Gowalla (a social network) to arrange cinematic trips, “Rolling Roadshow,” across the country and give Americans an opportunity to watch iconic movies outdoors. The new initiative comes as a part of the massive “We Are All Workers” campaign, launched earlier this summer.
Samsung Electronics Australia has started a major new marketing campaign in the digital and social media space, entitled “Mr Knowitall”, to educate consumers on the benefits of its innovative integrated social messaging service, Samsung Social Hub. Available on its two recently launched smartphones; the Samsung Wave and Samsung Galaxy S, the campaign is a first-of-its-kind online experience that demonstrates how the comedic character, Mr Knowitall, knows everything about everyone in his social circle all thanks to information he has gleaned from using Samsung Social Hub.
Carlsberg Canada believes that the day, on which people get married, is one of the most special occasions in their life. Through its Big Wedding Bash, the brand gives one deserving couple with an inspiring, impressive, unconventional or just sweet love story to win $100,000 for the wedding arrangements and make this day really worth to be remembered.
The Olympus brand is launching new Stylus Tough 6000 and 8000 cameras, which can resist virtually any extreme conditions, under which conventional cameras would break in a blink of an eye. To prove that the new range is really “tougher than life”, the company arranged a series of serious real-life experiments, which are nothing like the bizarre faux-scientific tests by Toshiba or Samsung—Stylus Tough is not a laughing matter at all.
What are the most important things about a car? We like when it’s fast, maneuvering, reliable, comfortable and spacious, of course. Honda has invited the DTDigital agency to develop a hilarious campaign for its small but roomy Honda Jazz model, which can fit just anything. Together they have launched a website, featuring four experiment spots as well as an invitation for everyone to enter the themed competition and win the vehicle.