Red Bull is giving wings to young people in virtually all the spheres of modern life, from extreme sports to arts. The energy drink is rolling out its initiative dubbed Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project in the USA, inviting emerging artists from various backgrounds (and working in different media) to display their art pieces and meet art dealers at the SCOPE Miami fair during Art Basel, an international contemporary art show, in December.

The Diet Coke brand, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary in the UK, is launching a new campaign, designed to evoke powerful overwhelming emotions in every woman. For the maximum effect of the new promotion, the brand has brought back its iconic Diet Coke hunk, who will appear in a new advert of the brand, which will be unveiled on the Diet Coke’s Facebook page at 11:30am on Monday (28 January).

Taylor Swift is helping the Keds sneakers brand to roll out a U.S. campaign, dedicated to “brave girls,” who are not afraid of living their lives to the full. The 23-year old American singer-songwriter is known for her playful nature (in particular, she likes to write songs about guys she broke up with), so Keds thought she could be a true role model for the brand’s target audience, young females.

Target is contributing to online shopping by launching a bunch of brands, which are available exclusively online. For the US retailer, it’s another way to deliver a better experience to the consumers who prefer to purchase goods in the comfort of their homes. With this move, Target also aims to drive more consumers to its online platform and become a stronger player on the e-commerce market.

H&M continues to commit to a more sustainable fashion future with a new eco-friendly seasonal collection, presented by Vanessa Paradis. In the promotion of the H&M’s Spring/Summer 2013 Conscious collection, which is launching internationally in two months, the French celebrity is wearing very feminine and spring-inspired clothing items in the settings, inspired by a spring garden.

The mircoblogging site Twitter is going to allow posting micro-videos within tweets. The platform is allegedly going to enable its users to integrate up to six-second videos, created using Vine, with their tweets. The start-up service, which is believed to be a video-based rival to Instagram (now Facebook-owned), was purchased by Twitter in October 2012.

For its Spring/Summer 2013 promotion, Benetton has focused on people’s differences, which should not be hidden, but highlighted and supported. In the new multi-channel (online, press, out-of-door, in outlets) international campaign dubbed «Faces of Color,» the brand features nine ambassadors, who are the living examples of what is to be not similar to most of others—Lea T, trans-sexual Brazilian model, Matias Perdomo, Uruguayan chief, who combines diametrical cultures in his restaurant, Mario Galla, differently-able German model and others. While the theme is potentially provocative, the new advertising effort turns to be quite smooth and moderate unlike the award-winning Benetton’s UNHATE initiative, which generated much buzz. Prejudice is so yesterday, Benetton and tolerance are so now.

Facebook strives to make its platform as advertiser-friendly as possible. The social media giant has launched a new conversion measurement and optimization feature, which is specifically designed for direct response marketers. The new tool, rolled out globally, will help make the advertising on the platform more relevant and tailored to the target audience by tracking the performance of the ads on Facebook pages.  

Building on the success of its For Women in Science initiative, L’Oréal starts a similar program for girls in the USA. The cosmetics giant has launched the dedicated www.forgirlsinscience.org website, which is “designed to inspire and empower girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M).” The new online destination, created to support the emerging female scientists, works as an educative and entertaining site at the same time.