While Starbucks is helping create more jobs across the USA, M&M’S is set to provide more rehabilitate houses to people across the country. The brand has launched a new campaign entitled “America Better With M,” which includes a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International and a series of efforts to encourage the nation to volunteer for the initiative in 2013. In addition the brand will launch a new product to support the project.
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PUMA launches a totally new cross-category platform, which includes marketing campaign as well as innovative additions to the brand’s major product categories, Football, Running, Training, Golf and Fitness. The name of the new platform is «The Nature of Performance,» and it is designed to tie the brand’s performance categories even closer using one distinct approach, “a consistent voice, look and feel,” writes the company in the press note.
Bud Light Platinum is becoming even more musical—following in the footsteps of BlackBerry, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intel and Polaroid, which invited music artists to be their creative directors, the beer brand tapped singer and actor Justin Timberlake for the same position. The celebrity, who is one of the co-owners of MySpace now, will “provide creative, musical and cultural curation for the brand.» Bud Light Platinum is Bud Light’s extension with higher alcohol content, launched in 2012 as a product for nighttime party drinkers.
H&M has released an ad starring David Beckham, which was announced earlier this year. The soccer celebrity, who has been collaborating with the retailer on the underwear collections, got featured in a spot running down the streets of Beverly Hills just in his latest line of Bodywear (a pair of Navy Green, Boxer Briefs).
Marc Jacobs replaces Jean Paul Gaultier as the creative director of Diet Coke for 2013. The brand, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in Europe this year, has tapped the fashion designer to design the new packaging (“whimsical, feminine” as he confessed to WWD) for the diet version of the legendary drink and to handle the creative part of the brand’s promotions in 2013.
Super Bowl XLVII saw five major advertising trends boosting, most of which helped the ads live a longer life on more platforms. With the prices high for an ad piece rocketing high—average $4 million for a 30-second commercial,—the advertising has to be really effective (Brand Keys explored this theme in its latest report). The goal was achieved by various approaches, from making the ads more like films to building a longer, engaging campaign around the spot. Find the five trends as spotted by Time.