Pepsi Max is offering new ways to rid of those who don’t let you enjoy a can of your favourite soda. The fizzy drink brand released a series of tongue-in-cheek spots, featuring guys who just want to escape from the imperfect reality (in which they got to do unpleasant things like having dinner with a girl-friend’s parents, shopping with her or having a tough conversation with a boss) and spend some time with buddies.

PepsiCo Canada’s Quaker brand is on a mission to take its belief in the power of a nutritious breakfast to new heights this year, by motivating Canadians to start their day with Quaker oatmeal, and to help those in need to do the same. The brand unveils an exciting new initiative with Olympic Champion Alexandre Bilodeau called Unlock Amazing, which aspires to provide two million bowls of oatmeal this year to help feed the more than 860,000 Canadians helped by food banks each month.

Levi’s® kicks off the search for the second-ever ‘Levi’s® Girl,’ the online voice of Levi’s® women. Using its crowdsourcing Facebook app, users are able to submit videos documenting why they should be chosen as the new face and voice for Levi’s women in the digital space. In this specialized six-month assignment, the new ‘Levi’s Girl’ will allow the brand voice for women to be heard and channel the essence of ‘Shape What’s to Come,’ the brand’s global online community where millennial women around the world can connect with peers and mentors to shape their futures.

Pepsi Max, the soda brand which has connected with the rap culture primarily through to its latest commercial featuring Snoop Dogg (still, Nike remains the most long-standing fan of this music style), has unveiled a new project created in collaboration with famous representatives of this movement. Ahead of Super Bowl XLV, Pepsi Max teamed up with a bunch of hip-hop and rap stars to develop new videos as part of the NFL Audible program.

Diageo’s Johnnie Walker launched a massive advertising campaign in China revolving around the ‘Keep walking’ motto. The new promotional push dubbed ‘Yulu’ (or ‘Words of a Journey’), the brand’s largest ever effort of this kind on the market, sees 12 Chinese pioneers—including an artist, a real estate businessman, a fashion designer and a blogger—representing different areas of business and art and telling their inspirational life stories.

Diesel promotes its new underwear collection with super (‘stupid’) power. The brand, which did it big with its extravagant, but still very appealing ‘Be Stupid’ campaign last year, is going on doing crazy things with a serious face. Recently, it presented its Spring/Summer 2011 collection under the espionage theme (heavily employed by filmmakers and graphic story authors forty years ago), and now continues with another trend, which was popular in the 70-ies. Diesel created new bizarre characters with double-meaning names or just to present the flamboyant underwear in the Fresh & Bright Superheroes campaign.

Toyota is teaching web users an English grammar lesson and promotes its new Prius line at the same time. The automaker decided to leave all the technical talks behind and focus on debates revolving around making its name plural (now, since there will be more models in the range, this question should be resolved once and for ever). To gear up discussion, the brand commissioned the Saatchi & Saatchi agency to create something really catchy—and the creative team develop a nice video in a children educational song’s tone.