Combining e-commerce and social sharing, Zappos, Amazon’s online store has created a new service that recommends consumers what to buy based on what people post on Pinterest.
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UNIQLO is rolling off a new cross-platform advertising campaign to spread the word about the launch of two new stores of the brand in the USA. The latest marketing effort dubbed «The Faces of the People» features celebrities from all the fields, who embody the light, casual and playful nature of the apparel label. The new campaign stars both well-known human faces and Maru, beloved YouTube cat sensation from Japan, which got featured in a in a new online game, “UNIQLO Lucky Cube with Maru”, which offers users a chance to win nice prizes from the brand.
Philips has unveiled a new digital project focused on the theme of product creation processes, to support the winning and best-selling Fidelio audio range. The tech company has teamed up with Tribal DDB Amsterdam, songwriter and producer Washed Out and Gustav Johansson, Cannes Young Directors winner from Stinkdigital, London, to create an impressive audio-visual online campaign dubbed The Sound of Creation to explain the stages of creation of a truly hilarious product to users.
Hyundai Australia has launched an action-packed promotion to support the launch of the new sporty coupe, the Veloster SR Turbo. The auto brand tapped Australian champion boxer, Lauryn Eagle to front an online story titled “Sexy gets Angry”, which is to evolve based on consumer’s ideas. The key element of the promotion, developed by Innocean Worldwide, is a clip, which merges video and comics, to tell a story about a bold girl, who reacts to unexpected things which happen to her. The campaign also includes outdoor, print media and digital marketing elements, highlighting the bold attitude of both the car and athlete (by the way, she will be managing Twitter promotion herself).
Old Spice unveiled a highly interactive musical piece on Vimeo, featuring Terry Crews, one of the brand’s Guys. The former NFL player, who has been communicating the “power” message to public in a series of Old Spice commercials, now turns his own body into a machine, which produces music. In the new video piece, developed by the brand’s agency Wieden & Kennedy and director Tom Kuntz, Crews is sitting surrounded by musical instruments including drums, saxophones, a guitar and synthesizer to name but a few. But basically it’s not him who plays all of them—numerous electrodes are attached to his muscle groups (pecs, triceps and sartorius adductors among others), which activate the instruments with each muscle contraction.
Grolsch has introduced a new character in its advertising, police officer Journt, “the most notorious police officer in the Netherlands,” who never says a word. The Amsterdam beer brand has rolled out a new ‘silent’ campaign in the UK on its official page at www.grolsch.com.uk and invited the audience to get involved into the activity for a chance to get four pack of Grolsch beer.
Brands take every opportunity to celebrate its connection with consumers, from their anniversaries to expanding friends list on social media channels. Lynx (AXE) has released a hilarious video “The one millionth Lynx Effect” to celebrate the fact that it has reached 1 million fans on Facebook as well as posted a series of fine themed visuals, informing that “1 million fans=337blue whales” and that “Lynx 1 million is five times higher than space station.”