On the heels of Frito-Lay’s campaign focused on the sources of its products, McDonald’s is going to launch a new promotion in the USA, revolving around the company’s meat and vegetable suppliers, to showcase real people, who help make the fast food chain’s offerings organic. The new push, which includes TV, print and digital, additional paid and earned media, is slated for January 2, and, as AdAge reports, it will be “running sporadically” through the end of 2012.
Category Archive: Social Media
Not only new generations can’t imagine existing without social networks but the old chaps like Santa go online to connect to the audience. Santa prefers YouTube and Twitter these days. With help of Telefonica’s O2, Santa has created the hashtag #O2santa so that followers can tweet him a message that they’d like read out, and Santa will create personal short video on YouTube.
Christmas season is the time when most people not only exchange gifts and send greetings, but also drink and say cheers. For some of us the second goes above the first, and here the problems begin. To address this, global brands, both alcohol and beverage ones, launch campaigns to promote moderate drinking. Recently, the soft-drink giant Coca-Cola rolled out the new round of its ‘Designated Driver’ initiative, and HEINEKEN started its new promotion of responsible alcohol consumption by launching a new extension of the ‘Open Your World’ global campaign of its flagship beer, Heineken. Under the new theme ‘Sunrise belongs to moderate drinkers’ unveiled this Christmas season, the brand is spreading the message of moderate drinking primarily on the web, via a range of platforms, including Heineken’s YouTube channel, Facebook fan page, Heineken.com and broadcast.
Karl Lagerfeld is to launch two collections soon. First one, named ‘Karl’ is affordable and will launch online on the luxury retail site Net-a-Porter. The rock-and-roll-inspired line of clothing will be available online only since January 25, 2012. The second one, entitled Paris—Bombay strikes imagination with luxurious items.
On the heels of the announcement of Facebook and HEINEKEN’s tie up, the flagship beer of the company revealed two festive applications on its fan page in the biggest social media platform (though, the major deal starts on January 1, 2012). The apps, ‘BeerFriender’ and ‘The Heineken Social Christmas Tree’ help people celebrate the winter holiday in a true social way like never before.
As the first step in building long term consumer engagement, Philips Male Grooming has launched a through the line campaign to inspire and enable men to ‘Express Yourself Every Day’. The campaign by DDB London, Tribal, One Voice, Carat, IRIS and Philips aims to help male consumers (25+ years old) realize that self-expression can be something they do every day—from the way they walk, to the job they do, to the way they shave and groom. Real guys that change mundane aspects of their daily routine into an opportunity for self-expression are at the heart of the emotionally-led campaign, which is set to break the conventions of the traditionally conservative and predictable male grooming category that has sold men on the clean shaven look for the past 30 years.