Who knew that search, email, online tools and other online services won’t be enough some day for a giant like Google. Recently, the brand has been quietly exploring the area of mass media and has released an online magazine, or rather a book, as Google calls it, entitled ‘Think Quarterly’.
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Coca-Cola concluded probably the largest experiment in the brand’s music history—its 24-hour live session with Maroon5, during which the band were writing and recording a new song. Throughout the unique event, which was steaming live online, the band’s and the brand’s fans from all around the globe were supporting the guys in the studio by tweeting with hashtag #WithMaroon5 (the messages popped up on the interactive wall in the studio).
Starbucks introduced the newest additions to the Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!—The Economist, ESPN Insider Rumor Central, Marvel Digital Comics and Mediabistro are now in. Building on the October 2010 launch, the network continues to serve up a collection of hand-picked premium news, entertainment and lifestyle content along with local insights and events.
Yesterday, March 22, the planet celebrated World Water Day, and it was a great opportunity for the jeans brand Levi’s to remind consumers about its commitment to save water and engage them in a new online activity, which raises awareness about the vital drinking water issues. The new interactive WaterTank game, launched on Facebook, encourages users to ‘unlock’ clean water by taking up various challenges ranging from tweeting to answering related questions. The key element of the interactive project is Levi’s Water<Less jeans, a collection of denim made by using less water during the finishing process, which was launched in January 2011 and is helping to save millions of liters of water.
The ‘before and after’ method is the best ones for proving that a product really delivers positive changes. Most frequently, this approach is employed in promotions for cosmetic lines and food brand—and the new campaign based on this approach is all about animals. Purina is inviting animal owners to tap into the 60-Day See the Difference Challenge, through which the pet food brand offers to see the positive difference of feeding animals with the brand’s products and then share the testimonials with public.
What is success? Nokia teamed up with Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam to answer this tricky question in its latest global campaign, promoting smartphone E7. The brand is encouraging consumers to look at their life from a new point of view and decide what real success means to them—is it just about money they make or something really priceless, like friendship, happiness and those little sunny moments of life. The global multiplatform campaign revolving around tagline ‘Success is what you make it’ includes digital promotion, prints and 15-, 30-, 45- and 60-second TV-commercials, which feature a variety of E7 users from all around the globe.
Pepsi is celebrating up-and-coming artists by launching a new system that rates their popularity based on social media buzz around them. The iconic soda brand launched The Pepsi Music Index, a live ranking engine which analyses people’s real-time opinions on the performers and presents ‘the feedback’ in a clear ranking. The new system is very similar to the MTV Music Meter launched in mid-December 2010, which also builds a chart of the most popular emerging performers based on real-time discussions about them in the digital world.
‘Music for charity’—this idea is behind a range of Coca-Cola’s social initiatives, launched in recent years. Now, in collaboration with musicians Solange Knowles, Chris Taylor and Twin Shadow, the soft drink giant has released a digital-only charity single, ‘Kenya,’ which is helping raise money the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) by Coca-Cola.