A year after YouTube asked people from all around the globe to contribute to making the ‘Life in a Day’ crowdsourcing movie, Intel Corporation and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. issued a call encouraging Internet users to participate in developing the state-of-the-art social film project dubbed ‘Inside.’ The blockbuster thriller starring Emmy Rossum (‘Phantom of the Opera’) and directed by D.J Caruso (‘Eagle Eye’) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Mauro Fiore (‘Avatar’), will be created in line with the previously launched Intel’s ‘Visual Life’ campaign and its numerous advertising pieces revolving around the escape theme.
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On July 12, Doritos, a PepsiCo’s snack brand, launched a 2-months storytelling campaign Doritos Uncut for their Brazilian fans on Facebook. The campaign, developed by partner agencies LiveAD in Sao Paolo and Night Agency in New York, gives the idea of social sharing and storytelling through an innovative application that allows multiple friends to tell one story. The story is hoped to be brought to digital life by Doritos.
On June 7, Google announced its new experiment for YouTube called ‘Cosmic Panda’. Activating the Cosmic Panda with one click give users a new video-watching and playlist experience, extra page designs and editing tools to customise channels. Another feature: the ability to keep watching a video while moving between videos, playlists and channels only works in Google’s own Chrome browser.
Levi’s has been always committed to celebrating pioneer spirit and empowering youth to create a better world (the recent activities of the brand are revolving around water conservation and creativity) and with its groundbreaking technologies including the Water<Less one, has become an icon of progress, improvement and driving positive change. Last year, Levi’s launched its ‘Ready to Work’ campaign in the U.S. as part of its ‘Go Forth’ platform revealed in 2009, and now the brand announces the launch of its first-ever global creative platform under the same title with the ‘Now is our time’ tagline—the new marketing effort is designed to reach consumers in 24 countries via a plethora of media including TV, cinema, print, digital and outdoor in the coming months.
L’Oréal USA has re-launched Makeup.com, which was acquired by the brand in 2009, giving it a fresher look and making it more dynamic in terms of content (photos, slide-shows, ‘how to’ spots as well as articles, news and tips written by the experts of the industry will get posted on the website on a daily basis). The goal of the revamp is to make the online destination a women’s ‘best friend,’ which can tell her what is trendy and what’s not in the world of cosmetics.