Google has unveiled that it is still developing a Google+ experience for businesses and is asking brands not to create Google+ profiles just yet.
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PepsiCo‘s Diet Mountain Dew launches a new summer ad campaign targeted at U.S. consumers who want a low-calorie alternative of their favorite beverage. Featuring a strap line ‘Diet Tastes Better on the Mountain,’ the campaign kicks off with a hilarious TV ad that stars two male Gen-Xers who race to mow their lawns in a battle for the last Diet Mountain Dew. The 30-second spot, called ‘Chores,’ starts airing nationwide this week.
Facebook‘s founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the new video call feature to be rolled out in a couple of weeks. Users will be able to make free video calls to their friends through the site as a result of Facebook’s partnership with the web telephony service Skype. So, now two of the web’s most popular consumer services will be available all in one and with one click.
For Beck’s, beer always goes hand in hand with art—this year, Anheuser-Busch InBev’s brand is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Art Labels project by launching a plethora of themed activities (the recent Beck’s Art Crawl exhibit if one of them) revolving around creativity. In collaboration with Mother London, the brand has started an ambitious three-year initiative dubbed The Green Box Project, celebrating art, independent talents and technology at the same time. Beck’s is offering artists from various creative fields (not only visual) a unique opportunity to get their pieces showcased in the groundbreaking virtual gallery for people to ‘unlock’ them via augmented-reality in “the visually stunning and technically pioneering” Green Boxes designed by Jason Bruges—they will be located across more than 80 countries in major cities of the world including London, Miami, Milan, New York and Rome to name but a few.
Doritos, the tortilla brand well-known for its crowdsourcing ad projects (which not only gave dozens of creatives from around the globe a chance to earn some money with their filmmaking talent, but also helped the brand make it big earlier this year during Super Bowl), has released a touching story of one man, Esteban Ortega, aka the Dip Desperado. He used to be a champion chip flicker, but then ruined his life with alcohol and big-headedness and finally lost his title—now he wants to reclaim it and asks consumers to help.
Nowadays, jeans are a symbol of moving forward, youth, rebellion and pioneer spirit, but originally they were made for working. Diesel, which can ‘be stupid’ as well as smart and industrious, has put this fact behind the new collection called Our Glory, the line of jeans “master-crafted by an elite team with a perverse passion & clinically insane inclination for denim.”
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We are all too aware of the ongoing economic difficulties and retail caution with Habitat, Thornton’s and Jane Norman three more casualties of the British High Street. But all is not doom and gloom. The Royal Wedding and choice of British designers and British brands favoured undoubtedly gave yet another boost to the British economy, an iconic ‘Cool Britannia’ message is being heralded in the run up to Britain’s hosting of the 2012 Olympics and we are welcoming the news (19 June) that luxury British fashion group Mulberry announced a sharp rise in profits—reporting a jump to £23.3m from £5.1m a year ago.
On June 23, Nike re-opened its major 1948 store in Shoreditch. In the summer of 2008, Nike launched 1948 in an abandoned East London railway arch. Part retail space, part creative playground, 1948 ‘was about the constantly shifting space between art and athleticism,’ as explained in on the store’s web site. The space has undergone an extensive re-design in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.