From time to time, global companies issue a call asking to help refresh brands’ portfolios, services or develop new advertising pieces. What is it—an attempt to engage ambitious people and raise brand awareness or a move proceeding from lack of new ideas within the company’s creative team?
Category Archive: Marketing
R/GA and Crispin Porter Bogusky alum to lead social media strategy
Co Collective announces the hire of Conrad Lisco as Head of Community Experience, effective April 4. He departs from R/GA. Lisco’s background includes expertise in traditional marketing, mobile and social media. At Co, Lisco will be responsible for helping clients craft the strategy and structure around social media. He will report to co-CEOs Ty Montague and Rosemarie Ryan.
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.
