Prior to the World Cup we probably all had our preconceptions of what ‘the Rainbow Nation’ had to offer—a somewhat polarized picture maybe defined by poor v plenty, the townships v the much-desired, luxury holiday locations of, for example, Camps Bay. Before the staging of the biggest sporting event in the world here, could we really name any significant South African brands?
Category Archive: Marketing
Volkswagen has another successful mobile marketing campaign with the release of Volkswagen Touareg Challenge. The automaker’s fourth iPhone advertising game has recorded over a million downloads after just one and a half weeks and is in the top ten of the iTunes charts in many countries including Germany, Russia and the United States.
Umbro provided seven artists with the opportunity to recreate their countries football crest and now they are giving the same chance to budding designers everywhere. In their line, the World Champions Collection, the company tasked the creators to come up with a unique idea for their homeland’s football crest in celebration of this summer of soccer.
Triscuit, a crackers brand from Kraft Foods portfolio, is supporting the movement to grow your own foods in a big way with their website dedicated to home farming. The site, located at www.kraftbrands.com/homefarming, focuses on interaction, education, and support to get consumers involved with the action from all across the United States.
To complement the summer concert season, Nikon announces the launch of «NikonLIVE» as part of its sponsorship of the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater with Live Nation. The site will provide music fans with great content, including tips about shooting concerts and images by professional photographers while integrating music, photography and social media enabling fans and artists to share personal concert experiences.
MillerCoors LLC is encouraging to collect bottle caps and can tabs and at the same time to benefit veterans that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Via their Miller High Life brand and in cooperation with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America the company has created a campaign named “Give a Veteran a Piece of the High Life” focused on collecting the recyclable items in an effort to raise a contribution up to $1 million.