L’Oréal’s luxury products division (LPD) is going to promote its products including scents of Diesel and YSL Beauté with the help of the digital tools. It will have Yves Saint Laurent’s Touche Éclat range and new Diesel fragrance, which is to be introduced this year, will be promoted via online services. The budget for products’ advertising for this year will be increased and set individually for each of them.

The footwear brand Umbro named the winners of its creative contest Speciali Competition and has already made boots with the artistic soles. There were over 10,000 submitted designs to be chosen from and the brand picked out the most incredible and bold ones. The jury of a team of footballers, designers and boot specialists selected only 15 winners from the creative avalanche. The contest deadline was October 1, 2009 and now we can enjoy the results.

Mountain Dew asked its fans to participate in creating the new drinks from the very beginning – the consumers were to define what flavor the soda would have, what its name would be and they were also encouraged to create original and eye-catching package designs for the upcoming drinks. The design contest began on September 15 and finished on October 10, and now the winners are already defined and we can see the new labels.

The Van Cleef & Arpels luxury jewellery brand has stepped in the line of global companies with their own iPhone applications. Marking its centennial in 2006, the brand paid a tribute to its birthplace – a mythical and magical, enchanting city of Paris by creating a special collection “Une journée à Paris”, and also launched the application to commemorate the date and the launch of the collection.