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New Balance is rolling out a new international brand campaign, “Runnovation,” to celebrate innovation and muscles, excellence and effort, pain and self-control, tears, sweat and smiles behind the sports achievements, personal or official. The marketing initiative by Arnold Worldwide continues the narration started by NB’s previous campaign, “Let’s Make Excellent Happen” in 2011—now, the focus is on fresh interpretations within running and on a person, an amateur or a pro.
To support the idea of craftsmanship behind the Pouring Ritual, Stella Artois launches an inspirational project, The Connoisseur Series, that goes live on the brand’s newly launched UK YouTube channel. The series of clips come as video portraits of renowned quality craftsmen, “connoisseurs,” who use their special rituals to do magic in their field of professional interest.
Brands deliver tons of products and services across the globe, but do they really contribute to making people’s lives brighter? In June, Havas Media released its annual Meaningful Brands index (MBi) outlining a positive impact of brands on people’s lives. The study comes as a unique framework to “analyze and track the connections brands have with our quality of life and well-being,” as the global media expert explains it.
Music can fuel the teaching process. This notion was put behind the one-of-a-kind project, Music Education Hackathon, organized by Innovate NYC Schools and supported by Spotify. The initiative, which rolled out for 48-hours in its active “contest” phase in late June, encouraged a dozen of teachers and school students to collaborate with 174 hackers for apps in order to transform learning experience with music.
Unlike many car manufacturers that hope to engage with the multimillion Facebook or Twitter audiences, Honda Australia has chosen a less popular, professional social-media networking site LinkedIn to promote its new Accord. The brand has collaborated with Leo Burnett Melbourne and ZenithOptimedia to launch a promotional website Honda Accord A-Team, where users (residents of Australia) can sign in with their LinkedIn accounts to enter a contest and win business-technology products worth AUD$3,000.