Microsoft is focusing on businessmen in its latest campaign, aimed to promote MS Dynamics, a family of EPR and CRM software applications for business. For the new multi-media effort, which is rolling out across the U.K., the computer giant has teamed up with international business analyst The Economist Group and London-based media communication agency UM London. They helped the company launch a new competition, which seeks new creative minds in the U.K. business field.
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Stockholm Art Week encourages anyone in the capital of Sweden to become an artist and join the powerful art movement using digital technologies. During the event (February 11—17), an iPhone app is launched—the application created by M&C Saatchi Stockholm and developed by Sparkling Zoo, which can be downloaded here, enables you to paint with your feet in the digital space and see the result in the real life.
Diet Pepsi celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new U.S. ad, titled “Come On,” created by TBWA/Chiat/Day and starring Sofia Vergara. In the spot the actress is sitting in a café and seems to be flirting with a handsome guy at the next table—as it turns out, she is snapping her eyes not at him, but at a can of Diet Coke, which is behind the guy. The humorous ad, which was launched ahead of the holiday, is a new spot in the series of ads within the “Love Every Sip” campaign, announced in late 2012.
As Facebook is gaining momentum as an advertising platform now, Nanigans, a Facebook advertising-software company, has conducted a research to figure out, which types of ads work best to drive sales. The researchers have analyzed over 975 million Facebook ad impressions to retailers’ ads in the U.S. in December 2012 and January 2013.
Each holiday should be extraordinary, cazenove + loyd believes. To turn a dream into reality, the luxury travel company provides never-to-be forgotten, unparalleled travel experiences to people, who want to spend their vacations with an extraordinary twist. The brand has launched a marketing campaign developed by Fold 7, in which its highlights “the extraordinary nature of its holidays.”
The Design Business Association (DBA) announced the recipients of Design Effectiveness Awards 2013 on February 7. The winners of the annual design competition are determined based on commercial data, which is one of the key judging criteria (along with cause and effect, clarity of presentation, and more).
While Starbucks is helping create more jobs across the USA, M&M’S is set to provide more rehabilitate houses to people across the country. The brand has launched a new campaign entitled “America Better With M,” which includes a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International and a series of efforts to encourage the nation to volunteer for the initiative in 2013. In addition the brand will launch a new product to support the project.
Samsung, which has been taking on its rivals Apple and BlackBerry in its recent advertising campaigns, now switches to a friendlier way to promote its Galaxy Note II smartphone. The brand is collaborating with fashion designer Alexander Wang on “the industry’s first co-created print inspired by crowdsourced sketches and images,” created using the Samsung device. The new partnership has both a fashion and a philanthropic twist: the collectively created design will be featured on a limited-edition bag set to be launched in key select markets across the globe to raise money for the Art Start charity, which helps change lives of at-risk children through art.