LG encourages the US nation to tackle bullying and help create the friendly atmosphere in communities across the country. The tech giant supports Cartoon Network’s ‘Stop Bullying: Speak Up’ campaign by launching an initiative at the sixth annual LG U.S. National Texting Championship next week on August 8. The brand will encourage people in the US to enter a simple message ‘Join LG’ and send it to 27777 during the special ‘Text for the Cause’ round. Each text pledge will bring $1 to Cartoon Network from LG (up to $50,000)—the donated money will be spend on distributing more bullying prevention toolkits for middle and high schools across the country.

Gap celebrates the school season and promotes its new fall collection for kids by launching the Shine On campaign in the USA and Canada. The new promotion, which basically syncs with the brand’s Be Bright positioning for older consumers, features kids ranging from one to 12 years old, who are spreading joy around themselves and painting a mural on the campus of Daniel Webster Middle School in Los Angeles with vibrant colours.

It’s nearly impossible to create a better beer formula, but creative minds can offer new approaches to take the beer drinking process to the next level. As part of its Ideas Brewery project, HEINEKEN is challenging innovators from all around the globe to think and offer some new draught beer experiences. It is the second Open Innovation Challenge within the project (in April, when the Ideas Brewery was founded, the company called beer fans to create the innovative packaging for beer), and the beer maker wants contestants to use all their talent and technological solutions from other fields, the entertainment and gaming industries to name a few, to develop a truly stunning experience.

The article is written by Douglas Kaufman, Head of Communications at Cocoon Group

About 30 years ago, my parents took part in a Jack Daniels promotion in which they ‘bought’ one square foot (a foot is about 1/3 of a meter, for the non-Americans reading this article) of genuine Lynchburg, Tennessee property in exchange for their signature and address. The promotion featured a realistic looking title to the land and probably came with some sort of gift-giveaway -both of which were chuckled over, brought home, and promptly forgotten about.