Google continues to develop its social network. The company has unveiled brand pages for Google+ that allow businesses and brands to join it. When Google+ was just launched brands rushed to create pages but Google asked firms to stop creating Google+ profiles for a while. It took several months for the tech giant to launch business pages.
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Brands use a plethora of ways to tell the world that they support sustainable practice and manufacture their products with nature in mind. They launch related campaigns, team up with global environmental organizations and release specifically certified products. Promoting the ecological philosophy around the globe, some brands are also targeting youngsters as consumers of tomorrow. PUMA has recently unveiled its new mascot Marmo and released a book about marine life featuring the red creature, and following the sportswear brand, Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex Cottonelle is also presenting a new children’s book dedicated to the theme of saving orangutans.
It’s quite a usual thing for brands to release festive or commemorative editions when it comes to some big dates or holidays like the Royal Wedding or Christmas or any other notable occasion. But adidas decided to go further and created a new pack to pay tribute to a song—Run-DMC’s 1986 track My adidas, which has become the anthem of the sneaker brand. To pay tribute to the song about the iconic sneaker, which is celebrating 25th anniversary this year, the brand is releasing DMC x adidas Superstar ‘My adidas’ sneaker, which will cost $150, in just a few days—on 11.11.11 at 11 am PST at Shopadidas.com, adidas Originals Stores, and select adidas accounts.
Unilever is making significant investment in its brands in Russia, with a major revamp of its Baltimor ketchup range. Russia is the second biggest ketchup market in the world—consumption per head is six times bigger than the world average and double the consumption of the USA—and Unilever leads the market with its two ketchup brands, Baltimor and Calvé. The brand overhaul has been carried out by the Dutch (Hilversum, NL) and UK offices of brand development agency Anthem Worldwide, part of Schawk, Inc.
Personality tests aimed at figuring out one’s way of thinking will never be out of fashion. Building on the success of such questionnaires, Hyundai has launched a new global campaign New Thinkers Index on online platform to provide visitors with a chance to explore the notable thinkers’ outlooks (ones of actors, musicians, outstanding athletes and other notable people), read articles and watch a series of short 4-minute videos revolving around the think theme and take a test online to figure out how well they do in eight major areas of thinking ranging from natural and interpersonal to music and visual.