P&G-owned brands Crest and Oral-B announced the ‘4th Cleaner Crusade’, a cross-country campaign aimed at educating Americans about the danger of dental plaque and ways to prevent it. The experts at P&G have studied the statistics on the dental health of American people and suggested their solution to improve the situation. They pledge to help people spot this problem and provide expert advice where it’s needed most. 

Dockers, one of the Levi Strauss brands, is offering real men (and women) to enter a new contest for a chance to receive as much as $100,000 to develop their lifetime dream project, either business or personal ones. The US competition comes as part of the ‘Wear the Pants’ global ad campaign, which has been running since 2009 celebrating “a new style of masculinity—one that blends accountability and sensitivity, for the man who knows how to change a tire and a baby’s diaper.” The well-known khaki pants brand is giving away the major prize of $100K as well as additional 43 ‘Man Grants’ with total value of over $75,000 in services, tools, resources, or cash.

Audi entered the  Super Bowl week with massive online activity and new campaign on TV. During the superbowl broadcast, it will introduce a 60-second TV spot featuring 2011 A8 sedan, Audi’s most technologically-advanced vehicle to date and the symbol of Audi’s new luxury lineup. The spot ‘Release the Hounds’ was created by San Francisco-based Venables Bell & Partners.

Diet Coke and Heidi Klum joined forces on to raise awareness and funds for women’s heart health education and research. February is American Heart Month, and for the fourth consecutive year, Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to support ‘The Heart Truth®’ campaign (read more about the brand’s involvement in the movement in 2009 and 2010).

Kleenex brand facial tissue is running a campaign dubbed ‘Sneeze Catchers’ targeting American kids of hispanic origin. It is designed to raise awareness of the importance of taking measures against cold and flu among children. They are encouraged to use facial tissues when feeling a sneeze coming on and spread this information among their friends. The winners of the campaign will be awarded with an all-expense-paid trip with their families to an Orlando, Fla and will receive a Kleenex kit consisting of healthcare products.

What does it take to create a stunning, award-winning movie today? For this, you need to assemble a perfect cast and hire a celebrated director (it goes without saying that money and talanted production is included as well). How to make a stunning, really engaging promotional video these days? Do the same. One of the biggest sport gear and apparel brands, Nike, teamed up with celebrity athlete Kobe Bryant, a rooster of movie stars including Kanye West, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, and Robert Rodriguez to shoot a film titled ‘The Black Mamba’ to support the launch of several new additions dedicated to Kobe.

As part of its promotional campaign for Tazo teas, the busiest Canadian Starbucks restaurants located in Toronto and Vancouver are now attracting passers-by with the newly-installed interactive storefronts. These projection devices invite people to play an interactive game by guiding a creature of their choice (a hummingbird, a dragonfly or a butterfly) through a journey aimed at collecting all the ingredients for Tazo teas merely as they touch the screen and move their hand around it.