The Hangover,” a comedy hit of summer 2009, inspired Nokia and the creative team from agency JWT, Manila, to develop a nice campaign dubbed “Gener8” supporting the launch of the Nokia N8 phone in the Philippines. They introduced a new invented character Pier Roxas, who found himself in a Southeast Asian city, remembering nothing about the previous eight days of his life. Consumers were invited to reconstitute the chain of events using a bunch of clues.

Coca-Cola Ireland are delighted to announce the launch of their Christmas digital activity drawing on the wonderful heritage of Coca-Cola’s association with Christmas. The campaign consists of a website, iPhone Application, Facebook application and online advertising including a high profile Homepage Take Over on MSN.ie. Online advertising specials will also be present on Entertainment.ie, eBay and Independent.ie during November and December. The campaign creative features the iconic Coke Santa and Coke Trucks set inside a snowglobe scene.

Earlier this year, Volkswagen in cooperation with one of the world leading advertising agencies DDB Stockholm named  the winner of the Fun Theory Contest initiated by VW.  A US citizen Kevin Richardsson that came up with the idea of  «Speed Camera Lottery» was selected an author of the best suggestion. His idea uses the speeding cameras at intersections to track down the speeders that will be fined and rewards those who obey the speed limit with the money paid by the speeders.

IBM, Verizon, Levi’s and Mattel teamed up with the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism to support a series of projects and initiatives focused on both real-world applications and a societal impact. Students of the school supervised by teaching staff will work together under the roof of the recently-founded Annenberg Innovation Lab, which projects are sponsored by the brands.

Liu Wen made her official debut as an Estée Lauder global spokesmodel in Beijing to launch the new Pure Color makeup collection. Joined by Estée Lauder executives she was honored as the brand’s latest spokesmodel at a major launch event at the prestigious Ch’ianmen 23 in Central Beijing. She was also feted at a private dinner hosted by Vogue China, before holding interviews with international and Chinese media.

With the winter holidays coming up, brands are busy promoting their products or services in the most eye-catching way. The retail chains have to do the double work promoting their venues and selling the advertized goods at the same time in the most intense period of the pre-Christmas season. To educate consumers how to behave during the holiday frenzy, Target released a series of hilarious adverts about Black Friday 2-Day Sale featuring comedian Maria Bamford.

For 38 consecutive years, the Veuve Clicquot Champagne brand, founded by Nicole Ponsardin, the famous widow Madame Clicquot, is saluting the UK business women for their grand achievements in work as well as dedication for providing positive changes in the social and health care spheres. Now, the brand is encouraging female leaders to send applications for a chance to receive 2011 The Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award.