Keeping up to current trends is essential for companies, which strive to be relevant to the fast-pace world and meet ever-changing consumer demands. In this piece, which is an abridged version of ANTHEM SIGHTINGS, Vol. 2, 2011, the most notable trends of today are covered—some of them root in old approaches, and some seem to be completely new, but all of them are shaping modern marketing efforts and influencing our perception of brands. The author of the paper, Kathy Oneto, Vice President, Brand Strategy in the San Francisco office of Anthem Worldwide, made a list of ten current trends and their examples from all around the globe, demonstrating the processes redefining the marketing industry right at the moment.
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Old Spice has introduced a new protagonist of in a series of ads to promote deodorants with scents of exotic places. Isaiah Mustafa, who got featured in the brand’s extremely popular campaign last year and appeared in ads promoting the resort-inspired line earlier this year, has stepped off the scene to give more space to a new (old) guy, bodice-ripper Fabio Lanzoni (or just Fabio), who has starred in a set of tongue-in-cheek 30-second commercials, promoting the product. Is the new ‘hunk’ a new ‘man your man could smell like?’ Please, no.
A year after YouTube asked people from all around the globe to contribute to making the ‘Life in a Day’ crowdsourcing movie, Intel Corporation and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. issued a call encouraging Internet users to participate in developing the state-of-the-art social film project dubbed ‘Inside.’ The blockbuster thriller starring Emmy Rossum (‘Phantom of the Opera’) and directed by D.J Caruso (‘Eagle Eye’) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Mauro Fiore (‘Avatar’), will be created in line with the previously launched Intel’s ‘Visual Life’ campaign and its numerous advertising pieces revolving around the escape theme.
With the words ‘A cleaner ocean, one vacuum cleaner at a time’, Electrolux introduces a donation program for all its Green Range vacuum cleaners. The Electrolux Green Range vacuum cleaner has become world famous through the project Vac from the Sea, where Electrolux built a number of unique concept vacuums using plastic trash gathered from the world oceans. Now the success hits the sales floor.
ABSOLUT Vodka, the iconic alcohol brand deeply involved into creative movement (focusing on visual art—its numerous themed projects prove it), also collaborates with music talents on short documentaries, celebrating the performers and their achievements. In March 2010, the brand teamed up with Jay-Z to release a 14-minute documentary about the musician’s life and work (the video also featured footage from a concert at Madison Square Garden), and now it’s announcing another two-part film starring rapper and record producer Cee Lo Green—the first chapter of their work titled ‘Cee Lo Distilled’ will appear on the brand’s Facebook page on June 27.
The greener lifestyle means choosing eco-friendly technology, protecting nature by using recyclable materials as well as being a health nut. In support of the Nissan LEAF, Nissan’s 100% electric automobile named the ‘2011 World Car of the Year,’ Nissan North America teamed up with Hollywood movie star Ryan Reynolds, who has joined a roster of elite fitness enthusiasts, athletes and coaches in the new integrated fitness-focused program dubbed ‘Innovation for Endurance.’
Any big idea, which helps a company flourish and establish intimate ties with consumers and pushes it forward in the industry, has a team of professionals behind. In this review based on the Fast Company’s diverse list of The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011, we at Popsop celebrate creative geniuses in top international businesses including Apple, Google, Levi’s, Nike, PepsiCo and more who reinvent strategies of their companies and introduce new groundbreaking solutions that change the world in a certain way.