Coca-Cola Great Britain is supporting the training of over 120 new swimming teachers and coaches as part of its commitment to get people active on the road to 2012. The announcement follows on from the success of the company’s “Schweppes Abbey Well’ ‘Schwim Free” campaign, which enables consumers to enjoy a free swim by exchanging promotional Schweppes bottle tops at participating pools in England, Scotland and Wales.

Coca-Cola and ParticipACTION, the national voice of physical activity and sport participation in Canada, are providing the tools to empower teens to be active living ambassadors with their peers. Sogo Active, the national physical activity program of Coca-Cola Canada in collaboration with ParticipACTION, has grown to almost 13,000 youth and 1,300 Community Host members in just over a year. This summer the program is reaching out to all Canadians aged 13-19 with more support, resources and incentives designed to get teens active.

Every week the brand and design news seems to feature yet another online campaign, social networking competition or launch of a new hub as brands compete to capture the attention of an exponentially growing virtual audience. But, just as we (consumers) are continually warned of the dangers of identity theft and fraud—with another story this week detailing how successfully phone Apps and their data can now be compromised—are brand owners heeding the very real threat of creative piracy as we become ever more of an e-commerce culture?

Coca-Cola Europe has collaborated the Publicis Mojo agency from Sydney to develop a new integrated promotional project for its energy drink Burn, and now they are proud to unveil the results of their hard work. Starting July 22, the campaign rolls out in 43 European markets and features three ‘burning’ short videos by three different directors—“Ride” (by Garth Davis), “Playground” ( by Glendyn Ivin) and “Peepshow” (by Jonathan Hill),—all of which are released online on the Burn’s hub and social media websites.