Internet is becoming a more and more popular space for promoting products and building strong ties with target consumer groups. Brands know it, and people know that brands know it and they do not mind to be part of this ‘game.’ On the contrary, users are actively getting engaged into the digital activity of the global companies and easily adopt new ways of communicating with brands and enrich their experience as iConsumers. Why is it so important for brands, how can they benefit from it and what ways do they choose to get people connecting with them online? This is the theme of our today’s review.
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Celebrating further expansion into UK supermarkets, Northern Ireland’s favourite craft baker, Genesis Crafty, has commissioned branding specialist Brandhouse and new media agency Matmi to develop a promotional game. The free-to-play social game, ‘Knead for Speed,’ helps to tell the Genesis Crafty story through social game play, and features the company’s six founding brothers in a stick men bake-off of epic proportions.
The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project welcomes the world’s No.1 female artist, Madonna, who joins the brand’s one-of-a-kind program of swapping partying experiences around the globe. In its second year, the international initiative, launched by one of the best vodka brands in the world in 2010, is encouraging people to share their nightlife traditions through Facebook and swap the unique parties on November 12. The pop diva, who has turned 53 this week, has joined the ambitious program to find the most brilliant dancer, who will be invited to join her upcoming series of concerts.
Giant companies provide vital support to small enterprises, giving people behind them with an opportunity to expand their business and make it big, doing small things. The team of big corporations, which already includes Cisco, American Express and Facebook to name but a few, is now joined by Dell, which is offering small businesses in the USA a chance to win $25,000 in its products preloaded with Windows 7 Professional & Office Home and Business, a $50,000 prepaid card from MasterCard, and their own online reality show. The submissions to the America’s Favorite Small Business competition are accepted on a dedicated page on YouTube through September 11.
Levi’s, which is encouraging the whole world to ‘Go Forth’ with its global campaign, now has made a new big step to promote pioneering spirit on all the continents. The brand, which is committed to inspiring younger generation to create positive social, cultural and ecological changes in the world, is presenting its new film, the ‘Levi’s Legacy’ 60-second spot, which is the first international video of the promotion. The spot, which first premiered on the brand’s Facebook page, will be screened at cinemas on Friday and then will be aired on TV later in August, according to the press release.
Sony Ericsson teamed up with McCann Erickson, Munich to develop a campaign, which is centered on and inspired by the urban environment. The marketing project dubbed Challenge was designed to promote the Xperia handsets by showing what people can do with the devices’ screens. The brand has launched several absolutely stunning vignettes, ‘challenges,’ revolving around using the smartphones in urban environment, and launched the interactive Challenge the City game in a dedicated hub on its official page.
Starbucks has launched an updated, redesigned version of www.StarbucksStore.com online destination to provide its consumers with the enhanced shopping experience and make it easier and quicker to find the best coffee, teas and merchandise offerings. In addition to the traditional coffee&tea range, the digital venue, which was developed with by PFSweb, Inc. (a global e-commerce solution provider), offers a number of extra services like subscription, tasting tours and prepaid gift cards across the U.S. territories.
Gap, which shook its fan community with the notorious logo change last year (eventually, the old one was brought back primarily thanks to big buzz across the web), is now launching its new campaign dubbed 1969: L.A. and Beyond, developed by Gap’s Global Creative Center in NY together with Ogilvy and Cool Hunting to provide its consumers with an opportunity to look behind the scenes of the creativity and introducing the brands designers, the 1969 design team, who create new models and denim fits. The new campaign, which has been launched today, on August 1, in the U.S., will be rolling out on the brand’s Facebook page and other online destinations such as Hulu, Daily Candy, Pandora and RollingStone to name a few and in the August issues of national magazines including Glamour, GQ, InStyle, People StyleWatch and Vogue.