Inspired by the notorious WikiLeaks project, Kia launched its own non-serious media website, “dedicated to bringing important news and information” about the upcoming all-new redesigned and re-engineered Kia Picanto. The auto brand encourages anonymous independent sources to reveal some censored facts which have been kept under wraps. The PicantoLeaks online designation provides all kinds of information for those who want to learn more about the new model and are not afraid to know the truth.

Avon announced the launch of Avon Connects—a social media website for women that allows them to interact with Avon representatives to get expert advice on the products. The new social media at www.avonconnects.co.uk serves for the purpose of helping women socialize, get support and advice from community members as well as enjoy other standard functions an average online community for women performs.

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.

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.

If you can’t push your principles forward in the society where you created them, go and set up a new community to promote them. Diesel presents the follow-up of its ‘Be Stupid’ movement, which totally supports the above-stated motto, by launching ‘Diesel Island’ campaign on its website and in prints. This is a story of young adults, who are bored of keeping to the principles of the world, where common sense rules. They landed on an island (bought, not obtained by war) to “start a nation from scratch, to take what is great from the countries we know and ditch what is bad, to re-write the laws, and to right social wrongs.” Quite an ambitious goal, isn’t it?

Pepsi announced the program details of the 2011 Pepsi Refresh Project, a crowd-sourcing movement that supports bold, fun creative ideas that have the power to move communities forward. In 2010, the Pepsi Refresh Project, an award-winning program, directed millions of dollars to fund over 1,000 great ideas across the country, and now it wants to fund twice as many great ideas.