Some news we want to share with our friend on Facebook are tragic—natural disasters, crimes, social inequality, horrible deeds, etc.—so ‘liking’ isn’t an appropriate thing to do with it. DDB Worldwide has come up with a great solution, the ‘I Care’ Button, which is already beta-tested on the new MTV Voices hub along with traditional buttons. The idea is the same: once you find some resonating information about social problems that are really worth sharing, click the ‘I Care’ button with a heart near the piece and the text, video or image appears on the user’s wall. The new button is created to “give people a way to show support for a wide variety of things such as: causes, social issues, charities, even government.”
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Kraft Food’s chewing gum brand Trident has launched a debut global campaign, which celebrates all the opportunities life can give us. The new ‘See What Unfolds’ campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, which broke on Monday, is targeted at millennials—people in their 20s and 30s, who want to experience everything the day can give and make their own decisions. In its core idea, the new marketing initiative, which as reported by Ad Age is set to roll out in at least 17 countries, including the U.S., is in some way similar to the controversial Diesel’s ‘Be Stupid’ or Levi’s ‘Go Forth’ campaigns combined, but of course is less provoking than the first one and less rebellious than the second one.
Whether using the avalanche technique to improve the taste of ice cream or oenology to produce coffee, Nestlé does its best to improve its products quality and taste. The company has developed a new technique to produce its premium portioned coffee brand Nespresso. The technique a similar to that used to produce wine, which means that select Colombian Castillo coffee bean, so called ‘cherries’ are left to mature on the plant until the last possible moment.
MINI United time is here again. The international Community growing up around the British premium small car brand is set to come together for the fourth running of a very special open-air festival May 11–13, 2012. Lying in wait for the MINI United 2012 crowd at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France—which played host to Formula One races over several decades—alongside the popular Community activities will be a top-class line-up featuring live music acts, motor sport and lifestyle action.