Campaign Asia Pacific and research firm TNS surveyed 3,300 people in the 15-64 year old demographic to unveil the most popular brands in Asia Pacific. The top 3 turned out to be Sony, Samsung and Panasonic. Respondents from Australia, China, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand evaluated the brands in 72 categories.
Virtually everything in the world can be rated, being that success of leading global companies, creativity, Facebook popularity or support for LGBT community. YouGov BrandIndex has conducted a survey, asking U.S. citizens, who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, to say which brands are best perceived by them. Google’s YouTube tops the list of twenty companies, which also includes Google, Disney, Ford, Apple and M&M’s. Surprisingly enough, the ranking doesn’t feature ABSOLUT, known for its long-standing commitment to help LGBT representatives feel better by launching a range of initiatives (Gay Theatre Festival is just one of them) as well as other vodka or beer drinks.
Each year in June, the Côte d’Azur becomes the place with an overwhelming concentration of ‘lions’ (not animals, but beastly amazing advertising pieces) thanks to the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. This year’s event, which was taking place June 19–25, saw “thought-leaders and experts in all forms of communications and creative thinking come together to inspire, debate and entertain” and revealed the best advertising projects from all around the globe.
With young, dynamic and active target audience Nike keeps on inventing smart and interactive marketing campaigns. Yesterday the brand announced the launch of ‘The Chosen,’ a new global ‘Just Do It’ campaign starring a number of action sports stars. The main point of the campaign is a film featuring skate god Paul Rodriguez (P-Rod), Olympic snowboarder Danny Kass, surf genies Julian Wilson and Laura Enever. The film was shot in many countries of the world at night with lighting and pyrotechnics effects reminding of a live rock concert with a main theme ‘I got a thing’ performed by Hanni El Khatib.
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.
Nike 6.0, the extreme sportswear and gear branch of the iconic manufacturer, has been busy producing new films and arranging new projects dedicated to active lifestyle. On May 19, the brand released the recently announced ‘Leave a Message’ film, showcasing six main women of Nike 6.0 Surf as they live and perform, and a few days earlier, on May 16, it kicked off the long-awaited BMX project dubbed ‘The Pool’ in east London, Dagenham. The space, where the professional and amateur riders are showing their skills, used to be a real swimming pool, which has been remodeled by one of the world’s best skatepark designers, Dave Sowerby.
For a brand like Puma, surviving and getting its second wind in a crowded market among such strong competitors as Nike and Adidas might mean actually thinking outside the market, i.e. turning from a sports sector with its tough competition to a more tolerant lifestyle clothing and apparel market. This idea was first discussed in Bloomberg Businessweek article dedicated to the dynamics of Puma sales over the last ten years.