Coca-Cola is committed to spreading happiness and sharing positive emotions all around the globe. Usually, one doesn’t need much to feel happy, since even a small gesture, a little personalized gift can make our day. In Australia, the legendary soft drink brand has released a range of bottles and cans with the most popular names in the country—Jess, Sam, Edward, Matt, Kevin, Kate and others (there are 150 of them)—printed on the front of the packaging as part of the Share a Coke campaign ahead of the Christmas season, inviting people to buy these personalized drinks for their friends and family. Consumers can purchase the cans and bottles, which already have the names, or ask to put the ones they want for free at one of 18 Westfield Shopping Centers.
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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.
On July 1, BP returned to the British TV screens after a five-year break. The ad, created by Ogilvy & Mather, features BP’s sponsored athletes from the Olympics and Paralympics, including British track athlete Jessica Ennis and Paralympic runner Richard Whitehead. The athletes run in BP’s bio fields, as well as on field tracks, surrounded by cars.
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.
The hilarious ‘Dove Campaign for Real Beauty’ featuring women of all ages and nationalities, which was aimed at helping female consumers feel confident with their looks and realise their personal beauty potential, is now replaced by new campaign dubbed ‘Dove Body Language’ for the Dove Hand & Body range, which was relaunched globally. The campaign was kicked off by Unilever on June 6 and is rolling out primarily at the brand’s Facebook page, where one can write a shareable message (up to three lines) with the help of six women who form letters with their bodies.
Magnum can be proud of its rich advertising background—last year, the brand released a gorgeous spot by Brian Singer featuring Benicio del Toro, at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival it presented a series of vignettes created by Karl Lagerfeld, and now Unilever Canada is one the lookout for Magnum heir in its new advertising push. The campaign developed by Ogilvy & Mather to promote the ice cream’s six-flavour range launching in Canada this month, was kicked on the dedicated website and Facebook page.
Nowadays fashion seeks to spread its power over every tiny detail of our life, not just clothes and footwear. Since the time even personal electronics were announced a fashionable accessory, the modern day consumer has become hard to surprise. But what is SHE going to say about that: beginning April 4, even sanitary pads have become a fashionable accessory due to the ground-breaking campaign launched by U Kotex. The brand has signed an award-winning designer Patricia Field (known for her work as a fashion and costume designer in ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Ugly Betty,’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada’) to run the new contest, adage.com reports.
Coca-Cola’s Sprite is launching a new advertising campaign in India, where the brand holds the second position in the list of soft drink brands. The tagline of the marketing push, which aims at younger consumers, says, ‘First drink, then think. Sprite—University of Freshology.’ The iconic lemon-lime based soda, which was launched in 1999 across the country, will be now promoted through a series of 6 TV commercials, as well as social media platforms and the brand’s website—www.sprite.in.
Ahead of this St. Valentine’s Day, Puma helped single Melbournians find their love in the ‘sportive settings,’ gave couples an opportunity to spend an unconventional Valentine’s weekend and promoted urban running at the same time. On February 12, the lifestyle and sportswear brand launched Puma Love Run, inviting people of Melbourne to have a nice time together covering a distance between 4.5km or 6.5km in the inner-city park Birrarung Marr—all for love.