Intertwitter Race is the title of a one of a kind online campaign developed by Nike in collaboration with BBDO Argentina and +Castro dedicated to Buenos Aires Nike 10k—a marathon that was held in Buenos Aires. This online application that united the online and real-life races was designed to compare and visualize the number of literal ‘followers’ a racer had in course of the actual Nike 10K (based on their timing results) to the number of Twitter followers of the race participants. 

From time to time, brands invite their consumers to assist them in developing new products—as a rule, fans create package or apparel designs, commercials or even flavours of drinks, while naming usually remains in the domain of the brand’s creative team. adidas UK decided to step further and is now offering football fans a life-time chance to give a name to the official matchball of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Quite a bold step since the ball is not only the brand’s product, but a part of the international sports history as well.

The Doritos ‘Pug Attack’ user-created commercial about a dog which goes for chips scored the No.1 ranking in the 2011 USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter rating, bringing its creator, JR Burningham, one million dollars as a prize from PepsiCo. This year’s top-five also includes by Bud Light ‘Dog Sitting’ ad (which received 8.5 Ad Meter Score just like the winning spot), Volkswagen’s little Darth Vader commercial, Doritos ‘House Sitting’ (created by Tynesha Williams, won $400,000) and Pepsi MAX ‘Love Hurts’ spots.

Mars gets focused on re-uniting adults and regular football in England. The chocolate brand in partnership with The FA to launch a campaign entitled ‘FA MARS Just Play’ across the country to encourage its consumers to take a ball and head to the pitch with their friends to play a football mach like they did when they were kids. Through the new initiative, the brand is “aiming to get 150,000 new participants playing the game for at least 30 minutes a week by September 2013, and deliver a total of 3.9m hours of extra football played each year throughout England,” thefa reports.