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.
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SoBe is probably the fastest brand in the world of soft drinks considering the fact that its totem animal is a quick lizard. Thanks to its nimble nature, the brand is also the first to unveil an in-tuner animated video ad, part of the brand’s recently launched ‘Try Everything’ campaign, on Pandora internet radio website, targeting young millennial males. The 15-sec pop-up advertisement, featuring a slithering lizard followed by a bikini-clad Kate Upton, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 Rookie of the Year, was available to see for just one day, on June 29, and only by guys aged 18-29.
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.
Big companies often kick off promotional initiatives to tell about their products based on green technologies—just like Nissan with is Leaf Hybrid or Volkswagen with the ThinkBlue international program to name but a few. Panasonic Corporation of North America, which is one of the biggest global corporations committed to using innovative eco-friendly solutions, has launched a campaign in the U.S. not to promote some certain ranges, but to “highlight its growing leadership in green business innovation looking toward 2018, the 100th anniversary of the founding of its parent company, Panasonic Corporation,” as the press release states.
Beer and music do match. This was proved by numerous partnerships and collaborations with performers launched by many brands including Heineken, Grolsch, Carlsberg, as well as premium lager brand Kronenbourg 1664, which is to release a new music-centered addition to its ‘Slow the Pace’ campaign, devised by BBH. Just like Levi’s did within its ‘Pioneer Session’ where celebrated artists were remaking popular songs of past decades, the beer brand is helping old tracks be heard again and live a new life but with the same musicians.