Heineken, which launched its hilarious Open Your World campaign in December 2010 with the ‘The Entrance’ spot, is now coming up with a new stunning video, the long-awaited second spot of the campaign. The film, which premiered on YouTube yesterday, May 25, is called ‘The Date’ and features a couple which is walking through a huge Chinese restaurant, packed with musicians, guests, chefs, beautiful ladies and gentlemen and a magician with a rabbit.

Doritos has initiated another fight between its flavours to see which of them is the ‘strongest’. Building on success of other themed advertising pieces, which included the spots for the Egyptian and U.S. markets as well as the large-scaled ‘The End’ promotion in Canada, where people were encouraged to ‘destroy’ one of the new additions, A (in the white bag) or B (in the black bag), the snack brand has kicked off a similar integrated promotion for Australian consumers at the www.battleoftheflavours.com website. Now, two new Doritos flavours, Hot Mexican Salsa and Thai Sweet Chilli, are placed against one another on the digital spot, and consumers are invited to support their favourite by suggesting the effective battle moves against the competitor.

Bacardi announces the official launch of the ‘Bacardi Together’ campaign in the U.S.—as part of the new platform, the brand has unveiled a 30-second television spot titled ‘Inventions,’ which brings to life the brand point of view by demonstrating for years many things have been invented to help people get together, including Bacardi.

Taking into account the variety of products that ranges from multiple tastes of Lifewater to the lineup of SoBeElixirs and Teas, anyone is unlikely to be surprised with the tagline of the newly-launched campaign by PepsiCo-owned SoBe that says, «Try Everything». Geared towards the young audience craving for adventures and unknown experiences (as well as liquid fuel), the campaign uses the power of radio, digital space and street-level out-of-home advertising in New York and Los Angeles to reach the consumers.

The time of great changes has come for McDonald’s. Despite of the +$1 billion overhaul that the company plans to complete by 2015 to ultimately change the face of its restoraunts, the brand is under pressure to discard its other iconic face, Ronald McDonald.

The campaign against McDonald’s symbol and point of communication with young consumers is gaining momentum as a group of activist physicians and health conscious people are pursuading McDonald’s to give a boot to its 43-year-old mascot.

Today, May 13, Stella Artois is set to launch a new stylish television advert for its premium 5% lager in the UK.

Le Apart-O-Matic, directed by Hollywood film icons Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr Fox) and Roman Coppola cleverly combines a witty storyline with stunning sixties inspired cinematography that perfectly reflect the sophisticated values of Stella Artois.

In a new campaign launched under ‘Open Happiness’ umbrella, Coca-Cola Great Britain aims to show what a great addition all Coke Family (C0ca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero) may be to family occasions. The new campaign starts as the beverage brand has renewed its partnership with ITV1, the nation’s biggest commercial station and destination for Saturday night family entertainment, that’s why the ads will be taglined ‘Saturday Night Tastes Better with Coca-Cola and ITV1’.

While one of the biggest brands of the world is celebrating its 125th anniversary, we’ll let ourselves sneak into the past and observe how it has evolved throughout its history spanning for more than a century and how through visual communication with all kinds of consumers around the globe it has created its face to become what it is now. The second most widely understood term in the world, after “okay”, a bottle whose shape can be unmistakably recognized in the darkness or even if broken, and ultimate sponsor of Olympic games since 1896, not to mention, a symbol of the USA and undeniable ingredient in McDonald’s menu…