The theme of reuniting people with their loved ones has been successfully employed by a number of brands, including Baileys with its ‘Bring You Home’ project and Nivea’s New Year’s Eve promotion, to name a few. Now, the concept has become the basis for a series of Cadbury’s promotions: while bringing together the nation through the Spots v Stripes campaign in the U.K., the chocolate brand is also reconnecting Aussie families in the new promotional program dubbed ‘The Cadbury Catch Up,’ developed by the Saatchi & Saatchi agency and launched on February, 13.

Today, February 15, Stella Artois introduced the latest episode in the campaign for its premium 4% triple-filtered smooth lager produced by Mother London Agency. The whole series of video ads takes the viewer back into the 60’s to the sun-lit French Riviera and sees the title characters—attractive young men played by different actors—going through a number of changes in one episode, to eventually make an outstanding appearance in the eyes of a lady and order a glass of Stella Artois 4.

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.

Audi entered the  Super Bowl week with massive online activity and new campaign on TV. During the superbowl broadcast, it will introduce a 60-second TV spot featuring 2011 A8 sedan, Audi’s most technologically-advanced vehicle to date and the symbol of Audi’s new luxury lineup. The spot ‘Release the Hounds’ was created by San Francisco-based Venables Bell & Partners.

What does it take to create a stunning, award-winning movie today? For this, you need to assemble a perfect cast and hire a celebrated director (it goes without saying that money and talanted production is included as well). How to make a stunning, really engaging promotional video these days? Do the same. One of the biggest sport gear and apparel brands, Nike, teamed up with celebrity athlete Kobe Bryant, a rooster of movie stars including Kanye West, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, and Robert Rodriguez to shoot a film titled ‘The Black Mamba’ to support the launch of several new additions dedicated to Kobe.