Facebook has opened its first engineering center outside of the U.S., with a focus on mobile. The crucial reason for the move is that the most of Facebook users—nearly 600ml out of one billion of all its users—login to the social media via mobile devices.
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Brand storytelling agency Aesop developed a crisp and fresh packaging for the low-cal Ribena Light juice. The new ‘airy’ packaging, which has been already launched across the UK, is to attract more consumers and help the product stand out on a shelf, which replaced Ribena Really Light as part of GSK’s market leading juice drink family.
Pearlfisher has devised and developed a strategy, name, tone of voice and iconic brand identity for Jamie Oliver’s Better Food Foundation, an initiative created for helping spread healthy eating habits across the globe. Today, a range of deceases originate from bad diets, and the Better Food Foundation is committed to contribute to establishing a world were high-quality food matters and people consume more healthy products to lead more productive and happy lives.
In the UK, Procter & Gamble is releasing a new campaign for its detergent brand Ariel, which will revolve around apparel stories told by various people. The promotion, developed by Saatchi & Saatchi, bears the strapline “That’s my Ariel, what’s yours?” to highlight the personal connection between the brand and people who use its products. The campaign, which includes TVCs, print, PR and digital promotion on the brand’s fresh page (registered on September 10) on Facebook, launches on October 15.
Google pays tribute to small businesses in the UK by rolling out a new product, the AdWords Credit Card, which enables them to pay for the AdWords service and coordinate the spending. The internet giant has launched a dedicated page www.google.co.uk/adwords/businesscredit, where users can learn more about the new program, launched on Sunday, October 7.
This summer ABSOLUT was on a tour around the UK with its Blank art project offering people an unconventional digital experience. The hit of the project was a soundproofed booth. Anybody could enter it, choose their favorite track and dance using their bodies as digital brushes to create digital trails in real-time. The background was blank and served as a canvas for consumers’ artwork.
