The iconic red brand that has been associated with happiness for over 126 years, Coca-Cola is airing today a new amateur advert directed by a young contestant of MOFILM, 23-year-old New Zealander Hugh Mitton along with the producer Lee Kupferman (26).
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Google has lent its homepage to promote a movie—the upcoming comedy film “The Internship” got a huge marketing support from the web giant, which placed the announcement of the Google+Hangout with the film’s co-stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson right beneath the search box on its main page, Google.com. The movie tells a story of two laid-off forty-something men, who are interns at a successful internet company (apparently Google), where their managers are in their 20s.
Diet Pepsi celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new U.S. ad, titled “Come On,” created by TBWA/Chiat/Day and starring Sofia Vergara. In the spot the actress is sitting in a café and seems to be flirting with a handsome guy at the next table—as it turns out, she is snapping her eyes not at him, but at a can of Diet Coke, which is behind the guy. The humorous ad, which was launched ahead of the holiday, is a new spot in the series of ads within the “Love Every Sip” campaign, announced in late 2012.
As Facebook is gaining momentum as an advertising platform now, Nanigans, a Facebook advertising-software company, has conducted a research to figure out, which types of ads work best to drive sales. The researchers have analyzed over 975 million Facebook ad impressions to retailers’ ads in the U.S. in December 2012 and January 2013.
Each holiday should be extraordinary, cazenove + loyd believes. To turn a dream into reality, the luxury travel company provides never-to-be forgotten, unparalleled travel experiences to people, who want to spend their vacations with an extraordinary twist. The brand has launched a marketing campaign developed by Fold 7, in which its highlights “the extraordinary nature of its holidays.”
While Starbucks is helping create more jobs across the USA, M&M’S is set to provide more rehabilitate houses to people across the country. The brand has launched a new campaign entitled “America Better With M,” which includes a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International and a series of efforts to encourage the nation to volunteer for the initiative in 2013. In addition the brand will launch a new product to support the project.
Samsung, which has been taking on its rivals Apple and BlackBerry in its recent advertising campaigns, now switches to a friendlier way to promote its Galaxy Note II smartphone. The brand is collaborating with fashion designer Alexander Wang on “the industry’s first co-created print inspired by crowdsourced sketches and images,” created using the Samsung device. The new partnership has both a fashion and a philanthropic twist: the collectively created design will be featured on a limited-edition bag set to be launched in key select markets across the globe to raise money for the Art Start charity, which helps change lives of at-risk children through art.
Bud Light Platinum is becoming even more musical—following in the footsteps of BlackBerry, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intel and Polaroid, which invited music artists to be their creative directors, the beer brand tapped singer and actor Justin Timberlake for the same position. The celebrity, who is one of the co-owners of MySpace now, will “provide creative, musical and cultural curation for the brand.» Bud Light Platinum is Bud Light’s extension with higher alcohol content, launched in 2012 as a product for nighttime party drinkers.