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.
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Volkswagen Brazil is giving out tickets to the upcoming 2010 Planeta Terra festival to people, who like to use Twitter and do it massively. The auto brand has launched so called “corrida” on the popular micro-blogging platform to be rolling out for four days, November 16-19. People are invited to ‘hunt down’ the tickets for the festival to be arranged in São Paulo this Saturday by tweeting.
Volkswagen is using dance to push its Polo range. Yesterday, November 10, the automobile maker released a commercial, starring Argentinian Tango champions, to promote its vehicles as chick and safe cars, which can impress consumers both its beauty and reliability. The advert, which was developed by DDB UK and aired on British channels, features “Tough. Beautiful. Polo.” strapline.
Volkswagen is going to pay homage to iconic movies of all times. More preciously, it’s celebrating not the movies themselves but the locations where the story was filmed. To kick off the massive campaign dubbed “See Film Differently,” the brand has collaborated with the DDB agency, which developed two tongue-in-cheek cinema adverts, “Ghostbusters” and “When Harry met Sally,” to air in cinemas on October 25, and also created a cinematography-focused website.