Building on the success of 2013’s “Ahh Effect” campaign, Coca-Cola is launching a new spin of the effort that employs the same idea of ultimate joy delivered by every single sip of Coke. The new promotion uses the elements from the content of the 61 AHH.com websites (each site having different numbers of “h” in the URL) that highlighted a variety of ahh moments, and asks younger audience to contribute their own exclamations inspired by Coke.
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Heineken is tapping into the lovely Christmas tradition of singing carols with a new fun experiment that invited non-professional singers to perform in front of a broad audience. The challenge dubbed Carol Karaoke comes as part of the brand’s U.S. holiday campaign taglined “Open Your Celebrations,” which continues Heineken’s global marketing effort “Open Your World.”
Brave, Mother and Wieden + Kennedy London have “rebranded” feminism for the November issue of the women’s magazine Elle UK. The campaign aims to draw a new picture of what feminism is, without any labels. For the project, the agencies have teamed up with feminist groups— Mother partnered with The Feminist Times, Brave worked with teenage feminist campaigner Jinan Younis, and W+K collaborated with two women behind the Vagenda website, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett.
Coca-Cola is battling “gray-ness” with the latest installment of its “Where Will Happiness Strike Next?” global campaign that injects some unexpected joy into the dull urban surroundings. The “Roll Out Happiness” initiative masterminded by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam literally rolled out a piece of summer in boring «gray, grau, gri, グレー, šedá, серых» city settings of Vilnius, Lithuania in late summer.
Nike is rolling out its first campaign dedicated to the Olympics 2020 that will be hosted by Tokyo in seven years. The idea behind the effort by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo is that there’s much time left before the games launch, so we all have seven years to decide what our life will be like in nearly a decade. The campaign is running under the tagline “Nothing has been decided yet.”
Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam has come up with a design solution for the teen-targeted Coca-Cola Music platform that celebrates its living beat through technology. They have created a special app, Dynamic Logo Creator, that generates unique sound signatures based on particular songs—an iconic contour bottle is the major element of the logos. The idea of an ever-changing logo has been put at the heart of the new visual identity for Coca-Cola Music.
Levi’s starts a new chapter in the history of women’s jeans. First introduced in 1934, the Lady Levi’s jeans were revolutionized over the past decades and reached its perfection in 2010 with the introduction of the Curve ID fit system. Now, Levi’s is rolling out its latest innovation, Levi’s Revel, which will make the perfect yet better. The brand’s latest line is built on exclusive Liquid Shaping Technology, which is fused into the denim and controls its stretch.
Heineken’s new effort, “Dropped,” aims to inspire men to become explorers, not just tourists. The beer brand is releasing a series of documentary-style “social experiments” that will see four guys dropped into challenging adventures, all to trigger their intrinsic survival mechanisms and motivate them to open new horizons.