Apple has topped the CoolBrands list again while digital and affordable luxury brands slip down in the rankings of the annual survey by The Centre for Brand Analysis. Häagen-Dazs, Ben and Jerry’s and Vogue – all affordable luxuries – are gone from the top twenty,’ says Stephen Cheliotis chairman of the CoolBrands Council, who adds […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkitdlOYEs As Ford is sponsoring the 2014 UEFA Champions League Final in Portugal, the ad agency Wunderman has helped them “look” for the next generation of soccer champions by placing a trophy on the streets. A challenge was issued to the public to see if they could lift the trophy just like a UEFA champion—although […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV4TjIYVyuY To get people interested in sports in Turkey, Nike got Didier Drogba, Birsel Vardalı, Burak Yılmaz, and other famous Turkish athletes to make a “human printing press”. In this viral video, each athlete uses his or her abilities to power a printing press—cyclists power a machine which loads paper into a printer, while a […]
Pinterest has announced plans to bring advertising to its platform for the first time in the form of Promoted Pins, a move that follows several recent attempts to make itself more attractive to advertisers. The three-year old business, which has previously voiced its reluctance to running ads, has promised the service will be “tasteful”, “relevant’ […]
Search engine giant Google is rolling out a new identity, which ditches the previous 3D-style elements of the logo. The new, flat identity by Ars Technica, which also features a refined colour palette and updated letter shapes, is launching across most Google products over the next few weeks, according to Google tech lead manager Eddie […]
Coca-Cola has apologised after a promotion it was running for its Vitaminwater brand in Canada resulted in ‘You Retard’ being printed on one of its bottle caps. Playing off of Canada’s bilingualism, the promotion put a random English word with a French word. In this case, the English ‘You’ was put with ‘Retard’ which in […]
JWT Canada announced that it has been selected by Air Canada as its new creative advertising agency of record, following a national search process. JWT Canada will handle all of Air Canada’s global brand communications and digital marketing with effect from January 2014. Mindshare will handle all media planning and buying. “JWT demonstrated strong capabilities […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ul6lh0XQ8 Network Rail has unveiled a film and online game – ‘Track Tests’ –with rapper, Wretch 32, and spoken word performer, George the Poet, which looks to stop death and accidents on the tracks. Created by M&C Saatchi, the campaign sees a series of tests highlighting the difficulty of hearing approaching trains to see if […]
To help Capital One advertise for its Venture Card, Ryan Hamrick came up with an interactive online ad campaign called “#Bucketlist”. Using this hashtag, Hamrick asked the Twitter community about their travel dreams, getting a Tumblr artist to hand-letter each tweet. The result is an eye-catching series of posters which capture the wanderlust within all […]
Consultancy Earth has created the new look for the Commonwealth – an intergovernmental voluntary organisation of 54 member states. The states, which were mostly territories of the former British Empire, have no legal obligation to one another, but are united by shared values of ‘democracy, human rights and the rule of law’, according to the […]