http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nql49wrkURY Nike has signed popstar Jessie J to front the European phase of its ‘Just Do It’ 25th anniversary campaign in a bid to motivate women to embrace their potential. The motivational campaign is led by the brand’s “Endless Possibilities” advert featuring several women overcoming ‘testing’ circumstances including running from wolves, swimming to the bottom […]
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=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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paddy Power is joining forces with gay rights charity Stonewall to launch a campaign urging professional footballers to tackle homophobia in the game by wearing rainbow-coloured laces in their boots. Sets of laces have been sent to every Premier League and Football League player, plus those in the Scottish Professional League in the hope that […]
A French type designer has accused the UK Home Office of using his typeface without permission on its recent anti-illegal immigration van campaign. The controversial campaign saw vans drive through London last month bearing the slogan ‘In the UK Illegally? Go Home or Face Arrest’. Designer Fabien Delage claims the Home Office has used his […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slETbZ7FIs0 A mashup of video game, online promotion and Formula racing is the basis of a new Lexus online film and broadcast ad effort called “Trace Your Road,” in which an F1 driver attempts to drive a virtual track in a real Lexus IS Hybrid. As he drives around in a gigantic airplane hanger, the […]
Picture Volvo’s president Claes Nilsson in a cute yellow construction hat, and strange whirring sounds in the background. The camera pans out and there he is, perched on a Volvo truck that has been suspended 20-meters above the water at a port in Gothenburg. If heights make you uncomfortable, Nilsson promises that “You don’t need […]
WPP consultancies The Brand Union and Digit have created a new ‘visual brand identity’ for Vodafone. Vodafone’s existing logo is retained, and a bright red flexible rhombus shape has been added. This anchors to Vodafone’s roundel, and can be used in moving or static forms. Vodafone says the new rhombus positions the company ‘as a […]