Entries Tagged as ‘campaign’

May 12, 2010

Twitter: An established customer service channel

It wasn’t too long ago that there was only a handful of brands on Twitter and of these only a few were doing anything remotely positive with the service. Many brand profiles were just making random product announcements or simply spitting out an RSS news feed from their main site, very few brands were being [...]

March 11, 2010

Think: Be clever but be prepared to help

Another great piece of video content from Transport for London. This clever clip follows previous greats such as ‘take the test’ and ‘whodunnit’. However, when it comes to making clever videos to make your point you have to make sure that your audience actually understands the message. The feedback goldmine (mostly rock but the occasional [...]

February 16, 2010

Man City: Breaking the Big Four with the latest marketing techniques

In English Football there are 4 dominant teams, Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Arsenal, collectively they’re known as ‘The Big 4′. Their dominance on the pitch is reflected in their level of support both in the UK and across the globe. The Premier League is a global phenomenon, millions of people across the world are [...]

November 13, 2009

Sony turns ads into jeans

What do you do with massive poster ads that have been replaced? Well if your Sony Japan you turn them into jeans. I spotted this great little campaign in the Sony building Tokyo. On the outside of the building there hangs a massive promotion poster which is changed monthly, Sony decided to take these old [...]

August 18, 2009

What playing Poker can teach us about using Social Media

Brands are finally starting to enter social media channels, and those that are yet to do so will have to in very near future. Social media provides some very real challenges for brands, but with these challenges comes some amazing opportunities. It’s a complex game that requires some serious attention, skill and knowledge. Not unlike [...]

August 10, 2009

Ebay wicked sick BMX – Does creativity work?

Like me, you might have got sent a link to an eBay item description a few months back. The item was a pretty standard BMX, but the description was anything but. For example: “Once I did a boom gnarly stunt trick on it and a girl got pregnant just by watching my extremeness to the [...]

July 15, 2009

Lego: Pretty cool for a 50-year-old

This month Lego turned 50, you might have seen the brilliant ‘making history’ ads created to mark the occasion. It’s hardly surprising that a toy based around small plastic blocks has been around for 50 years, what is a little more surprising is the fact that 50 years on and in the digital age these [...]

July 6, 2009

Evolving traditional communication channels: Interactive Billboards and Cinema ads

Advertising is becoming more and more focused on the getting the consumer involved in the process, it’s no longer a one way broadcast model but a two way communication model where the audience play a vital role in any brand communication. We might assume this spells the end for many traditional advertising channels such as [...]