2010 Loeries: facebook Like Campaign

South Africa’s main advertising awards event, The Loeries,  is taking place this weekend in Cape Town and one of the underground campaigns to help create conversations about the awards is a facebook “Like” button mechanism. The idea is simple, find… Continue Reading

Sony Ericsson: Android LiveView

  Sony Ericsson has just announced this very neat little gadget for Android phones called LiveView. If you watch the short clip above it shows you the devise in action, the basic are that from this small screen you can… Continue Reading

RE/MAX: Win an Apple iPad 3G bloggers competition

     RE/MAX, one of South Africa’s largest property companies recently launched a great yet simple online campaign aimed at the blogging community, with the prize being a new Apple iPad 3G. All bloggers have to do is go to http://remax.co.za/Blog-To-Win/,… Continue Reading

Volkswagen Vento: Talking Newspaper Ad

Volkswagen, India, recently came up with a novel way to start a conversation, they created the first talking newspaper ad in India. When readers of two of India’s top newspapers namely The Hindu, and The Times of India, opened their… Continue Reading

Audi Quattro: Magnet Cars

Great PR stunt by Lowe Roche, Canada, for Audi. To show how well the legendary Audi quattro all-wheel drive system sticks to the road they attached Super-powerful rare-earth magnets to miniature models of Audi vehicles, which were then stuck on… Continue Reading

John Smith’s: Dog Show (With Peter Kay)

In This new John Smith’s TV advert, Peter Kay (for the last time) and dog Tonto compete in a dog show – in their own No Nonsense way! Agency: TBWA, London

Greenpeace: Facebook Unfriend Coal

To object to facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to use electricity generated by coal power plants to power facebook’s Oregen based data centre, Green peace has produced this great fun video urging him to reconsider his choice. Great work. To… Continue Reading

Infographic: The Colours of the Web

Interesting infographic of the webs top 100 brands and  the colours that those brands use. Interesting to see that blue is still the colour of choice online as it is offline (look at most crowds of people and you will… Continue Reading

South African Homeless World Cup team needs your help

We’ve recently learned from the MAL Foundation that the South African Homeless Team has qualified for the Homeless World Cup 2010 in Rio. The team won the City Cup last year and are hoping for more success this year. Unfortunately… Continue Reading

Sony Ericsson: X10 Product Testing Institute

To help market the new X10 Sony Ericsson android phone in the USA, Dare, New York, filmed 5 YouTube clips looking at fun mock focus group testing. The X10 was tested by Models, Guidos, Surfers, Glam Rockers, and Toddlers (as… Continue Reading