Old Spice is doing pretty well with it's recent video series, starring Isaiah "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Mustafa. Since February this year, they posted just over 20 video's on their YouTube channel, including a Cannes Grand Prix Film. All of the video's are watched over a million times, which makes it one of the most viewed commercial series ever. But today it got even better. They posted another 25 video's (and counting) in which the Old Spice guy personally thanks online influentials like Ellen Degeneres, Perez Hilton and Tim Nudd and random strangers for their link love and comments. And not only by name, but in a real 'I now who you are, and what you are up to' kinda way. This single tweet by Kevin Rose, with over a million Twitter followers, shows that this next level social media campaigning works like crazy.
Great use of Facebook Connect by Disneyland Paris to celebrate the arrival of the New Generation in the French theme park. Pixar characters arrive on your Facebook wall. Nothing revolutionnary, but well executed, nice and entertaining.
Dulux "Let's colour"campaign is trying to transform, through color, all that abandoned and boring places that sometimes surround us. Besides the two sites, this is the tv-commercial presenting the whole thing:
I'm a big fan of this effort done by Orange and RockCorps altogether (first in the UK, then in France), called Orange Rockcorps, based on young people exchanging hours of volunteering for tickets to some really cool gigs:
Waterlife is a movie that tells the story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth and the great distress that the Great Lakes are in. Its website is a nice one, with a nice soundtrack and a nice interface to provide several facts about water issues, guess i like because the old-simple-beautiful microsite still works when it has a story to be told :)
There's an intresting fight going on between Greeenpeace and Nestle. Greenpeace pointed his arrows on KitKat producer Nestle today, blaming the company for using palm oil (key ingredient for products like KitKat) from producers who destroy rainforrests in Indonesia. To get massive attention, they released the KitKat style commercial below, one with a shocking twist. Nestle replied with a press release, stating it will switch palm oil suppllier, but at the same time they tried to get the commercial down from YouTube. Greenpeace is not impressed by either the press release or the copyright infrigment, and now calls for massive video uploads on any platform. To be continued..
Absolutely moving, huge concept and simple yet brilliant making, this online ad to enforce the use of seat belt while driving is one of the most wonderful things i've seen in the latest times, brought in by Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. The happy consequences of using it, instead of the usual rawness showing what happens if you don't, made my day.
Aditionally, and not as a part of the campaign but because some users created it, a Facebook group gathers people for the cause, Embrace life, trying to get the most people involved trying to get the video on tv.
I personally loved the interactive video project Choose A Different Ending as part of the campaing Drop the Weapons launched by the London Police and created by AMV BBDO. Enjoy it by playing the video below.
Lego just released this very nice short film, directed by brilliant Leigh Marling / Blue Source, called Cl!ck :
The movie celebrates the Eureka moment, the generation of great ideas, what Lego calls a Click moment, and invites you to visit the hub of the program, www.legoclick.com, a virtual canvas of ideas, inspired moments, quirky stories, solutions and tips, working as a collaborative plateform to inspire people.
More or less one month ago, LG has launched a website to teach consumers the importance of pondering before texting. Bullying and harassment on the mobile are problems communities can no longer afford to ignore, therefore I really like the brand committement in doing something socially relevant and useful. It's kind of rare and therefore even more appreciated.
But I also like it because they used the website as a gateway to content on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. It's a smart way of spending less in building the site, but it is also a smart way to connect directly to the environments where consumers are more used to spend their time and interact with.
Sorry for the strong language, but this is the title of a new social campaign from Denmark. The campaign is literally in your face as you have to punch the featured girl to get the message. Most disturbing is that you want to go all the way through, which make you feel like a 100% idiot once finished. But the message, even though it's in Danish, is very clear.
A lot inspirational digital project that promote social causes or educational content lately. My latest discovery (thanks to Osocio) comes again from the US and talks about the support we can give to homeless people in Boston. It's called the Big Warm Up.
The project is interesting not only because it aims at driving attention to the social issue but also because it's very well executed with a great soundtrack and a very nice use of infographics.
