Author Archives: Martina

So God Made a Farmer

The silent winner of the Super Bowl commercials crazy challenge is a Farmer. Nothing flashy, no multi-million special effect, just the purity and the intensity of beautiful color saturated photos. Over eight million views and counting for a montage of farmers portraits and still images picturing the hard life on the fields. It’s a full emotional immersion in the life of the farmers, powerfully narrated by the voice of Paul Harvey’s and the speech that he gave in 1978 at the National Future Farmers of America Convention. Read more…

LEGO Happy Holiplay

When creating a campaign that relies solely on User Generated Content it’s always a delicate balance of how much the brand should be present. The second challenge is to create a framework in which people have the freedom to create and feel inspired to do so. If you have the guts to keep the branding to a minimum then it’s actually quite simple, but we’ve seen many, many brands fail at this. Well not in this case. Read more…

Driving the SuperBowl

We are a few days away from the Super Bowl and, as usual, the energy and the curiosity are building around the commercials that will be broadcasted during the final. Let us do our due diligence then, covering some videos that are trying to score the winning touchdown, for example, in the automotive industry. So here you’ll see the ads by Mercedes, Toyota, Audi, Volskwagen and Kia listed in order of (personal) preference. I would love to know how would you list the! Read more…

Durex SOS Condoms

It’s almost a Murphy’s law I would say: you never have a condom when you really need one… Well, this is the insight that inspired Durex and Buzzman Middle East to come up with a pretty useful condoms delivery service that promises to deliver the product, every day from 4 pm to 4 am, within an hour from the moment the “order” is placed. Read more…

The State of Digital Business

A pleasure and an honor to feature today a guest contribution by an esteemed friend: Ana Andjelic (follow her @andjelicaaa).

As we start 2013 armed with new marketing budgets and campaign plans, it may be a good idea to stop and assess brands’ digital efforts in the past year from the business growth perspective. What do Evian Smart Drop, Tesla cars and Hellman’s mayonnaise have in common? They all moved away from digital media as a communication channel and towards them providing a new business opportunity for their brands. Read more…

Occupy IKEA

Occupy to get attention, occupy to claim your rights. Sometimes, not always, this is a strategy that pays back… At least it did in this case in Portugal, where TBWA staged an occupation of the IKEA’s store in Lisbon to spread the news of its newly launched online store also serving the island of Madeira. Read more…

The French (underwear) Revolution

A touch of irreverence, a pinch of sexy sense of humor, and a drop of unexpected. Here comes the perfect recipe to get a new start-up brand stand out of the crowd and generate some buzz out its products. It’s the story of Le Slip Français, a new underwear brand that designs and manufactures its products in France. Read more…

IKEA, there are two sides to every story

The new year gives IKEA the opportunity to celebrate new beginnings in life. The brief is quite clear but, of course, there are plenty of different ways to respond to it. And it’s funny to see how the UK and Germany executed the same campaign with two completely opposite approaches: a new life as a couple vs a new life as single. Read more…

Mondays can be great

Do you hate Mondays? Do you hate getting out of the after an amazing relaxing weekend to go back to the crowded world and a stressful job? Well, Starbucks is trying to make your Mondays look a little better. A discounted Latte might not be what you’ve been dreaming of, but it’s a good start, and this video by AMV and Brand New School definitely does a nice in picturing the first day of the week in a different, more positive light. Read more…

The CR7 effect in slow-mo

My friends at Nike have released this week a new Nike Football commercial featuring Cristiano Ronaldo and the vortex effect his superfast game is able to generate. Read more…