Category Archives: North America

Jordan, Mars is back!

To celebrate the relaunch of an iconic hybrid shoe like the Air Jordan Spiz’ike, Brand Jordan has launched an amusing minisite that connects a great campaign from the past to the new shoe hitting the shelves.

As Nicekicks.com points out the series of ads featuring Mars Blackmon and Michael Jordan 22 years ago changed the business of marketing the sneakers. Today the sense of vintage makes the story even more fascinating with a touch of 2.0.

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The sexy pilgrim

A few days before Thanksgiving Day Muscle Milk has launched a music video clip to promote its energy drink.

Unexpected. Amusing. Potentially very viral.

Esquire uses AR gimmick to generate buzz

This week you might have heard already of Esquire’s Augmented Reality issue. The video below explains the action. Basically the print magazine gets interactive: when you point the QR code to your webcam a world of additional multimedia content is unveiled.

There has been quite a lot of buzz around the initiative. In my opinion the idea is pretty cool, if not only because it got a lot of people talking about it and buying the magazine to discover it. I see it more as an advertising campaign rather than an enhanced editorial plan. I think the money invested in producing all the interactive content isn’t something the Esquire can afford investing every month, and probably it won’t even be worth it. Also, the aspect that really amazes me is the great job they’ve done building content with celebrities. This is the real added value of the initiative and possible the hardest thing to replicate

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Jordan M6 video experience

I love the multimedia journey that my colleagues and Nike/Jordan created for the launch of the M6 model. I like it because it has a rather fresh approach with video product storytelling divided in small but effective pills.

It’s a walk through the inspiration, the design process and Carmelo Anthony’s feedback to the product. Very insightful and very “intimate” and therefore pretty authentic.

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The Big Warm Up

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.

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Cadbury one for you and one for me

Very often when we think about winning a (big) money prize we speak loud and declare that, if that would happen, we would give quite some money to a charity organization. In Canada Cadbury has decided to give us the possibility to actually keep our promise: win $ 100,000 for us and donate the same amount to a charity organization.

They setup an online contest that gives away several prizes (including the big money) to consumers and allows winners to automatically forward the same prize to charity organization of choice. Especially in the CPG industry, money based contests aren’t new and, most of all, don’t do much to build consumer loyalty. However, in this case, Cadbury gives us a good lesson in terms of corporate social responsibility and does an excellent job also in supporting its brands (Halls, Trident and Caramilk among the others).

Shocking Barack

Remember when automotive CEOs went to Washington DC asking for loans? This website called “Shocking Barack” from Brammo powercycles seeks to redo the same route but instead of asking for aid, they will try to show President Obama a proposal based on electric energy as a feasible solution to the transportation crisis. So this site is to follow the trip (starting tomorrow) and asking people to spread the word and collaborate if possible with a place to stay or to charge the vehicles, go check it out or follow them on Twitter. (via @bogusky and a post of his)

Battle for Milkquarious

Probably you remember this fantastic work that was released almost a year ago for the new Mario game for Nintendo Wii. One of the most interesting things about it (beyond its quality) consists on the category schizophrenia under which this piece was submitted to festivals. It’s a banner, but also a viral intended video, or a landing page or even an online branded content… but in the end, who cares about that? Now, that was the first thing i thought when i saw a new website continuing the adventures of White Gold and Got Milk?, the one where Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Hi-ReS! have teamed up to create the first opera rock about milk: The Battle for Milkquarious, an hilarious and insightful (about milk) movie with new stories coming from the trip of White Tiger trying to save his beloved Strawberry Summers and finally discovering a terrible secret (LOL) Besides that, there’s plenty of information and stuff on how to relive each scene, making-off, and so on, in a fantastic experience even though it’s not very much interactive, but the film is so great that does anybody care? As in previous cases such as this one and this other one, “Battle for Milkquarious” is an online film shown under a URL instead of being in a video website, and i spent like twenty minutes in it because it was entertaining enough as to catch my attention that long, even if i don’t know, again, the category of that.

Bravo Gustavo: Play Music Director

The exceptional Gustavo Dudamel has been appointed as new Music Director at LA Philarmonic Orchestra, and what a better thing to do than making people available the passion of conducting an orchestra in a Guitar Hero style. That is the highlight of this microsite called “Bravo Gustavo”, where you can also download an app from the AppStore that makes your iPhone a baton. Funny way of engaging people with classical music using state-of-the-art technologies, the work done by Hello Design.

Asylum 626

A year after the Hotel 626, Goodby and B-Reel team up again taking you to a scary asylum called Asylum626. With a similar quality of production but much less playable than the year before, it’s more of a visual experience than a game, apparently i need a Doritos bag to finish playing, somebody help me? Or you can save me either (via Tasty Truth)