Ramble by Sunil Bahl
3Sep/100

Tipp-Ex: A hunter shoots a bear

Tipp-Ex has created an interactive YouTube takeover ad where you can write the headline and see what happens!

Even though recently we have been seeing more of these, this is different because you can control the outcome.

Here are some suggestions for commands offered: dances with, sings with, talks to, hugs, draws, fights, doesn't shoot, is shot by, loves, kisses, fucks, pisses with, sleeps with, eats, watches TV with, swims with, plays with, shakes hand with, buys, takes a photo of, fishes with, drinks with, rides, plays football with, spanks, farts, is cooked by, breakdances with, cuts, does nothing with, high fives, smokes with, moonwalks with, washes, jumps with, tickles, shows his ass to, seduces.

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24Aug/100

Old Spice Campaign Case Study

This Old Spice Case Study takes us through the insight around targeting men and women at the same time to generate conversation around body wash. When it was launched the campaign managed to capture 75% of all conversations in the category.

To continue the success Old Spice & Wieden + Kennedy created the next level, where Mustafa, now a household hero engaged with the fans directly. The response campaign consisted of around 180 customized videos which engaged the fans directly. Thus it became the best social campaign ever to have been created!

Here some stats of the campaign…

  • On day 1 the campaign received almost 6 million views
    (that’s more than Obama’s victory speech)
  • On day 2 old spice had 8 of the 11 most popular videos online
  • On day 3 the campaign had reached over 20 million views
  • After the first week old spice had over 40 million views
  • The old spice twitter following increased 2700% (probably off a lowish base)
  • Facebook fan interaction was up 800%
  • Oldspice.com website traffic was up 300%
  • The old spice YouTube channel became the all time most viewed channel (amazing)
  • The campaign has generated 1.4 billion impressions since launching the ads 6 months ago
  • The campaign increased sales by 27% over 6 months since launching (year on year)
  • In the last 3 months sales were up 55%
  • And in the last month sales were up 107% from the social responses campaign work
  • Old spice is now the #1 body wash brand for men.

And without further a-due...the best social campaign ever...

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23Aug/100

The Expendables YouTube Takeover

This is the latest campaign element for the launch of The Expendables movie, a YouTube takeover that features as an interrupted interview with Sylvester Stallone.

Pretty cool eh! 8-)

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26Jul/100

Boobs and tea!

This Thai TV commercial is for something called Oishi green tea. And it's something to do with boobs and tea.

Perhaps they're implying that their tea gives you bigger boobs! If you're a lady, or you know one, you might want to look into this.

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9Jul/100

2010 FIFA World Cup: United

As the world cup draws to an end this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to share this great ad which shows how this has been that one month...every 4 years...when we all agree on one thing!

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7Jul/100

Chang’s Fizzy Billboard

Seeking new ways to create an impact in today's sea of daily ad bombardment while taking into account shrinking budgets is quite a challenge. Chang’s Fizzy Billboard did just that and showed how effective a great billboard campaign can be in taking a bite out of the competitors market share. 8-)

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29Jun/101

‘Java 4-ever’: A romance about Web development

JavaZone is a conference held in Scandinavia for developers to meet up, listen to presentations, and interact with the development community. But the group behind JavaZone have also proved themselves to be pretty good filmmakers, or at least trailer makers. 8-)

The trailer you see below is for the imaginary film Java 4-ever...

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11Jun/100

Argentinos

Only if you have lived in Argentina and experienced their culture first hand will you truly be able to feel their passion for football. To kick off the world cup today and to wish Argentina the best for their world champions conquest, I dedicate this blog post to them via this great ad done by Young & Rubicam Buenos Aires and TyC Sports to stir up the Argentinian fans around the world for the 2010 World Cup. :-)

If you are a fan of the Argentinian Football team...then follow their progress via this really cool world cup calendar...

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9Jun/100

Skoda Superb Estate Boot

A first of it's kind TV commercial, that lets viewers actually experience the remotely controlled boot of the new Skoda Superb Estate. 8-)

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21May/100

Olympus Pen

To create this ad, 355 pictures had to be taken, printed in billboard size and shot again! The video was produced with the Olympus Pen itself and there has been no use of any special tricks or computer animation.

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