EA Games Offers a Trip to Hell, Nike on Tiger’s Return, Claro’s Guinea Pig Phone and Other Work


This week's episode of Creativity's Top 5 features EA Games and Psyop offering viewers a trip to Hell by way of "Dante's Inferno"; the Australian Outdoor Awards exhibits its first prize with a billboard made up of 10,000 $1 scratch tickets; Nike lets us know the PGA parity party is over now that Tiger's back; the Tate Liverpool offers up an online experience that allows users to provide insight and opinion on artwork from its collection; and Claro introduces us to the world's first mobile rodent phone technology.

Sainsbury’s lines up design roster

LONDON – Sainsbury’s has drawn up a fresh design agency roster to lead a revamp of its own-brand packaging.

Watchmen | 6 Minutes to Midnight

Mais uma da Warner Bros. para promover a adaptação de “Watchmen” para o cinema. “6 Minutes to Midnight” é um trailer interativo com mais de 10 minutos de duração.

Através do Teste de Rorschach você deve descobrir elementos que fazem parte dos personagens e da história. A cada acerto, conteúdo exclusivo do filme vai sendo revelado.

Rorschach (não o psiquiatra suíço) é um dos personagens centrais de “Watchmen”. As manchas de sua máscara mudam constantemente, de acordo com o que ele considera sua verdadeira face.

Simples e divertido, vale a visita ao trailer interativo “6 Minutes to Midnight”. Mais sobre as campanhas de “Watchmen” aqui no Brain#9.

Watchmen 6 Minutes Midnight

Watchmen 6 Minutes Midnight

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Paramount shifts to Central brand

LONDON – Viacom has hired Karmarama to oversee the creation of a fresh identity and to provide marketing support for the rebranding of Paramount Comedy to its international comedy brand Comedy Central.

Agency contests aggressive ad selling by News International

LONDON – News International faces the possibility of an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over claims it is conditionally selling ad space across its newspaper brands.

Senior MPG execs take up new integrated roles

LONDON – Media Planning Group has promoted three senior executives from its digital sibling Media Contacts to new roles that straddle both operations.

Heineken | One Green Bottle

A Heineken adora fazer drama com a queda de uma garrafa de cerveja. No comercial “Disturbance”, de 2005, já mostraram como espatifar inocentes long neck de Heineken pode ser uma tragédia perturbadora.

Dessa vez, a McCann Erickson de Dublin também fala de uma queda de garrafa, mas mostrando toda a trajetória da cerveja até aquele momento. Desde a produção cuidadosa até a sua viagem de trem em paisagens bucólicas e acompanhada por um cachorro em uma moto.

Um excelente senso de humor para falar do valor de cada única garrafa de Heineken. A produção é da Stink, com pós da The Mill e Absolute.

Drinks industry slams Scottish government’s new drinking proposals

LONDON – The drinks industry has voiced strong opposition to the Scottish government’s plans to crack down on the country’s pervasive drinking culture by legislating to ban promotions and introduce minimum prices.

Touch Book

Always Innovating vient de dévoiler le Touch Book : une tablette tactile de 8.9 pouces doté d’un clavier afin de le transformer en netbook. A noter que les logiciels sont totalement open source, et qu’il sera fourni avec son propre OS.

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L’objet sera disponible pour 300$ en mode tablette et pour 400$ en mode tablette+clavier.

Exposure wins pitch for Save the Children festival activity

LONDON – Integrated agency Exposure has been retained by Save the Children to develop a holistic campaign that will be based on 2009’s summer festival season.

Aviva flags up tailored focus

LONDON – Aviva is to launch its first global marketing campaign as it positions the brand as dedicated to customers’ individual needs.

Scholl Shoe Deodorizer

Click to enlarge the creative ad / design

Click to enlarge the creative ad / design

Click to enlarge the creative ad / design

Advertising Agency: DDB New Zealand
Creative Director: Toby Talbot
Art Director: Damian Galvin
Copywriter: Carlos Savage
Head of Art: Mike Davison
Photographer: Spid
Retoucher: Gordon Moir
Published: January 2009

Tropicana in Channel 4 tie

LONDON – Tropicana has agreed an exclusive advertising partnership with Channel 4 to jointly promote the juice brand’s Pure Premium range.

Will relaxation of local media ownership save newspapers?

LONDON – Analysts are disputing whether any relaxation of local media ownership rules will significantly help the troubled sector.

NatMags’ Frost leaves for IPC

LONDON – IPC has appointed the associate publisher of NatMags’Good Housekeeping, Lisa Frost, as new advertising director of its glossy over-40s title, Woman & Home.

Foster’s chief James Lousada takes Constellation wine job

LONDON – James Lousada, marketing director of Foster’s EMEA, has left the company to be-come senior vice-president of marketing and business development at Europe’s biggest wine business, Constellation Europe.

The Share Centre appoints The Brooklyn Brothers

LONDON – The Share Centre, an independent share-dealing service, has hired The Brooklyn Brothers to handle its advertising, direct marketing and digital communications.

PM launches “Real help now” recession campaign

LONDON – Gordon Brown has launched a campaign entitled “Real help now” that aims to help the British public through the recession.

Red Bull drafts in Tim Krieglstein as marketing director

LONDON – Red Bull has appointed Tim Krieglstein as UK marketing director following the departure of Anoushka Feiler last November.

Stansted sell-off at risk from no-frills demands

LONDON – Pressure from budget airlines to cut check-in and boarding times at Stansted may damage any attempt by owner and operator BAA to sell the airport.