Working with CLM BBDO, French fashion brand La Redoute fitted a number of its screen billboards in Paris with temperature and rain sensors allowing the brand to adapt the items it displayed on the billboards to on the weather conditions in the area.
Google Celebrates 10 Years In Ireland
A lot has changed since Google opened their Dublin office in 2003. Here are some great stats on how us Irish have searched online since Google set up on these shores.
IDA Ireland’s New TV Ad Campaign
IDA Ireland hope to entice some more large multi-nationals with their latest TV campaign. Created by Publicis Dublin, the ad is currently running on US business channels Bloomberg and CNBC, as well as an ‘extensive presence on digital platforms’ in North America.
Art Series Hotels Late Checkout Campaign
Art Series Hotels and Naked Communications Melbourne put a theory to the test to see how guests would react to not having to check out until their room was actually needed. No more having to pack up and be gone by 11am if the next guest doesn’t arrive until 6pm. Guests could even stay an extra night if their room was not needed at all.
The results? 1,550 extra rooms were sold over a 4 week period with an additional $37,214 spent by guests on room service, not to mention generating an estimated $1.5 million worth of global media coverage.
IBM’s Functional Billboards
Bravo to Ogilvy & Mather France for their outdoor campaign for IBM’s People for Smart Cities Program. They have taken the typical, static billboard and made it into an interactive entity that helps out the general public and reinforces the idea of the campaign to make cities ‘smarter’.