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Window Shopping with Adidas NEO

Like last year’s virtual Tesco store in the Korean subway, this ‘window shopping’ campaign for Adidas’ new NEO range shows how brands can engage consumers and facilitate sales in new ways with smartphones and in-store technology.

Customers can connect their smartphone to the store window display and take control of a virtual shopping bag even purchasing goods on their phones when the store is closed. It’s highly measurable not to mention all that lovely brand awareness that it generates.

http://youtu.be/7ZXucLUfh0U

Posted by Rob in Advertising, Apps, Mobile

Paddy Power Tweets in the skies over the Ryder Cup

Another great bit of publicity generation from Paddy Power. The Dublin-based bookies took to the skies to broadcast its followers’ Tweets in support of the European team at this weekend’s Ryder Cup in Chicago.

Using the hashtag ‘#goeurope’, 60 Tweets over the course of the weekend were written in the skies by stunt pilots visible from more than 20 miles in the world’s first Twitter campaign of its kind.

Posted by Rob in Advertising, Real-Time, Twitter

The Gulf News Headline Cup Sleeve

Newspapers and coffee go hand in hand and it is with this in mind that Dubai-based Y&R went about helping Gulf News gain subscribers and increase web traffic.

By using a special printer at Tim Hortons Coffee stores across Dubai that pulls headlines from the Gulf News Twitter account, printing them onto the coffee cup sleeves, they effectively turned each cup of Tim Hortons coffee into an advertisement for the newspaper.

Posted by Rob in Advertising, Real-Time, Twitter

Nike And Gatorade Leverage The Olympics Without Being An Official Sponsor

Nike decked out over 400 Olympic athletes in vivid ‘Volt’ coloured footwear helping the brand stand out amongst competitors. Prior to the Olympics, Nike matched the colour of the shoe to the colour of the individual athlete’s uniforms.

Nike Olympics 

Gatorade mocked official sponsors of the games by suggesting that it’s more credible to be used by the athletes themselves than to just stump up the cash to be an official sponsor.

“We weren’t on buttons, souvenirs or commemorative snow-globes. We weren’t there officially sponsoring anything. We were there, for real, inside the bodies of some of the greatest athletes on earth”. 

Posted by Rob in Advertising, Branding, Tech