Chris Rawlinson

South Africa’s main advertising awards event, The Loeries,  is taking place this weekend in Cape Town and one of the underground campaigns to help create conversations about the awards is a facebook “Like” button mechanism. The idea is simple, find things you like around town and stick “Like” stickers on them, and if you feel [...]

  Sony Ericsson has just announced this very neat little gadget for Android phones called LiveView. If you watch the short clip above it shows you the devise in action, the basic are that from this small screen you can control your music, read texts, get notifications from Twitter,facebook and more, plus see who is [...]

     RE/MAX, one of South Africa’s largest property companies recently launched a great yet simple online campaign aimed at the blogging community, with the prize being a new Apple iPad 3G. All bloggers have to do is go to http://remax.co.za/Blog-To-Win/, register your blog URL, name, and email address, then simply pick a banner that can [...]

Volkswagen, India, recently came up with a novel way to start a conversation, they created the first talking newspaper ad in India. When readers of two of India’s top newspapers namely The Hindu, and The Times of India, opened their newspaper they were greeted by a talking ad for the new VW Vento. The light-sensitive [...]

Great PR stunt by Lowe Roche, Canada, for Audi. To show how well the legendary Audi quattro all-wheel drive system sticks to the road they attached Super-powerful rare-earth magnets to miniature models of Audi vehicles, which were then stuck on metal surfaces in the midst of the crowds attending the Toronto International Film Festival. After [...]

In This new John Smith’s TV advert, Peter Kay (for the last time) and dog Tonto compete in a dog show – in their own No Nonsense way! Agency: TBWA, London Related PostsJohn Smith’s: Peter Kay (Any women in the world)

To object to facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to use electricity generated by coal power plants to power facebook’s Oregen based data centre, Green peace has produced this great fun video urging him to reconsider his choice. Great work. To find out more on the campaign visit www.greenpeace.org/coalfacebook.

Interesting infographic of the webs top 100 brands and  the colours that those brands use. Interesting to see that blue is still the colour of choice online as it is offline (look at most crowds of people and you will see the majority of them will be wearing blue). Read a fascinating detailed report on this infographic [...]