Audi, one my favourite brands have just made a nice step forward by launching the AudiMedia iPhone app for press and fans. The app shows latest news, pictures, videos and product info on the whole Audi range.
It’s available now from the iPhone app store for free, just click here to give it a go.
As the date for Africa’s largest advertising awards show looms ever nearer the zany guys and girls at Ogilvy Cape Town decided to make an African Cliché style commercial to help remind everyone that the time is near. The awards in question are of course the Loerie Awards and will be held again this year in Cape Town.
Last year was great fun, so am hoping for more of the same this time around. Coverage of the awards highlights will of course will be made right here just for you.
For more info go to http://www.theloerieawards.co.za. Tickets are now available.
Hat tip: Amy Maybin
Skittles recently gave away a bizarre bowling scholarship worth $10,000 to James Fulp. The scholarship was part of a Skittles facebook “Mob The Rainbow” campaign, all fans had to do was click the “Like” button on their facebook page and after 100,000 “Likes” the scholarship money was awarded.
Skittles in my view has one of the best brand facebook pages in the world and is definitely worth a look (click here). They also have a great website that is never ending (i.e. you can scroll down the page forever), they integrate consumer generated Skittles content from their You Tube, Twitter and facebook networks.
Great work again from the Evolution Bureau
To show off Google Chrome’s speed and features BBH created the above YouTube game. When you go to http://youtube.com/chromefastball you will start a game that sees a chrome ball race around an obstacle course and stop at various points where you will have to complete tasks integrating chrome with Google Maps, Translate, Search, Twitter and Last.fm.
Go to Chromefastball to give it a go. My best time was 2.25min see if you can beat it.
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Nice of Nando’s to publicly get behind Ghana for tonight’s world cup clash. Great work as always from Black River FC.
This morning I received an interesting email from a friend at McCann, London on a talk that Hatty Day attended. Chad Hurley the founder of YouTube was giving a brief talk on some YouTube stats and his views on a few related topics. Most people will have heard this already, but there were a couple of interesting insights so thought I would share it with you.
Another month and another hilarious Old Spice ad, this time singing the praises of their body wash. The ad is a continuance of their previous brilliant campaign also featuring the same sarcastic gent (Click here to see the original great ad).
Another addition to a fab campaign by Wieden + Kennedy, you can see more of these by visiting the Old Spice YouTube channel here.
Specsavers a UK optometrist yesterday released a great print campaign in several local newspapers (The Sun,The Daily Star, The Daily Express and The Daily Mail ). The ad takes the piss out of the controversial goal that was disallowed during the England vs Germany World Cup match last Sunday.
Nice work.
As regular readers will know I’m a big Microsoft fan, even if sometimes for no other reason than to annoy all my friends that use Macs. For the last month I have been testing out their new version of Microsoft Office 2010 and thought I would share what I think are the top ten new features. Office has more than 100 new and improved features, and has already been downloaded over 7.5 million times for the beta version alone. Office 2010 is now on general release at all computer shops everywhere, click here for a price guide, or here to go the Office 2010 site and try it out yourself.
Backstage: when you now click the file tab Office 2010 brings up a new window called backstage. Its kind of like the command centre for Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, where users can send, save, share and see print previews and info about their documents etc without closing out the current doc.
Picture editing in word: Word now has a great picture editing suite built in. Its not going to rival Photoshop but for editing pics in Word its pretty impressive, you can choose from a ton of different effect options, and even remove the background from a photo, and capture screen grabs without having to leave Word.
There are a whole host of other upgrades and features, such as being able to preview copy and paste edits. To put it simply though, if you are looking for a full office suite then Microsoft office is still the only way to go and with 2010 they have just made it better and more user friendly. Click here for a video look at the new Office.
To find out more on Office 2010 click here.
Please enjoy these fun short clips for Lynx’s new “Rise” campaign. The ad stars model and TV actress Jessica Jane Clement, and her clueless man who could have it all if only he had used some Lynx Rise shower gel. Go to the Lynx facebook page or the Lynx YouTube channel to catch the rest of the ads.
Agency: BBH, London.