A cool excel viral?
Posted by simon@digital-campaign.com | Filed under Advertising, Excel, Inspiration, Promotion, Viral
What do you do when trying to increase awareness of the new AC/DC album? Naturally a viral is a cool way to kick things off and generate interested right? Facebook or YouTube would seem the natural habitat for such a campaign, yet think of the audience, how many have access at work? Hence the leftfield approach by the guys at Sony who choose Excel as the vehicle for the viral. Using a cool ASCII video written in VB script can only be called cool! With a million downloads and an unknown amount of email forwarding Excel has become cool.
AC/DC new video in ExcelVision!
Volkswagen Masters the Viral Video
Posted by simon@digital-campaign.com | Filed under Advertising, Viral, YouTube
Great viral videos are hard to come by, but Volkswagen (or rather ad agency DDB Stockholm) appears to have hit the bullseye. Their new campaign “The Fun Theory” is a series of experiments, captured on video, to find out if making the world more fun can improve people’s behavior. The top video, Piano Stairs, has achieved over 1 million views on YouTube – I can’t count how many times friends have shared it this week.
You know you’ve made it…
Posted by simon@digital-campaign.com | Filed under Advertising, In-Game, Promotion, SRB Power
You know that you’ve made it as a company within the UK tuning market when Codemasters and Electronic Arts ask your company, brand, products and demo cars to feature in games such as GRID and Need for Speed:SHIFT!, allowing users to select you as a sponsor and modify their car. While working with my business partner at SRB Power Ltd we were fortunate enough to develop a relationship with Codemasters and Electronic Arts that made this a happen and provide another fantastic marketing opportunity to gain further brand awareness and cement our reputation with existing loyal customers. Read the rest of this entry »