Category: Innovation

  • Crowd-sourcing: Driving down the price of a Skoda

    I’m a Skoda driver, and proud of it. So it comes as no surprise to me to see Skoda doing some clever digital marketing to promote one of their cars. Skoda Belgium is currently running a crowd-sourcing promotion to sell a Skoda Fabia car via Facebook. The starting price of the car is 12,950 euros,…

  • Cadbury’s Hip Hamster – a YouTube first

    Here’s a sweet bit of creativity from Australia: the world’s first round YouTube video. This just goes to show that nothing’s sacred on the web. If you can dream it, it can happen! How could this have been better? It took me several minutes to figure out that this came from the Cadbury’s team in…

  • Clever marketing: PILOT pens help you create your own font

    (click image to enlarge) Discover PILOT’s clever marketing for yourself at www.pilothandwriting.com.

  • A direct mail that worked

    I received a direct mail letter today. In an envelope. Delivered by the postman. Now, this isn’t that uncommon an event; getting junk mail is a price you expect to pay when you’ve been in the marketing industry as long as me. What was less common was that I both opened and acted on the…

  • Tipp-Ex Shoot a Bear – viral analysis of the first few days

    Last week, the BIC Group launched a clever campaign to promote Tipp-Ex on YouTube designed to coincide with the ‘back to school’ period. Looking at the reach figures, it’s been an astonishing success. The teaser entry video, produced by the BUZZMAN agency, has already been viewed over 4.3 million times and shared more than 120,000…

  • Every screen presents an opportunity

    I love my bedside Logitech Squeezebox Radio. It makes it really easy for me to listen to all kinds of internet broadcasts including my favourite podcasts and radio stations from anywhere in the world. And, because it’s an internet-connected device, I can access it from any web browser to change settings, add stations and apps,…