Archive for March, 2010
The new Nando’s TV commercial
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
We have a strong suspicion that Julius Malema is a full-time promotional employee of Nando’s. Surely – it all makes sense, right? Anyway, in the mean time they’re taking potshots at the other big guy.
This ad is scheduled to start running tonight. Sneak preview dot com ma’gents. [shot Lance]
Lingomatch: The talking, meeting, sharing site
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
Mother tongue city
A good friend of ours has taken the start-up bull by the balls and launched what looks like a potentially cracking language exchange social network.
Lingomatch.com is a ‘language exchange network’ where peeps who wanna learn another language can connect with peeps that speak that language and arrange to hang out. It’s simple enough – and with the world and it’s many languages visiting South Africa in the next three months – it makes a whole pile of sense if you wanna share more than just a sweaty armpit with a screaming Italian. A boerie pizza and a glass of Nebbiola while watching the game is never a bad idea.
Andrew Playford, the founder of Lingomatch, has recently returned to South Africa after spending 15 years in the US. He’s back with loads of start-up experience and a laundry bag full of ideas. This is one to watch.
Check out Lingomatch
Ingenius World Cup promo items
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
Die swart slurp
Instead of those hideous Zakumi things – we should be handing these things out to every fan that arrives at our airports come June.
What could be better than watching the poms slurp down their Steph Weiss or Jack Black with one of these? Nothing says ‘welcome to Africa’ better.
Adidas welcomes you to The Street
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
The Streets are where it’s at. That’s why most of the events and work that we do happens right there – on the dirty, vibrant, colourful, busy, cosmopolitan streets of Cape Town.
We know it, Adidas clearly knows it, but ironically most folk are a little nervous of it. That’s were the cookie is. Touch it.
Here’s the new one from the German sports brand featuring Snoop Dogg and Becks. We’re not too crazy about the backing track, but hey – it’s for the kids right?
Trailer for the upcoming Philips ‘Parallel Lines’ short film series
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
BMW did it nearly 10 years ago with The Hire [a series of eight short films (averaging about ten minutes each) produced for the Internet] and now Philips are preparing to release Parallel Lines. They’ve teamed up with five hotshot film directors from Ridley Scott Associates and challenged them each to create a cutting-edge short film to showcase the great Ambilight, picture and sound capabilities of Philips TVs.
This is the trailer – with the rest soon to be released via Facebook. Can’t wait to see them and if they’re anything like the old BMW films [which were a little ahead of their time] they’ll be a smash hit.
The statistics from the BMW campaign were impressive: After the series began, BMW saw their 2001 sales numbers go up 12% from the previous year. The movies were viewed over 11 million times in four months. Two million people registered with the website and a large majority of users, registered to the site, sent film links to their friends and family. via
As a refresher – here’s the old Madonna / Guy Richie BMW M5 film
Puma’s Journey of Football
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
New ad from Puma called The Journey of Football. It’s a celebration of the origins of the game, that being Africa football [true story]. Great visuals, stirring sound track and a fine job was done in post [love the desaturated grading] on this one.
Potholevertising: The most innovative World Cup advertising we’ve seen so far
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
Cut through the clutter
Probably the most effect World Cup 2010 advertising we’ve seen so far, is this traffic stopping example. Don’t cost much – just some chalk and a couple of low profile rims and tyres and everyone’s keen to attend a game.
[thanks Franco]
McLaren using live real time digital portal to enhance TV action
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
Not real Champagne
McLaren have launched a pretty useful website that provides live telematics and running team dialogue between their star F1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button and the pit crew for F1 fans.
Designed to run alongside and augment the live action taking place on the big screen, the little screen experience offers a software app that is live only when the car is on the track, delivering live updates from both the pit and the minds behind the car at McLaren’s UK HQ. Totally unique to McLaren, it gives fans an insight into what’s going on in the heads of the drivers and the team behind them, before, during and after ‘The Race’. [via]
As we always say – digital shouldn’t replace traditional channels, but rather add layers to enhance the overall experience into something that’s even more of an experience on the day. This is a great example of that. The technology is there right now to virtually transport fans into the inner workings of the behind-the-scenes of sport. Go Go Go!
Check out the McLaren site here
Short movie literally hand made
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
This movie was painstakingly made by crafter Holly Klein. The set pieces and characters were all cross stitched by hand, then scanned into a computer and animated.
Must have taken an absolute age to do, but an innovative idea all the same.
Heineken: Brilliant UEFA Champions League idea
Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.
Forced to miss the AC Milan – Real Madrid UEFA Champions League game for a classical music concert, Heineken punked these guys real good.
