5 30 th August 2010
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30th August 2010
Facebook launched its much awaited location-based service simply named “Places” yesterday. The service uses
GPS to allow Facebook users to search for and broadcast their location and tag friends that are at the same location and
have also checked-in. Users have an option to flag down unwanted check-ins and even opt-out of the service if they
need to.
1. Facebook places launches
1. Next steps for facebook
Dove felt that millions of free body lotion samples that are distributed and attached to
magazines, never get opened or used.They decided to target hotel guests when they
come out of the shower. They sent hotel managers the ‘dove magic mirror marker’. They were instructed to write a specific message on the mirror prior to guests arriving.
The marker uses a de-mister fluid that the writing appears when the mirror steams up. Gives a moment of surprise and exactly the
moment to give Dove Body Milk a try.
2. Mirror Mirror on the wall
. Mirror Mirror on the wall
3. Gillette Federer Viral Ad
5 million views in 5 days…this Roger Federer Viral youtube video, filmed on
location at a gillette shoot is brilliant. And the numbers will keep going up. Simple but
great for interest generation…
3. Federer Gillette Shoot
Sony are running a cool facebook app called Media monster wars for their sony vaio, with justin timerlake.
It’s a well integrated social game that utilises the content on your wall to power your monster. The more
photos, videos, comments, likes, shares and interaction you have, the bigger, better and meaner
your monster will be in battle! Then when you’ve crushed all your friends, you can challenge Justin
Timberlake. The idea for the media monsters comes from Sony’s
attempt to clean up the piles of media that often clog our computers, through their new Vaio notebook and
software.the app does a great job at leveraging the viral
elements of Facebook with status updates, direct posts to friends’ walls, wall to wall views and direct friend to
friend battles, challenges and scoring.
4. You v Justin Timberlake
4. You v Justin Timberlake
5. Barclays bank game
The game looks great, plays really well and is a really good targetting idea for barclays trying to recruit youths to its brand.
The game was played by over 55,000 teenagers in the first month, a stellar result that will probably lead to bigger things for this story
line. If you’re interested, you can check out the game here, and read a great blog post from BBH labs about how they build the
game.The game is built around a teenager that comes to the city in search of making it big, along with characters like landlords,
fraudsters, old ladies, partners, banks, businesses… the lot. To progress in the game, you have to pass challenges (generally
financial ones about managing money) and once you get a roll on you’ll start to make more money, to spend on more things, on your
way to creating an empire on 56 Sage Street.
5. Clever targetting by barclays