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The Kitty

There are only 3,200 Tigers remaining in the wild. If awareness and conservation efforts don’t ramp up, Tigers will be extinct within a decade. The world might not be noticing the big cats, but love to watch millions of cat videos, so the cats were put to good use. “The Kitty” was launched – a …

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Grid

In an innovative use of London’s telephone boxes, Nike turned the streets of London into a fully interactive game grid. Runners were encouraged to check in at predetermined phone boxes in order to mark their progress as they ran through forty of London’s post-codes. After registering online, runners simply had to dial in their unique …

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eco:Drive

Fiat has always been known for producing nippy and efficient cars and they also have the lowest carbon emissions of any car brand in Europe. With Fiat’s move to green, their problem was finding a way to communicate this to young, digitally savvy consumers. Research found that many consumers felt they were being targeted as …

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Fiat Mio

In a world first, Fiat Brazil opened up their entire car production process to the public – from conception and design to execution, allowing consumers to be involved with the project by submitting ideas for what they wanted in a car. The Fiat design team would then build the car based on the ideas. By …

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African Cristal gives out Goodvertising Grand Prix

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of judging the 4th African Cristal Awards in Marrakesh together with my panel of fellow judges from South Africa to Egypt. The Awards also saw a novel collaboration between Cristal and Goodvertising as it was decided to award the very first “Goodvertising Grand Cristal” – acknowledging outstanding creativity …

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Crash Test Panda

By taking a fairly standard image in automotive advertising and subverting it with endangered animals driving the cars, Fiat has created adverts that not only stress physical safety, but safety for the environment too. As it stands, Fiat is currently the industry leader in terms of carbon emissions when it comes to the European car …

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Sustainability as a strategic differentiator

Can sustainability be a clear and distinct positioning platform? Can sustainability act as a strategic differentiator in a crowded and fragmented category? There is some strong evidence emerging that it can be both, i.e. a positioning platform that can provide competitive advantage in hyper-competitive categories. Brands under Unilever’s “Sustainable Living Plan” strategy accounted for more …

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Bigger Issues

I got to admit as a teenager my first deodorant was Axe Musk. Yeah, you can ridicule me, but imagine  a teenage boy pumped with testosteron watching the overtly sexist campaigns featuring the commercial version of paradise full of turned-on women not virgins that’s like kicking in an open door. For the multinational Unilever under …

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