Every year, legacy brand Patagonia release challenging, creative adverts and campaigns on Black Friday. Not because they are for it, but because Black Friday launches the retail holiday season and they’d like to encourage people to consume less. Among its hive of impressionable ads and campaigns, for 2016’s Black Friday they donated 100% of sales …
Biomimicry, blockchain technology, neurodiversity, less meat and more windpower. This is the future of sustainability…or is it? Is it more, less – or something else entirely? We’ll explore this and so much more at the Sustainable Brands Nordic event in Copenhagen on 24 January where iconic industry giants like Carlsberg, ISS and Interface will join …
Sustainability 2019 and beyond. Biomimicry, less meat and more windpower… Read More »
“to inspire, promote and federate the actors of the advertising communications industry around social responsibility and sustainable development and to share good practices”. This is the main mission of ACT Responsible, an international non profit association who have stood in solidarity as the Advertising Community Together since 2001, in the wake of the 9-11 bombings. In a world …
Thomas Kolster was interviewed recently by Marketing & Advertising Finland. This is the translated article – you can see the original here. Enjoy! Responsibility is on everyone’s lips, but few marketing impressions have real impact – “Words and actions do not match” Danish Thomas Kolster has been going around the world for years to talk about how …
Impact vs. making a good impression: interview with M&M Finland Read More »
Written by Alvise Bortolato & Alice Fortuna The customer is not always right, but the planet is: how advertising has to take an intransigent position in favour of it. The ultimate challenge. The capitalist economic system has somehow realised it did not do its math well. Rather, in its frantic race for growth, it has …
Shaking up the status quo by swapping a $6m Superbowl slot for an amateur ad that exudes authenticity, KIND bars appear to be living up to their name, promising instead to pass on the $6m in the form of free bars to customers, in return for sharing the campaign. An ingenious idea to get people …
KIND Shuns the Superbowl in a More People Minded Move Read More »
We join James Temple, CCO at RGA and President of the data, IoT and marketing innovation jury, who tells us about his favourites at Cristal this year. Namely: The Aland Index This initiative by the Nordic Aland Bank features a (compostable!) credit card that measures the carbon footprint of your consumption. Their wider Baltic Sea Project …
Cristal’s most impressive campaigns, over coffee Read More »
