Rendezvous On The Go: The first Commuter Dating Service

The Miami Ad School are back and this idea is sublime.  Called Rendezvous On The Go, the idea is super simple.  Single commuters can find other single commuters and spend a morning train ride getting to know one another.  If there is a spark, awesome, if not, just find someone else for the journey home!  Jokes aside this is just seems to make perfect sense and could absolutely be a hit in a busy city like London.

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How An Entire Ikea Store Can Fit In A Banner

Another awesome banner campaign I’ve stumbled across recently (did you see the mobile controlled banner idea?) comes direct from Swedish mega retailer Ikea.  As anyone that has ever been to an Ikea store knows, their stores are humongous taking weeks to walk through (and months more to assemble the furniture you’ve bought!).  So is it possible to fit all 2800 products in a humble banner ad?  And I’m not talking an expandable unit I’m talking about a 300×250!  The answer is yes.  Wowsers!

Charity Uses Trees To Save More Trees In Clever Donation Campaign

I love this idea, really simple and very impactful.  Oro Verde an Argentinian not for profit needed to increase donations to help continue to save the precious South American rainforest.  Instead of recruiting humans they used trees in city and urban environments to spread the message 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Twitter + Scrabble = Genius Integration

First there was Scrabble, then Words with Friends and now TwitterScrabble!  A super simple inherently social idea that asks players to create their highest scoring tweet using 100 randomly  selected Scrabble tiles.  The highest scoring tweet of the day wins the new Scrabble Trickster game.  Yup, it’s that easy.  Great idea.

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Facebook App Lets You Send One Last Status Update After You Die!

If there is an afterlife I wonder if its full of spirits cursing their luck for not sending out one more Facebook status update before they passed?!  Luckily for those of us still here a new Facebook app called ‘If I die‘ allows anyone that way inclined to pre-record a final farewell to be released once the grim reaper drops by.  Ten years ago this would have seemed completely insane but given the seismic shift in behaviour and attitude toward social services and platforms this only feels mildly weird now!  If anyone reading this gives it a go please drop me a note or comment here, I’d love to know what you thought.

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Small Village Pins Every Facebook Fans Profile To Their Community Noticeboard!

Amazing!  As a small but meaningful incentive for people to like the Obermutten Facebook page the village promised to print out the profile of each and every person that liked them and pin it to their community noticeboard.  What happened next probably wan’t expected as the sleepy village of 79 people exploded across the world of social media turning the initial $10,000 investment into $2,400,000 of earned media!  As a result the community noticeboard is full, as is the barn door and a whole lot more as almost 10,000 people have since liked the page.  But its not just likes, the Obermutten Facebook page has been generating engagement levels beyond that of the Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga pages.  Proving that all thats required is a a simple idea that people can and want to get behind.

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Vending Machine Powered By Potatoes Make Chips On Demand

Last week we shared Dominos innovative idea to educated consumers on its ingredients using a gamification, this week Lays crisps looks to solve the same problem but this time using probably the coolest vending machine ever!  Powered by potatoes, anyone wanting a quick snack drops one into the top of the machine and watches as its peeled, sliced, baked and bagged!  Obviously this is a digital video but does a great job of showing just how pure Lays chips are.

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Amnesty International Wants You To ‘Slide To Unlock’

Amnesty International and their agency Garbergs is making creative use of the ‘slide to unlock’ feature found on the iPad and iPhone in a campaign designed to recruit activists. A series of wallpapers can be downloaded that show captive prisoners being released when unlocking the device. Smart and simple thinking out of Sweden.

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Bring Back A Classic Volkswagen With VW’s Fanwagen

Volkswagen Netherlands have just launched a fantastic new Facebook promotion called the VW Fanwagen.  Centered around two of their most icon vehicles, the Campervan and the Beetle, Facebookers have the chance to vote on which one they want rebuilt into a one of a kind, fully specced up social media hub.  Features of the classically styled, yet fully featured vehicle include a social media dashboard where your friends status updates will be printed out in real time, a like thumb shaped gear stick and a revolving relationship status on the numberplate!

All fans have to do is head over to their Facebook page and cast their vote on who they want to win, Beetle vs Campervan.  Participants then add a part to the vehicle, share with friends, and then sit back and wait for the result! As you can see below, the VW Campervan is certainly leading the charge, and I’m not surprised considering you can still buy a VW Beetle! [Read more...]

The Geekiest Halloween Costume Ever!

This is just amazing!  Two BBH New York creatives called Brian Moore and Mark Svartz have come up with the ultimate geek orientated Halloween costume…The Google Street View Guy!  You know, the little orange dude that you place on Google maps to look around the neighbourhood.  Both Brian and Mark created costumes equipped with live GPS tracking and a live street view inspired video stream hosted on their own spooky site called Google Street Boo!  Please comment if you were lucky enough to catch the action as they marched the NYC Halloween Parade otherwise just enjoy the video.

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