Carlsberg: HappyBeerTime

Blending social with on premise sales is not an easy task but Carlsberg's Happy Hour 2.0 campaign seems to make everybody happy. Bars have a HappyBeerTime USB stick that when plugged in Happy Hour appears on screen for a limited amount of time. Then people take a photo, upload it to Instagram tagged with #HappyBeerTime and the bar's name and they get extra Happy Hour time. So, bars sell beers and get on Instagram, customers gets discounts, Carlsberg gets content. Everybody's happy.

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Credits:
Advertising agency: Konstellation, Copenhagen

Wren: First Kiss

20 strangers kissing for the first time in front of a camera. This short film from L.A. fashion brand Wren, got over 22.000.000 views on YouTube in just 2 days. The 20 strangers where hesitant at first, they felt awkward but when they started to kiss it all changed. Director Tatia Pilieva managed to make a touching film that went viral because the majority of the people just saw the transformative power of a kiss. They believed in the "strangers kissing story".

The reality is that these strangers are not common people but professional performers. Slate says:
"The cast includes models Natalia Bonifacci, Ingrid Schram, and Langley Fox (daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and sister of model Dree); musicians Z Berg of The Like, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Justin Kennedy of Army Navy, singer Nicole Simone, and singer-actress Soko (who also performed the melancholy indie music that accompanies the short); and actors Karim Saleh, Matthew Carey, Jill Larson, Corby Griesenbeck, Elisabetta Tedla, Luke Cook, and Marianna Palka." 

Knowing this ruins the feelings you get out of the film but I guess only people in advertising will know.

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Norlis Bookstore: Unplug with a book

We can't escape the Internet but we must be able to unplug ourselves at least for a few hours. Norlis, a bookstore in Norway, urges us to do so with a book with this nice print campaign.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Anti, Oslo, Norway
Art Director: Jason Kinsella
Copywriters: Jason Kinsella, Erik Heisholt
Assistant Art Director: Charlotte Bakken
Photographer: Glenn Rokeberg

The Famous Grouse: The Famous Sculpture

Famous Grouse whiskey asked whiskey fans the following question: "What would you like to be famous for?". The most original hopes and dreams where carved with laser in the aluminium strips that where used to built this innovative scuplture. A motion sensitive light project the answers around the gallery. Impressive work.

The Famous Grouse Sculpture from Marshmallow Laser Feast on Vimeo.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: AMV BBDO, London
Production Company: PRETTYBIRD
Director: Marshmallow Laser Feast
Producer: Margo Mars
Sculpture Design: Marshmallow Laser Feast & Studio Roso
Kinetic Design: Ruairi Glynn
Final sculpture DOP: Brett Turnbull
Additional footage: Sandra Ciampone
Editor: Sandra Ciampone
Music: Dave Cooke 

Save the Children: One second a day

The life of an 8 years old girl changes dramatically within a year in this hard one-second-a-day spot. Save the Children charity brings the day-to-day life of kids in Syria to London to showcase that just because it isn't happening here doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Credist:
Client: Save the Children
Agency: Don't Panic, London
Production Company: Unit9

Cream-O: Cookie Mug

This must be the ultimate mug for drinking milk. It is made from digestive cookies and dark chocolate. It also helps parents motivate their children in order to drink 2 mugs of milk. Great move from Cream-O, a cookie brand in Malaysia, and Grey. The edible mug came free with 2 packs of Cream-O. The campaign run for a month with a succesful 19% increase in sales.

Credits:
Advertising agency: Grey Kuala Lumpur

Coke Zero: What do pétanque, knitting and fishing have in common?

Zero. A magic number which when added it can mean nothing or change everything. In Duval Guillaume's latest stunt for the Coca-Cola Zero "Just Add Zero" campaign they did just that. They added zero and changed everything.

They asked ordinary people playing pétanque, knitting and fishing to film them. As you can imagine all of these hobbies have non-to-a-few spectators only. Then they added zero. 6 spectators became 60 then 600. Fishermen, knitting ladies and petanque players felt like superstars when, out of nowhere, supporters started to appear, cheering, creating a crazy atmosphere. (Thanks Sophie)

Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume Modem