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Sausages Pimp Dildos, Arby's Gets Andy, UK Riots Solved - Dildos and sausages. Only in advertising. - L.L. Bean has hired Weber Shandwick to create a campaign for its upcoming 100th anniversary celebration. - Here's Andy, Arby's new commercial boy. - Sam Pepper thinks he has the answer to the challenge of ending riots in the UK. - What to look for in an app according to L'Oreal's Men Expert. - AOL is out with an iPad magazine. Candied Ass For Sale on Groupon We've used Groupon for a while though "used" may be a bit of an overstatement. We have the app but we've never actually purchased anything. Each day the offers come in and we sort of go "hmm." Today an offer came in for Fancy Fortune Cookies. But when we opened the app, we were stunned to see an image that looked very much like two legs and an ass covered in chocolate and candy. Has porn hit Groupon? T-Mobile Takes Angry Birds Offline, Expands Its Size By 1000 T-Mobile makes another cultural coup with its ongoing and highly social "Life is for sharing" campaign. On May 11 in Barcelona, the firm set up a huge live Angry Birds installment inviting people to play. A few curious stragglers were drawn to a booth, where they found a smartphone with Angry Birds loaded. They'd casually draw the slingshot back (the birth of an addiction) -- and find to their surprise that the result was replicated in real life. It goes without saying that a crowd formed fast.
by Angela Natividad
Jun-10-11
Topic: Best, Brands, Campaigns, Events, Games, Guerilla, Mobile/Wireless Diesel Takes 'Likes' Off the 'Net and Onto Jeans Here's an idea with interesting potential. For Diesel, European comms firm Fullsix had a baby burp of an epiphany: Facebook's Like capability has become an online content standard. If Liking pages, content and brands online is so successful for spreading brand equity around, the Like ought to be replicated in the real world. The ONE App That Could Change The World That's the dream, anyway. ONE.org has launched a free app that enables you to mobilise in an instant to fight disease and extreme poverty, wherever you are and whenever you feel like it. The technology isn't anything you haven't seen before, but it demonstrates the power we hold in our hands and take for granted. Mobile, Social Integral to TV Audience Engagement In an Internet Week panel led by Gloto Co-Founder and CEO Eric Con along with panelists Telemundo Director of Emerging Business Francisco Rivera, Syfy VP of Operations Shara Zoll and USA Networks Director of Emerging Platforms James Kolstad, it became clear both mobile and social play an important role in engaging TV audiences Mobile and Social have been great tools for networks to re-engage their audiences. Telemundo, which focuses on Hispanic audiences, has used mobile very effectively. The demographics are interesting: Hispanic viewers have low ownership of computers but 45% have smartphones and a high percentage have email. Mobile has become crucial for them to engage their public. Read the rest on Yahoo! Scene. Philip Morris Doesn't Want Your Help Selling Ciggies Last week students Jennine Punzone and Manasvi Abrol of Miami Ad School Brooklyn incurred the wrath (well ... not really) of no less than Philip Morris, having used a class assignment to propose an app called Bump a Smoke. If you're a social smoker, or just somebody who comes up a stick short once or twice too often a week, the idea is brilliant. The hypothetical app lets you buy virtual smokes, which you can then exchange for real ones. What irked Philip Morris was the unauthorised use of its Marlboro brand in the app mockup, and AgencySpy, which has covered the project in past, received the following letter from one Bill Phelps of Altria Client Services:
Vintage Barbie 'Fronts, Gaga-Style, for Nokia N8 This isn't creepy at all. To plug its aggressively pink N8 smartphone, Nokia's produced "Freedom," a music video that Influencia describes as "a mix of Lady Gaga, Rihanna and The Exorcist." Its frontliner is none other than Mattel's Barbie, circa 1950s or around the time the pointy bra was born. Barbie appears in all her plasticine antiquated glory, outfitted in a pink the same shade as the N8, sometimes with garishly coloured hair, other times with Sharpie tattoos, at least twice with Nokia signs covering her mammaries, and a few times -- disturbingly enough -- lounged on top of an N8 amid a circle of her own disembodied limbs. Festis Unbores with News-Vomiting CGI Alarm Cat Here's one of those wack ideas masquerading as something novel. "Unbore Anything!" is an ongoing campaign for Carlsberg's still beverage Festis, whose name is already quirky enough to invite ideas of the same ilk. Virtual Bartender App Far Less Sexy Than Original Not anywhere near as hot as the original Virtual Bartender from Beer.com that made the rounds six years ago but far more practical and useful comes this virtual bartender iPhone app for the East Atlanta Beer Festival. Created by LBi and called Re:Brew, the application will provide real-time ranking of the 150 beers that will be poured at the festival. Come on, LBi! This is beer we're talking about. Where are the beer babes? Did you set your geeks lose on this project and forget to have them overseen by that oversexed, thirty-something art director who hits on all the hot, young interns every year? For shame! 
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