Love it when great ideas are extended into different touch points. In case you haven’t seen it, Weiden+Kennedy has successfully translated a television personality into a viral media success using everyday social media tools such as YouTube and Twitter to create a larger brand presence for Old Spice.
Check out the YouTube videos for OldSpice.
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Love the fact that Adam Quirk was able to raise funds via Kickstarter to send a clear message to BP.
Watch the whole segment on CNN.
Beautiful photo essay on the state of the world outside of our own narrow periphery. Below are 6 out of the 61 stories and photos. Visit Foreign Policy to view the entire photo essay.
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“For the last half-decade, the Fund for Peace, working with Foreign Policy, has been putting together the Failed States Index, using a battery [...]
via CNN.com, a homeless man is enlisted to live on a billboard platform to raise awareness for poverty.
Watch the video.
Pretty good trailer about 16 advertising folks who lost their job. Here’s a synopsis of the story.
“What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off? They get creative with their own lives. Lemonade is an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and [...]
Now that’s more like it. Finally a program that taps into and makes good use of unpaid workers.
(originally posted in the New York Times by Diane Cardwell)
From left, Layla Malavet, Micah Gibbens and Arvin Temkar at the office of Common Cents, a New York service organization.Ángel Franco/The New York Times
Since April, they have spruced up [...]
(originally published on Gizmodo by Sean Fallon)
11-Year Old Writes iPhone Drawing App and Donates Proceeds To Children’s Hospital
He isn’t the youngest kid to write an iPhone app, but 11-year old Cameron is wise beyond his years. He is donating a substantial part of the proceeds from his drawing app iSketch to the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.
Writing to Crunchgear, [...]
Nice to see these this week to bring back some great memories. Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
Thanks Google!
Sevket Sahintas, a cab driver in Istanbul, not only picks up customers during his graveyard shift but occasionally stops to take some beautiful photoghraphy.
Originally spotted on cnn.com.
The quote “in order to move forward, you have to give something back” is from Oprah’s 2008 Stanford Commencement Address. I feel very optimistic that this message resonates strongly within our society today, especially in our youth The two in the video, Quinn and Kelsey, are a perfect example of how little things can make [...]
