Most of the casinos use “winning big” as the core idea for all communications, it’s interesting to see different approach in advertising. Grand Casino Beograd, a casino in Serbia recently launched a series of fun, hip, and sexy print ads, with less “winning” aspect in the visual. Using party photos of young and attractive models with [...]

This is an extremely useful list found through one of my friend Angela Kan’s Facebook note, would love to keep this as reference to check back from time to time, and of course sharing it to everyone who might also find it useful. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders Talk to a monkey. Explain [...]

I’ve recently attended a company training about the science of communication, influence, and storytelling, one of the interesting point that’s stuck in my mind is the simple facts about human’s ability in receiving (and remembering) information, so simple and common that many brands have forgotten. The simple trick to build memorable stories After this training, [...]

I really enjoy looking at the big ideas brands try to execute these days, Members Project by American Express is one of them, a campaign that lives on Facebook. Idea of the campaign is to “make a difference”, make very small steps to make this world a better place. Below is the full description of [...]

GIF and animated GIF format has been around forever, it’s one of the earliest formats of animation being spred online. GIF got less and less popular because of the rise of video sharing, when Internet technology got faster and videos from video hosting services can be streamed smoothly. For some reasons, GIF is back! People [...]

Youtube is often seen as a channel for hosting videos, and what clients like to call – “viral videos”. Most brands, however, have underestimated the power of putting creativity to branded Youtube channel. Perrier’s new campaign is a perfect example of a great use of Youtube channel. Perrier has been positioning themselves as sexy, edgy, [...]

Before getting into my ridiculous thoughts on how Facebook can be able to compete directly with the big Google in the close future, let’s compare their current ad services. Google Google Adwords (and Adsense) is very powerful, ad engine crawls all content on websites, with very complex algorithm, Google can manage to serve extremely relevant [...]

Remember when I was around 15, I started criticizing many marketing campaigns during those times as I thought most of them were very “inside the box”. I had the most crazy ideas and I knew they would be huge if they were executed, yes, IF THEY WERE executed.

I really enjoyed watching this video, sometimes it’s difficult to realize something too obvious, something that happens to you everyday. I have to admit, although I’m truly happy about others’ positive experiences, sometimes it’s just a better story when people struggle. The experience of the miners in Chile is now turning into a movie, one [...]

No surprise there are always great ads for the Christmas seasons, I’ve put together 10 ads that I really enjoyed watching for this Christmas. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2010!