Alfa Romeo helps people sell their cars
As part of the sales promotion campaign during the Brussels car show,
Alfa Romeo has converted 50 bus shelters around Belgium into free classified ad hoardings. After all, since a new Alfa Romeo is now so cheap, you’ll want
to be getting rid of your current wheels pretty quick.
More pictures here.
Komatsu Gold.
At this years edition of the RMB Cyberlions award, Komatsu received the Gold medal in the category ‘Viral Advertising’ with the ‘Xtreme precision’-emailing.
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Kagome 2008 campaign
Kagome is a major Japanese brand currently launching their blended fruit & vegetable juices in the United States. After a successful 2007 campaign in Seattle that saw sales jump by 450%, Duval Guillaume in New York has put to air a new radio campaign building on the brand’s promise of “100% natural brainpower”.
This year, the campaign focuses on the notion that when you power your brain with the nutrients in Kagome juice, you power your imagination.
It is alleged that the creatives were forced to raid a local grocery store for the production of the spots.
In-store work for the brand will appear in the coming month.
The Fokkie radio spots
After reading our article Douwe Egberts supports Brudio Stussel with fokkie you can listen to the radio spots created for the 25th birthday of Studio Brussel. They are recorded in Dutch.
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Douwe Egberts supports Brudio Stussel with fokkie
National youth radio Studio Brussel (StuBru) celebrates their 25th anniversary. For one week, they will turn the station upside down and change the name into the dyslectic Brudio Stussel (BruStu).
Douwe Egberts is well know for the Fokkie & Facé campaign on the radio, created by Duval Guillaume Brussels. The word coffee was inverted in French (café) and in Dutch (koffie). The characters in the spots speak a dyslectic language, until they had a cup of Douwe Egberts. You’re only ready to start the day, after a good cup of Douwe Egberts in the morning, is the idea behind it. The word Fokkie became an instant hit and is used in everyday life.
Douwe Egberts is airing new spots made for the birthday week of Studio Brussel. One spot explains how creatives came up with the name Brudio Stussel. They clearly hadden’t drank a fokkie yet that day.
All StuBru radio hosts received a t-shirt with a print of their name written in the dyslectic Fokkie language. The word Fokkie has been used regularly on air. In the studio a FokkieSjamien (coffee machine) was placed, to keep the hosts awake during the broadcasting at night.
‘Fokkietje’ in the dictionary
‘Fokkie’ is a non-existing word invented by Duval Guillaume for a radio campaign on behalf of Douwe Egberts. ‘Fokkie’ is a dyslectic version of ‘koffie’, the Dutch word for coffee.
With the campaign we refer to the effect of not drinking a coffee in the morning, which leads to a dyslectic use of the language. In Belgium more and more people are commonly using this word in daily life. You should enter ‘fokkietje‘ or ‘fokkie‘ in Google to see how widespread it is.
After airing this campaign, ‘fokkietje’ popped up in several blogs, twitters and forums on the web. It’s being used in daily conversations and has been elected the best radio commercial by the audience. Maybe we are a bit too optimistic, but wouldn’t it be great if ‘fokkie’ could end in up in the dictionary?
Click below to listen to two of the ‘fokkie’ radio spots. Please note that they are in dutch, so even after two coffees you might not get it. Enjoy.
‘Fokkiesjamien‘ Spot
‘First day at work‘ Spot
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