Why have a campaign site....

Can you spot the obvious draw to interact with this Lynx idea? I know, neither could we!

...when you can do it all on social media. Lynx have just done a digital idea on Facebook for their new Twist campaign, ignoring the need for a separate site. This interactive story starring an inbetweener and Keeley is actually much better than the offline elements. Usually it's the other way around with Lynx. Have a go here.

Coca Cola have announced they are going to use social media more instead of have stand alone sites. The articles here. Also, Cravendale are using Twitter as part of their new campaign for Milk Matters.

It's safe to say that if the brand you're working on wants to target young people, there's going to be talk of an idea on Facebook. It's worth having a browse of the new regulations that Facebook has made for brands wanting to create application and competitions. It's not as easy as one might think to use Facebook for an idea.

Have a gander below...

Ad guidelines

Competition guidelines

Star Wars sound board WITH AUDIO MIXER

It's an old idea, but this one's official so it's got to be good. Play here.

The good stuff found this week

We’ve been wanting to post about the short animation Logorama for a while, however finding a copy of it has been trés difficult. Go here to see it in HD.

Take fifteen minutes to watch it as it’s probably one of the best animation you’ll see this year. The attention to detail is incredible.

On a funnier note, someone at work stumbled across a website that let’s you create your own headline for the recent Tory party campaign. Old Cameron has been getting a bit of heat for being photoshopped like crazy. We say keep it real my man.

Anyway have fun with it. The link is here.

A bit of happiness

The Happiness machine.

This coke vending machine was placed on a college campus in america, and gave some lucky students more than just a bottle of coke. It's a nice and fun bit of film content. The free sandwich is the best part.

Also, as a bonus Vampire Weekend are streaming their new album from their site.

Have a quick listen now.

Heinz beans on toast pop up cafe

We went down to sample the beans on toast at the new Heinz pop up cafe near us. It was dressed up to look homely, with colouring in books to entertain everyone.

A nice touch is that all the women serving drinks and beans were real mums. There was even some of their childrens art work on the wall. It's got to be real, as mums never lie!

The Beans of toast cafe's exactly location is here. An article from the Mail is here.

It's worth popping down as it's only a 50p donation to go in and eat.

All the information you need is in the email invite at the top.

Amazing photo's from 2009

Lots more here.

The best of Vimeo from 2009

Let's kick off the new year with some of the best video's from Vimeo. The links here.

Vimeo seems to be a cooler version of youtube. It's also not plastered with pop up and overlay advertising....yet.

These videos are less babies dancing and cats playing keyboard. Most of them are all slickly produced.

Singing in the shower

This is the second post with girls wearing not alot this week. Don't worry, it's last one.

Anyway, this is a new campaign for Burger King in the UK called 'Singing in the shower'. Every morning a lovely lady hops into the shower and sings a song. You choose the song and the bikini she wears.

Just so you know guys, there's not a 'No bikini' option.

It's silly and a little removed from Burger King, but it will get visits because there's a hot, naked chick....sorry, lady singing everyday.

Singing in the shower is here.

While we're on naked girls in creative we might as well mention this banner. It's 10 mega bytes big and has a girl stripping. We won't ruin the suprise anymore!

It's here if you really really need to take a look.

Complete Bayhem

Victoria Secret advert directed by Michael Bay.

Interested? Of course you are.

Michael Bay is all about less plot more action, girls and explosions. Kudos to the guy to some extent because he does what he does very well.

Hire a gimp and get free calls and text

Exactly....why didn't we think of this?

Someone in our office stumbled across Giff Gaff, a new phone network. They are promoting their service in a slightly different way to say Vodafone or O2. They let you hire out different 'tools' to get a free calls and txt sim in return for making a video of your experience.

This is their mantra which is why we have ended up with a Gimp in our office.

"To introduce the world to giffgaff, the first people powered mobile network, we’ve created Tool hire. We think it’s a nice expression of our people powered ways and general back-scratching mentality. Hire a tool for free, make a great video, and we’ll give you a SIM card providing you with free UK calls, texts and internet for a year.

So, the Gimp was one of the weird and wonderful things you could hire. Take a look at the rest of their tools here.

Giff Gaff are hoping that the 'tool' are mental enough that people will blog and post their experiences on youtube.

I think it might have worked.

Oh, forgot to mention that we made him dance just before he left. Below is the remix, aptly named The Gimp Groove.

Star Wars on Facebook

Geeky...but funny. So they are alright in our digital space.

The Sun 4.0

The Sun has been the best handheld for 40 years.