Lacta| Interactive Youtube

"Love at first site" is an awarded Branded Entertainment campaign for Greece's favorite chocolate, Lacta. It was created by OgilvyOne Athens in 2008 and the film was produced by MovieTeller Films.

The campaign has won the Gold Award in the Branded Content category of IAB's MIXX Awards 2009 in New York. It has also won a Bronze Award in the International category of MIXX Awards 2009 and a Bronze World Medal in the Confections / Snacks category of the New York Festivals 2009. It has also won honors at the Webby Awards 2009 and a Favourite Webside Award "FWA". It was also Advertising Age's "Idea of the Week".

Only you can give a happy end to this interactive love story, shot entirely on location at the Greek island of Paros and in Athens, and presented by Lacta, the leading chocolate bar in Greece.http://www.facebook.com/Loveatfirstsite

"Love at first site" is the story of how Petros, a young Greek man and Joanna, an English girl on vacation at the island of Paros, fall in love at first sight, and spend a magic week together, only to break up and never see each other again.

The story unfolds in flash back and users get to experience the love story from the beginning. Only through their actions and correct choices users can progress the love story and bring the two heroes back together at the big finale, two years after the events at Paros.

The film was directed by Constantin Pilavios and the screenplay was written by Panos Sambrakos and Christina Sotiropoulou, on an original story by Panos Sambrakos. Cinematography was by Zoe Manta and the original music composed by Christos Triantafyllou.

Creative Director: Panos Sambrakos
Account Management: Christina Alifakioti
Art Director: Constantinos Demetriadis
Web Designer: Konstantinos Penlidis
Copywriter: Konstantina Chatzaki

McDonalds| Cheer for China

DDB Shanghai has won the Gold award at the MAA Globes Awards for the “Cheer for China” campaign developed for McDonalds during the Beijing Olympics. The award continues the Gold awarded at the China Effies in 2008.

As an official sponsor of the Beijing Olympics McDonald’s were keen to find a way to join every Chinese person to the games. The McDonald’s slogan, “I’m loving it” was adapted to become “I’m loving it… China Win!”, a cheer to be used throughout the country.

A “cheering station” was designed, complete with webcam, microphone, interactive screen and web access. Every customer who went into the station could record their own video of a cheer for China and transfer the results to the McDonald’s China web site.

Credits

The Cheer for China campaign was developed at DDB Shanghai, China, by creative director Michael Dee, creative director/art director Jody Xiong, art director Leo Wan and copywriter Meredin Xu

Internet banner of the year.... Pringles

Some banners are intended to drive traffic to any place , others being a message/experience by themselves.

the second type, become highly relative to clickthrough and some other metricst.

I just saw this extraordinary banner at Bannerblog. Needless to explain how well executed is that "once you pop you can't stop" motto and also a great demonstration on how important having a great copywriter helps writing ads (click on the image to see it)

COI: Choose A Different Ending

Choose A Different Ending is an interactive film that allows you to decide what happens next. You can interact with it, choose what to do and decide how it ends. In Choose A Different Ending you decide whether to live or die.

Advertising Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London, United Kingdom
Agency Producer: Ben Catford
Director: Simon Ellis
Production: Mad Cow Films
Post Production: The Mill
Brand: COI