Archive for March 30th, 2009

The Simpsons Adidas House Party Spoof

Written by Paul van Veenendaal on March 30th, 2009 | 11 comments

The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the adidas Originals iconic 3-Stripes Trefoil mark introduced by company founder Adi Dassler. In keeping with this important milestone, adidas unveiled its largest global brand campaign ever, which includes the brand’s first-ever TV commercial and features the track Beggin’ remixed by Pilooski.

adidas Originals

The adidas Originals campaign kicked off in the US on November 18, 2008 with The Invitation video. A week later the star-studded “House Party” commercial was released, featuring musicians and icons such as Katy Perry, Russell Simmons, Missy Elliott, David Beckham and Ilie Nastase. In total there are 18 celebrities to spot.

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LGenius: LG’s New Wacky TV Technologies

Written by Igor Beuker on March 30th, 2009 | 1 comment

LG introduces some truly genius innovations at a recent conference in Korea. What do you get when you combine a keynote with new technologies from LG? Watch the video and see for yourself…

To see more crazy and outrageous future LG ideas or to submit and share your own ideas, check out the LGenius Community.

SocialMedia8 started the natural seeding and social media optimization of the LG video on 26 March 2009 in the UK and Germany. At 30 March the ViralTracker dashboard showed already +100.000 clip views.

The social space again proves that brands can earn attention with free viral dynamics. We like to call it Earned Media, WOM or Buzz.

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