Free drinks at Zwarte Cross for designated drivers

3-6-2010

The biggest music and motorcross festival of eastern Netherlands, The Black Cross, has created a new campaign for his guests to come back home safely. The designated driver can drink soft drinks for free during the event showing a special wristband. This way the Black Cross tries to prevent drinking and driving.

Windows 77 Concept Store

2-6-2010

On the eve of the biggest IT fair in Asia, Microsoft has opened a restaurant. The restaurant is called “77 Concept Store”, which refers to the operating system Microsoft’s Windows 7, but also the cost of each dish, which is 77 Taiwan dollars (2.40 U.S.). There is also a menu of seven dishes, which are named after gadgets.

Social Media Bars in Johannesburg

29-5-2010

Johannesburg has 2 exclusive bars where online social media are combined with hospitality. You must be invited online to have access to one of the two locations. At the locations one will find touch screens mounted in the tables, on which one can use the internet. But one can also make contact with another tables.

Hello Kitty wine

25-5-2010

The little cartoon cat Kitty has become a real woman and now has her own wine label. And not without success, this wine is sold in Singapore, USA, Russia and England. The wine comes from the vineyards of Lombardy, a Pinot noir grape, in northern Italy.

Decant and pur wine at the same time

24-5-2010

The Italian designers of Acquacalda have the ideal solution for both the decanting and pouring of wine. In addition, the wine is fairly distributed.

Free online music with Pepsi

23-5-2010

Order a Pepsi with your iPhone in restaurants. You’ll save points on your Loot (iPhone App). When collected three points, you can download a song from a database of 250,000 songs. According to Pepsi, this is the first iPhone app that acts as a loyalty program.

New coffeebar in New York

19-5-2010

These two men have been operating a “coffee shop” since last weekend in the streets of New York. Where? No one knows. It just depends on where the bike is leading them. Everything is done on manpower (green engine). Even the beans are manually grinded for you. A delicious cup of coffee, if you know where to find them, anyway.

Creative marketing really works

15-5-2010

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 This Thai producer of soda water could not break through in Thailand. Until they came up with this marketing stunt. In the months following after that stunt, sales rose from 200,000 bottles to 1,000,000 bottles. View the marketing stunt on YouTube.

Alcholic beverage in an instant

13-5-2010

With this package, you can turn any kind of juice into an alcoholic beverage. The product is made from yeast, which is rapidly converted into alcohol. Be careful though, as your drink might contain more than 14% alcohol.

Coca-Cola Happiness Machine

12-5-2010

 “Share the happiness”, have fun with a vending machine and a lot of students. Capture the reactions on camera and you have a wonderful advertisement, to use in social media.

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