The Work: New Campaigns - The World

GENERAL ELECTRIC - OLYMPIC CAMPAIGN - CHINA

Project: GE Olympic campaign Beijing Airport

Client: Geoff Li, communications director, GE

Brief: Promote General Electric's position as one of the 11 IOC Top

Sponsors

Creative agencies: BBDO China, BBDO New York

Writer: Blues Wang

Art director: Eric Van Skyhawk

Planning: BBDO New York

Media agency: OMD China

Photographer: Jen Halim, The Loop

Exposure: Beijing airport door stickers, posters, lightboxes

THE LOWDOWN It may seem premature to be talking about the next summer Olympics (Beijing, 2008) when the Greek flame has only just been snuffed out, but the organisation for the 2008 event is moving at lightning speed.

That includes advertising and sponsorship. BBDO China has developed an extensive outdoor campaign to raise awareness of General Electric's Chinese operation and its relationship with the 2008 summer games.

A series of striking poster ads intelligently link Olympic events with GE's technological solutions and capabilities pertinent to the building and operating of the games.

The campaign stems from GE's position as one of the 11 sponsors on the International Olympic Committee's global sponsorship programme, which allows the brand priority in selling its products or services.

AMAZON - TOOTH FAIRY - US

Project: Amazon Theatre - "Tooth Fairy"

Clients: Kathy Savitt, vice-president, strategic communications; Chris

Bruzzo, director of strategic communications, Amazon.com

Brief: n/s

Creative agency: Fallon Worldwide, in association with RSA Films USA

Inc.

Writers: David Carter, Terry Rietta

Art director: David Carter

Production company: RSA Films USA Inc

Director: Jake Scott

Editor: Charlie Johnson, Lost Planet

Post-production: Digital Domain

Exposure: Amazon.com

THE LOWDOWN

Fallon and RSA Films USA are repeating the success they enjoyed with online short films for BMW by collaborating on a series of shorts to be available only on Amazon.com.

Amazon theatre features five films, which range in length from four to seven minutes. The films subtly integrate items available on the Amazon.com website, and each focuses on a different product category.

Tooth Fairy, directed by Jake Scott, features kitchen appliances in a comedy about a father's quest to find his daughter's hidden tooth. Other films include Portrait, directed by Jordan Scott and starring Minnie Driver; Agent Orange, directed by Tony Scott, and Do Geese See God, starring Blair Underwood and directed by David Slade.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC - LAUNCH CAMPAIGN - AUSTRALIA

Project: Launch campaign

Client: Gia Acitelli, sales and marketing manager,Virgin Atlantic

Airways

Brief: Differentiate Virgin Atlantic from Virgin Blue and create

anticipation

Creative agency: Host

Writer: The Glue Society

Art director: The Glue Society

Planner: Olly Taylor

Media agency: Mitchell's

Media planner: Kelly Miller

Photographer: Jez Smith, 2c Management

Retouching companies: Screen, Momentum

Exposure: National press,magazines, outdoor, online

THE LOWDOWN

Virgin Atlantic has launched a print campaign in Australia to introduce its Upper Class Suite as it moves to take on Qantas, British Airways and Cathay Pacific on the Hong Kong to Sydney route. The campaign, by Host and The Glue Society, seeks to establish Virgin Atlantic's credentials as a premium carrier and clear up any confusion between the operator and its low-cost sister airline, Virgin Blue.

Entitled "rumours", the campaign touts "first class at business-class prices" - passengers can enjoy a massage in the salon area, or mingle at the bar.

The ads are running in newspapers and magazines and online around last week's inaugural flight.

VEKKAUS OY - LIVE BETTING - FINLAND

Project: Live betting

Client: Ari Tuuli, marketing director, Vekkaus Oy

Brief: n/s

Creative agency: TBWAPHS

Writer: Erkko Mannila

Art director: Juha Larsson

Planner: Tommi Laiho

Media agency: Carat Finland

Media planner: Sami Kankkunen

Production company: Elohopea-Filmi

Director: Pete Riski

Exposure: National TV

THE LOWDOWN

TBWAPHS Finland has just completed a four-part live advertising campaign for Live Betting, a new service from the Finnish National Betting Office.

Based on 50s live advertising, the campaign ran four consecutive nights after the main evening news on MTV3, the largest Finnish commercial channel, and took the form of surreal educational films designed to explain how to place live bets during a sports event. In one, a man walks into a shop, enquires about making a live bet and is told he needs to use his mobile phone; a second ad features talking horses from an earlier Betting Office campaign. In all the ads, reference was made to events in the news broadcast that preceded the commercial.

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