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Use the Force For Good

How many Star Wars classic lines can you recite?  Can you do the actions too?  To celebrate the release of Star Wars:  The Complete Saga on Blu-Ray, Lucasfilms has joined with Stand up to Cancer, the non-profit group that uses an innovative model that it calls ‘dream teams’ comprised of scientists,and other specialists  to tackle a  cancer problem. The campaign is aptly called “Use the Force for Good“.

Celebrities like Emma Stone, Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg, Jaime King and even Star Wars alum Samuel L Jackson are part of the campaign.  This ‘dream team’ acts out their favourite Star Wars lines and scenes, showing us that their goofiness is indeed our goofiness too.  And it’s okay to be in love with this iconic a brand.  They then leverage the Star Wars brand message to raise awareness (and donations) for cancer research.

Enjoy the video.  Which scene do you play the most often 🙂

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(RED) or Dead

Had a great discussion yesterday about the launch of product (RED), forcing us to think back to 4 years ago when this brand and business/charitable model were a whole new concept for raising money for a cause.  Look what showed up today:  YouTube Preview Image

In this campaign, to support World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, digitally savvy celebs have stopped posting on Facebook and Tweeting until $1,000,000 is raised.  The campaign, called Digital Death, encourages consumers to buy back these celebs digital lives by texting to Buylife.org.  There was so much traffic that the website went down.

There were many other prongs to the campaign too:  (RED) products are available year round from Nike, GAP, Starbucks and Armani.

Starbucks has an exceptionally cool advent calendar (okay, who doesn’t love those), with a World AIDS Day contribution of $.05 for every view of a new Killers video.  Great.  Innovative.

Frequent use.  Small, regular payments.  All of the things that we talked about that (RED) was trying to do following the initial launch of the campaign:  keep you coming back.  Keep up that Customer Lifetime Value.

Today’s the day:  World AIDS Day.  Get yourself to a Starbucks today.  5 cents from every drink goes to fight AIDS in Africa.

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Elf Yourself: Still funny 5 years later

Elf Yourself http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/ by Officemax is into its 6th year.  378 million people in 50 countries, still get a kick (groan), like me, of seeing themsELVES and their kids dance around in an elf suit.  My girls and I have been spinning and poppin’ and lockin’ for a couple of hours now and I still think it’s funny.  I think it’s awesome marketing on Officemax’s part too.  It’s not a store I frequent but they’ve managed to get some bucks from me because of this.  What started out as a viral marketing campaign has been turned into something that generates direct revenue for Officemax.  You can buy yoursELF a mousepad, video, coffee mug…everything that your Mum would want.  As seems to be de rigeur now, they’ve also added a Facebook game: Elfmas Town. What’s cool about the way Officemax does this is that they keep it fresh every year by adding on a few new extras and then they take it away until next year, kind of like Cadbury Easter Creme Eggs. We’re sick of it by the middle of December but delighted again when we see oursELVES the following year. They’ve also figured out how to generate direct revenue from what started out as a neat branding idea.

Hey, I’m bustin’ a move.  Bet you’re thinking about it now too.

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