Tag: Planning + Strategy

  • Big Red

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    Account loss aside, McCann’s Verizon Big Red spot is brilliant. Their maps vs apps battle with AT&T is tiresome, and this spot charts a new path. But of course, there’s more.
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    This spot comes out of the gate with traction, it calls on a collective cultural memory and is thus all the more sticky. It’s also disruptive in a way that I’ve been waiting to see. I’m curious to know about how use of the jingle was brokered with Wrigley, and of course, if any other F500 brands have done something bold like this.

  • MSNBC: The Alice Bond Bag

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    On Sunday, November 29th MSNBC’s Your Business will rebroadcast the episode Learning From the Pirates, which features The Alice Bond Bag and our friend Matt Mason, author of The Pirates’ Dilemma, who was one of the inspirations for the project.

  • Rachel Nasvik

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    Alice-Awaits

    Earlier this summer, MHB worked with fashion designer Rachel Nasvik and creative strategist Biba Milioto on a project called The Alice Bond Bag.

    The challenge was: How can a small company with lovely customers and a valued product increase brand awareness?

    The answer was to make a limited-edition of 96 bags and create a citywide scavenger hunt for them using the tools of social media. They were surreptitiously left in bars, bookstores and phone booths. They were sold by hotdog vendors, ice cream men and Canal Street bootleggers.

    When the dust cleared 10 days after launch, the project had become a media darling: covered by 50+ blogs and followed by 1000+ people on Twitter. Mainstream outlets like NBC New York, Vogue, Nylon and MSNBC’s Your Business all took note.

    Most importantly of all, it was fully embraced by Rachel’s fans – once we tweeted about the location of a bag, within 10 minutes, women were on the scene looking for it. And those who couldn’t make it, often sent boyfriends in their stead.

    It increased interest and sales in Rachel’s brand, reinvigorating past connections and creating new ones.
    And was some of the most fun we’ve ever had playing with social media.

  • The Alice Bond Bag

    Alice AwaitsEarlier this summer, MHB worked with fashion designer Rachel Nasvik and creative strategist Biba Milioto on a project called The Alice Bond Bag.

    The challenge was: How can a small company with lovely customers and a valued product increase brand awareness?

    The answer was to make a limited-edition of 96 bags and create a citywide scavenger hunt for them using the tools of social media. They were surreptitiously left in bars, bookstores and phone booths. They were sold by hotdog vendors, ice cream men and Canal Street bootleggers.

    When the dust cleared 10 days after launch, the project had become a media darling: covered by 50+ blogs and followed by 1000+ people on Twitter. Mainstream outlets like NBC New York, Vogue, Nylon and MSNBC’s Your Business all took note.

    Most importantly of all, it was fully embraced by Rachel’s fans – once we tweeted about the location of a bag, within 10 minutes, women were on the scene looking for it. And those who couldn’t make it, often sent boyfriends in their stead.

    It increased interest and sales in Rachel’s brand, reinvigorating past connections and creating new ones.
    And was some of the most fun ever had playing with social media.

  • ABC News: The Alice Bond Bag

    where the night takes you (take me too?)
    where the night takes you (take me too?)

    ABC just included the Alice Bond Bag in their roundup of ‘Crazy & Creative Advertising’

  • MSNBC: The Alice Bond Bag

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    learn to dance with your partner.

    MSNBC’s Your Business featured The Alice Bond Bag in an episode called Learning From the Pirates. The thesis of the piece is that businesses can use the marketplace of piracy as an asset if engaged intelligently.

  • Vogue: The Alice Bond Bag

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    holler at them fit girls
    Vogue has a chat with Rachel and Biba about the Alice Bond bag.