ambient marketing | Alessandra Colucci

KLM awareness problem

14 October 2019

What’s KLM? Apparently last year lots of Germans [46% to be precise] weren’t able to answer this very simple question. KLM made this discovery during a survey understanding that people mostly believed they were a bank, a restaurant or a radio station. So, they decided to launch a bizarre awareness campaign focus on ambient marketing. What did they call it? “We are an airline”. :D

Diversity in supermarket

24 June 2019

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In recent years the world seems to have gone mad and many countries – including UK and Italy, unfortunately – have developed “attitudes” that are not very inclusive towards diversity, be it in terms of gender, origin or lifestyle. I was looking for a good example able to show the reason why those “attitudes” are profoundly wrong and absurd when I bumped into the powerful ambient marketing activity organised some months ago by Edeka, a German supermarket chain. Curious? Read on!

Cultivate bags

30 May 2018

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Recycling is fundamental and everybody is trying to find a solution especially for those occasions in which plastic is still used too much. Supermarkets should be the first concern because of all the plastic packaging still used there, in particular in the fruits and veggies area. FEEDitBaG is an alternative to the thin plastic bag used in that supermarket area.

According to the weather

16 May 2018

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Apparently, a new trend is born: having the right technology on your side, today you can have your billboard showing the right offer according to the weather. Ebay and Scotch & Soda have tried out this new advertising opportunity with one of their campaigns, respectively in UK and Netherlands where the weather is always an issue.

The art of parking

28 February 2018

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Are you an experienced driver? If so, how would you mark your parking ability? I’m asking because you could be one of the artists [mostly anonymous, I’m afraid] that have been part of the Nissan exhibition in Paris. The well known automotive brand, in fact, a few months ago organised an amazing ambient marketing campaign aimed to launch their new parking assistant system, linking the parking ability with art, literally.

Riga Motor Museum brand experience

8 November 2017

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In order to raise their awareness among tourists and make their presence in the city more desirable, Riga Motor Museum have planned a surprising ambient marketing campaign focused on testing the brand experience with a glimpse of heritage marketing strategy. Curious? Continue reading.

Sauce exhibition

18 October 2017

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Popeyes, US sauces producer and master in the art of designing different flavours, created a very unusual printer, a special machine able to print using any kind of sauces. In order to achieve a good level of awareness for their products - other than the machine - among their potential clients, the brand have thought to put in place an interesting ambient marketing campaign linking art with the flavours they produce. How does it work?

IKEA meets Romanian tradition [brand experience]

4 October 2017

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As a hymn to the glocal thinking and to celebrate their 10 years in the Romanian market, IKEA have created an ambient marketing campaign focused on showing how it’s possible to integrate different cultures, styles and traditions respecting all of them at the same time and looking to a shared future.

DIY with a left shoe [BMW]

27 September 2017

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From the automotive point of view, if you don’t use your left shoe to engage the manual transmission, what is it for? Considering they are offering the automatic transmission for free and the consequent uselessness of the left shoes, BMW Netherland have created an ambient marketing campaign, one that’s very interesting for industrial design and art amateurs [who are part of the aimed-target, of course].