This week’s most recommended stories

1. Exclusive: Volkswagen campaign unites art lovers, thieves Believe it or not, sometimes it’s okay to steal. Specifically, it’s okay to steal artwork that’s part of an integrated Volkswagen Canada campaign by Toronto agency Red Urban Canada. 2. Cloudraker’s Nabit finding global audience No wonder the birds were angry. For just a few days last […]

1. Exclusive: Volkswagen campaign unites art lovers, thieves
Believe it or not, sometimes it’s okay to steal. Specifically, it’s okay to steal artwork that’s part of an integrated Volkswagen Canada campaign by Toronto agency Red Urban Canada.

2. Cloudraker’s Nabit finding global audience
No wonder the birds were angry. For just a few days last month, Nabit, an iPhone app developed by Montreal agency CloudRaker, was getting more downloads in certain markets than the king of all apps, Angry Birds.

3. Watch This: Rethink’s first Lavalife spot
Hey, did you know Rethink won Lavalife?

4. Sneak Peek: The Very Necessary Twitter Guide
If Twitter were a real-life party,
the average Canadian marketer would be the one standing alone in the corner. He’s often the first one to arrive to stake out his position in the crowd. But he’s not quite sure what to do while he’s there.

5. Koodonation challenge races to raise awareness for Canadian charities
“Leveraging the social web for social good” is how public relations company Strategic Objectives describes the groundbreaking launch of KoodoNation.com, a not-for-profit “microvolunteering” community created and backed by Telus‘ Koodo mobile brand.

Advertising Articles

BC Children’s Hospital waxes poetic

A Christmas classic for children nestled all snug in their hospital beds.

Teaching makes you a better marketer (Column)

Tim Dolan on the crucible of the classroom and the effects in the boardroom

Survey says Starbucks has best holiday cup

Consumers take sides on another front of Canada's coffee war

Watch This: Iogo’s talking dots

Ultima's yogurt brand believes if you've got an umlaut, flaunt it!

Heart & Stroke proclaims a big change

New campaign unveils first brand renovation in 60 years

Best Buy makes you feel like a kid again

The Union-built holiday campaign drops the product shots

123W builds Betterwith from the ground up

New ice cream brand plays off the power of packaging and personality

Sobeys remakes its classic holiday commercial

Long-running ad that made a province sing along gets a modern update