Unilever-owned food brand Unox has released a sixty-second animated television commercial to launch its new campaign for the vegetarian line in the Netherlands. In the film, a butcher’s nature-loving daughter devises a plan to switch out the family’s smoked sausage for Unox’s vegetarian equivalent. As Unox marketing manager Thijs Sleddering puts it: “If you want […]
Every town in The Netherlands has one. A Chinese takeaway restaurant. Often family-owned business that is perceived as dusty restaurant, with an endless menu of hundreds of dishes. Perhaps that is the reason why their chances of survival decrease by almost 75% year-on-year. The new generation in the family has fresh ambitions, while the popularity […]
Food is so heavily embedded into the culture of a country, that local people rarely notice how wonderful – and sometimes weird – their own food is. That is, until someone from a different place arrives… This insight sets the scene for J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam’s new TV commercial for Dutch supermarket PLUS. The […]
Since announcing its #unstereotype movement in June 2016, Unilever has been striving to avoid and subvert gender stereotypes in advertising. The latest campaign for its Dutch peanut butter brand Calvé embraces the movement with some inspired casting. The spot features Dutch football player Lieke Martens, who was voted FIFA player of the year after winning […]
With this campaign, created by XXS Amsterdam, Schweppes is on the lookout for people with zero bar experience considering a serious career change to become a professional bartender. The chosen candidate will be monitored during his training in the new online series ‘From Zero to Bar Hero’ and will be supported by several experts in […]
Amsterdam based design agency PROUDdesign has developed a new packaging design for the Quaker Cruesli brand. Recently introduced in the Netherlands and soon to be introduced across Europe. Quaker Cruesli is very successful and known for it’s tasty crunchy muesli (hence Cruesli). As part of the global repositioning and redesign of the Quaker brand, in […]
Burger King has worked with Amsterdam creative agency Etcetera to launch a new campaign for their latest product release in the Netherlands in 2018: Grilled Dogs. Those unacquainted with the Dutch language might miss the twist: the Dutch word for hot-dogs is ‘worst’. As Burger King is known for flame-grilling since 1954, the campaign […]
Malibu, the world’s number one coconut flavoured rum, is launching the next stage of its technology trial of connected bottles as part of its global ‘Because Summer’ campaign. Created in partnership with SharpEnd, Malibu’s IoT agency, the next phase will launch late October in Gall & Gall stores across Amsterdam. Much like the UK trial last […]
J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam is turning its hand to product development by co-creating a new food brand for Dutch supermarket chain PLUS: SuperSauce. An undercover vegetable sauce made with pure beetroot, carrot and parsnip, SuperSauce helps parents overcome the daily struggle of making kids eat their vegetables. Agency chef and food creative, Robbie Postma, worked with a […]
If anything says “New York” more than a bagel, it’s graffiti and hip-hop. That, at least, is the premise of a new Dutch campaign for McDonald’s, from TBWA\Neboko. To promote a new burger—the New York Bagel Supreme—in the Netherlands, the fast-food giant flew in a half-dozen street artists from the Brooklyn-based mural project Bushwick Collective, […]