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May 3

adidas Launches New Homepage Design for Shopadidas.com

A new home page design that expresses the premium quality of the adidas brand went live last week on the company’s U.S. e-commerce site, shopadidas.com.

The clean, distinctively adidas design introduces a series of rotating banners that reflect the company’s current marketing campaigns. The rotating banners automatically refresh the look of the home page, while giving consumers multiple pathways to select products based on gender, brand, sport and product type.

Shopadidas.com also features links for popular searches and top visited locations, as well as three sub-banners that subtly highlight distinct product collections and sub-brands. Other features include a view into the shopadidas Twitter feed, and a simplified site map that makes accessing content easier for the consumer, while improving the site’s visibility in search results.

Isobar’s redesign team worked within a very short timeframe to develop the new design, which accomplishes adidas’ business need of making their products easier and more intuitive for the consumer to access than ever before.

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April 15

Boston Bruins and Isobar North America Debut Interactive “Bruins Face Off” Facebook Game

by Anne Curtin

The Boston Bruins have partnered Isobar North America to launch the interactive Facebook game “Bruins Face Off.”

The interactive game allows Bruins fans to compete against their Facebook friends and fellow fans around the world by predicting the statistical output of their favorite players based on points, hits and shots on goal during each game of the playoffs. To play “Bruins Face Off,” fans can visit the Bruins Facebook page at www.facebook.com/NHLBruins beginning Wednesday, April 14.

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April 14

Isobar Wins Two Promo Magazine Interactive Marketing Awards for Work on Behalf of Blurb

by Anne Curtin

Isobar North America’s San Francisco-based team received top honors from Promo magazine’s Interactive Marketing Awards for its “Killed Ideas” campaign on behalf of Blurb, taking both first place in the New Media category and second place in the Integrated Promotion category. Promo’s Interactive Marketing Awards honor the best and brightest in effective interactive marketing. Executives from Isobar and Blurb plan to speak in detail about the campaign at WOMMA’s 2010 School of WOM (Word of Mouth) Conference, held in Chicago on May 24-26th.

Blurb is the creative publishing and marketing platform used by creative professionals and consumers worldwide to create, publish, share and sell professional-quality books. With its service already popular among photographers and designers, the company partnered with Isobar to help expand its reach into a broader set of business users, specifically advertising and marketing agency creative professionals. Isobar’s powerful “Killed Ideas” campaign engaged agency professionals by appealing to their passion for creative ideas, while simultaneously showcasing the power of putting ideas to print. The multifaceted campaign featured participation from leading advertising industry pundits and influencers; an integrated use of web, social media and word-of-mouth techniques; and strong results that mapped to specifically defined campaign goals.

Congrats to our friends at Blurb and our San Francisco-based team!

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April 7

adidas and Isobar Unveil Exciting New Enhancements to adidas miCoach

by Anne Curtin

On Monday, adidas and Isobar unveiled a series of exciting new enhancements to adidas miCoach, the interactive training service that delivers audible coaching while you run. Already one of the most advanced and personal applications on the Web today, miCoach.com incorporates new features and functionality that help runners better manage their training programs, and reflects adidas commitment to listening to the needs of consumers and creating a better experience for their miCoach users.

Key enhancements to miCoach.com include:

A robust Routes management tool that enables users to create and edit routes, add ratings and notes to existing routes, and add, move or delete route points.
New community tools that provide a forum where runners can share training tips with other runners, get tips and tricks on using miCoach, see upcoming events, access miCoach-related videos and get updates on the latest gear.
Custom workout capabilities that enable runners to build their own custom workouts from scratch.
A new Achievements section that recognizes key personal milestones, records and overall workout stats, such as fastest mile run, most calories burned, and more.
Updated Reminder functionality that enable users to choose when they want to be reminded of workouts and when they’ve been inactive.

The enhanced site also provides adidas with sophisticated content management capabilities that enable each market to showcase featured products, as well as localized content, pricing and store locations to meet the needs of individual markets.

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March 31

McCain Assigns Digital Brand Work to Isobar North America

by Anne Curtin

Global Frozen Food Leader Taps Isobar to Elevate Its Online Brand Presence

Global frozen food leader McCain Foods Limited and Isobar North America, a full-service digital marketing agency and Aegis Media Group company, announced today they will work together to enhance the company’s internal and external Web properties. McCain selected Isobar after conducting a formal review process, which included four competing agencies. The planning and discovery phase of the project is already underway, and the companies expect the projects to be completed by mid-year.

“We believe our digital initiatives will have a profound impact on the way we are perceived and engaged within the marketplace,” said Susan Rogers, Vice President of Global Communications for McCain. “To help us realize our goals, we sought a partner who values our brand and culture, understands the challenges and opportunities of being a global organization and has an advanced knowledge of the digital world. Isobar demonstrated all of this, while also pushing our team to recognize some exciting opportunities available to us.”

The Isobar work will be led out of the agency’s Toronto office, while leveraging the broad range of expertise across the firm’s global footprint.
“We have a fantastic opportunity here to drive deeper connections between the McCain brand and its key internal and external audiences,” said Isobar Vice President of Strategy Robert Simon. “The collective McCain/Isobar team feels a tremendous sense of common purpose in pushing forth a digital strategy that is the right fit for who McCain is today and where it’s going tomorrow, and we’re already off to a great start.”

“McCain is a great brand, grasping the opportunity to develop deeper more powerful relationships with its customers through digital communication,” said Nigel Morris, CEO of Aegis Media. “We are looking forward to partnering with them through Isobar to meet that potential.”

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