: The naughty folks at don’t disappoint

with their snicker-worthy “Dirty Night Determinator” ad selling the Axe Detailer Shower Tool. It’s a simple execution that’s certainly appropriate for an online gaming environment, but here’s where channel plus technology extends the “wow” factor: These ads only appear on the iPhone and they are the iPhone’s only Flash ads. And all a lustful iPhone gamer needs to do is interact with the ad to see how dirty his evening will get. (If only it were that easy, gentlemen.) Kudos to Axe for having the huevos to command, “Get all your guy parts clean.”Feel like a pomegranate?

hasgotten the word out on the superpower qualities of the seedy fruit and the comic book style graphics on the Web site certainly get the point across visually. It’s fun — and pretty cool that POM hasn’t taken the ultra-serious approach when it comes to the benefits of antioxidants (at least on the home page).You’ve have to be a dummy (or live in a cave) not to recog-nize Wiley’s “For Dummies” brand when you see it, either online or offline. The familiar highlighter yellow color with black accents and big-eyed brainiac illustration are carried over effortlessly from the books to the Web. It’s not particularly innovative, but all of the work telegraphs the Dummies’ promise of making learning easy and continues to build the brand.

: Unilever’s Axe brand had two prerogatives for the launch of its Detailer Shower Tool in December 2008: The first was to reach out directly to its core demographic of trend-conscious, 18- to 34-year-old men; the second, to maintain its hip reputation as an early adopter of new technology.

To address both of these needs, Axe teamed up with Greystripe, a mobile ad nework, to run a month-long campaign designed specifically for iPhones. The campaign centered on a Flash-run game that was embedded in the Greystripe mobile ad net-

work. Axe had previously run an ad called “Dirty Night Deter-minator” online. The “Dirty Night Determinator” game allowed users to calculate how dirty their night out would get and linked users to a YouTube video of the Detailer TV ad.

Within the first two weeks of the campaign, 2,447 people were exposed to the Axe mobile advertisement, and, of those, 126 played the game, according to ComScore metrics. Consumer intent to purchase Axe deodorant rose by 15%, to 74%, among people who played the game on their iPhones.

-Lauren Bell

: Juice company POM Wonder-ful worked with digital marketing firm Fanscape to target bloggers and get them to spread the word about a fall online recipe contest. Fanscape focused on key influ-encers within food and recipe blog networks.

The effort generated more than 700,000 unique views, exceeding goals by 152%. In addition, the daily blog posts about the POM Wonderful brand doubled from the amount seen before the campaign.

-Dianna Dilworth

: HipCricket, a mobile market-ing agency, worked with Wiley Publishing, the publisher of the “For Dummies” series of how-to books, on a mobile campaign in March 2008. Banner ads ran on the Sprint/Nokia network driv-ing to Wiley’s WAP site. Offers included a text-for-coupon initia-tive and the option to join a club for future offers by text.

The ads produced more than 1.3 million impressions and a 1.4% click-through rate. The opt-in rate for future marketing opportunities was 34%.

-Nathan Golia