Following wild camels of the orient, Philips Healthcare now sends 45 high performance turtles, dressed in pugnacious athletes’ outfits, into the race. As with the successful Camel Race in 2009 the turtle race also displays the sales of the sales representatives and so with boosting their competitive spirit in a playful manner.

Besides the Beach-Race being an internal marketing tool, the intranet application furthermore transmits extensive information regarding currently running as well as upcoming sales, and so creating a good mix of fun and information for the sales team, which already made the predecessor of last year such a success.

With the Philips Turtle Race GSDH creative advertising agency expands their continuous collaboration with Philips following a number of Website-, Intranet- and 3D Animation-Productions further. We enjoy this fruitful partnership and would like to take this opportunity to thank Philips very much for all the trust in us and the wonderful teamwork!

Let’s go: Ready – Steady – Go!

Check it out: The Philips Turtle Race

A welcome thank you: GSDH likes to work for FIFA - and not only because the FIFA sent two people from GSDH as fairies with two Category 1 tickets to the sensational GER-ARG game last Saturday! The GSDH creative agency has supported the FIFA already before in the management of various extensive printing projects as well as their distribution in the country, in cooperation with Sven Müller Design.

Saturday saw more than 300,000 fans surge through Cape Town’s Fan Mile, rejoicing in happy anticipation of the big game. GSDH’s Genie and Hanne were delighted to be among them, holding tickets to one of the most exciting events of this World Cup. It was gigantic …
The question however, is whether it was the four goals that quickened their pulses, or was it rather Ballack, who sat pretty close to us (and had to recognize, how replaceable he is …). Hanne and Genie say: Thanks FIFA, thanks Christian!

As a campaign for Bodog, the webguerillas have conceived and designed an outstanding viral flash game, which makes shooting for the goal even more fun for men. The GSDH Creative Agency and the webguerillas already have a longstanding working relationship, and so we were approached take over the exciting part of the realization in flash.

The game is called Kick Ass. The user can choose from seven attractive girls, representing seven nations. When user selects one of the girls, she goes to the centre of the field and takes her clothes off, down to her bikini. Now the user must try to hit the booty of the model with a football. As a reward, the user gets cash and a video of the shot in slow motion, which can be replayed at any time.
We thank the Webguerillas for the great opportunity! The only problem is: the programmer who handled the project now refuses to be involved in jobs that don’t include 90-60-90 Brazilian females – oh well…

Check out: www.kickass-worldcup.com

We’ve waited a long time, but now it’s finally here. The Football World Cup 2010 is upon us. For the first time, the World Cup takes place in an African country. That’s why South Africans are even prouder to host the 2010 World Cup.

Just in time for the big event, GSDH has created an exclusive African World Cup e-card. Fans can create a funny animated greeting card, enter their country and choose a slogan to show support for their favorite team at the 2010 World Cup. The card can then be sent by email or shared with friends on Facebook.

Who are you supporting? Show your friends with our World Cup Greeting Card.

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Send your personal: Worldcup eCard now!

This year there is a real boom in 3D movies. In 2010 alone, more than twenty 3D films will be released in theaters. One of these films, Streetdance 3D, started in German cinemas on the 3rd of June with much success. With 132 000 visitors Streetdance 3D climbed to No. 2 in the cinema charts -despite the great summer weather, making it the best movie start after ‘Sex and the City 2′.
We had the exciting and challenging task of implementing the entire online campaign for Universum Film. This included strategy, concept, design, programming as well as all the online advertising and ongoing support.
The website is designed to reflect the 3D feeling of the film, through the use of animation and layering. On the site, the user can watch the official trailer with 3-D glasses, browse the extensive image gallery, read background information on the film, trigger a reminder for the film and download some great goodies to get you in a dancing mood.
We are very happy, that our campaign could contribute to this huge success of the film and thank Universum Film very much for their co-operation.

Check out: www.streetdance-derfilm.de

VOdA, managed by the crowdsourcing professional Matias Roskos (who is also a lecturer at the Social Media Academy), is Germany’s first agency which refers to crowdsourcing and community building as the core of their services. Since 2006!
Projects get realized in cooperation with their own strong creative community for their clients. VOdA uses powerful crowdsourcing strategies as part of its marketing. For VOdA, crowdsourcing is an innovative tool for generating several USPs for its clients.
Read more on Matias Roskos’s blog and find a set of articles about social networks and social media marketing: www.Socialnetworkstrategien.de.

GSDH creative advertising agency and VOdA are happy to announce our new cooperation to provide an even better service spectrum for our clients. Together, our competences will complement to our clients satisfaction. Social- and mobile-apps like for Facebook or for the iPhone, developed by GSDH can be a even stronger marketingtool in combination with VOdA’s crowdsourcing and vica versa.

The GSDH Creative Agency is excited about the upcoming cooperation with Immowelt AG! With more than 960 000 listed properties, Immowelt is one of the biggest online portals for properties in Germany. Whether a family dream house, a city penthouse apartment or a little cottage, whether you’re buying or selling - Immowelt has the right home for everyone. As a creative agency specialising in online marketing we are able to communicate the advantages of Immowelt on the internet. As a first step we take over the conception, creation and production of various online- and banner-campaigns. Watch this space for more…

The time has come: after the action-packed start of our online campaign for the film From Paris with Love the viral aspect of the campaign is now active. Here the user can test how much “Wax” he is. Edited film excerpts are shown and the user can see if they are on the same wavelength as Special Agent Charlie Wax (played by John Travolta) by predicting what Wax will say next. Depending on the number of correctly answered questions the user is assigned to a certain Wax-category. Via Facebook Share and Tell-a-Friend functionality, the users can publish their quiz results on Facebook and share it with friends.
And how much “Wax” are you?

Check out: www.frompariswithlove.de/win

After the peaceful underwater world of Unsere Ozeane, our newest project for Universum returns us to the hail of bullets again in the form of From Paris with Love, the action-packed new film starring John Travolta as the unorthodox secret agent Charlie Wax.
At least as awesome and entertaining as the movie is the online-campaign (including concept development, website design and banner campaign) produced by GSDH. The official movie site includes the trailer, an exciting gallery and a reminder service, as well as background information about the story, characters and cast which will provide the user with insights into the high-action world of secret agents. There are great downloadable goodies like the From Paris with Love Screensaver (get it here).
The result is a site which fully captures the action-packed spirit and style of this film: Welcome to Paris, Baby!

Check out: www.frompariswithlove.de

The South African representatives at this year’s Design Indaba ended the conference with a bang and presented quality work that South Africans could be proud of. Two companies working with puppets; The Handspring Puppet Company, and the controversial ZA News, showcased innovative work in adult puppeteering.
The Handspring Puppet Company presented the puppets that they created for the incredibly successful West End London play entitled “Warhorse”.

For “Warhorse” the Handspring Puppet Company created life size horses that could easily be manipulated by three puppeteers. The Company managed to created cane horses whose movements are so life-like, that it has to be seen to be believed. Watch the trailer to “Warhorse” here and interviews with the creators here.

ZA News headed by the legendary political satirist Zapiro was next. No stranger to controversy, Zapiro and co-creator Thierry Cassuto are the driving forces behind a satirical political show entitled ZA News.

Featuring all our favourite South African political characters and the satirical gold mine that is South African politics, the show makes for a highly entertaining adult entertainment.

Have a look at the at the full list of speakers at this year’s Design Indaba .