Connecting with the Audi Sportback

By Steve Mullins. Audi has launched the UK’s first connected-TV video advertising campaign, together with Mediacom, woomi and smartclip, for its new A7 Sportback. It features preroll video ads as well as a woomi-hosted Audi Channel with client-supplied content.


Apping it out with Audi

Audi has teamed with gaming developer Gameloft to launch Asphalt Audi RS 3 on iTunes, a demo game featuring the new Audi RS 3. Players will have a chance to hop into the driver’s seat to compete to win a high-end Audi A3 Sportback.
The game features three events – two normal races and an elimination [...]


Vorsprung durch Aerosol

It may have come to your attention that the people of Berlin like spray painting walls. Little wonder, then, that Audi got in on the mural-ing act with a bit of Vorsprung durch Aerosol for the new Audi A7. It takes 200 cans to do the ad biz on 1,000 square metres of wall, in [...]


Audi’s iPad Beat

Audi A1 Beat Driver app for iPhone and iPod Touch has gone up a gear for the iPad. In the tablet game, players steer their Audi A1 around to pick up markers and avoid the hazards to the sound of a score of music tracks from the likes of La Roux, White Lies, Metric, The [...]


Audi – The Next Big Thing?

audiMake way for the Audi A1, the car maker’s snazzy new compact set of wheels. Look out also for a series of a half-dozen webisodes from the motor brand featuring Justin Timberlake and Dania Ramirez.
The online series, The Next Big Thing, runs until 8th June. Timberlake is John Frank, a straightlaced IT specialist, who aims to save the life of the mysterious Toni (Ramirez).


Audi goes electric on Home

Virtual Vorspung. Audi is planning to launch an Audi Space featuring its e-tron concept car in the Sony Playstation Home virtual world later this year. The electric vehicle will feature in a multiplayer driving game, Vertical Run. Part of the challenge of the game will be to collect enough energy to power the car.
“Most young [...]


Time to rev up those car brands socially

luxcars1No drive. High-end car brands from the US and Japan simply don’t compare with their German counterparts when it comes to creating significant horsepower with social media, according to a report, Luxury Auto Brands & Their Presence in Social Media, from MH Group Communications and Forum Strategies & Communications.
The two consultancies created the MH Community Index and Conversation Index measurement methodologies to determine the size and activity level of communities around specific auto brands across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr, and found that German automakers dominate the luxury auto business category in the social media.