Here are some of the finest branded Instagram videos from June 2014. Taking in everything from pink unicorns, child-spinning heartwarmers and World Cup related fever. It’s a cavalcade of mini-epics, tiny spectacles and other maddening oxymorons that I won’t apologise for. As a welcome to the new site, Virgin America uploaded this cheeky little video. One of the first Instagram videos that genuinely made me do an office-LOL I am not ashamed to say. Here are 30 other little things we love about the Virgin America website. LEGO began uploading videos to both Vine and Instagram channels this month, with exclusive content for each. You have to follow them both for full effect. For more info read our guide to LEGO's outstanding social media strategy. We also have LEGO's Head of Social Lars Silberbauer speaking at our Festival of Marketing in November. All the flavours of a Cornetto. This is no-brainer of the month. It also makes you wonder why Wright, Pegg and Frost would stop at three?
This isn’t the most creative or entertaining Instagram video, however what it does do well is show off an incredibly simple idea that I can’t believe nobody had thought of sooner. Taking a break from the usual paper-plate stop motion, Oreo posted this great little potted history of the USA football kit to wish the team good luck against Ghana. I’ve covered the #asktheNEWMINI campaign for the last couple of months, but it would be a shame not to include this, the final upload in the series which wraps everything up beautifully. A campaign full of surprises, ingenuity, warmth and humour and now... a narrative arc. A great little tease for the Adidas ‘snake-print’ Original, for those of you particularly dangerous in the footwear department. The always mind-blowing National Geographic channel has come up with this beautiful little tribute to the World Cup from Sao Paulo. If you can’t see the text below, it says that the highway in Elevado Coasta e Silva closes on Sundays so families can go out and play sports.
Although many videos on this channel, and in fact many branded channels are simply shorter versions of longer ads uploaded or broadcast elsewhere, this one shows off the perfect set-up/punchline benefit that 15 seconds affords. A wonderful look at the streets of Brazil in the run-up to the World Cup from the point of view of its own cameras.It’s videos like this that make me think that Google Glass actually might be brilliant. Can you stop the video on your own name, Nate? A simple little tribute charting the journey of Jurgen Klinsmann from his own playing career in Germany to managing the US international squad. Packing in a lot of product shots and some neat low-fi animation, and the jauntiest soundtrack outside of daytime television. For more Instagram video round-up action, check out the best branded Instagram Videos of May 2014. To check out the rival platform, here’s a rundown of the best branded Vines from June 2014.Jared Leto might have admitted that there are enough deleted Joker scenes to make a full movie but one Suicide Squad moviegoer has gone as far as to try and sue the studio for the disappointing lack of Clown Prince chaos.
Reddit user BlackPanther2016 has threatened to begin legal action against Warner Bros and DC Comics later this week, claiming that teasing Joker scenes in trailers that did not make the final film amounts to “unjust false advertising”. The disgruntled superhero fan argued in a post on Movies subreddit that he should receive a refund after driving 300 miles to London to watch “specific scenes explicitly advertised in TV ads” only to leave feeling ripped off. He says he will file a lawsuit on 11 August, with his “lawyer” brother leading the case. “Movie trailers are like food menus, they give you a preview of what you’re gonna get. You look at a McDonald's menu and you choose to get your favourite burger, presented in a nice picture with pickles, chicken, mild cheese (your favourite, in fact that's the only reason you're getting this burger, because you love mild cheese). You use your hard-worked money to pay for this burger, you get the burger, only to find out that this isn't the burger you ordered.
Yes it has pickles and chicken but it doesn't have mild cheese, it has regular cheese. “Suicide Squad trailers showcased several specific Joker scenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those specific scenes that Warner Bros/DC Comics had advertised in their trailers and TV spots. These scenes are: when Joker banged his head on his car window, when Joker says ‘“Let me show you my toys’, when Joker punches the roof of his car, when Joker drops a bomb with his face all messed up and says, ‘Bye bye!’ None of these scenes were in the movie. “I drove 300 miles to London to go watch these specific scenes they had explicitly advertised in their TV ads…and they didn't show them to me. Adding to this, they were also two specific Katana scenes they advertised that were also the reason I wanted to go watch the movie. These scenes were: Katana’s eyes going black, and a slow motion shot of her and her sword taking souls in a smoky kind of style.
These scenes were advertised several times in the first trailer and many TV ads but they didn’t show it to me in the movie. I wasted a lot of money paying and travelling to go watch this movie because of these specific scenes they had advertised to me and all of us saying, ‘Hey, check out our preview! This will all be in our movie, come watch it on the 5th!’ “I told the theatre about this unjust act and said ‘I didn’t get what I came here to see, can I have my money back?’ They laughed at me and kicked me out. So I’m now taking this to court. I want my refund, the trauma of being embarrassed as I was being kicked out and people laughing at me for wanting my refund, and also the £160 of fuel money I used to drive to London from Scotland. “If you advertise something, give me what you have advertised. This is becoming a habit with movie studios, showing epic scenes in trailers that are never shown in the movies. "I just want to say, join me if you feel the same way.
Let’s stop this nonsense of false bulls***ery and don’t let them bribe you with their ‘deluxe premium special directors gold extended edition supreme cut’ nonsense. You should get what they advertised as their first theatre showing and what you have paid for based on what they have showed you in their advertisements.” Suicide Squad character posters Leto, whose well-publicised "method" approach involved sending live rats and anal beads to his co-stars, has commented on his minimal screen time of circa 15 minutes, telling IGN that “there were so many scenes that got cut from the movie I couldn’t even start”. “Were there any that didn’t get cut?” he said. “We did a lot of experimentation on the set, we explored a lot. There’s so much that we shot that’s not in the film.” Suicide Squad is certainly not the first case of marketing misleading cinemagoers. While frustrating, as trailers are often produced well before a film is finished, changes to the final product are widely expected.