Browsing: Lionel Messi

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Samsung’s space balls
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The All Blacks generally get a few views when they’re wheeled out by the sponsors. But it’s small fry compared to football stars. And Samsung’s got a galaxy of them for its latest campaign.

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Adidas gets kick out of Messi’s boot
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Adidas has created the game Fast or Fail which it says relies on the power of the social crowd to determine how fast a player can move. It’s a novel approach to marketing a soccer boot and drumming up attendance at the FIFA 2014 World Cup.

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Lorde, Lionel and lookalikes—UPDATED
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We’re big fans of doppelgangers here at StopPress. And while there’s been a lot of talk about Lorde’s Royals featuring in Samsung’s new ad, ‘The Developer’, no-one’s mentioned the important fact that Lionel Messi is a dead (but beardless) ringer for Y&R NZ’s managing director James Hurman.