Olympus

Letting the camera speak for itself

Posted by Michael Ancevic on 08/10/10

How do you promote a camera that can take photos and videos 30 feet underwater? Or that can withstand temperatures of -10 degrees, a 6 foot drop or even 220 pounds of pressure? You make an exclusively digital campaign to prove it works flawlessly in all of these conditions. In short, you let the camera [...]

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Augment your reality – a new way to demo a digital camera

Olympus is demonstrating that seeing is believing in a new integrated multimedia campaign developed with Mullen to promote the PEN E-PL1 camera. The camera, a hybrid of digital SLR image quality, High-Definition video, and point-and-shoot simplicity, both shoots and stars in television, print and online advertising, social media, and can be demoed via an augmented reality 3D experience launched today.

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10 steps to launching a new product using social media

Recently Mullen had a wonderful experience working with Olympus to launch its new E-P1, the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera.  This beautifully designed camera shoots great stills and HD video.  As a content creating machine, it seemed the perfect product to bring to life in the social media space.  After all, aren’t YouTube, Flickr and [...]

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This week’s featured Twitter user : @getolympus

Posted by Mullen on 06/26/09

Every week or two, mullen.com changes the featured Twitter feed on the right hand column of this page.  For the last couple of weeks it’s been our CCO Edward Boches who heads up our social media operations.  For the next two, it’s Michael Bourne, our in-house gadget freak who tweets for Olympus Imaging America, “the [...]

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Will it blend? Part two

That nutty Blendtec guy is at it again stuffing expensive cameras into his blender to see what’ll happen. Confession:  Mullen made him do it. It’s the focal-point of an all-out social media launch for the Olympus E-P1, a snazzy new device that is the world’s smallest digital SLR and HD video camera all-in-one. Get the [...]

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Who needs a Hollywood celebrity when you can work with Tom Dickson?

Posted by Edward Boches on 06/08/09

Historically when an ad agency wanted a big celebrity to be in one of its commercials it went to Hollywood. Sure, we’ve done that, too. But we think it’s more innovative to be one of the first agencies to explore the new celebrities emerging in the digital space. So for our client Olympus Camera we [...]

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