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James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, February 23, 2008
16 years ago5,706 views

NICE!!! Really creative + cool

Marcin Sochacki (Wanted) [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I agree. Very well done and lots of effort.

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Goodness!!!
Who did that, Google Russia team or someone else?

Really a lot of efforts but a nice BIG picture

RC [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wow. This is the best ad I ever seen for a web app.

Brilliant. Congrats to the ad team.

Vovan [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Rohit Srivastwa, Google Russia team

Ali Bloomdido [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Vovan:
Actually, Saatchi&Saatchi Moscow on Google Russia team's order.

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[Qoute=gamebit]From http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/russian-ad-for-gmail.html
   0:52 Welcome to Gmail. Email in Google spirit. Simple, comfortable and functional.
1:05 Directly to your mail is embedded google search. Simply enter senders name or any text from mail and you will find mails.
1:25 In gmail you can mark most important mails by marking with stars, and when you need them again you can find them easy and fast by clicking menu with star.
1:45 With gmail you will always have allot of space. Everyday growing space of mailbox will allow you store your messages as long as you want.
2:00 Also in gmail you have chat. You will know who's online by looking at green dot. Just click name to enter chat and talk with friends in real time without leaving mail box.
2:25 One more function of gmail is good protection from spam. It will put all mails to spam folder without trashing your mailbox.
2:35 and at last – you can check your mail from mobile fone. Just enter gmail.com/app and you will can download application for easy work with gmail.
3:07 get mail on gmail.com[/qoute]

PS. Hope the tags work...

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here]David: Tags like that don't work on this forum. And even if they did, you spelt "quote" incorrectly... ;-)

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

David: You can use <<this style for quoting>> for instance...

Pavel Sheynzon [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Yes, it was great work!

At the same time, Google Russia really need such stuff like this: besides viral marketing they have very little chances to increase their share on market, which is still rather small. Below there are some additional facts about Gmail Russia, perhaps it can be interesting:

http://russia20.com/2008/02/gmail-russia-advertisement/

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

That was really cool!

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Official Gmail Blog:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/russian-gmail-art.html

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Videos linked from that new Google post (Gmail logo in dominoes, and recreated in sand grains):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0b2lox5j1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQdGkFZcE4

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Similar video concept used for Volkswagen commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le4aUAV1fA4&e

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