November sees the launch of an ambitious project to bring Sir David Attenborough’s breath-taking archive to new generations of fans. The Story of Life is a free app from BBC Earth featuring the largest ever digital release of Sir David’s globally renowned work and will be available to download on Thursday 17th November from app […]
Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting November 10, the company will let creators add URL links to their stories that viewers can navigate to without leaving Instagram, add the ability for users to be “@ mentioned” in someone’s story, and […]
When James Hilton left his job as marketing director of Weight Watchers in 2006 to start a mobile advertising business, Inside Out Mobile, he was told by his colleagues he was crazy. Four years later his once small company was bought by M&C Saatchi to become M&C Saatchi Mobile, and today plays in an industry […]
Three out of every four minutes (75%) of Internet use will be accessed via a mobile device in 2017 — up from 68% this year, according to a mobile advertising forecast released by Publicis’ Zenith unit. The report estimates that mobile’s share of global Internet usage will reach 79% by 2018, nearly doubling since 40% […]
SYZYGY, a full service-digital agency, partially owned by WPP, released the results of a new survey that found adult Millennials are 16% more narcissistic than other generations and remain narcissistic as they age. Given that Millennials now represent the core mainstream adult consumer, spending some $200 billion each year in the U.S., marketers are searching […]
Groupama Insurance and Saatchi & Saatchi Italy has released their latest campaign ‘SantinoSafetySystem’ which uses innovative technology to help prevent road accidents caused as a result of texting while driving. The anti-text and drive technology comes in the guise of ‘Santini’ which are traditional holy cards that many car owners in Italy adorn their dashboards […]
A lot has been said about mobile campaigns in the past 2 years, we know that marketers today need to create emotional connections with their customers to drive engagement across multiple touch-points. Using Snapchat is not really doing a mobile campaign and does not constitute a teen engagement strategy. With the popularity of Snapchat, it’s […]
Axiata established Axiata Digital back in 2012 to capture the rapid growth in internet-based businesses and to date, they have a portfolio of over 20 digital brands—and an in-house digital venture named Twig is one of them. The team were struck by how mobile devices are the first touch point for consumers today. And to […]
Ogilvy Delhi has created a digital campaign “You eat, they eat” for KFC’s add HOPE initiative, where KFC will contribute upto ₹5 from the sale of every bucket. The agency saw an opportunity to use the KFC bucket to raise awareness for the plight of millions of children, suffering from hunger. These short, animated films […]
Flipboard launches Storyboard, a new ad experience that enables brands to tell powerful and complete narratives using multiple native formats—stitching together articles, images, animated .gifs, video, and audio— to the social magazine’s 90 million monthly readers. Sephora is among the first brand partners to roll out Storyboard campaigns, connecting with premium audiences while they’re engaging […]