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 […]
Background: Paintworks is a 12 acre (522,720sqft) mixed-use development in Bristol. Paintworks is expanding: the current work will provide around 6,700 square metres of new employment and commercial floor space, 11 live/work units and 210 houses and apartments. This work is being undertaken for housebuilding company Crest Nicholson in association with Verve. A further phase will […]
Mobile messaging app Line has announced a series of new features that will give businesses and developers the ability to create chatbots. As well as creating new technology and opening up to the developer community via a new messaging API, Line will be actively encouraging people to build valuable chatbots via a financial reward. The […]
Snapchat’s name has disappeared about as quickly as the app’s trademark disappearing photos. The Venice, California-based company is debuting its first hardware, $129.99 video-capturing sunglasses, and renaming itself as “Snap Inc.” to reflect its new direction, the company’s CEO and cofounder Evan Spiegel told WSJ Magazine. Snapchat has been testing early versions of the gadget, […]
Twitter is pushing further into one of the most lucrative segments of the mobile ad economy. The social network announced September 22 that it is now letting advertisers run native app-install advertising campaigns across a host of different apps through the platform’s third-party partnership network. Like other types of native ads, the network will shoehorn promotions […]
Ogilvy K1ND recently helped KFC launch its very firstWeChat-based Virtual Reality Charity Gallery in a campaign aimed at raising awareness about autism. Featuring KFC ambassador Chris Lee, the cutting-edge VR gallery was built using StoryBuilder, a proprietary tool developed by Ogilvy K1ND that brings together the power of social and virtual reality. With the help […]
Instagram feeds are littered with food-porn photos of burgers, ice cream concoctions, pizzas and more, but Land O’Lakes wonders if the thousands of users who share food photos every day ever stop to think about the thousands more who go hungry each day. With help from The Martin Agency, Land O’Lakes created the “Delete to […]
While high-end luxury brands are slowly starting to offer online sales in China, one area that remains especially uncharted territory for them is selling through WeChat. This may be about to change, however, as both Dior and Bulgari took the WeChat sales plunge for the recent Qixi Festival holiday. Both became some of the first […]
This September, dating app Tinder will celebrate its fourth anniversary. Since September 2012, more than 40 million people have downloaded the app and swiped right on potential matches, with wildly varying degrees of success. Every single day, there are 1.6 billion swipes on Tinder and 26 million new matches formed. Having started as an experiment […]
FACEBOOK IS FORCING advertisers to improve their websites. This is a shameless way for Facebook to serve itself—and thank goodness it’s happening. As Facebook announced this week, if an advertiser’s website is slow, its ads won’t show up as frequently on the world’s most popular social network. And soon, its ads won’t even show up […]