Today, Mindshare, part of WPP, and Tommy’s, a charity funding research into baby loss, launch a campaign to challenge the cultural silence around the issue using one of the loudest tools at our disposal: social media. At a time when we are more connected than ever before, there remains a deafening silence around baby loss […]
As the UK heatwave continues with predictions of the driest ever June, water companies have urged Brits to shower in four minutes or less to help conserve water; but how do you time your shower to no more than four minutes? If you are an England fan then you can listen to ‘Three Lions (Football’s […]
To celebrate the launch of Years & Years’ new album, Palo Santo, media agency UM have brokered a deal in which technology agency Byte London have created a first ever augmented reality (AR) experience for Spotify. Working in close partnership with Spotify’s UK Marketing Team and with marketing technology agency Byte London, which designed the […]
Android’s new #IMakeApps campaign celebrates the hard work, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of app and game makers around the world. This social campaign by London based creative agency Gramafilm, shines the spotlight on the exceptional community of people who make up the Android developer ecosystem. #IMakeApps shares the stories, dreams and passions of the individuals behind the […]
Tinder‘s new video feature, Loops, is rolling out globally, following testing in Canada, Sweden and a small number of other markets. The feature enables users to upload two-second, looping videos to their profile within the popular dating app. Initially announced in April, tests showed that users who added a Loop to their profile saw their […]
Leading advertising and digital communications group Dentsu Aegis Network has released its biannual forecasts, pointing to a more positive 2018 for global advertising expenditure than previously expected. Ad-spend growth will rise from 3.3% in 2017 to hit 3.9% in 2018 – higher than the 3.6% forecast in January 2018 and taking total investment to US$613.5bn. […]
Dutch telecom provider Ben, and Amsterdam-based creative agency Etcetera, have launched the Ben-branded phone-condom – an eye-catching stunt to kick-off their “Better in Bed” campaign – and a radical solution to some of the relationship woes affecting today’s mobile phone dependent society. The world’s first phone-condom has been introduced as an irreverent – and […]
A new survey into digital effectiveness has revealed that ‘Product Thinking’ is helping organisations become more digitally effective. The survey carried out by digital agency Code Computerlove, a fore-runner of product thinking as an approach, found some clear differences in the attitude, behaviours and methodologies of top-performing business versus the mainstream when it comes to their […]
Malibu Rum continue their connected bottles journey in European scale-up to support Malibu Games. The project, which marks another collaboration between Malibu and Internet of Things (IoT) agency, SharpEnd, represents a huge scale-up operation as part of the brand’s connected bottle journey. Over 300,000 NFC-enabled bottles (200k in UK, 100k in Germany) will be circulated this […]
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can write 20,000 lines of advertising copy per second. Businesses advertising on Alibaba’s Tmall, Taobao, Mei.com and 1688.com eCommerce sites can insert a link on one of their product pages and click a “produce smart copy” button to see different advertising ideas. But even though the […]