Rimmel announces brand ambassador via spontaneous Snapchat strategy

Rimmel announces brand ambassador via spontaneous Snapchat strategy

Coty’s beauty brand Rimmel is holding its first-ever global Snapchat press conference on April 15, giving fans an opportunity to interact with new brand ambassador Cara Delevingne by posing questions that will be answered live by the model. The brand hopes to leverage its own followers on Snapchat as well as those of Ms. Delevingne […]

Snapchat Now Beats Instagram Among Teen Users

Snapchat Now Beats Instagram Among Teen Users

Snapchat has surpassed Instagram as the social media bae of choice among teenagers, according to a study done by Piper Jaffray. In the semi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” study conducted by analysts at the investment firm, Snapchat took 28% of the votes for the most important social network among 6,350 US teenagers surveyed, who averaged […]

Zizzi Takes An ‘Interactive Play’ Approach To Consumer Engagement

Zizzi Takes An ‘Interactive Play’ Approach To Consumer Engagement

Zizzi, the Italian restaurant chain, is leading innovation in marketing by delivering an interactive consumer experience incorporating gameplay and rewards to both engage existing customers and also attract new restaurant goers. Having recently signed a long term contract with 3radical – whose Voco software platform delivers relevant, rich, multi-channel experiences to consumers for brands such […]

Eddie Bauer brings Snapchat followers to Mt. Everest with real-time docu-series

Eddie Bauer brings Snapchat followers to Mt. Everest with real-time docu-series

Outdoor apparel retailer Eddie Bauer is sponsoring an innovative mobile documentary in which high-altitude climbers share their Mt. Everest journey on Snapchat, an opportunity for the brand to create a strong, unique relationship with fans. Six-time Mt. Everest climber Adrian Ballinger is teaming up with photojournalist Cory Richards for an innovative docuseries on Snapchat, giving […]

Pinterest opens up Promoted Pins for UK advertisers, with John Lewis and Made.com among launch partners

Pinterest opens up Promoted Pins for UK advertisers, with John Lewis and Made.com among launch partners

Pinterest’s Promoted Pins ad format has landed in the UK, with brands like John Lewis, Made.com, B&Q and Tesco announced as early launch partners. The visual bookmarking tool, which allows users to curate and share images and ideas via an online scrapbook of ‘Pins’, made the announcement on April 6. Promoted Pins, which launched in […]

Cheil Hong Kong creates Samsung #BeTheirEyes translating social photos into printed braille

Cheil Hong Kong creates Samsung #BeTheirEyes translating social photos into printed braille

As part of its commitment to give back to the community, Samsung kicked off its ‘Make Hong Kong Better’ initiative in December 2015 by teaming up with Hong Kong Blind Union. The video from the campaign by Cheil Hong Kong, was recently released. Established in 1964, Hong Kong Blind Union is the city’s first self-help group […]

Hero Condoms takes to Tinder to match users with STIs

Hero Condoms takes to Tinder to match users with STIs

Australian Tinder users have been ‘swiping right’ to a series of personified STIs as part of a campaign by condom brand Hero. From ‘Johnorrhoea’ to ‘Sydphilis’ and ‘Herpeia’, a series of 10 fake profiles named after the diseases have been appearing as potential date options for singles on the platform in a bid to highlight the unpleasant side-effects […]

After Running a Radical Vertical Super Bowl Ad, Jeep Goes All-In on Snapchat

After Running a Radical Vertical Super Bowl Ad, Jeep Goes All-In on Snapchat

In February Jeep chose to air its minute-long Super Bowl spot “Portraits” vertically, partly because the creative fit the size of a mobile phone. Now, the brand is permanently setting up shop on vertical-oriented Snapchat. Recently, Jeep officially opened a Snapchat account, posting user-generated photos of cars. Each day, users have been voting for their favourite photo […]

Burberry becomes the first luxury brand to run a Snapchat Discover channel native ad

Burberry becomes the first luxury brand to run a Snapchat Discover channel native ad

Burberry currently running its very own temporary Discover channel on Snapchat, a native ad with a suite of branded content. The channel, which can be found in the first slot of the Discover tab of Snapchat, is dedicated to promoting Mr. Burberry, the luxury brand’s latest men’s fragrance and accompanying capsule collection and men’s grooming products. While […]