Energy firm EDF – the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity – has consolidated its UK brand creative and media accounts into Havas UK through its King’s Cross Village. The appointment, made without a pitch, sees Havas London become EDF’s lead strategic and creative agency, and Arena Media, part of the Havas Media Group, take responsibility for brand media planning and buying, in addition, […]
Bensons for Beds has today released a new campaign in response to the global Coronavirus pandemic titled, “Sleep Well. Stay Well”. In order to keep their customers and employees safe they have temporarily closed all their stores, factories and distribution centres. They now want to create a platform to remind people of the value in […]
Memorable extracts from The Queen’s Message to the Nation are to appear on the world famous Piccadilly Lights in London over the coming days. Expressions of support and inspiration from The Queen will be carried on the Piccadilly Circus screen at 10am and 6pm on Wednesday, April 7 and will run until Sunday, April 19. […]
Ad Studio marks the start of a new chapter that will bring simple, self-serve audio advertising on Spotify to more markets around the world.
Spotify Ad Studio launched in 2017 to give a fast, budget-friendly way to connect with Spotify listeners, easily make audio ads from scratch, and reach your advertising goals. Since then, businesses of all sizes as well as both established and new artists have created ads on Ad Studio — over 75,000 since launching.¹ To show our […]
Guardian Jobs is adding further weight to its initiative to offer free job ads for NHS listings, by launching a supportive marketing campaign aimed at driving awareness and traffic to the ads. Announced last week by Guardian Jobs’ director of sales and marketing, Gemma Hennen, the move aims to help fill urgent NHS roles during […]
In response to the Labour Party’s call for ad agencies to apply creative thinking to coronavirus messaging, creative studio Make It Red has put together a series of in-store posters designed to nudge supermarket shoppers into taking a more public-spirited approach to filling their trollies. Copywriter Simon Kirkham and art director Mark Beacock created a campaign in […]
Today, Women’s Aid Federation of England – the national domestic abuse charity – has launched ‘The Lockdown’, a chilling campaign raising awareness of the increased dangers of domestic abuse during the Covid-19 lockdown period. The work, by ENGINE Creative and production company Knucklehead, draws attention to the empty streets and public spaces throughout the UK […]
The film offers a meditative road trip through the beautiful Australian countryside, behind the wheel of an Audi A6 ‘The Drive’ is available to watch on Monday, April 6th at 14:00 AEST on Audi Australia Facebook and YouTube channels
With the world confined indoors, Audi is offering a way to reconnect with house-bound Australians through the freedom of the open road. Together with partner social media agency We Are Social Australia, Audi Australia has created ‘The Drive’, a 4-hour long slow TV film that allows viewers to experience the soothing nature of a long road […]
New research has shown that the UK’s social media conversations during the coronavirus pandemic have focused on ‘community’: the number of posts on social platforms using that word has jumped 82% over the past month. It’s being driven largely by older Brits: nearly half (47%) of posts mentioning community or community spirit have come from […]
The charity Marie Curie has launched an emergency appeal campaign with work created, at no cost, by Saatchi & Saatchi to raise the donations it needs to fund its vital work caring for terminally ill people during the current crisis. Marie Curie and Saatchi & Saatchi are appealing to advertisers and media owners to donate media space unused […]