Healthcare adspend growth held back by rising costs and downward pressure on prices

Healthcare adspend growth held back by rising costs and downward pressure on prices

Global advertising expenditure by healthcare brands will grow 3.6% this year to reach US$36bn, according to Zenith’s Healthcare Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on August 5. Zenith forecasts another year of 3.6% growth in 2020. This first exclusive survey of healthcare advertising in 13 key markets across the world builds on Zenith’s authoritative Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, […]

Wine brand Böen teams with Guala Closures and SharpEnd to launch first NFC-enabled wine bottles in US

Wine brand Böen teams with Guala Closures and SharpEnd to launch first NFC-enabled wine bottles in US

Californian wine brand Böen, part of Copper Cane Wines & Provisions by Joseph Wagner, announces itself as the first United States wine brand to deploy Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology to date. On August 1st, NFC connected bottles will be released across the United States, offering consumers the ability to be taken to the home of […]

Betfair launches new campaign featuring Clive Owen to promote Exchange product

Betfair launches new campaign featuring Clive Owen to promote Exchange product

Betfair has launched an integrated campaign featuring British actor Clive Owen, which marks the brand’s return to marketing its Betfair Exchange. Created by Leo Burnett London, the campaign will see Owen educating bettors and demystifying the Exchange using real-life situations and analogies and consists of over 40 individual online films across multiple social and digital […]

Bloom Gin Turns its Back on Gender Stereotypes in Category Breaking Brand Campaign

Bloom Gin Turns its Back on Gender Stereotypes in Category Breaking Brand Campaign

Gin brand BLOOM has launched its new brand campaign created with under 30s specialist creative agency ZAK. Whilst culturally the forward motion of female empowerment and gender equality is accelerating, the drinks category is still left on the shelf with some rather dull and dusty ideas. Until now. The ‘Live Full Bloom’ campaign inspires women to live […]

Furniture and homewares brand Ian Snow launches a new verbal and visual identity via Reed Words and Pattrn

Furniture and homewares brand Ian Snow launches a new verbal and visual identity via Reed Words and Pattrn

Brand writing agency Reed Words and design studio Pattrn reveal the new brand identity for designer furniture brand Ian Snow. The vibrant, fresh and new identity demonstrates how language can bring a unique brand story to life. And shows independent, aspirational brands how investing in their verbal and visual identity can help them to stand […]

Screwfix becomes the first ‘Official Partner of Sky Sports Football’

Screwfix becomes the first ‘Official Partner of Sky Sports Football’

Reinforcing and expanding on its six-year relationship with Sky even further, Screwfix has become the first-ever ‘Official Partner’ of the Sky Sports Football channel after signing a sponsorship deal for the forthcoming 2019/20 season.  The seven-figure deal brokered between Sky Media and Wavemaker will see Screwfix exclusively sponsor Sky Sports’ broadcast and digital coverage of […]

B&B studio finds inspiration in 170-year-old recipe for limited edition Plymouth Gin range

B&B studio finds inspiration in 170-year-old recipe for limited edition Plymouth Gin range

Plymouth Gin has launched the first in a series of unique limited batch craft gins that celebrate the spirit of exploration, with design by London-based agency B&B Studio.  Mr. King’s 1842 Recipe is a small limited batch run of only 2,000 cases, crafted by Master Distiller Sean Harrison using a reimagined original recipe from 1842 […]

A Practice for Everyday Life creates visual identity for AHEC’s sustainable “Legacy” project

A Practice for Everyday Life creates visual identity for AHEC’s sustainable “Legacy” project

American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has commissioned A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) to design the identity, typography, publication and digital assets for its new sustainable design project “Legacy” for 2019’s London Design Festival (14–22 September). For the project, Sir John Sorrell, Chairman of London Design Festival, called upon his friends at London’s top cultural […]