J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam uses data and technology to bring back the voice of Rembrandt

J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam uses data and technology to bring back the voice of Rembrandt

On February 28 at Amsterdam’s most famous museum, the Rijksmuseum, the voice of Rembrandt was unveiled. A group of experts, working together with ING Bank, has used voice technology, research and data to recreate the painting techniques, personality, language and voice of the Dutch master. The results are featured in ‘The Rembrandt Tutorials’, as narrated […]

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz launches tool to help marketing teams shift focus from channel, to process

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz launches tool to help marketing teams shift focus from channel, to process

Asana, a leading work management platform for teams, announced the introduction of Asana for Marketing and Creative Teams, an end-to-end solution for teams to manage their entire marketing and design process from start to finish. The suite of new features and integrations are now available in Asana’s recently launched product offering, Asana Business. According to […]

COPA90 hires Natalie Broad as Partnership & Media Sales Director

COPA90 hires Natalie Broad as Partnership & Media Sales Director

COPA90 has boosted its senior team by hiring Natalie Broad to the newly-created role of Partnership & Media Sales Director. Broad will be leading the agency-facing sales team and working on partnerships. She reports ultimately to James Kirkham, Chief Business Officer. Broad is the former Partnerships Manager at global sports media company Perform Group and […]

Brands must rethink targeting to embrace personalisation, according to new Zenith report

Brands must rethink targeting to embrace personalisation, according to new Zenith report

Brands looking to embrace a mass personalisation approach to marketing need to rethink their generational targeting strategy in order to drive consumer engagement and business growth. Targeting by age is still the accepted practice across many advertising categories. However, with fundamental shifts in media consumption and trading, combined with significant changes in life stages and […]

B2B eCommerce lagging behind B2C for customer experience

B2B eCommerce lagging behind B2C for customer experience

Poor product visualisation is preventing almost a quarter of B2B customers from making purchases online, according to a new report by leading full-service eCommerce agency PushON. PushON surveyed 500 key business decision makers from up and down the country and found that, although the majority of B2B customers (78%) actually prefer to shop online, 22% […]

SK-II’s new film inspires single Chinese women to start a conversation with parents about marriage pressure

SK-II’s new film inspires single Chinese women to start a conversation with parents about marriage pressure

Fresh out of Chinese New Year, global prestige skincare brand SK-II premieres an online documentary film that further broaches the topic of marriage pressure with an emotional appeal to single women worldwide – “Meet Me Halfway”.   An extension of the SK-II’s ongoing #changedestiny philosophy, “Meet Me Halfway” follows the real-life stories of three young single Chinese […]

Reporters Without Borders Germany Turn Fonts of Banned Newspapers into Symbols of Press Freedom

Reporters Without Borders Germany Turn Fonts of Banned Newspapers into Symbols of Press Freedom

More and more media organizations are censored or closed and journalists arrested. These are drastic measures taken by oppressive regimes to limit freedom of press. As a reaction Reporters without Borders Germany launched the campaign  ‘Fonts for Freedom’, conceived by Serviceplan Campaign Hamburg to turn the fonts of prohibited newspapers into symbols of press freedom.  […]

Gen-Z trusts brands but feels the psychological pressure of being stereotyped, says new UM research

Gen-Z trusts brands but feels the psychological pressure of being stereotyped, says new UM research

A study revealed shows that the 18-24-year-olds of Generation Z trust brands over anything else bar the police: a quarter (25%) say they trust brands, a greater number than trust the government, the media, their Church, influencers, or social platforms. But at the same time, three-quarters of them (75%) think they are under a lot […]