Hundreds of people at London Luton Airport were treated to a spectacular festive surprise, as they witnessed the world’s first Christmas light show to feature a 120ft aircraft. easyJet provided an A320 Airbus to airport ground staff who created the spectacular festive experience by wrapping the aircraft with Christmas lights. The lightshow left the audience […]
Mental health charity SANE has launched a Christmas campaign, using Christmas wrapping paper to remind people that Christmas is not “the happiest time of the year” for everyone. The wrapping paper features traditional Christmas images of smiling Santas and Snowmen on the outside, but when the parcel is opened it reveals less happy versions of […]
Experience, brand and engineering company Dare is putting a twist on the traditional Christmas this year with the launch of its interactive web app, SlayBell. Visitors to thisisxmas.com are encouraged to group together with friends and colleagues to form a handbell choir, using nothing but their phones. The experience ‘transforms’ your phone into a handbell […]
Fetch, the award-winning mobile-first agency, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has announced it has developed, (in collaboration with Autosermo) the first ever UK transactional Gifting Bot within the QSR space. Fetch is helping Greggs bring the joy of giving to everyone this festive season. The Gifting Bot will allow the customer to purchase Greggs goods […]
The Department for Transport and 23red have launched the latest execution of the THINK! campaign, made in conjunction with production company Fully Focused, that aims to encourage young people to confront their friends about drink driving. THINK! is the UK government’s designated road safety campaign, established in 2000. This specific execution delivers on THINK!’s proposition […]
“Dearest Sarah. If you are reading this, I am dead,” begins Peter’s story as told within the macabre animated Christmas film from Anomaly and Unreasonable Studios. But all is not as it seems. When a family of Christmas trees chop Peter’s feet off, stand him in the corner of their living room, and decorate him in […]
Independent creative agency ZAK launched its Christmas campaign. The under 30s audience specialists have been inspired by their latest White Paper, ‘Decoding Youth Identity in the Social Age’, which identified that 16-24 year old social media users are beta testing their identities, iterating their way through life in a quest for the dopamine hit they experience through […]
Counterfeiters are capitalising on Christmas; this is according to new research by MarkMonitor, the world leader in enterprise brand protection. One in three (30%) consumers has inadvertently bought a fake product, with 68% of the counterfeit items being bought as Christmas presents. The fear of fakes and online fraud are ever-present, especially over the festive […]
YouTube sensation Cassetteboy is settling the age-old festive debate as to whether cult action classic Die Hard is a Christmas film or not. On the movie’s 30th anniversary, the cut ‘n’ paste remix artists have re-edited the 1988 film into a ‘12 Days of Christmas’ jingle, proving the film is a festive flick, with the evidence all found in the […]
Santa Claus has been delivering toys to children across the world for centuries in the same old sleigh year after year. According to Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, it would take around six months for Santa to realistically travel the globe. Speed and aesthetics are a […]