The Coca-Cola Company To Acquire Costa From Whitbread

The Coca-Cola Company To Acquire Costa From Whitbread

The Coca-Cola Company announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Costa Limited, which was founded in London in 1971 and has grown to become a major coffee brand across the world. The acquisition of Costa from parent company Whitbread PLC is valued at $5.1 billion and will give Coca-Cola a strong coffee […]

Room for one more on the brandwagon?

Room for one more on the brandwagon?

Too many major brands are coming late to the party and/or delivering paper-thin token gestures in their ‘show’ of support for causes, says Sense’s Ciara Garratt. Have you noticed how every brand is trying to prove a point at the moment? How every product you pick up in the supermarket now boldly states its protein content? Or, […]

Landsec’s Piccadilly Lights joins Pride in London Parade with first ever audio-synched campaign

Landsec’s Piccadilly Lights joins Pride in London Parade with first ever audio-synched campaign

Landsec’s Piccadilly Lights, the world’s most famous advertising screen, joined Pride in London for a colourful celebration including the first ever audio-synched campaign.  Ahead of the Parade, a sequence featuring LGBT+ community members and Pride images provided by Getty Images, dominated the full motion display.   Adding to the party atmosphere was the first ever […]

Grand Visual Kicks-Off an Augmented Reality Football Experience for Coca-Cola

Grand Visual Kicks-Off an Augmented Reality Football Experience for Coca-Cola

 Grand Visual kicks-off a unique, large-format Augmented Reality (AR) experience at Zürich’s main train station for Coca-Cola. The campaign celebrates the FIFA World Cup and the soft drinks brand continued support of the game. Lucky fans get to experience firsthand, what it’s like to play alongside Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri on-screen. Participants are treated to […]

Coca-Cola Launches New Global Campaign by Mercado McCann for the FIFA World Cup 2018

Coca-Cola Launches New Global Campaign by Mercado McCann for the FIFA World Cup 2018

After two years of closely working together, Coca-Cola and Mercado McCann will honour the FIFA World Cup in Russia presenting one of the brand’s most meaningful advertising campaigns in 200 different countries. Mercado McCann was not only responsible for developing the Core Creative Idea (central idea) of the campaign: “being READY”, three of the four […]

London’s Iconic Piccadilly Lights Are Switched Back On

London’s Iconic Piccadilly Lights Are Switched Back On

The world-famous Piccadilly Lights were switched back on this week (October 26) after a nine month period of renovation. A spectacular display of colours, which were sponsored by members of the public as part of a fundraising campaign for Barnardo’s, was the first image to appear on the new screen. Landsec, the owner of Piccadilly […]

A Giant New Billboard in London Knows What Car You Drive, and Even How You’re Feeling

A Giant New Billboard in London Knows What Car You Drive, and Even How You’re Feeling

A big and flashy new billboard in London’s Piccadilly Circus is joining the trend of targeting individual passersby, both pedestrians and drivers, and then serving ads to them. The digital LED screen, about 2,600 square feet in size and divisible into six ads, will feature about some 11 million pixels, Wired U.K. reports, and is the largest […]

Consumers’ love for US brands untainted by growing concerns about ‘Brand America’

Consumers’ love for US brands untainted by growing concerns about ‘Brand America’

J. Walter. Thompson deconstructs American brands and their position on the world stage to explore the opportunities and the challenges posed by the climate under the current administration in ‘Brand America’ a new report published by JWT Intelligence on September 27. While perceptions of Brand America have taken a turn for the worse recently, American […]