MarComm’s Magnificence is a series where we highlight Magnificent individuals from the Marketing, Design, Advertising and Communications industries. In this magnificence list, we are spotlighting those individuals who provide the business to the creative industry, while protecting their brand’s image and interests. We look at the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO’s). So without further ado, here […]
JD.com is set to launch a flagship store on Google’s shopping platform to target American shoppers. The online store, which will launch before the end of this year, will provide direct sales to US consumers in a bid to grow its presence in the market. The move is the first since the two internet giants […]
What are the favourite brands of under 30s audiences? Not what you’d expect… Much is said about how this audience are obsessed with social media. They carefully curate their personal brands, meticulously retouching their selfies and wearing the right gear at all times. It’d be easy to consider this audience as preening, as being totally […]
Interbrand has announced Apple, Google, and Amazon are the three most valuable brands in its 2018 Best Global Brands report, with luxury and retail as the two dominant sectors. Now in its 19th year, the report’s 2018 theme is Activating Brave, and examines the role that brand strength plays in the bold transformation of the […]
To mark Google’s 20th Anniversary recently, we sat down with Clare Hill, VP of Marketing at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, who picked out her picks from the ‘Best Google ads and campaigns over the last 20 years’: Google won the Creative Marketer of the Year 2018 at Cannes Lions because it had distinguished itself through consistently […]
Proximity Worldwide has unveiled its first Voice & IoT lab named Invoke. Launching at Barefoot Proximity, the Cincinnati office within the Proximity global network, the lab will provide a dedicated hub for audio, voice and IoT development and deployment, and will drive innovation and new business growth for the network. Building on Proximity’s legacy of […]
Leading global creative agency BBH has harnessed augmented reality (AR) and a Family Guy collaboration to provide Samsung with a highly innovative way to market its products. Doorways, which launched at Berlin’s IFA innovations show, is an interactive AR platform that allows the user to step into a different world and fully immerse themselves in […]
For a brand, a long-standing heritage and originality or its ability to innovate and lead the way are some of the most valuable assets. However, heritage and innovation are rarely attributes of the same brand. Typically, brands pick one or the other. On the one hand, brands that thrive on innovation tend to look forward […]
Android’s new #IMakeApps campaign celebrates the hard work, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of app and game makers around the world. This social campaign by London based creative agency Gramafilm, shines the spotlight on the exceptional community of people who make up the Android developer ecosystem. #IMakeApps shares the stories, dreams and passions of the individuals behind the […]
Google has extended its “Make Google Do It” campaign, in a clever UK-wide digital OOH push. The campaign promotes the variety of everyday tasks that Google Assistant can help with, in the moment you need it most. The activity runs across transit, retail and city-centre locations until 8th July, with an extended run at Old […]