Free The Bid is a non-profit initiative advocating on behalf of women directors for equal opportunities by asking agencies to include a woman director on every triple-bid project, production companies to sign more woman directors, and marketers to seek one woman’s bid on each of their commercial productions. Free The Bid is making a dramatic […]
The winners of the prestigious Outdoor Lions Awards – sponsored for the eighth consecutive year by Clear Channel Outdoor – have been announced at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Joint Grand Prix winners were: Twitter, for their brand campaign through Twitter San Francisco, and McCann New York for State Street Global Advisors’ ‘She […]
Copa90, the global football entertainment channel, has launched the first crowd-sourced store for football fans. Shopa90 is like no other merchandise store in that it is entirely fan driven. The shop will openly and transparently ask Copa90s 10 million fans which items they would like to buy. Copa90 has already had requests for everything from stickers, […]
PR firm Hotwire has been analysing the conversations taking place on Twitter around 2016’s Mobile World Congress show. The firm looked at tweets with the hashtag #MWC16 – of which there were 405,132 at the time the stats were released – using the Pulsar social analysis tool to establish the brands and the trends generating […]
The rumour mill is in full swing about the future of Twitter’s hallmark character-limit as it sets it sights on jump starting user growth. If rumours are to be believed then Twitter is set to replace its trademark 140-character limit with a new function that will allow users to post tweets containing up to 10,000 […]
Twitter is launching its new Moments app in the UK on December 15, showcasing how it can streamline the experience of using the social networking site. Available on Apple’s app store and Google Play, the service aims to curate the best pictures, tweets, headlines and stories gathered from across Twitter for viewing in one handy […]
This #GivingTuesday agency BBD Perfect Storm has created the #XmashTag, an extension of its traditional Christmas card that will help spread some festive cheer and do some good for charity at the same time. A cheeky nod at the overuse of hashtags, the agency is hoping to flood Twitter with gratuitous random festive hashtags in […]
Twitter has fired up a fast-paced new TV commercial crafted by TBWA\Chiat\Day in an effort to draw a younger demographic to the micro blogging service. Running throughout the US World Series the campaign takes the form of a zippy, meme based journey through the Twitter-sphere before slowing things right down to highlight Twitter Moments – […]
Twitter’s new CEO Jack Dorsey was among the presenters at an event recently in New York, which saw the social network roll out a new series of video ad features for publishers and marketers, expanding the company’s Amplify ad program considerably. Publishers who post videos on Twitter will now be able to more effectively monetise […]
Twitter has announced a new curated news feature called ‘Moments’ which aims to connect users with up to the minute current events from around the world by gathering together the most relevant tweets into a specialised feed. The feature is the result of the company’s Project Lightning, which was revealed earlier in 2015, and will […]